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

Iowa City will host the Smithsonian’s "Great American Bison Road Trip" to showcase Iowa's connection to the national mammal. What to know: ...

People are invited to the Museum of Natural History Sunday to meet the Smithsonian exhibitors and learn more at the school’s bison display.

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

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

Three bronze bison sculptures created at a Loveland foundry will find their forever home in front of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. on March 19. Along the way ...

Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past - ...

But before they settle into their permanent home, the massive bronzes embark on a weeklong “migration” across their former range throughout the Midwest. Their route includes stops in Nebraska, Iowa ...