Their findings reveal what Sinding calls “a super complex story where we have several layers of wild cattle across time in Europe,” as aurochs populations shifted with changes in their ...

Found in Europe during the Pleistocene, aurochs became extinct in the seventeenth century ... This led to the deliberate breeding of these wild animals for desirable traits such as being calm and ...

There was thus a greater diversity in the wild forms than we had ever imagined." Intriguingly, climate change also wrote its ...

Yet as Staffan Widstrand, one of the project’s directors, observes, “Wildlife is coming back because of changes in policy and lifestyles. Almost 20 percent of Europe is now under some form of ...

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 ...