A new era is starting at Indiana University as the school is bringing back the bison mascot. The bison has a history at IU, serving as the mascot in the 1960s. It has a deeper ...

A plains bison lies in the grass of the arctic tundra. Scientists have introduced bison to the Russian Arctic to take on the role of extinct mammoths and help restore ancient ecosystems. "Buffalo ...

In the state of Colorado, bison are “livestock,” unable to roam free like elk or pronghorn. Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary ...

Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now more tribes and tribal nations are working to reestablish bison ...

Fortunately, the bison was rescued from the brink of extinction and today there are approximately half a million in various populations across the Great Plains and elsewhere.

Where the bison roamed The first animals grazing in the grass at Green Plains were bison, known for the lower fat levels of their meat.

But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison's demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from ...

Patterns of maternal expenditure in Plains bison (Bison bison bison) are equivocal, with different studies yielding conflicting results. Therefore, our objective was to investigate the unsettled ...