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." ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...