Up to 15 tauros - a breed of huge wild cattle - are to be reintroduced to Scoltand’s Highlands by 2026. It is hoped they will help restore biodiversity, store carbon and enhance eco-tourism. The ...

Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did A herd of beefy, long-horned tauros are to be released into a Highlands rewilding project to ...

Tauros have been bred to look similar to an ancient breed of cattle Cattle bred to resemble aurochs, large wild-roaming cows and bulls that have been extinct for 400 years, could be introduced to an ...

A project which aims to effectively reintroduce a species of cattle that was wiped out four centuries ago plans to introduce a herd in the Highlands. Trees for Life hopes 15 large wild cattle named ...

The tauros is a specially bred version of the auroch, an extinct cattle species (Credit: Izabela Cardoso and Fernando Teixeira) The tauros, a specially bred version of the long-extinct auroch cattle, ...

And while the aurochs may be gone, their descendants survive today in the millions, but as domesticated cattle. Surprisingly, in some remote corners of Europe, there are some “primitive” breeds of ...