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Aurochs: back from extinction to rewild Europe - Mossy Earth

: Even Julius Caesar was intimidated, describing them as "little below the elephant in size" and so fast and strong they "spare neither man nor wild beast". The Human Interaction aurochs

For millennia, the aurochs was a central figure in human culture. They were the primary subjects of the famous 21,000-year-old Lascaux cave paintings and symbolised power and sexual potency in ancient Near East religions. Aurochs: back from extinction to rewild Europe -

Around 10,500 years ago, Neolithic humans in the Fertile Crescent began a process that would change history: the of the aurochs. 500 years ago