Fossils continue to be unearthed at the construction sites for the new Metro Purple Line stations. A piece of a horn from an extinct species known as a long-horned bison, or bison latifrons, was found ...

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No Bison priscus fossils have been found south of the Yukon. What have been found in the United States are descendants of B. priscus. The first was Bison latifrons, an extinct long-horned bison that ...

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The ancestors of Yellowstone National Park’s bison migrated to North America much later than previously believed, according to newly published research. “The common ancestor for all of these bison is ...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. This week’s essay, by Becker and Paul Carlson, ...

POCATELLO — The Bureau of Reclamation and the Idaho Museum of Natural History, which is located on the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello, have partnered to make fossils more available to the ...

THE AMERICAN BISONS.—An important quarto memoir on the living and extinct Bisons of America, from the pen of Mr. J. A. Alien, has just been issued from the University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts ...