Higgs bison

English Alternative forms en Higgs Bison Higgs-Bison Etymology en Higgs boson bison. From being elusive, not being found after a long search, akin to how the Higgs boson proved time-consuming to find. en Higgs was chosen due to the similarity between en boson and en bison, and its characteristic mysteriousness, due to not being found. Sarah Kaplan 18 October 2016 Higgs bison mystery solved with help of ancient cave paintings Washington Post Rebecca Hersher Higgs Bison Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree 18 October 2016 NPR Noun * en informal paleontology biology The ancestor of the European bison (Bison bonasus species), a species originating from the hybridization of the aurochs (Bos primigenius species) and the steppe bison (Bison priscus species). en Robby Berman Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison Big Think https://web.archive.org/web/20221005091754/https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/scientists-identify-the-elusive-higgs-bison/ 19 October 2016 Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle. en Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-cave-art-helped-dig-new-animal-species-180960833/ Cave Paintings Help Unravel the Mystery of the ‘Higgs Bison’ 2016-10-19 Jason Daley But now, cave art and further DNA testing have finally unraveled the origins of Higgs Bison, which turns out to be a previously undescribed hybrid animal. The research appears in the journal Nature Communications. https://web.archive.org/web/20250612212752/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-cave-art-helped-dig-new-animal-species-180960833/ 12 June 2025 en 2023 Christopher J. Preston Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals MIT Press 9780262047562 on 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=8dhwEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&dq=%22Higgs+bison%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Higgs%20bison%22&f=false The discovery of a missing hybrid ancestor—nicknamed the Higgs-Bison after the Higgs-Boson, a particle posited by theoretical physicists before it was proven to exist—confirmed this cross-breeding had occurred. References en eponyms