About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

Although there is no evidence that the European bison (Bison bonasus), known as wisent, ever roamed the islands of the United ...

Travel - The Conservation Carpathia Foundation, the largest Romanian conservation organization, announces the successful ...

Scientists have used selective breeding of modern cattle in attempts to recreate an animal that resembles the auroch, the ...

Wolves would have been numerous, along with beavers and lynx. The last aurochs — giant cattle — roamed the grasslands on the edge of the woods for part of the Bronze Age. They were extinct ...

Scientists believe that the European bison is a hybrid, called a wisent, that arose from crossbreeding now-extinct steppe bison with the aurochs, or the larger ancestor of modern cattle.

Scientists have used selective breeding of modern cattle in attempts to recreate an animal that resembles the auroch, the wild ancestor of today’s breeds. Cloning has been used to briefly bring ...