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, 27 April 2014

First completely synthesized eukaryotic chromosome

O nce again our world gets one step closer to the first extinct species to be cloned*. Remember when I reported the fully resolved genome ...

Friday, 25 April 2014

Interview with Henri Kerkdijk-Otten on the Uruz Project

P robably not unnoticed by followers of “aurochs rebreeding”, a new aurochs project exists since last year. Henri Kerkdijk-Otten, formerly ...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Heck cattle outside Germany Pt. III: Austria

T here is only one Austrian grazing project for conservational purposes like in Germany, where Hungarian Grey cattle is used (more on that i...

Monday, 21 April 2014

Social and reproductive behaviour of cattle and aurochs

A ll members of the Bovini, including domestic cattle, have a more or less similar social behaviour, and so the aurochs probably showed the...

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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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