2010年12月13日 · Researchers see in the musk ox’s story clues to help guide efforts to conserve other large land mammals now at risk of extinction. They also hope to raise the profile of a species they consider...

2019年6月11日 · Climate, diseases, and anthropogenic changes are likely the principal drivers of muskox population change and result in multiple stressors that vary temporally and spatially. Impacts to muskoxen are precipitated by habitat loss/degradation, altered vegetation and species associations, pollution, and harvest.

2015年8月18日 · In this paper, we present the data of two very characteristic species of the “Mammoth Steppe” fauna, which both belong to the family of the Bovidae: the musk ox Ovibos moschatus and the extinct bison Bison priscus. Only dated fossil remains are taken into account.

2017年8月2日 · Weighing up to 800 pounds, the Arctic musk ox resembles a smaller, woollier cousin of the iconic American bison. But their name is a misnomer; the creatures are more closely related to sheep and...

2010年8月1日 · Although represented by a single taxon today, various genera of extinct musk oxen are reported from Pleistocene deposits in North America including Ovibos, Praeovibos and Soergelia (with their Holarctic distribution), Bootherium and Euceratherium (with their endemic Nearctic distribution), and Symbos, which some authors believe is synonymous to ...

2010年3月10日 · In the case of the muskox, the international team of researchers behind the new PNAS study looked at 682 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA obtained from 149 prehistoric muskox specimens from North...

2014年10月9日 · Is it caused by climate change or human activity? The survival of the weak trophic competitors promotes the “anthropogenic” hypothesis. The extant species of Pleistocene communities allow us to easily test this assumption. The reindeer and musk ox have been until now coexisting in the Arctic territory.

2018年8月14日 · This hairy, horned Arctic bovid (Ovibos moschatus), neither an ox nor a maker of musk, once roamed with woolly mammoths. Yet we still know very little about its physiology, reproduction,...

What is a musk ox? Is the musk ox actually a cow? The musk oxen is part of the Bovidae family, a taxonomic group of over 140 extant (living) species including domestic cattle, sheep, goats, bison, antelopes, and wildebeest.

In the late Anglo‐Saxon and Norman periods an oxgang was a conventional unit based on the amount of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a year. It is clear at this time that the ox, rather than the horse, was the animal that was used to draw the plough.