A group of scientists, historians and ranchers with knowledge of raising cattle are looking to resurrect the aurochs, a species of wild cattle that is related to the domesticated cattle seen today.

At the end of the last ice age, the aurochs was the largest herbivore in Europe. The animal, with its dark coat, broad shoulders and curved horns, was a frequent inspiration for cave painters in ...

MILOVICE, Czech Republic -- 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 the ...

On the 12 th of February, the Year of the Ox begins. Let’s call it the Year of the Aurochs (Bos primigenius): primordial oxen, the ancestors of cows. They carved paths through the woodlands and ...

Using a process known as back-breeding, which involves selectively mating existing varieties of cattle, scientists believe they will soon develop a beast that shares the same characteristics as the ...

We Homo sapiens have been artists throughout much of our prehistory, creating paintings, engravings and statues, often representing animals. Now, a team of researchers has described a new discovery ...

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 Trees for ...

Aurochs became extinct when a female animal died in a forest in Poland in 1627 An animal horn thought to be 3,000 years old has been found on a beach in Gwynedd after the recent storms. Engineer ...

But despite their having gone the way of the dodo and the woolly mammoth, there are plans to bring the giant animals back to life. The huge cattle with sweeping horns which once roamed the forests of ...

An animal horn thought to be 3,000 years old has been found on a beach in Gwynedd after the recent storms. Engineer Derfel Hughes from Rhos Isaf made the discovery while walking at Dinas Dinlle, near ...