North America, with its variety of climates and landscapes, is home to some pretty amazing and incredible animals. From the Arctic of Greenland and Canada, the grasslands, deserts, forests ...

By the last Ice Age, large single-toed animals, who fed on grasses (similar to the horses we know today ... In the 16th century, Spanish colonists brought horses from Europe, reintroducing them into ...

These charismatic, rabbit-size rodents live on North America's prairies and open grasslands in only a fraction ... listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements ...

And temperate grasslands, as a whole ... Prior to European settlement, North America’s Great Plains were home to enormous, thundering herds of bison. Wolves and grizzly bears thrived at the ...

The prairies host more than 80 species of animals ... of grassland grasses include a much taller type called big bluestem, which grows with very deep roots in the wetter parts of North America.