However, buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and bison (Bison bison) are two entirely different animal species. They are both members ...

The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World.

Today, there are 14 states with a city or town named Buffalo, only five of them in the West. By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which comes from the Latin word for “wild ...

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.