For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs—huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle—languished at the bottom of a cave in northwestern Spain. A team of paleontologists have now genetically ...

The ancient remains of an auroch, the species that was wiped out back in the 17th century, has been found washed up on a beach in Northumberland by a passerby who stumbled across a huge animal skull.