The Minnesota Zoo decided to stop breeding musk oxen and not welcome any new herd members due to the state's increasing temperatures around a decade ago Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE ...

Over the last five months, multiple sled dogs in Nome were attacked by musk oxen in at least four separate incidents. In October, one of the attacks resulted in the death of a dog, and now, people in ...

Animals like chickens, goats and potentially even oxen could come to Wilmingtonians' emotional rescue if a city councilman's new pet project becomes law. City residents could find consolation in ...

“The ox is a most noble animal, patient, thrifty, durable and gentle.” What an elegant, almost reverential description by Peter Burnett, Oregon Trail traveler of the 1850s! Yet humor and practicality ...

THE OX is valued in Chinese culture because of its role in agriculture: it's a hard-working, honest animal. The Ox is the second of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac ...

Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the ...

Students guide the oxen Bill and Lou, pulling a mower in healthier days (Green Mountain College image). A couple of years ago, I visited Green Mountain College and toured the Vermont college’s ...

Scientists wondered whether animals living above the Arctic Circle had the same circadian rhythms as the rest of us. By Veronique Greenwood In the distant reaches of northeastern Greenland, musk oxen ...