A puzzle fan has invited social media users to take part in a brainteaser that involves finding a snow leopard hiding in a photo of some snowy rocks, but it's proving to be more difficult than ...

India is believed to have a population of at least 718 snow leopards. Also known as the "ghost of the mountains", snow leopards are notoriously elusive and live in the snowy peaks of the Himalayas.

Fossils of snow leopards’ cousins have been found in Portugal, a European country on the Atlantic Coast, more than 5,500 ...

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 ...

Kajju, the only snow leopard in captivity in Himachal Pradesh, passed away at the quarantine centre of the Himalayan Nature ...

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, more than 2,000 meters ...

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 ...

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 ...