seeder Posted December 30, 2016 #1 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Quote Scientists close to bringing extinct SEVEN FOOT GIANT COW back to life RESEARCHERS are close to bringing back a breed of giant cattle, known as aurochs, back to life after they died out nearly 400 years ago. Using a process known as back-breeding, which involves selectively mating existing varieties of cattle, scientists believe they will soon develop a beast that shares the same characteristics as the fabled auroch. http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/748381/aurochs-extinct-giant-cow-Operation-Tauros-Donato-Matassino 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted December 30, 2016 #2 Share Posted December 30, 2016 great, we are going to need a bigger plate. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebDandelion Posted December 30, 2016 #3 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Happy days. I can see the headlines now....people against eating meat protesting about this....and meat eaters (like me) going to sharpen our eating utensils. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebDandelion Posted December 30, 2016 #4 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I forgot my emoticon... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted December 30, 2016 #5 Share Posted December 30, 2016 1 hour ago, DebDandelion said: I forgot my emoticon... there will be plenty to go round, I`ll get the oven ready: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebDandelion Posted December 30, 2016 #6 Share Posted December 30, 2016 1 hour ago, freetoroam said: there will be plenty to go round, I`ll get the oven ready: Mother of all fires. I don't want it that we'll done 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee Posted December 30, 2016 #7 Share Posted December 30, 2016 . Years ago I found what I now believe could be the fossil of an auroch's tooth - by a stream in a meadow about 3 miles from where I live - I used to call it my dinosaur tooth but then looked at loads of pictures of fossilized teeth and decided it was probably from the extinct Auroch - one of the back ones - it's approx 3 inches wide and 6 inches long (without the roots) and very worn down - . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 30, 2016 #8 Share Posted December 30, 2016 51 minutes ago, bee said: it's approx 3 inches wide and 6 inches long (without the roots) and very worn down - Are you sure it wasn't a Ginormousantopithecus ? ~ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted December 30, 2016 #9 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Bringing back the aurochs? Are they sure this is a good idea? Well, if they're going to roam the steppes... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted December 30, 2016 #10 Share Posted December 30, 2016 This is exciting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdesert50 Posted December 30, 2016 #11 Share Posted December 30, 2016 While this is certainly commendable, we read recently of the impending extinction of the cheetah in part to due habitat loss. So, with diminishing resources, this endeavor, which is certainly resource dependent, ultimately bodes poorly for the beast. Why not focus on preserving that which we have rather than addressing it as an biological afterthought. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted December 30, 2016 Author #12 Share Posted December 30, 2016 In other news Quote Pandas are taken off the endangered list and wild tigers are on the rise in a landmark year for the world's wildlife Environmental groups say there have been 'landmark successes' across the globe during 2016 The numbers of tigers in the wild said to have increased for the first time since conservation efforts began Meanwhile Nepal has marked two years in a row with no poaching of its rhinos for their horns Giant pandas threatened status has been downgraded from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable' in another boost Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4075488/Pandas-taken-endangered-list-wild-tigers-rise-landmark-year-world-s-wildlife.html#ixzz4UKLxrnLg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 30, 2016 #13 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Habitat loss ... now that's going to start some sort of a war on a lot of fronts ... ~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted December 30, 2016 #14 Share Posted December 30, 2016 This means that the cow pats in the fields will be bath size , watch out when you're doggy walking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Falukorv Posted December 30, 2016 #15 Share Posted December 30, 2016 MOOOOOOOOHH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted December 30, 2016 #16 Share Posted December 30, 2016 This animal has a little bit of a dark history when it comes to trying to recreate it. See Heck's Cattle. Nasty business. Recently it was published that the European Bison contains Auroch DNA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobolds Posted January 3, 2017 #17 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Next .. let bring back extinct human 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timewarrior Posted January 3, 2017 #18 Share Posted January 3, 2017 I have only one thing to say about this. Moo. Sorry, for a seven foot cow: MOO! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMan Posted January 4, 2017 #19 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Well that's confusing. The UM article that links to these comments ( http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/302212/scientists-set-to-revive-extinct-steppe-bison ) is about the Steppe Bison, which is not the same thing as an Auroch, whose express.co.uk article is linked at the top of this comment page. If I were a scientist, I would claim to be "baffled." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted January 4, 2017 Author #20 Share Posted January 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, MisterMan said: Well that's confusing. The UM article that links to these comments ( http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/302212/scientists-set-to-revive-extinct-steppe-bison ) is about the Steppe Bison, which is not the same thing as an Auroch, whose express.co.uk article is linked at the top of this comment page. If I were a scientist, I would claim to be "baffled." have a read Quote The European bison (Bison bonasus), also known as wisent (/ˈviːzənt/ or /ˈwiːzənt/) or the European wood bison, is a Eurasian species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. Three subspecies existed in the recent past, but only one survives today. The species is descended from a hybrid, a cross between a female Aurochs, the extinct wild ancestor of modern cattle, and a male Steppe bison; the original hybrid is known informally as the Higgs bison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMan Posted January 4, 2017 #21 Share Posted January 4, 2017 But it was two completely different articles. One about Aurochs and one about Steppe Bison. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted January 4, 2017 Author #22 Share Posted January 4, 2017 30 minutes ago, MisterMan said: But it was two completely different articles. One about Aurochs and one about Steppe Bison. well I cant speak for what the site posts after I post, try this tho Quote But now, thanks to ancient DNA from the creatures' bones, researchers know that the mysterious bison was a hybrid animal that originated more than 120,000 years ago, when the extinct aurochs (the ancestor of modern cattle) and the ice-age steppe bison got together, the researchers said. The Aurochs (Bos primigenius) and bison (Bison priscus) are "genetically quite different," Cooper told Live Science. "[But they] produced something that was successful enough to carve out a niche on the landscape and go on to become, ironically, the biggest species [of other large animals] to survive the extinction at the end of the ice age in Europe." In addition, the discovery of the hybrid shows that the steppe bison, which was once thought to be the only bison in that region during the last ice age, likely competed with the hybrid species for tens of thousands of years, Cooper said. Then, the scientists studied ancient DNA from 64 different bison, including the creature's mitochondrial DNA (genetic material passed down through the mother's lineage) and nuclear DNA, or DNA passed down from both parents. "We could see that the nuclear DNA was very obviously like the steppe bison," Cooper said. "The mitochondrial [was] telling us another [ancestor]: cattle." 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 bison and 10 percent Aurochs, Cooper said.http://www.livescience.com/56533-european-bison-hybrid-discovered.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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