A mountain lion's scientific name, Puma concolor, means cat of one color. It is an unspotted cat that is reddish brown to tawny in color, according to an article from Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Dubbed P-122, the cougar was released with a GPS collar into the western Santa Monica Mountains, south of the 101 freeway in ...

A really big cat was caught on a Fairfield resident's camera overnight, police say. The animal was seen walking across the front door of an Orchid Street resident early Monday morning. After realizing ...

A mountain lion was attacking a dog at a residence in Downieville early in the morning on Monday when a neighbor shot and killed it, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“Mountain lions weigh anywhere from 65 to 265 pounds and can be up to 8.5 feet long, from head to tail,” Smith said. “Adults are sandy brown to tawny gray in color with a whitish belly.

Mountain lion attacks on humans in North America are relatively rare events. Since the early 20th century, there have been fewer than 125 documented cases of mountain lions attacking humans.

the color of the light source, and the mineral content of the tapetum lucidum. Generally, mountain lions and bears have eyeshine in the yellow-to-red range. Deer and elk eyeshine is white ...

I had a split-second flashback to years earlier, during a camping trip, when my Girl Scout leader described the sound a mountain lion makes. “It sounds exactly like a woman screaming,” she said.