For many people, the names cougar and mountain lion sound like they belong to two separate animals. Wildlife documentaries, ...

Mountain lions are turning up in places where people haven’t thought about them in years. That makes the self-defense question feel a lot less hypothetical. Across the American West and into parts of ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Some west Sonoma County residents are on high alert after several mountain lions were seen on camera walking through a neighborhood last week. Outdoor home security ...

Big cats have a big impact. A long-term study showed that when mountain lions began regular visits to a small suburban preserve about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of San Francisco, they changed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lassen County Sheriff John McGarva posted on social media earlier this month that mountain lions posed an imminent threat to ...

In the months before a deadly mountain lion attack in Glen Haven, Colorado, locals in the area reported a series of encounters with big cats. From October through December, mountain lions killed pets, ...

A puma fitted with a GPS tracking collar rests in a tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Photo Credit: Richard King California’s iconic Santa Cruz Mountains are an outdoor recreation wonderland. With a ...