Show europe s extinct aurochs professor A martens of magdeburg has reviewed all the early literature and documents i elating to the famous wild ox of europe the aurochs or urus and shows that it was not iden ty 5 won t pay for the h gilld animal also lived in europe in the time of the aurochs it is on record that a herd of thirty aurochs es were living in poland in 1564 in 1627 a few half domesticated a still in existence but the race has since become extinct the typical color of the aurochs was blade but there atas a gray variety in poland and a red one in germany |