In this fascinating video, we explore every one of these wild bovine species from the powerful Gaur and the elusive Banteng to the endangered Kouprey and the European Bison.

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 ...

The European bison now in Kent are almost certainly not native to Britain – unlike the beaver or aurochs – so they cannot be re-introduced.

The aurochs is the ancestor to all domestic cattle species, but before it was bred into everything from the Hindu cow, to the Black Angus, to Scotland’s Highland bull, it was a keystone species ...

He argues that primeval Europe would have been sustained by herds of large herbivores such as aurochs, bison, water buffalo, wild boars, and elk.

An 83-year-old woman was gored Saturday by a bison. Experts offered advice on how to avoid a similar situation.

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 ...

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A bison rewilding project has welcomed a new cohort of grazing animals which ecologists say will improve biodiversity. Longhorn cattle, iron-age pigs and Exmoor ponies have joined the bison herd ...