American Bison. Image by dmbaker via Depositphotos. The first and most fundamental difference between bison and buffalo lies in their taxonomy. Bison and buffalo belong to different genera within the ...

July is National Bison Month. Commonly referred to as buffalo, the American Bison is not actually a buffalo. Old World “true” ...

The American bison is North America's most dangerous herbivore ... The hippopotamus, African elephant, and Cape buffalo are among the leading causes of animal-related deaths on the continent. These ...

Size Comparison While the African buffalo is certainly an impressive animal, it is not the world’s largest buffalo or bison species. In North America, the American bison (Bison bison) is the largest ...

American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were ...

Known as “The Black Death” for good reason, the Cape buffalo is one of Africa’s most dangerous and unpredictable big game ...

He was the second person gored by a bison already this spring in Yellowstone. A 47-year-old Cape Coral, Florida, man had minor injuries after being gored in the Lake Village area May 7.

Rising City's Jared Meister, 38, is set to appear in a Custer County Court on July 14 after being accused of killing a rare ...

On May 4, a 47-year-old man from Cape Coral, Florida, sustained similarly minor injuries when he approached a bison at the national park. He, too, was treated by emergency medical services.

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805 found what's now known as Montana dotted with uncountable herds of buffalo. Fast forward to 1887, when a party from the Smithsonian ...