An ancient bison was frozen inside Siberian permafrost for up to 9,000 years until the melting ice coughed out its mummified body in summer 2022. Now scientists in Russia hope to clone the ancient ...
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Once they were many, some 75 million in all, a vast, roaming expanse of powerful muscles, sharp horns and thick hides that stirred the dust from the cold reaches of Canada to northern Mexico; from ...
The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.