In the wide-open savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, lions and hyenas are rarely far from each other. They share much of the same territory, hunt the same prey, and seem to constantly be sizing each other ...

This year, in what it calls a “study,” Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort to increase mule deer herds. It has hired trappers from the Utah Department of ...

FALLBROOK, Calif. (KSWB) – A California family got an unexpected and unsettling surprise this week when a mountain lion turned up in a backyard trap set to catch whatever had been killing their ...

BELTON — A Temple teenager charged in the 2024 shooting death of another teen has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty last week, ending a case that had previously been headed ...

In the fall of 2021, as Denver was grinding through yet another phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 virus quietly crossed a boundary that most people never considered: It jumped from humans ...

Killing sea lions won’t save salmon. Fixing rivers will. Once again, lawmakers are promoting a familiar and misguided idea: that killing seals and sea lions will somehow rescue struggling salmon runs.

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

A pack of mountain lions is responsible for the fatal New Year's Day attack of 46-year-old ultramarathon runner Kristen Marie Kovatch. She was on a solo hike near Rocky Mountain National Park in ...

A mountain lion is terrorizing a Monterey County neighborhood. Residents in the Corral de Tierra area said the big cat appears to be targeting domesticated animals. On an almost nightly basis for the ...