Moving in huge herds, more than 20 million bison roamed the American West before white men arrived. For centuries, the Indians hunted them with bows, arrows and spears for food, clothing and shelter.

Down in the Brunswick area, GSCU paleontology professor Al Mead and his team are unearthing all sorts of fossils, from little rodents to bison. The ancient bison are about 25% bigger than their ...

The ancient bison stew was served with wine. None of the guests suffered any ill effects from the aged meat. In fact, Guthrie even described it as “delicious” with a “strong Pleistocene ...

The modern-day American bison evolved around 10,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene Epoch from an ancient bison species. Over these several thousand years, ...

The hock bone of ancient bison living 3,000 years ago was 37% larger than that of contemporary bison. Ancient bison, in fact, are genetically identical to bison today.

Bison migrate toward the park boundary along the road. But in the 1800s, the U.S. government slaughtered the animals in an effort to wipe out tribes’ food supply and settle the West.

Bison antiquus is thought to have gone extinct around 10,000 years ago, having migrated from Siberia across a land bridge into Alaska between 240,000 and 220,000 years ago.

“Wheat’s detailed analysis of the bison remains helped researchers under-stand the sophistication of ancient bison hunting tactics; reconstruct how and why they were processed, butchered and prepared; ...

An ancient bison was frozen inside Siberian permafrost for up to 9,000 years until the melting ice coughed out its mummified body in summer 2022. Now scientists in Russia hope to clone the ancient ...

An ancient bison was frozen inside Siberian permafrost for up to 9,000 years until the melting ice coughed out its mummified body in summer 2022. Now scientists in Russia hope to clone the ancient ...

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.