A cold morning mist lingers over the wide valleys of Yellowstone National Park as a mighty herd of bison rumbles across the ...

The thunder of bison hooves is once again echoing across the Great Plains as these iconic giants make a powerful comeback.

And some claim the quarantine and transfer to tribes is the privatization of public wildlife that threatens genetic integrity through “domestication” of wild bison. All those claims are far ...

This year, the city donated 23 bison to tribes. The city and county of Denver has two bison herds that are descended from the last wild bison in North America at Yellowstone National Park. They were ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist.

Unlike their ranched cousins, which are mainly the result of 20th-century attempts to cross bison with cattle, the Yellowstone animals are wild and genetically pure, descendants of the original ...

Though the wolves might be outnumbered in Yellowstone, the canines have been known to hunt down bison. That being said, they ...

given that ten thousand years of preparation for domestication has profoundly altered the shape, biology, and behavior of cattle, while bison have retained their wild being intact.

At the center of it all? Wild West Jesus, this year’s reigning messiah, who made his entrance on a gleaming disco bison, flanked by a posse of cowboys. A vision in chaps and fringe, Wild West pa ...