In 2016, a remarkable discovery in Siberia captivated the scientific community and the public alike: the nearly complete remains of a 10,000-year-old steppe bison. This Ice Age behemoth, preserved in ...

Guthrie responded to the discovery of “Blue Babe,” a 50,000-year-old steppe bison found north of Fairbanks in 1979.

Bison herd. Image by Openverse. The remarkably preserved bison specimen, identified as Bison priscus (the extinct steppe bison), stands as a testament to the effectiveness of natural cryopreservation.

The European bison is a hybrid that descends from the steppe bison (Bison priscus) and the aurochs (Bos primigenius), both extinct species that were once native to the UK.

Reddit users were impressed by the find, as one user wrote: "Looks like a horn from a steppe bison. Bones from them were quite common finds from [trawlers] from Dogger Bank before the bottom ...

A group of bison has claimed an estate in the east of Portugal as their new stomping grounds, marking the animal's first presence in the country for 10,000 years. Animals Around the Globe detailed ...

Although European bison were never native to the U.K., they are the closest living relatives to the steppe bison and other wild grazing animals that once were. Credit: Peter Yeung But already, Wilder ...

A descendant of the steppe bison, the Bison bonasus probably appeared 10,000 to 15,000 years ago and wandered across a large part of the continent.

The Wilder Blean project aims to show how bison can thrive in the UK and help restore wildlife.

The steppe bison is one species that may have lived up to about 10,000 years ago before it could no longer adapt to a naturally warming world and new vegetation types.

These bison are the first of their kind to live in the Iberian Peninsula since the now-extinct steppe bison roamed the region thousands of years ago during the last ice age. While they aren't native ...

The scientific evidence has to look back 10,000 years ago to find bison in Portugal—the steppe bison—a predecessor of the modern European bison.