Steppe bison

Steppe bison (Bison priscus) was an extinct species of bison that lived across Eurasian and North American grasslands during the Pleistocene.

Blue Babe: Blue Babe is a naturally mummified steppe bison carcass discovered in permafrost near Fairbanks, Alaska. Its preserved tissues provide unusually direct evidence of steppe bison anatomy and predation.
Pleistocene megafauna: Pleistocene megafauna were large animals that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. Steppe bison belonged to the large-bodied animal communities reshaped at the end of the epoch.
Bison: Bison are large bovines in the genus Bison, native to Eurasia and North America. Steppe bison was one extinct species within this genus.
Bison hybridization: Bison hybridization is interbreeding between distinct bison populations or species. Gene flow complicates efforts to draw simple boundaries between steppe and later bison lineages.
Lascaux cave: Lascaux is a decorated cave in southwestern France containing Upper Paleolithic animal paintings. Its paintings include bison figures associated with the Ice Age fauna that steppe bison inhabited.
Mammoth steppe: The mammoth steppe was a cold, dry, productive grassland ecosystem spanning parts of northern Eurasia and North America. It supplied the open grazing habitat associated with steppe bison.
Bovini: Bovini is a tribe of large bovines that includes cattle, bison, and their close relatives. It places bison within the broader evolutionary group of cattle-like mammals.
Bison phylogeny: Bison phylogeny is the evolutionary history and relationships of species and populations in the genus Bison. Steppe bison's position is reconstructed from incomplete fossils and changing genetic evidence.
Bison latifrons: Bison latifrons was a large extinct North American bison with exceptionally broad horns. It was a distinct bison species, not the steppe bison sometimes inferred from Ice Age imagery.
Pleistocene megafaunal extinction: The Pleistocene megafaunal extinction was the late-Pleistocene loss of many large animal species. Steppe bison populations declined amid the environmental and human pressures surrounding these extinctions.

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