Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World. So ...

Just imagine what the North American plains looked like when Lewis and Clark first saw them -- no highways, no cars, no power lines, only the sound of the wind with mile after mile of grasses, bison, ...

A Yellowstone National Park bison stampede is an awesome display of power and even grace as the colossal animals gallop ...

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to the ...

Millions of bison once thundered across the American plains, shaping the landscape long before westward expansion pushed the ...

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This story is part of a “CBS This Morning” series called “America the Beautiful,” which celebrates 100 years of the National Park Service. It aired originally on June 3, 2016. Few places make you feel ...

The story of the American Bison is an American story through and through. It’s the story of our shared darkness and our shared light. Last summer, the U.S. Congress introduced the National Public ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Following a brief ceremony April 17 that included the burning of sage and the singing of Native American prayers, five bison from the Laramie Foothills Conservation Herd were loaded into trailers ...

The United States has selected a national mammal—and, no, it's not humans. The American bison (Bison bison bison) is now the official mammalian species of the land, putting it on the same symbolic ...