A tall, heavy beast with long, forward-curving horns faced down a smaller bull. Its head was held high as if in challenge. The smaller animal seemed to recoil in submission. Even the cave lion, the ...

A new breed mimicking a centuries-old species is being released in Denmark for the first time. Screengrab from Rewilding Europe’s Facebook post Centuries after the massive ancestor of modern-day ...

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.

The only place to see an aurochs in nature these days? A cave painting. The enormous wild cattle that once roamed the European plains have been extinct since 1627, when the last survivor died in a ...

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 ...

Until four hundred years ago, a wild, long-horned ancestor of cattle roamed across much of Europe. The last of these stately creatures — known as aurochs — went extinct in the 1600s. But what if there ...

The Taurus Program, a partnership of ecologists, geneticists, historians and cattle breeders backed by Stichting Taurus, a Dutch nonprofit, is seeking to re-create the aurochs – depicted in ...