Female leopard Sephiri recently gave birth to two cubs when an unwelcome intruder entered their territory and threatened their safety – her older daughter. Female leopards are known to hunt the ...

A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species' evolutionary lineage in Portugal, challenging conventional assumptions about its habitat preferences. An international team of scientists has ...

Snow leopards, which live in central Asia, can survive in rugged mountains that are more than 9,800 feet tall. These cold, snowy, steep environments can be a hard place to survive. So snow ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. As the apex predator in the region, the snow leopard plays a crucial role in ...

Contemporary snow leopards are rare — and fossils of their ancient ancestors are even more scarce. Researchers have now identified and examined million-year-old bones of the big cat and have come to ...

Activists in a nature reserve in central Kyrgyzstan have reintroduced elk in a bid to restore the local ecosystem and preserve snow leopards, who traditionally feed on the elk. Thirty elk from the ...

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are in serious danger of extinction, with only about 4,000 specimens remaining. They are medium to large felids that live at high altitudes, over 2,000 meters above ...

China has completed its first large-scale snow leopard population assessment, which is also the largest-scale snow leopard population survey officially published globally, according to a press ...

"Snow Leopard Summer" won a highly commended award in the Animals in their Environment category of the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year. LUO XIAOYUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Since deciding to focus ...