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The Auroch Skull

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The auroch’s skull on display at the Museum of London.
The auroch’s skull on display at the Museum of London. Midnightblueowl/cc by-sa 3.0
The auroch’s skull on display at the Museum of London. Ethan Doyle White/cc by-sa 4.0
Paleolithic cave paintings potentially depicting the auroch at Lascaux, France. Prof saxx/public domain

In the Museum of London hangs the colossal minotaur-esque skull of a beast that’s been extinct for nearly 400 years, the auroch. This particular skull dates from the Neolithic period and was discovered in Ilford, East London, where herds of this creature once roamed.

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The Eurasian auroch was a gigantic species of wild cattle that was found across the forests and steppes of Europe and Central Asia until its extinction. It is the same magnificent beast that is a recurrent theme in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira, Spain, which indicates that it must have…

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