Showing posts with label Artworks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artworks. Show all posts
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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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I did a couple of posts on the fur colour of the African aurochs in the past, and all of them are more or less outdated....
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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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Thursday, 16 January 2025

The weird proto-aurochs from the Pleistocene of India

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I actually wanted to include this in my upcoming book – which will be published soon – but it turned out to be too specul...
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Sunday, 16 June 2024

I have a Facebook page now

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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...
Thursday, 7 March 2024

Two of my aurochs sculptures are for sale

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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 ...
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Thursday, 22 February 2024

What the aurochs really looked like (new reconstruction)

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L ast week, I finished my latest aurochs model. Just like the previous one, its postcranial morphology is based on the Store-damme skeleton,...
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Friday, 1 September 2023

How bulky was the aurochs?

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A s mostly only bones are preserved of the aurochs, reconstructing the soft tissue surrounding them necessarily involves speculation. The an...
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Friday, 30 June 2023

10 years Breeding-back Blog + the Gramsbergen aurochs

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S ince May this year, I have been running the Breeding-back blog for ten years now. So far, it had more than 1,2 million page views, 500 pos...
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Friday, 26 May 2023

Reconstruction model of the Indian aurochs

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A fter I finished my reconstruction of the Sassenberg bull , I now can present another model, this time of the Indian aurochs.  In the lack ...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Life reconstruction model of the Sassenberg bull

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I t has been two months since my latest post. I didn’t publish any posts in those two months because I was busy doing new aurochs models. I ...
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Sunday, 26 February 2023

Portrait of a generic aurochs cow

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F or today, I have a quick little sketch of an aurochs cow that I painted with GIMP. It is not a reconstruction of a particular specimen, bu...
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Thursday, 2 February 2023

What a "breeding-back" zebu could look like

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A ll current “breeding-back” projects focus on the European subspecies, but that one is not the only that left living, domesticated descenda...
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