Known by many names across country, a mountain lion is the same animal as a puma, cougar, panther, or catamount, depending on where you are. The fierce cat is so popular that dozens of colleges ...

A photo of a mountain lion in a tree looking directly at the camera ... Mark Elbroch, director of Panthera's puma program, called mountain lions "a kind of canary in the coal mine." ...

A mountain lion spotted at the edge of Griffith Park ... Would he stay and become the successor to celebrity puma P-22, who reigned over the green space in the heart of Los Angeles for a decade?

The uncle of the northern California brothers who ferociously fought a mountain lion in an attack that ended with one brother ...

The cougar population in the U.S. has significantly decreased, due to factors like trophy hunting, poaching and bounty hunting in the early 20th century, according to the Mountain Lion Foundation.

informed the Iron County Sheriff’s Department on Nov. 16 that he had shot the mountain lion, or cougar, while in the tree stand with his partner. Missouri does not have an established cougar ...