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Stories about: bison

Europe's Last/Lost Giants Around 1500 AD, Europeans managed to kill the last ancestors of the domestic cattle, called aurochs. The auroch was a giant animal as compared to the domesticated cattle (1.8 m or 6 ft height in withers, compared to around 1.5 m or 5 ft in modern cattle). The body was black and the horns were lyre-shaped and set in a... 6 February 2008 14:06 GMT Some Real Facts about Native Americans Their legends say that they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came from Siberia to what is now Alaska, Canada and US, through a land bridge called Behringia, about 15,000 years ago. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact, they were victims of the intrusion in their te... 12 January 2008 03:37 GMT