Musk oxen are members of the Bovidae family, which includes domestic cattle, sheep, goats, bison, antelopes, and wildebeest. Cattle, bison and buffalos are in the subfamily Boninae, while the musk ...

Oxen are some of the world’s strongest animal species, which is why they were used to perform many tasks and pull heavy wagons. But are bison and buffalo just as strong, or do they have other ...

Humans have played a role in the extinction of many animals over the years, but when it comes to the musk ox — an Arctic mammal that started to decline around 12,000 years ago — we might be ...

The musk ox is a gigantic bison-looking animal, though it’s actually more closely related to goats than it is to bison or cows. It’s a native Arctic animal, living in the coldest regions of North ...

Weighing up to 800 pounds, the Arctic musk ox resembles a smaller, woollier cousin of the iconic American bison. But their name is a misnomer; the creatures are more closely related to sheep and ...

Consider, for a moment, the musk ox. The ancient animal looks a bit like a shaggy, long-haired bison and can be found roaming the cold, Arctic landscapes of places like Alaska, northern Canada and ...

We find a positive correlation between changes in the size of available habitat and genetic diversity for the four species—horse, reindeer, bison and musk ox—for which we have range estimates ...