International Leopard Day highlights a widely overlooked predator, its global range, and why protection is needed to secure ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a carnivorous hunter admired for its striking coat of white, yellow, or grey fur with black rosettes. Snow leopards live mainly in the alpine and subalpine ...

Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered. Snow leopards have low genetic diversity ...

Whole genome sequencing has revealed that snow leopards have low genetic diversity because they are rare, and probably always have been. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia). (Credit: Paul Groom Photography ...

BRONX (WABC) -- New video from the Bronx Zoo shows snow leopards enjoying the snow. The zoo says it was the cubs' first experience in the snow. They have been exploring, and climbing onto higher areas ...

Do you know which big cat is the biggest? The answer might surprise you! Have you ever wondered what makes a big cat a big cat? How about which one of these fierce felines is the biggest of them all?

Afghan authorities captured a rare snow leopard in the country's mountainous northeast and were preparing to release it back into the wild after it reportedly killed dozens of livestock animals, a ...

SEATTLE — Three snow leopard cubs that were born at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo on Memorial Day have opened their eyes for the first time as they continue to grow. After a recent neonatal exam, zoo ...

The elegant and well-camouflaged snow leopard is one of the world’s most elusive cats. Thinly spread across 12 countries in central and south Asia, it’s at home in high, rugged mountain landscapes.