European bison do share some close similarities with their American counterparts, though, at least at the DNA level. However, researchers say the mitochondrial DNA also shows that the wisent bison ...

The prince's dream of reintroducing European bison, or wisent, into Germany's most densely populated state will soon be reality. It will be the first time in nearly 300 years that these creatures ...

American bison and European bison, aka wisent, are the only two extant species of bison in the world. European bison (Bison bonasus), Europe's largest land animals, ...

The iconic bison of the American plains isn’t the only large hoofed beast humans have hunted to near extinction. Wild European bison, also called wisent, are returning to the lands they ...

As of today, Russia is home to about 1,500 free-living European bisons, however, 850 of them living in the Caucasian wildlife reserve are wisent-American bison hybrids.

(In Europe lives a different bison––Bison bonanus, often referred to as the wisent.) The multitude of Indigenous tribes in what is now the lower 48 states spoke more than 300 distinct languages.

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What it tells us about the past: This prehistoric carving, discovered inside a cave in France, depicts a steppe wisent (Bison priscus), a now-extinct species of bison. It was crafted from a piece ...