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 ...

Two beisa oryx wandering the plains in Kenya. While the males of most bovid species are larger than females, beisa oryx do not differ very much in size, and both sexes have horns.

Fossil antelopes shed new light on today's sub-Saharan mammals Date: February 17, 2011 Source: Public Library of Science Summary: Modern-day Africa south of the Sahara is home to a unique variety ...

University of Massachusetts evolutionary biologist Ted Stankowich, a lecturer and former Darwin Postdoctoral Fellow, offers a new possible explanation as to what uses female animals with hooves have ...

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae. The ...

Prehistoric bovid remains are common in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (NETP). However, the lineage and range of NETP bovid species are unknown. Xiaoming Zhang, Guanghui Dong, ...

Size: Most buffalo species are larger than bison species—1,900 to 2,600 pounds versus 1,600 to 2,000 pounds. Horns: Bison have short and stubby horns whereas buffalo's are long and curvy. Beard ...

The PCA operation shows that the three dog species are easily separated by just two sets of numerical relationships—principal ... marrow of leg bones, we can’t yet tell. Saitta speculates that if the ...

The few other bones in the cave came from various bovid species, a fox, and even some baboons (which forage in the high grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau and sleep on cliffside ledges).

06.01.2021 14:21 A severe decline in a once numerous species. Sabine Heine Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Stiftung Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz-Institut für ...