Clever detective work involving research on both ancient DNA and cave paintings from the last ice age has revealed a previously unknown species of hybrid bison, according to a new study. Researchers ...

Approximately 120,000 years ago, the now-extinct Ice Age steppe bison got it on with the aurochs, the ancient ancestor of cows, and created a rare hybrid mammal. Then ancient humans drew it. NPR ...

A newly released study examines why European cave art includes drawings of two distinct types of bison. One of the types is a newly discovered... For a decade, people who study Europe's bison ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. About 10,000 years after the Steppe Bison ...

Paleontologists cheekily dubbed the species the “Higgs bison” – a play on the famously elusive subatomic particle – because it was so mysterious. Little did they realize that the creature had been ...

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 in ...