Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

FAIRBANKS — At 2,000 pounds, an adult male wood bison is North America’s largest land mammal. It dwarfs even the mighty moose, which grow up to about 1,600 pounds. These giant herbivores have been ...

Sometimes — but not very often — a door creaks open to a lost world. Sometimes the right person steps in. Dale Guthrie, an Alaska biologist and paleontologist who died in 2024 at the age of 88, was ...

From wild ponies in Virginia to bison in Yellowstone, here are seven wildlife-rich destinations—and tips on how to be a responsible tourist. In Hallo Bay, brown bears graze on sedge grass in Alaska's ...

Today, several thousand bison live in Canada. Fort Yukon biologist Bob Stephenson launched the effort to repopulate Alaska with wood bison in 1991, leading to the importation of 53 bison from ...