Despite being pushed to the brink of extinction, the American buffalo is fundamental to the fabric of America, but it's not ...

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

One of the most compelling examples is the Blue Iguana, native to the Cayman Islands. By 2002, this striking reptile had succumbed to habitat destruction and human activities, with numbers dwindling ...

Bison (which were named the national mammal of the U.S. in 2016) are unbelievably huge, with male bison reaching up to 2,000 pounds and 6 feet tall, and female bison weighing in at 1,000 pounds ...

But even then, overhunting, loss of prairie habitat and diseases spread by domesticated cattle were ravaging the species. By the time Hornaday organized the American Bison Society in 1905 ...

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species ... the scientific name bison (which comes from the Latin word for ...

It is necessary to retain their unique and valuable characteristics. Weakening and replacing natural selection is turning wild bison into a domestic species. Worldwide, several native species are ...

Bison back up. It’s an animal-eat-animal world out there, especially in Yellowstone National Park. There are almost 70 different mammal species in Yellowstone, and most of those can be separated into ...

For many years, Yellowstone has been the only continuously resident bison group as a form of wildlife in the United States.

Both species, according to a scientist, roamed the Earth in the same period of time, but lived in different landscapes YEKATERINBURG, May 10. /TASS/. Fossil bones of mysterious Bison-X ...

Together with a small number of animals saved by ranchers, that meager herd became the basis for the recovery of the entire species, Bison bison, which has been nurtured back to strength in the park.

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.