A project has been launched to reintroduce aurochs to the UK almost four centuries after its extinction in Europe.

Aurochs are the wild ancestor of all domestic cattle but the breed went extinct when the last of them died in Poland in 1627, and they aren’t believed to have existed in the UK for more than ...

AN interesting series of articles on research in animal breeding appeared in the April-July issues of the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture. In the first two papers the author, Prof. R. C ...

A perfectly preserved 400-year-old giant skull was discovered on a beach in the UK. The huge horned skull belonged to a male auroch, which wandered Asia and North Europe during the Middle Ages ...

Ramblers will be able to walk among long-horn cattle, Iron Age pigs and Exmoor ponies roaming freely through a beauty spot. And it has now been revealed the giant creatures have been joined in the ...