Nakoma Blackfeather

Wood bison reintroduction in Canada began in June 1980, when a military transport plane airlifted 28 bison into the remote Nahanni Valley of the Northwest Territories — the first wild wood bison in a boreal valley that hadn't seen one in over 100 years. Scientists hoped these animals might simply survive. What they did next went far beyond anything researchers expected. Within months, the bison were already grazing the meadows, carving wallows, and trampling willow thickets — switching on ecological behaviors that had been missing from the landscape for a full century. Then came the real shock. The bison didn't stay where they were released. They crossed the Liard River — a barrier biologists had said couldn't be crossed — and started founding new herds across three Canadian jurisdictions on their own terms. But here's the twist that still stuns researchers today: this subspecies was declared extinct in 1940. The 28 animals that walked off that plane were the descendants of a hidden herd rediscovered by pure chance in 1957 — and they're now rebuilding an entire boreal ecosystem without anyone telling them how. 🦬 Can a species declared extinct really rewild itself? Watch and decide — then tell me in the comments. ▶ Subscribe for more rewilding, wildlife, and nature documentary stories. Narrated by Edmund Hale. #WoodBison #Bison #Rewilding #Canada #Wildlife #Conservation #Nahanni #NorthwestTerritories #BorealForest #KeystoneSpecies #NatureDocumentary #WildlifeComeback #Ecology #BisonReintroduction #ExtinctionRecovery

Montana bounty hunter Lewis Gates finds the corpses of three escaped convicts in the wilderness, apparently shot by primitive arrows. Gates and anthropologist Lillian Sloane follow clues through the mountains to discover a tribe of Cheyenne Indians that has lived in hiding for a century.

Worried that over time his work would lose significance, the sculptor behind Mount Rushmore proposed a secret room behind Abraham Lincoln's hairline, that would contain details of the work done on the mountain and of the society that created it. -------------------------------------------------- Follow BI Video on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1oS68Zs Follow BI on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1W9Lk0n Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ -------------------------------------------------- Business Insider is the fastest growing business news site in the US. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI Video team focuses on technology, strategy and science with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders – the digital generation.