Haven’t you herd?
A decades-old mystery at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science involving the whereabouts of a beloved 650-pound taxidermied bison has finally been solved. Remarkably, it never even left Colorado.
The mounted bison, which hadn’t been seen for 50 years, was one of an original set of five acquired by naturalist Edwin Carter in the 19th century, disappeared from the museum sometime in the mid-20th century. Over time, staff and historians speculated about its fate. By the 2000s, the “missing bison” had become something of a legend among museum employees…