European bison (Bison bonasus) are the largest herbivores in Europe. The animals went extinct in the wild in 1927, but small populations were maintained in zoos.

This hybrid creature would eventually emerge into the animal we recognize as the European bison, but there’s a tremendous 108,000-year gap in the fossil record. European bison only appeared in ...

MOSCOW, March 7. /TASS/. The free-living bison population in Central Russia is expected to grow from 400 to 500 animals by the end of the current year, and further on to 1,000 in a span of ten ...

To reach 200 bison is a historic milestone. If the population continues to increase at a similar rate, we estimate that it will number between 350 and 450 animals by 2030.” ...

Armenis/Densus - WWF-Romania and Rewilding Europe are delighted to announce the successful reintroduction of 23 European bison at two sites in the Southern Carpathian mountains of Romania. The animals ...

By analyzing DNA taken from ancient remains, researchers discovered a previously unknown animal that emerged when two extinct species — steppe bison and Aurochs, the ancestors of modern cattle ...

Maybe, one day, European bison will roam the plains in Eurasia as they do in parts of America today. Kowalczyk points to Ukraine and Russia, with their large swathes of abandoned cropland and meadows.

Young European bison, like these endangered animals at the Han-sur-Lesse nature park in Belgium, take four years to fully mature. Unlike domestic cattle, they can be unpredictable —and deadly.

One reason the genome of Higgs Bison looked so different from the European Bison is because that species went through a genetic bottleneck in the 1920s when the population was down to just 12 animals.