The Breeding-back Blog

"Breeding-back" aims to restore or immitate extinct animals by selective breeding. This blog provides general information, the facts behind myths and news from various projects.

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The wisent hybrid origin hypothesis is outdated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Why dividing the mainland aurochs into subspecies might be outdated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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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...
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Daniel Foidl
My major interests always have been extinct animals, from dinosaurs to Pleistocene megafauna and more recent extinctions. Besides that I am interested in evolution, genetics and ecology. I am also an amateur animal artist, making drawings and models mostly of extinct animals.
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