Aurochs are an extinct species of cattle that died out around 400 years ago. They once roamed Europe, Asia, and Africa and ...

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 ...