The scientific name of cow is Bos taurus. Learn the cow's scientific name, family (Bovidae), and fascinating facts.

Przewalski's horses have returned to the Iberian Peninsula after a hiatus dating back to prehistory thanks to efforts by Rewilding Spain.

Editor’s note: This story now accurately reflects when the bison mount went missing. DENVER (KDVR) — Bison are an iconic symbol of America’s history, and a set of five that were collected right here ...

Patrick Kelly wants to know how people feel about bison. “I try to better understand how people get along with big, fuzzy animals,” he says. Kelly is a PhD candidate at Utah State University studying ...

A pioneering rewilding project in Kent is celebrating the birth of a new bison calf a member of the third generation of the bison herd since the animals were released into the wild for the first time ...

In Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on July 28, 2025, a bison froze on the road after being startled by the noise of two motorcyclists. The riders shut off their engines, and one calmly spoke to ...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named Saleh Idris stood beside a test trench, awaiting the next bucket of sediment ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

NEFUD DESERT, SAUDI ARABIA—Researchers were recently surprised when they encountered more than 60 ancient rock art panels lining the mountainous terrain of the Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia, ...

During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (around 12,000 years ago), humans exploited a network of seasonal water bodies in the interior of northern Arabia, marking locations and access routes with ...

About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist—or perhaps artists—was hard at work. Standing on a narrow ledge and with primitive tools, they engraved into the ...