Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Realtalk: will the aurochs ever come back?

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B ack in my teenage years, I was very much into Mesozoic dinosaurs. It changed in my late teens and shifted towards recently extinct ani...
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Sunday, 1 March 2026

Two new aurochs head busts based on actual skulls

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R ecently I finished two aurochs head busts I have been working on over the last couple of weeks. They represent the Ilford (= London) s...
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Sunday, 15 February 2026

The wisent hybrid origin hypothesis is outdated

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T races of hybridization among closely related species have been found everywhere it was looked for, including the genus Homo . Bovines ...
Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Did the wisent evolve because of humans?

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F or this post, I created the new post category “wild speculations”, because it is indeed a wild speculation. Some specie...
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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...
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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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