The American bison is a majestic, stately creature that has played a prominent role in the early days of American history.

The American crocodile is one of the largest crocodile species, usually weighing up to 1,100 pounds, although some can weigh ...

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A new study revealing that huge expansions of extensive large-scale agriculture is making the South American plains more vulnerable to widespread flooding should act as a "wake-up call," say ...

The American bison is North America’s largest land animal and the national mammal of the U.S. It was nearly driven to extinction by habitat loss and hunting. An estimated 30 to 60 million bison ...

Check out these ten amazing facts about the US National Mammal, the American bison. Know about its ecological significance, ...

If we don’t act now, the largest animal alive in 200 years will be the domestic cow Fossil records are revealing a rapid mass-extinction of some of the Earth’s most super-sized creatures. And ...

Whales are yet another large-bodied animal whose carcasses can support a bevy of other animals. Usually, dead whale carcasses sink to the bottom of the ocean, where "whale fall" ecosystems crop up ...

So, the future of wild bison depends upon how we measure the quality as well as quantity of animals. Wild bison must be defined as animals subjected to a preponderance of natural selection. Their wild ...

Yellowstone has done its job so well, in fact, that the herd now consistently exceeds 4,000 bison, a number large enough to provoke fears of overgrazing in the park and of bison roaming beyond its ...

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.