Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s ...

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A late arriving bison calf surprised staff Aug. 12 at Minneopa State Park, the second straight year of a late birth. Last October, the same cow birthed a calf at the popular Blue Earth County bison ...

Yellowstone National Park has confirmed that an extremely rare white buffalo calf was born in the park earlier this month. The park said in a statement that "multiple creditable sightings" led them to ...

Patience and timing pays off when hoping to catch a glimpse of bison calves born this spring at Minneopa State Park. Carol Bator of Austin proved it so. Bator arrived late Friday evening, prior to the ...

A bison calf born in June in New York’s Bronx Zoo — the first genetically pure bison calf ever produced by embryo transfer — has Yellowstone genes. The zoo waited until Thursday to announce the calf’s ...

Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen? A park visitor said she took the photographs in the park earlier this ...

A rare white bison spotted in Yellowstone National Park has social media users in awe. Erin Braaten, an outdoor photographer from Kalispell, Montana, captured the animal on camera. “It was pretty ...

Euthanization of wildlife in national parks "is an extremely rare occurrence." — -- A bison calf recently had to be euthanized at Yellowstone National Park after visitors put it in the back of ...

Bison cow/calf herd in Lamar Valley (NPS/Diane Renkin) A 30-year-old man from Randolph, New Jersey, was injured Tuesday by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, the park said in a news release. At ...