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Called Bison latifrons, the early animals were giants, twice the size of modern bison, with huge horns that spread some six feet from tip to tip.
Bison latifrons, also known as the broad-headed paleo-bison, or simply as the giant Ice Age bison, was about 25 to 50 percent larger than the modern bison when it came across the Bering land bridge ...
Fossils continue to be unearthed at the construction sites for the new Metro Purple Line stations. A piece of a horn from an extinct species known as a long-horned bison, bison latifrons, was ...
The alert scientist gathered a crew of five persons to secure the skull and other bones of a huge, prehistoric bison. The museum “tentatively identified” the now-extinct animal as Bison latifrons.
Extinct for the past 20,000 years, the Bison latifrons is an evoluntionary cousin of the Plains bison, though it was a solitary animal and lived in coastal woodlands across North America, museum ...
No Bison priscus fossils have been found south of the Yukon. What have been found in the United States are descendants of B. priscus. The first was Bison latifrons, an extinct long-horned bison ...
The skull and vertebrae are approximately 125,000 years old. Museum staff speculate it is from an extinct giant species, the Bison latifrons.
An ice-age fossil found recently in San Diego’s North County was revealed Monday at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Bison herd stops traffic as it crosses road in Yellowstone A Florida man was gored by a bison after coming too close to the animal in Yellowstone National Park, officials said Wednesday.
An ice-age fossil unearthed during highway construction in San Diego’s North County was revealed Monday at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
As calving season begins at Fermilab, two new bison calves were born Monday. The calves joined the bison heard that has been grazing on the Fermilab grounds since 1969.
Today's Yellowstone bison are about 25 to 30 percent smaller than one of their ancient relatives, Bison latifrons, which had horns that spread 6 feet.