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

Settlers killed the bison to sell their skins, and the U.S. military used the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a way to weaken and undermine the Native American tribes that relied on the animal ...

Tens of millions of American bison, often called buffalo, were once abundant across the plains and as far east as New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the National Park Service.

A bison stands it Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Feb. 12, 2017. A bill to reclassify wild bison in Colorado cleared its first hurdle ...

Indiana University Student Government recently passed a bill to make the bison the official mascot of the Hoosiers. IU ...

Struggles over land and water will intensify with the acceleration of climate change in the Middle East region and around the ...

The hearing comes as the park’s wild bison are once again being captured by the National Park Service and shipped to ...

Democratic Senator Jessie Danielson, one of the bill’s main sponsors, said the killing of wild bison is not “a very prevalent problem” currently, as wild bison or buffalo have a small ...

Male bison can weigh more than 2,000 pounds and the creatures are among the most dangerous animals to visitors at North American national parks, attacking humans if provoked. So instead of a live ...