An extinct species of cattle—the aurochs—that died out some 400 years ago, would be the perfect animal to "de-extinct," says Dr. Conor Rossi from Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

An extinct species of cattle—the aurochs—that died out some 400 years ago, would be the perfect animal to "de-extinct," says ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from aurochs — large, wild cattle that co-existed with humans for millennia — reveals how early humans tamed these beasts and bred them with domesticated cattle for ...

Aurochs were not only massive, but massively successful as a species. They once ranged across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, ...

Aurochs, Bos primigenius, were massive, formidable creatures.They roamed Europe, Asia and north Africa for thousands of years, first appearing in the fossil record 700,000 years ago. The last known ...

The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of ...

Researchers determine the genome of all subspecies of the extinct aurochs and show the history of its development into domestic cattle / publication in ‘Nature’ ...

In search of our great ancestors. ... Aurochs, or erus as they were known to the early Germans, were the savage and primitive progenitors of the modern-day cattle or cow.

Huge wild cattle aurochs are to be brought ‘back from the dead’ after 400 years of European extinction - to rewild the Highlands near Loch Ness. The ambitious rewilding project, launched by ...