Kansas did not pick the plains bison as one of its state animals just because it looked cool on a flag; lawmakers chose to ...

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

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

Centuries ago, herds of bison roamed the Great Plains, numbering in the tens of millions. One of the most populous mammal species in North America, enormous herds of the animals grazed and migrated ...

“One of my favorite adaptations of the bison is the hump,” said Alex Watson, regional naturalist for the Minnesota Department ...