![]() ![]() It possibly migrated west into the Middle East during the Pleistocene. Fossils of the Indian aurochs were excavated in alluvial deposits in South India dating to the Middle Pleistocene. Bos acutifrons is a possible ancestor of the aurochs, of which a fossil skull was excavated in the Sivalik Hills in India that dates to the Early Pleistocene about 2 million years ago. The cold Pliocene climate caused an extension of open grassland, which supported the evolution of large grazers.
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