This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history begins in 1886, when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task.

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

The National History Museum commissioned Missouri artist Gary Staab for a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Staab sculpted three bison on a heroic scale.

Three large bronze bison statues are stopping by the Field Museum on their way to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The sculptures will begin a week-long trip from ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

But before they settle into their permanent home, the massive bronzes embark on a weeklong “migration” across their former range throughout the Midwest. Their route includes stops in Nebraska, Iowa ...