For the first time ever, a family of 11 purebred Yellowstone bison were released onto Canadian soil, marking a powerful moment of cultural restoration and cross border Indigenous collaboration. “This ...

You take your family to Yellowstone and point out to your daughter up ahead a large animal. “Look, little Clementine! It’s a ...

Twenty years ago, studies showed that Yellowstone’s bison were two separate herds, commingling, but maintaining separate genetic lineages within the 2.2-million-acre wilderness.

Bison in Yellowstone National Park spent over 100 years as two genetically distinct herds. But now they're roaming as one interbreeding population, a new study suggests.

BILLINGS, Mont. Descendants of a bison herd captured and sent to Canada more than 140 years ago will be relocated to a Montana American Indian reservation next month, in what tribal leaders bill as a ...

FILE - This March 9, 2016 file photo a group of Yellowstone National Park bison await shipment to slaughter inside a holding pen along the park's northern border near Gardiner, Mont. Yellowstone ...

In 2024, there were an estimated 5,400 bison at the park. The number has ranged from 3,500 to 6,000 in recent years. At Yellowstone, bison can roam relatively freely, despite most other herds ...

Yellowstone National Park has long been home to thousands of bison, the area’s most iconic animal. Almost daily, tourists stop their cars to allow streams of these massive mammals to cross the ...