[SunkenCiv]

Oddly enough, the last known aurochs were in Poland about 400 years ago.

• The DNA of three aurochs found next to the Elba shepherdess opens up a new enigma for palaeontology [04/13/2023]
• Before Stonehenge monuments, hunter-gatherers made use of open habitats [05/03/2022]
• Neanderthals Made Leather-Working Tools from Bison and Aurochs Ribs [05/19/2020]
• Following the last Neanderthals: Mammal tracks in Late Pleistocene coastal dunes of Gibraltar [02/16/2019]
• USA! USA! Neil deGrasse Tyson claims humans 'invented' cows, Ben Shapiro's mockery is MOO-rific [08/08/2017]
• Jurassic Farm: Can we bring prehistoric bovines back from extinction? [09/10/2014]
• Archaeologists say Stonehenge was "London of the Mesolithic" in Amesbury investigation [05/10/2014]
• UK's Oldest town revealed: Amesbury dates back more than TEN millenia [05/07/2014]
• Archaeology: The milk revolution [08/02/2013]
• Ancient giant cattle genome first [02/20/2010]
• Scientists in aurochs genome sequence first (wild cattle) [02/18/2010]
• Giant cattle to be bred back from extinction [01/18/2010]
• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600 [12/21/2008]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating info, as usual. I’d never heard of this type of cattle or that they went extinct so recently. It’s amazing that they were reserved for kings and royalty — you would have thought that they would have maintained large preserves of them to keep the breed going.

From the Reddit article you linked: “Since the half of 16th century aurochs were counted so we know exactly how many of them were still alive. It looks like royal warnings were not enough because during first years of Radziejowski rule almost all animals died out (from 24 in 1599 to just 4 in 1602).”