Like their bison cousins, aurochs stood their ground to defend against threats rather than fleeing, making them risky to approach. Aurochs were not only massive, but massively successful as a species.

European bison went extinct in the wild in 1919, but now a few thousand are back, grazing in forests and on plains in a handful of countries. The first four of a group of 11 animals—Europe's ...

Higgs Bison reseach by Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) on YouTube The evidence suggested that the creature was a hybrid, likely started by a female Aurochs and a male steppe bison, he said.

European projects are trying to revive the extinct aurochs by back breeding.

Engraving an aurochs image on limestone 38,000 years ago, an artist left behind fascinating clues about early modern-human life, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Big herbivores such as bison or aurochs-proxies are one example but the rewilders’ real poster boy is the beaver. Gow likens this semi-aquatic rodent to a pilot light in a boiler.

I AM glad that Mr. Lydekker accedes (NATURE, May 15, p. 53) to the correction of which I had pointed out the need. But the “vulgar error”—if the Editor will allow me to use a phrase made ...

The genetic history of the aurochs, an extinct cattle species, was a mystery until scientists analyzed DNA found in the bones of ancient animals.

The European bison is a hybrid that descends from the steppe bison (Bison priscus) and the aurochs (Bos primigenius), both extinct species that were once native to the UK.

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 ...

They lived at the same time as mammoths, bison and humans. Fossil evidence from places such as Formby in the UK shows “9,000-year-old footprints of humans walking along these tidal flats among the ...

Evidence from ancient DNA intermingled with analyses of ice-age cave paintings has revealed a previously unknown European bison hybrid.