For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

A new study confirms that ancient cave paintings in France’s Dordogne region were created nearly 16,000 years ago.

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

New evidence tells us more about an 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement in Canada.

At Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in eastern Oregon, stone tools and the teeth of an extinct camel and bison were dated to 18,250 ...

After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when the figures were drawn ...

An upcoming U.S. postage stamp will pay homage to the bison -- the United States' national mammal and one of the most iconic ...

The new stamp features an image of a modern Yellowstone bison taken by wildlife photographer Tom Murphy, superimposed by a historic image of a bison featured in a stamp created in 1923. The stamp was ...

The First Nation submitted a request to the Elk Island bison transfer program several years ago with talks ramping up last ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

The National Museum of Natural History commissioned Missouri artist Gary Staab for a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Staab sculpted three bison on a heroic ...

In a remarkable discovery, archaeologists have unearthed the nearly complete remains of a bison that roamed the Iberian Peninsula around 4,000 years ago. The skeleton, found in the Sima de Arrafela ...