depicts a steppe wisent (Bison priscus), a now-extinct species of bison. It was crafted from a piece of reindeer antler that was previously used as a spear thrower for hunting, according to the ...

A PhD student in Canada just made a remarkable discovery that rewrites the timeline of Ice Age extinctions — after analyzing samples that had been left in a university freezer for over a decade.

The years-long experience of work with musk oxen will favor building up the park's population of bison, the region's Governor Dmitry Artyukhov said TASS, July 21. Steppe bison from Yakutia were ...

This is Grant Zazula of the Yukon Paleontology Program with the skull of a Pleistocene steppe bison. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

cave lions and giant steppe bison. The discovery marks the first near complete and best-preserved mummified woolly mammoth found in North America. A partial mammoth calf, named Effie, was found in ...