What Marcel thought was just a bone turned out to be a priceless Pleistocene relic - and scientists are thrilled.

About 10,000 years after the Steppe Bison went extinct, UK's most important wildlife species are now also racing toward extinction.

The now-extinct steppe bison once roamed the Iberian Peninsula during the Ice Age, and while European bison aren't native to the area, they have at least demonstrated an ability to thrive in ...

Steppe bison from Yakutia were brought to the Ingilor Nature Park in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region. The park has the world's biggest musk ox nursery, the region's Governor Dmitry Artyukhov ...

There were clearly two morphologies in the drawings." The two morphologies, or body shapes, represented the steppe bison and the newly discovered ancestor of modern European bison.

Once bison were in North America, they quickly developed into new genetic forms. The first species on the continent — the species that left the Yukon bone — was the steppe bison, Froese said.