The holidays have their own menagerie of iconic animals, from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to that random sheep that shows up in nearly every nativity scene. But this year, as a change of pace, we ...

A group of Russian researchers wants to attempt to bring back an extinct species of bison using a DNA sample from an 8,000-year-old specimen. Remains of the young bison were found frozen in Siberia in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extinct bison emerges from melting permafrost up to 9,000 years later. Can it be cloned? An ancient bison was frozen inside ...

When the Yukagir tribe in northern Siberia found the remains of a steppe bison, the extinct predecessor to the modern bison roaming the plains of northern Europe and North America, it was a remarkable ...

Canada has sent 30 bison to Russia for reintroduction in the rugged and mostly forested Siberian province of Sakha, 5,000 years after they died out in the area, its parks administration said Thursday.

In the reaches of East Siberia, in the north of the Ust-Yana district, a section of lake shore slumped in 2011, revealing the frozen 9,000-year old body of a bison. The locals found the remains and ...

FAIRBANKS — A Russian bio-engineering experiment has abandoned plans to export 12 Alaska bison because of difficulty finding a company capable of making the journey. The animals from Stevens Village ...