They may have gradually followed aurochs from North Africa into new territory because the wild cows were a source of food, or ...

Through cross-breeding, they have been working on reconstructing the original aurochs with the goal to have "the presence of the Tauros as a self-sufficient wild bovine grazer in herds of at least ...

By Lauren Beavis via SWNS 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 ...

The newly bred animal is referred to as tauros, “Aurochs 2.0”, since the true wild aurochs is gone. The aurochs once dominated European vegetation, Schepers says.

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).

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 is clear that there was early and pervasive mating with wild aurochs bulls, leaving a legacy of the four separate preglacial aurochs ancestries that persists among the domestic cattle of today." ...

The process of aurochs domestication began around 11,000 years ago 6, 7, but even after this, wild aurochs and domesticated cattle coexisted for thousands of years.

Wild cattle could be introduced in Scotland in bid to resurrect extinct species Tauros have been bred to be genetically similar to the ancient aurochs, which became extinct 400 years ago.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most ...

MILOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Such an animal has not been seen on Czech territory for hundreds of years.A Dutch breeding program has recreated massive bovines closely related to aurochs, once ...