The mummified steppe bison is kept in a climate-controlled case that mimics the conditions from where it was found. Scientists used carbon dating to determine the bison is over 28,000 years old.

In 1979, a pair of gold miners stumbled across the frozen carcass of a bison in Fairbanks, Alaska. ... The animal was identified as a steppe bison, a species that is no longer living.

Steppe bison, ancestors of today’s plains bison, once roamed the former grasslands from Spain over the Bering Land Bridge all the way to Texas.

About 120,000 years ago, ancient cows and steppe bison had created a hybrid species that survived for thousands of years, which Cooper says is rare. Enlarge this image.

European bison, the continent's largest land mammal, are the closest living relative to ancient steppe bison that would have once roamed Britain and naturally managed the habitat, the conservationists ...

In 1979, researchers unearthed the mummified body of a 55,000-year-old Steppe bison in the Alaskan tundra. Shortly after, they sliced off a piece of its neck — to eat! Here's a news story told ...

Shortly after researchers unearthed the mummified body of a 55,000-year-old Steppe bison in the Alaskan tundra, they sliced off a piece of its neck. To eat!

In 1979, researchers unearthed the mummified body of a 55,000-year-old Steppe bison in the Alaskan tundra. Shortly after, they sliced off a piece of its neck — to eat! Here's a news story told ...