Sentences with phrase «extinct aurochs»

Sandrine Ceurstemont mentions plans to revive the extinct aurochs, a large ancestor of domestic cattle (25 February, p 37).

The extinct aurochs of the Fertile Crescent eventually became Holstein cows.

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.

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The aurochs (wild ox or bull) seems to have become extinct by the 17 century.

David Day, a Canadian author of a book on extinct species, recalls that what affected him most profoundly while doing his research was viewing the actual relics: the aurochs's horn, the pelt of the Bali tiger, the weathered rib cage of a Steller's sea cow.

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.

The group is creating a movement around de-extinction, and is taking the lead on efforts to bring back the passenger pigeon while helping out on other ongoing efforts to restore other extinct species including European aurochs, Pyrenean ibexes, American chestnut trees, Tasmanian tigers, California condors, even wooly mammoths.

Then scientists would selectively breed these animals to try to make a version that more closely resembles the extinct animal — a process already underway for some extinct species like aurochs.

They were astounded to find that not only did a separate species appear between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, but that it was the hybrid offspring of the steppe bison — whose descendants include today's American bison — and another extinct cowlike mammal called the aurochs.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

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

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