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Ancestor of beef for Pleistocene Park?
The aurochs, ancestor of modern cattle, became extinct in the 17th century, but David MacHugh, who has managed to obtain a DNA sequence of one, reckons that a combination of selective breeding of older varieties of cattle, and modern gene editing techniques, might one day allow us to see the mighty beasts grazing parts of Europe.
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