Fossils of extinct hybrid between aurochs and steppe bison found in Urals caves

Fossils of extinct hybrid between aurochs and steppe bison found in Urals caves

YEKATERINBURG, May 10. /TASS/. Fossil bones of mysterious Bison-X, or a hybrid between aurochs and steppe bison, that roamed the Earth more than 100,000 years ago were found by a team of scientists from Russia, Australia, UK, Denmark, Poland, US, and France in caves in Russia's Ural Mountains, Pavel Kosintsev, a senior research fellow with the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, said on Wednesday.

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