Mountain lions are sometimes called "mountain screamers" due to their incredibly loud, piercing, and surprisingly human-like ...

Holy cow! I’d be absolutely terrified! Recently hiking, a California woman ended up getting stalked by a mountain lion, and the video is pure nightmare fuel. Earlier in July, Cortney Rasura was taking ...

A SoCal hiker said she thankfully remembered what to do when she encountered the puma — yelling, facing the cat, trying to ...

The human population of Greater Los Angeles is increasingly using mountain lion (Puma concolor) territory for recreational activities such as hiking, running and cycling.That puts the mountain ...

That’s because no mountain lion — or cougar, panther, catamount, or, for the scientifically inclined, Puma concolor — is known to exist in Pennsylvania, at least in the wild. They haven’t ...

This June 2013 remote camera image shows a male mountain lion known as P-30 roaming in the Santa Monica Mountains, Calif. A mountain lion's scientific name, Puma concolor, means cat of one color.

After the attack, to ensure the cougar was no longer in the area, the property owner followed “in the direction the lion was last seen,” officials said.

The last mountain lion in New Hampshire was killed in Lee in 1853 — at least, that’s if you believe the state’s Fish and Game department. And plenty of people don’t. Despite a lack of any ...

Measurements of skull puncture wound distances could be consistent with mountain lion (Puma concolor) though this is not definitive and assumes paired maxillary canine punctures were present and ...

Mountain lions are prowling Greater Los Angeles at night to avoid humans exercising on their mountains, a new study finds. The human population of Greater Los Angeles is increasingly using ...