Though water buffalo are the heaviest at nearly 2700 pounds, a typical bison is around 12 feet from head to tail, weighing in at about 2200 pounds, while a water buffalo is only about nine feet in ...

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.

Chances are, anyone taking a trip out west to a national park like Grand Teton or Yellowstone will see plenty of bison dotting the plains. Or are they buffalo? Is there a difference between the two?

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 ...

proclaimed that the buffalo’s eradication would be a good thing for the nation, principally “in its effect on the Indians.” Now the bison has been officially designated our national mammal ...

the congregational delegation is fighting to protect bison from water buffalo. Despite Kansas children learning to sing about buffalo roaming in the state song "Home on the Range," the bison is ...