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.

Friday, 25 November 2016

Some new photos from the Auerrind project

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T he cattle of the Auerrind project, Germany, have recently been moved to winter pastures because the current size of their summer areas is ...
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Friday, 28 October 2016

Impressive Tauros bull at Maashorst

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In April of this year, Tauros cattle have been introduced into the Dutch reserve Maashorst. The breeding bull seems to be quite impressive, ...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016

News from the Auerrindprojekt

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A fter the depressing news of Johnny's death in August, there are some good news of the Auerrind Project again. Domka, one of the thre...
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Sunday, 24 July 2016

An aurochs-coloured Sayaguesa x Chianina bull

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S everal Sayaguesa x Chianina cross animals have been born in the Lippeaue so far, when the Sayaguesa bull Churro covered the Chianina cows ...
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Friday, 22 July 2016

Daniel Brühl to play Lutz Heck in a 2017 film

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G erman actor Daniel Brühl is to play Lutz Heck in a war drama film scheduled to be released next year.  The film, directed by Nici Caro, i...
Thursday, 21 July 2016

New breeding herd at Lorsch, Germany

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A lthough there has been a setback for the project recently, there are good news from the Auerrind project. They just set up a breeding her...
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Sunday, 17 July 2016

A very unusual aurochs skull at Cambridge

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T his post has been made possible by Peter Stockwell from the UK who addressed me to this specimen and provided me with interesting photos ...
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Saturday, 9 July 2016

News from the Auerrindprojekt, Germany

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I t has been long ago since my last post. The reason behind that is that I had a busy semester at university, but now the summer has started...
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Friday, 1 April 2016

Unknown aspects of the aurochs' live appearance

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M ost of the external and morphological traits of the aurochs are well known to us thanks to numerous superb skeletal remains and also cont...
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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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