An almost extinct species, the American bison has now grown to over half a million, and it has become popular as a substitute ...

The modern American bison (Bison bison ... forces that pushed buffalo and numerous other species to the brink of extinction in the late nineteenth century started with the tragic beaver story ...

Was William Hornaday a hero or villain in the story of American Buffalo? What happened in 19th century society to allow the mass extinction or near mass extinction of so many animals? How did ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota State University could soon be teaching students how to raise bison, a species that once populated the North American plains and was hunted to near extinction.

Once abundant and wide-ranging across most of North America, bison were hunted to near extinction by the late 1800s. Numbers are slowly increasing, but they’re confined to discrete populations, ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo and American Prairie, which provided the bison, are part of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ Bison Saving Animals from Extinction (SAFE) program, which is working to share ...

Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have discovered that bison in Yellowstone National Park—the only group of American bison that has ...

"It was believed earlier that only one bison species - extinct steppe bison resembling the contemporary American bison - coexisted with mammoths in Late Pleistocene. But the study of DNA from the ...