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      Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did

      The big chonki bois in the picture are Tauros

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      From the article

      Since the early 2000s, scientists in the Netherlands have sought to bring aurochs back to life by interbreeding ancient cattle breeds that are genetically closest to the aurochs. This has been aided by the first sequencing of the aurochs’ complete genome, in 2011. Tauros have been “back-bred” to genetically replicate, resemble and behave like aurochs as closely as possible.