There have been two confirmed mountain lion sightings in North Texas recently, but they remain rare in this region.

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...

The cougar, also known as Puma concolor, is one of the most adaptable and widespread cat species in the Americas. You can find this elusive predator, commonly referred to as a mountain lion or ...

They nap. Found all the way from southern Alaska to southern Chile, Puma concolor has the largest range of any land-dwelling mammal in the Western Hemisphere. Scientists suspect that there are ...

With a range that extends from southern Argentina and Chile to the edge of Canada’s Yukon, Puma concolor, the cougar—aka puma, panther, painter, and brown tiger—is the most widespread large ...

In fact, genetic analysis shows it is more similar to the puma, or mountain lion (Puma concolor), despite the jaguarundi ...

It’s said that lions and tigers stalk the semiarid scrubland of Paraguay’s Chaco region. Yet this is the heart of South ...

California, USA has the largest human population and at least half of the state is suitable mountain lion (Puma concolor) habitat. The juxtaposition of high human abundance within and adjacent to ...

UWYMV 6529, Puma concolor hippolestes - Skull by University of Wyoming Libraries on Sketchfab This is a full skull of a Cougar (species Puma concolor concolor) from the University of Wyoming's ...

A 2-year-old panther—listed as an endangered species—was found dead on a road in Florida, marking the 27th panther death in ...

Humans are the number-one cause of death for California mountain lions. Lack of connectivity due to decades of extending roads and development into mountain lion habitat, with little regard for the ...

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