He is a native English speaker. 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 ...

All we know for certain is that cattle came from aurochs, their larger, fiercer, extinct wild ancestor. In a new study of ...

More than a thousand cattle breeds found around the world can all be traced back to a common ancestor: the aurochs. Today, the scale of the dairy and beef industries has far-reaching consequences for ...

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 ...

Aurochs were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art and their domestication gave us cattle. Now scientists have analysed their bones to learn more about them — and the influence of ...

The results of an international study describe the genetic development of the aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, during and after the Ice Age. The central European ...

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 ...

It was at this point that the gargantuan image of aurochs came looming in the horizon. The fate of historically distressed and acutely discomfited nations reminds one of the plight of aurochs just ...

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

Tauros have been bred to look similar to an ancient breed of cattle Cattle bred to resemble aurochs, large wild-roaming cows and bulls that have been extinct for 400 years, could be introduced to ...