aurochs

Note: We still don't have a northern white rhinoceros clone; I don't think an aurochs will happen soon. Through breeding-back with less derived breeds of cattle and eventually genetic engineering, a joint effort between rewilding NGOs and several universities have produced the first...

In the provisional exhibit

In the provisional exhibit

Thought I'd share this here. I've been following the projects in Europe aimed at creating a replica of the extinct aurochs for conservation uses. So two years ago I started my own project with a similar goal. I'm currently working on trying to import semen from the breeds being used in Europe...

Quite an interesting, balanced article on this subject, I thought: "We were able to analyse auroch DNA from preserved bone material and create a rough map of its genome that should allow us to breed animals nearly identical to aurochs," said team leader Donato Matassino, head of the...