aurochs

How To Use aurochs In A Sentence

• The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
• Close to the thigh bone, archaeologists found a group of butchered Mesolithic animal bones, including aurochs, roe deer and otter.
• Artwork and human remains indicate that some 40,000 years ago, our ancestors shared this landscape with rhinoceroses, bison, mammoths, aurochs, wild horses, and giant elks.
• The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bison and water buffaloes.
• B. primigenius (CPC98) mtDNA genome sequences and evidence of mtDNA heteroplasmy at nucleotide position 16,121 in the CPC98 aurochs sample. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism. The Goddess and the Bull
• They do look more like miniature aurochs, but that is because they have not been selectively bred for beef or milk, and cattle that have been left to their own devices will tend to revert to ancestral type.
• Sequence analysis reveals evidence of heteroplasmy in this sample and places this mitochondrial genome sequence securely within a previously identified aurochsen haplogroup (haplogroup P), thus providing novel insights into pre-domestic patterns of variation. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Among these large animals was the prehistoric forerunner of all domestic humpless cattle: the aurochs.
• The people dine on chamois and boar, aurochs and mutton, bison and walrus.