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 organization that he, President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of ...

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all goes as planned, a caravan of livestock trucks will carry dozens of American bison out of Yellowstone National Park on a 500 ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...