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The Computer DinosaursFact File #162 - Aurochs
--- Real World ---
Distribution: Asia, Europe and North Africa
Classification: Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae
Meaning of name: "cow"
Named by: Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, 1827
Time: Pleistocene to Holocene (extinct 1627)
Size: up to 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall
Lifestyle: Grazer
Scientific name: Bos primigenius
--- The Computer Dinosaurs ---
Species number: 162
Story arc: 48
Episode: 170
Other information: Taxonomically, this species is not extinct; it currently exists worldwide in the form of a subspecies commonly known as a cow. Like modern cattle, the males (bulls) of this species are larger than the females (cows), and often form large stampeding herds. They are the last animals encountered in story arc 48.
