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

North America’s largest land animal has made it to the Kuskokwim. Most of the wood bison released in early April are still in the area around Shageluk, but one group of twenty-five broke off to ...

A flat tire, a high tide and a wildfire all threatened to derail the reintroduction of the first herd of wood bison to roam the United States in more than a century. A flat tire, a high tide and a ...

PORTAGE, Alaska – The first of 100 wood bison aimed at re-establishing a species that went extinct more than a century ago in Alaska were flown Sunday to a rural village. Thirty 30 juveniles age 2 or ...

Alaska wildlife officials are preparing to release North America's largest land mammal into its native U.S. habitat for the first time in more than a century. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on ...

Veterinary researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have successfully produced three wood bison calves using in vitro fertilization. Veterinary researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of ...

Wood bison, the largest animals in North America, were nearly wiped out by hunting in the late 19th and early 20th century. After an isolated herd was discovered in Alberta in 1957, wood bison have ...

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

YAKUTSK, July 24. /TASS/. Wood bison, which have been brought to Yakutia since 2006, will be listed in the republic's Red Data Book to preserve the species and to protect them from poachers. The local ...

These nights, Tom Seaton is dreaming less about red-brown, steaming, humpbacked hulks. He’s also getting more sleep, knowing dozens of wood bison that galloped to freedom behind his snowmachine last ...

An experimental wood bison herd introduced to the western Interior region five years ago experienced a decline this year due to harsh winter weather, but scientists say there's still some good news.