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Bison or buffalo are large, even-toed ungulate s in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae . Two extant and four extinct species are recognized. Of the four extinct species, three were North American Bison antiquus , B. latifrons , and B. occidentalis . The fourth, B. priscus , ranged across steppe environments f