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 ...

The two remaining musk oxen at the Minnesota Zoo were euthanized in late April due to fears that the warming state could negatively affect the last days of the elderly animals. The Zoo announced ...

Humans have played a role in the extinction of many animals over the years, but when it comes to the musk ox — an Arctic mammal that started to decline around 12,000 years ago — we might be ...

Consider, for a moment, the musk ox. The ancient animal looks a bit like a shaggy, long-haired bison and can be found roaming the cold, Arctic landscapes of places like Alaska, northern Canada and ...

Mammoth, horse, bison and musk ox are large mammals that roamed both North America and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years. But many went extinct during the most recent period of global ...

Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the ...