Bison have a shaggy winter coat that they shed in the summer ... It is estimated that as many as 60 million American bison ...

James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

Unseen are hundreds of bison rounded up and shipped to slaughter each winter or forced back into the park each ... See more › The rebound of American bison numbers after their decimation in the late ...

A great herd of American bison was lost in the Arbuckle Mountains during a ferocious storm - the kind only Oklahoma can produce. Hail fell and tornadoes spun all around the herd as they stampeded ...

The modern American bison (Bison bison) emerged from larger, ancient predecessors approximately five thousand to ten thousand years ago and soon became a truly continental presence, ranging across ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.

In 1924, Hollywood brought 14 bison to Santa Catalina, a 22-mile-long island standing 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, to serve as backdrops in a silent film, The Vanishing American. The bison, ...

White Horse Hill National Game Preserve near St. Michael, North Dakota, is on track to playing a bigger role in ongoing efforts to restore North American bison populations with the recent addition of ...