From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

An extinct species of cattle—the aurochs—that died out some 400 years ago, would be the perfect animal to "de-extinct," says ...

How mammoths could be our surprising climate saviours However, genome reconstruction is not the only method scientists could use to resurrect extinct animals. The aurochs, a type of prehistoric ...

More than a thousand cattle breeds found around the world can all be traced back to a common ancestor: the aurochs. Today, the scale of the dairy and beef industries has far-reaching consequences for ...

However, genome reconstruction is not the only method scientists could use to resurrect extinct animals. The aurochs, a type of prehistoric cow, is the subject of ancient cave paintings around the ...

If we can only recover fragments of an extinct creature’s genome ... of modern cattle in attempts to recreate an animal that resembles the auroch, the wild ancestor of today’s breeds.