Aurochs were domesticated at roughly the same time in South Asia as well, leading to two major lineages in today’s cattle, ...

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).

Aurochs roamed much of Asia and Europe for 250,000 years and were recorded by cave men in striking paintings at Lascaux, France, 17,000 years ago. But the extinct heavy cattle could soon graze ...

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

No matter how closely Taurus cattle come to resemble the aurochs of old, it will be difficult to ever declare victory. “We’re not going to breed back an aurochs,” Crooijmans said.

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 ...

Frans Jacobs, Dutch cattle rancher who raised the animals and transported them to the Czech Republic, said he believed they will avoid the fate of the aurochs, whose last individual is said to ...

The tauros, a specially bred version of the long-extinct auroch cattle, is being introduced to Portugal's Côa Valley. Skip to content British Broadcasting Corporation ...

Highland cattle, belted Galloways, and even the giant tauros, bred to be like the ancient auroch, a species which once roamed Scotland, are being introduced by land managers to help increase ...

The foundation has been using a method known as back-breeding to combine cattle breeds in southern Europe that still have some of the characteristics of their auroch ancestors: large stature, long ...

Cattle have had a bad press in recent years. According to a prevalent narrative they are greenhouse-gas-emitting, methane producers, industrially-farmed and bad for the planet. Some of that is ...