Aurochs were adapted to relatively warm, forested environments. Their range shrunk southwards during colder glacial periods and expanded northwards during the warmer interglacials of the Ice Age.

have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and ...

Aurochs were once found throughout Eurasia and parts of North Africa. As shown by their regular appearance in prehistoric rock art, they played an important part in human culture, not to mention ...