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). "This is becoming less ...

New research helps us understand how cattle spread across the world. “Cattle are one of the most important animals in human ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Lascaux Cave in France, a large bull was drawn over earlier paintings of wild cattle more than 10,000 years ago. Scientists are using ancient depictions like these to re-create the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...