Well, when settlers first visited the new world and witnessed bison, they thought they looked like the Cape buffalo and water buffalo from other parts of the world, so they called them buffalo ...

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae.

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

Originally made up of two distinct herds, researchers now believe the Yellowstone bison should be managed as a single, interbreeding population. Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary ...

Although the clashing horns may look menacing to us, when African buffalo bulls fight, it’s usually a friendly sparring match ...

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances” that engages our imagination of the unique relationship between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he ...

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals ... savannas to lowland rainforests—as long as they’re close to a water source. The ungulates are found starting in southwest Ethiopia and through ...

Wood Buffalo is Canada ... Watch for black bears and bison that sometimes lumber across the highway. The park office in Fort Chipewyan is only accessible by air or water, except for a few ...

A herd of water buffalo escaped from businessman DeVoe Moore's property after the fence was cut. One of the escaped buffalo was involved in a car accident with a driver who was unharmed.