I AM glad that Mr. Lydekker accedes (NATURE, May 15, p. 53) to the correction of which I had pointed out the need. But the “vulgar error”—if the Editor will allow me to use a phrase made ...

IN regard to Prof. Newton's letter in your issue of the 8th, I beg to state that in restricting the name aurochs to the European bison, I have merely followed the general custom of English zoologists.

Researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the origins of European bison, finding that a now-extinct hybrid species was the source. This hybrid species formed when the ancestor of European ...

Cave art from the Ice Age has helped solve the mysterious origins of Europe's largest land mammal. The modern European bison, now found only in protected reserves, once roamed widely on the ...

They lived at the same time as mammoths, bison and humans. Fossil evidence from places such as Formby in the UK shows “9,000-year-old footprints of humans walking along these tidal flats among the ...

The evidence suggested that the creature was a hybrid, likely started by a female Aurochs and a male steppe bison, he said. Moreover, the hybrid animal's nuclear DNA was about 90 percent steppe ...

The ancestors of European bison – or of modern domestic cattle – appeared 120,000 years ago as the result of an hybridisation between the extinct steppe bison and aurochs, scientists have said.

Like their bison cousins, aurochs stood their ground to defend against threats rather than fleeing, making them risky to approach. Aurochs were not only massive, but massively successful as a species.

Engraving an aurochs image on limestone 38,000 years ago, an artist left behind fascinating clues about early modern-human life, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Black painting of the "Higgs bison" at Niaux cave in Ariège, France, dated to the Magdalenian period some 17,000 years ago. (D. Viet under Creative Commons licence via the University of Adelaide) ...

Bison are a major attraction for visitors at Yellowstone National Park. AP Photo/Robert Graves, File. In 2023, the U.S. federal government added US$25 million to “restore wild and healthy ...