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.

Thursday, 7 November 2024

How to improve the bodily morphology of "breeding-back" cattle?

I think that all of the current “breeding-back” projects and breeds are progressing very nicely. It is always exciting f...

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

New photos of Dominator from this summer

S orry for my long absence on this blog during the last couple of months. It has been because I am very busy with finishing the last illustr...

Sunday, 28 July 2024

Auerrind project update

Claus Kropp from the Auerrind project posted an update to the project today, with lots of beautiful photos of their very promising and beau...

Saturday, 29 June 2024

Is Sayaguesa the ultimate "breeding-back" breed?

S ayaguesa is used in all three major “breeding-back” projects (Taurus cattle, Tauros cattle and Auerrind cattle) and the...

Thursday, 27 June 2024

What is your favourite "breeding-back" project/breed/lineage/herd?

I have several posts in preparation at the moment, but for today, I want to ask my readers a question. Which one is your favourite "br...

Sunday, 16 June 2024

I have a Facebook page now

I did not post much here recently (mostly because I am busy finishing my book on "breeding-back"), but I have a lot of posts in p...

Saturday, 15 June 2024

Let's appreciate Heck cattle for a moment

H eck cattle usually receives a lot of negative PR, so I felt motivated to write a blog post on what is positive about th...

Sunday, 21 April 2024

Event at the Neanderthal museum, Germany, with Darren Naish and me

I was invited by Tobias Möser from the Sequoia Verlag in Germany to hold a presentation on the "breeding-back" of the aurochs at...

Saturday, 13 April 2024

I own an aurochs horn now: what it tells us

Recently I purchased an aurochs horn from most likely or at least the 15 th century. It is not only the only one in private hands known, bu...

Sunday, 31 March 2024

Awesome photos of awesome Tauros cattle

I am always excited when I see new photos of Tauros cattle, because I have not yet had the opportunity to visit any of the herds of the pro...

Thursday, 7 March 2024

Two of my aurochs sculptures are for sale

I have to create more space in my sculpture room because I keep on having new ideas, therefore some of my aurochs sculptures are available ...

Thursday, 22 February 2024

What the aurochs really looked like (new reconstruction)

L ast week, I finished my latest aurochs model. Just like the previous one, its postcranial morphology is based on the Store-damme skeleton,...

Friday, 19 January 2024

Magnificent young Auerrind bulls

R ecently, Felix Hohmeyer posted photos of young bulls from the Auerrind herd near Bielefeld on Facebook: © Felix Hohmeyer © Felix Hohmeyer...

Friday, 29 December 2023

I am writing a book on "breeding-back"

During the last 3 years, I have been writing a book on “breeding-back” and everything related to it. Basically compiling all the knowledge a...

Friday, 15 December 2023

Why I think purity makes no sense in "breeding-back"

R eaders of my blog will know that I am not afraid of proposing mixing “breeding-back” cattle with less-derived zebu breeds and even differe...

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About me

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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