Whether you call them a cougar, puma, mountain lion or panther, you’re talking about the same big cat, often solitary and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pumas are now preying on Patagonia’s coastal penguin colonies at high rates, raising new conservation concerns. Rising puma ...

Along South America’s windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth century, sheep ranching dominated the region, and pumas ...

A new study found that thousands of penguins have been killed by pumas over a four-year period, but most were left partly ...

State fish and game officials declared mountain lions in the Central Coast and Southern California threatened under the state ...

A giant freeway crossing for wildlife is due to open outside Los Angeles this year. Here’s the story of one young cat hemmed ...

Kittens from a local mountain lion population tracked by the National Park Service and UCLA in 2015. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service) This story was originally published by CalMatters.

Snakes may be feared, but many animals hunt them. Explore how predators adapt to venom, speed, and defense to shape ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

A study examining fossil evidence shows that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago. University of Toronto Mississauga researchers Jordan M.