aurochs

• In time they produced animals that indeed looked something like the aurochs, although they were not, of course, the true item. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
• The aurochs, which weighed up to a tonne and were up to two metres high, was lauded by Julius Caesar as being "a little below the elephant in size" with "extraordinary strength and speed".
• Thus the lack of mitochondrial P-lineages in extant European cattle actually only indicates that female aurochs were not included into domestic populations. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• This results in a broad overlap in the body-size variation of aurochs and cattle, meaning that a medium-scaled bone can either belong to a female aurochs or to a domestic bull. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Crossbreeding between domestic bulls and female aurochs is highly unlikely to be detected by molecular genetic means, as the offspring would remain in the wild population and not in the settlements. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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