Friday, 26 December 2025

Aurochs anatomy revisited

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I n the latest post, I reviewed much of the ancient and historical aurochs depictions and what they tell us. Here are s...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

What ancient and historical depictions of the aurochs tell us

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When trying to infer the morphology of the aurochs from all available evidence, we do reach a point where comparisons wit...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Flaws and inaccuracies in my aurochs reconstructions and what we do not know

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I did several dozens, perhaps roughly one hundred, aurochs reconstructions since I got into this topic in 2011. Some of t...
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Sunday, 2 November 2025

The Prejlerup bull with gaur as a template

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We do have a rough idea of how the postcranial morphology of the aurochs looked like in life, but the fact that soft tiss...
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Thursday, 7 August 2025

Portrait of the Vig bull

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R ecently I did a little portrait of the Vig bull, one of the two famous Danish aurochs specimen (the other one being the Prejlerup bull). I...
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Friday, 1 August 2025

Why dividing the mainland aurochs into subspecies might be outdated

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I t has long been established that the aurochs can be divided into several mainland subspecies: B. p. namadicus , the Ind...
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Tuesday, 29 July 2025

My book now available as an ebook

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Due to the many request for an ebook, I now made a kindle ebook version of my book. The advantage is that it is way cheaper since there are ...
Friday, 18 July 2025

Auerrind individuals joined the Fahrendahl Heck/Taurus herd!

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E arlier this year, the Heck/Taurus herd at Fahrendahl ( https://www.auerochsen-fahrendahl.de/ ) was joined by three individuals from the Au...
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Sunday, 13 July 2025

The African aurochs was even more different than usually assumed

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I did a couple of posts on the fur colour of the African aurochs in the past, and all of them are more or less outdated....
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025

A sneak peek into my book

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T oday I want to give you a little sneak peek into my book so that you can see what you can expect from my book " Breeding-back wild be...
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Thursday, 19 June 2025

My book is available on Amazon!

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T oday is a great day for me. My book Breeding-back wild beasts: aurochs, wild horse and quagga is published and availab...
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Saturday, 14 June 2025

Another archaic aurochs: the Wadi Sarrat skull

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A while ago, I posted a reconstruction I did of an archaic aurochs from India. This time, I did a little sculpture of an...
Saturday, 31 May 2025

My new project: life-sized aurochs head bust

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D uring the past few weeks, I have been busy with finalizing my book (which will be out soon) and also starting a new scu...
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Saturday, 12 April 2025

Was the European aurochs woolly and shaggy like Highland cattle?

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T hinking about the coat of the European aurochs, there is a notion from Conrad Gesner, who owned a piece of an aurochs s...
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