Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We fact-checked this claim in 2016 and found the photo is real. The image, which was archived in the Burton Historical Collection ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. Visitors to the Smithsonian will soon come face to face with the fossilized remains ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit tracing the rise, near extinction and recovery of the bison. Museum director Kirk Johnson talks about a prehistoric skull at the ...

This skull was found near Kit Carson. The remains from about 200 bison were found in a dry arroyo bed. These bison lived about 10,000 years ago. More than a dozen well-preserved skulls were found at ...

Lakota elder Milo Yellow Hair looks over bison skulls stored in the CU Museum of Natural History. (Credit: Casey Cass/CU Boulder) This week, a delegation of elders from the Lakota Nation made the ...