Before Illinois became a state anchored by a sprawling metropolis, it was a humble prairie. Flat, yes, but that open horizon offered the perfect home for creatures big and small to graze and lope.

It was a momentous day in suburban Kane County earlier this week, as bison returned to a prairie area for the first time in hundreds of years. According to the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, ...

Bison—also known as buffalo—once ambled across North American prairies in enormous herds, with their full population reaching the tens of millions. Indigenous peoples across the continent relied on ...

Bill Hamilton’s chest freezer probably looks a lot different than yours. While most of us pack ours with groceries, Hamilton stores pounds upon pounds of bison dung in his. Hamilton, a professor of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It took about a year for the bison heart to complete its journey from pumping blood through the hulking grazer of the plains to being microplaned over a bed ...

Prospective visitors to Yellowstone National Park are reminded that the bison rut is underway through August, and to treat the colossal beasts with extra caution. Everyone knows that bison are massive ...

Tourists at Yellowstone National Park witnessed a bison’s tragic death on June 21, when the animal fell into the near-boiling waters of the Grand Prismatic Spring at Midway Geyser Basin, near Old ...

A bison was gruesomely boiled to death in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring last week — as tourists watched in horror. The buffalo met its ghastly end when it apparently stumbled into the ...

A bison in Yellowstone National Park appeared to stumble into the scalding water of Grand Prismatic Spring, causing its death as tourists looked on during the park's busiest season. The bison fell ...

A New Jersey tourist was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park after a large group of visitors approached the animal too closely, officials said. The 30-year-old man from Randolph was struck ...

A man was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on June 10 after getting too close to the animal, the National Park Service said. The man, a 30-year-old from New Jersey, sustained minor ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...