Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of bison grazing in a lush Nebraska prairie at sunset with a winding river and three deer in the distance.© A-Z Animals The ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these massive herbivores, but an interconnected web of species impacted by them, ...

Herds of wood bison once roamed northern Canada and much of Alaska. The bison — scientific name Bison bison athabascae — are a northern subspecies of the American bison that once lived in great ...

It must have been quite something to witness the sight of 60 million bison as they thundered across the Great Plains in the 1800s. Once close to extinction, North America's largest land animal has ...

A bison on Antelope Island in Utah. There were once 60 million bison in North America. Today, just over 20,000 live in conservation herds in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A majestic American bison stands on a rocky hill at sunrise, its breath steaming in the cold air as it looks toward the camera.© A ...