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 will officially be domestic cattle. But there’s another way of thinking about this. “In principle, the aurochs is not really extinct,” Crooijmans said.

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 ...

Some of the auroch bones found in a cave in Galicia, Spain. Photo: UDC For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs—huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle—languished at the bottom of a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...