Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...

A milestone in the extraordinary effort to bring back the North American bison. For centuries, they were vital to indigenous ...

Once hunted to near-extinction and brought back from the brink, bison are protected as wildlife in some parts of the United ...

Colorado isn’t opening a bison season, but a new hunt roster is raising questions about how the iconic species will be ...

The zoo's partnership with Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission aims to create a conservation program similar to the zoo's ...

The plains bison is one of two surviving subspecies of American bison, adapted to grasslands that stretch across the northern Great Plains. Adult bulls commonly weigh between 1,500 and 2,000 pounds ...

The modern Western “Lonesome Dove” drew inspiration from rancher Charles Goodnight’s legendary cattle drives. The ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s ...

On Dec. 4 the meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club took place at the home of Lucille Richardson with Joan Larson hosting.

Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is building a list of prospective bison hunters ー a first for the agency as the iconic animal comes under new state management. Starting this year after the passage of ...