Editor’s Note: “Close Encounters: Tourists in the Wild” on The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper takes us to Yellowstone National Park, where visitors behaving badly can lead to dangerous encounters ...

A bison died after it appeared to stumble into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park last week while visitors looked on. The incident occurred during the early morning of June 21 at Grand ...

An 83-year-old woman was gored by a wild bison that was “defending its space” in Yellowstone National Park, according to officials. The unidentified visitor from Greenville, South Carolina, suffered ...

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 ...

A bison gored a 47-year-old Arizona woman Monday morning in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, leaving her with significant injuries to her chest and abdomen, park officials said. The woman was ...

An 83-year-old woman was seriously injured after being gored by a bison last weekend in Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said. The bison was “defending its space,” and approached ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Arizona woman gored in the chest by a bison at Yellowstone National Park on what was supposed to be a proposal trip ended up getting engaged in the hospital where she’s recovering from her horror ...

When American settlers arrived on the Great Plains in the 19th century, the bison they found seemed inexhaustible. Herds stretched dozens of miles from one end to the other, and paddle steamers plying ...

In Yellowstone National Park, bison aren't just iconic wildlife; they're quiet ecosystem engineers. Once nearly wiped out, these massive grazers are now reshaping entire landscapes in ways scientists ...