Along South America’s windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth century, sheep ranching dominated the region, and pumas ...

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A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their “enemies without benefits” relationship is driven by competition: wolves ...

State officials have voted to permanently protect populations that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay Area and the ...

California has given permanent endangered-species protections to several mountain lion populations along its coast, as ...

Members of the California Fish and Game Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to list six groups of Central Coast and ...

Scientists and advocates say that mountain lions are running out of time: physical signs of inbreeding, including kinked tails, testicular defects and malformed sperm, have already cropped up in ...

One of the country's most fascinating and successful sportspeople has some solutions for Australian football. But first, his ...

On Monday 26th January, a resident of the Pacific Heights neighbourhood in San Francisco, USA, got the fright of her life.