How to Use aurochs in a Sentence

aurochs

noun

• For millennia the aurochs had turned grass into meat for us hunters.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• In that case, researchers would expect to find points made from antler as well as bones of aurochs, other deer species and Eurasian elk.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
• The Czech project includes tauros that were transferred from the Netherlands, where a cross-breeding program aimed at coming close to the original species, the aurochs, started in 2008.
  — Karel Janicek, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• Europe’s largest mammal, and also a stable hybrid) is from its ancestors—the aurochs and plains bison.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• The aurochs, like the one found on the limestone slab, is a common theme in Aurignacian art, including at Chauvet Cave, which contains the oldest known figurative art in the world.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• Those bovine descendants of the aurochs helped us invent civilization.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Goderie now has about 500 animals at various stages of becoming modern-day aurochs.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Horses, aurochs (ancient bison), woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses were also around.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2017
• The aurochs that humans once painted on caves, for example, and later domesticated into modern cattle, is long since extinct—but feral cattle run wild from Hawaii to Hong Kong.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Old English longhorn cattle provide ecological services once offered by long-dead aurochs.
  — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• Researchers have uncovered thousands of bone fragments at the site, including remains from horses, extinct wild oxen known as aurochs, and donkey relatives called onagers.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 24 July 2019

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