One minute, I'd be running around, and the next, I'd see a cow, friendly but imposing, chomping on my mother's flower bed. And then the big old farm animal would have a lie down. Talking of mums ...

Before people had data and complex computer models to predict a stormy morning or a sunny afternoon, they had weather lore. For centuries, observations about the sky, animals, plants, and other ...

Just check a cow pasture. If all the cows are lying down, a rainstorm is coming — or so this old wives' tale claims. Believers have schemed up several different explanations for why our bovine ...

Just check a cow pasture. If all the cows are lying down, a rainstorm is coming — or so this old wives’ tale claims. Believers have schemed up several different explanations for why our bovine ...

The old wives’ tale that cows lie down when it is about to rain may not be so far fetched after all, according to a new study by scientists. For researchers have discovered that cows stand up ...

I printed a letter from a reader who informed me that cows cannot lie down because of the way their front legs are constructed. It turns out that the writer of that letter was handing me a line of ...

You might have heard the old saying that if a cow lies down, it’s going to rain. But can cows really predict the weather? We took a look at this myth to see if it’s true or not.

One minute, I'd be running around, and the next, I'd see a cow, friendly but imposing, chomping on my mother's flower bed. And then the big old farm animal would have a lie down. Talking of mums ...