A unique, decade-long mountain lion study uses a vast network of over 200 trail cameras scattered throughout Montana’s Sapphire Mountains to piece together the story of a female mountain lion named ...

Attacks by mountain lions are still incredibly rare, despite recent incidents. Humans are increasingly coming in contact with mountain lions, raising questions as to whether humans are to blame and ...

For the first six miles of Cortney Rasura’s morning hike near Ojai, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. She finished listening to her podcast. She’d stayed on pace. And she had been entirely alone in ...

Two decades ago, Zara McDonald was on a run in Marin near Mount Tamalpais around dusk when a mountain lion suddenly appeared above her, just 5 feet away — and stared at her. Its eyes then fixed on ...

Travis Kauffman, 31, stepped on the cougar's neck to asphyxiate it, he said. The Colorado man who was attacked by a young mountain lion while he was trail running described the harrowing fight for ...