A stunning cougar — a shadowy nocturnal predator, wandering the foothills on the edge of New Mexico’s capital city — strutted ...

Two men unlawfully killed a lion in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe to sell its parts. Forensic technology provided the ...

Faced with the quandary of how to get mountain lions out of trees for scientific analysis, researchers dosed them with ketamine, then climbed up to ...

Mountain lions from the Bay Area to the Mexico border were granted new protections.

Rising mountain lion sightings reflect more overlap at the wild edge. Learn warning signs, cut attractants, act calmly and ...

Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the ...

This year, in what it calls a “study,” Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort to increase mule deer herds. It has hired trappers from the Utah Department ...

Colorado wildlife officials euthanized two mountain lions on New Year’s Day after they suspected the predators killed a woman in Larimer County. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said it is investigating ...

A landmark case has made it increasingly more difficult for lion poachers to get away with their crimes, all thanks to DNA technology.

Human DNA was found on the paws of one of the lions that was killed after authorities searched for the animals involved in the New Year’s Day death of a Fort Collins woman near Estes Park. Colorado ...

By Spoorthy Raman A CSI-style investigation in Zimbabwe helped to successfully prosecute two people for killing a lion and trafficking its teeth, flesh and other body parts in February. Forensic ...

Groundbreaking genetic evidence links trafficked lion parts to a known individual — setting a new global standard for wildlife crime prosecutions ...