Sentences with phrase «aurochs in»

The death of the last aurochs in 1627 was also the world's first recorded extinction.

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The wall painting in said caves were of bison, horses, aurochs, and deer common to the area.

The Hebrew word re»em is mentioned eight times in the Bible, and signifies some kind of horned animal that could possibly be the now extinct aurochs — a wild ox related to a cow.

Perhaps this convention sheds light on the cult of the bull in Crete (c. 1700 b.c.), where acrobatic youths once vaulted between the horns of wild aurochs.

For instance, a conservation organization called Arbeitsgemeinschaft Biologischer Umweltschutz (ABU) has more than 100 of their own faux aurochs grazing in various nature reserves in northwest Germany.

A cattle breeder trained in ecology, he's working to reintroduce aurochs to the Côa Valley.

Concerned about their aggressiveness, he resolved to start over, seeking an animal as well adapted to the land as aurochs were in their time.

And since the goal is to breed animals for their ability to thrive in the wild, selection of aurochs - like traits (or phenotypes) has been their initial focus.

After their demise, aurochs only grew in stature.

Researchers were sequencing mitochondrial DNA from aurochs remains (and would successfully sequence the first nuclear genome in 2015).

Goderie and his collaborators are not alone in their belief that wild grazing is necessary, and that the job calls for an animal akin to the aurochs.

This work has suggested that all European cattle, Bos taurus, originated in south - west Turkey, where they were domesticated from the aurochs, an extinct type of wild ox.

ANCIENT BEASTS Aurochs, the ancestors of domestic cows, dominate this replica of a cave painting from Lascaux in southwestern France.

Previously, the researchers believed that humans at that time had been far more involved in mobile groups of big - game hunters whose main protein intake thus should have come from herbivores such as red deer, aurochs and elk, and consequently the role of fishing was not recognised.

In total, there were 30 horns from aurochs and bison as well as red deer antlers, and a rhino skull nearby.

This stone engraving of an aurochs, or wild cow, found in a French rock - shelter in 2012, provides glimpses of an ancient human culture's spread across Central and Western Europe, researchers say.

The dig — in Pod Hradem Cave in the central part of the Moravian Karst, in southern Moravia, near Brno — has unearthed over 20,000 bones of prehistoric animals (reindeer, aurochs, wild horses and woolly rhinoceros) as well as stone tools, weapons, charcoal, and an engraved bone rod that is the oldest of its kind in Central Europe.

In Europe, the impressive mother all cattle, the aurochs, which has been extinct since 1627, could return.

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It is made out of a bone from an aurochs, a type of wild cattle, and shows the importance of wood in the Mesolithic period.

The Urus, also called the Aurochs, is an ancient ancestor of the modern day cow, which went extinct in 1627.

In keeping with Lamborghini tradition, the Urus is named after a famous bull, also known as aurochs; the Spanish - bred urus is considered a wild ancestor of today's domestic bull.

In Germany, the Molossian type became the Bullenbeisser, a courageous dog that hunted the fierce aurochs, a wild progenitor of domestic cattle.

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