Bison Skull (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Bison Skull

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The steppe bison had much larger horns than modern bison. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of bison fossils enabled researchers to track the migration of Pleistocene steppe bison into an ice-free corridor that opened along the Rocky Mountains about 13,000 years ago.

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Government of Yukon

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