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 ...

In the early 2000s, amateur speleologists uncovered in Porto de Mós, Portugal, a remarkable fossil: a partial leopard skeleton, including an almost perfectly preserved skull, known as the ...

The snow leopard is a large feline native to the Qinghai ... These adaptations include large teeth, a massive skull, powerful paws, and a long tail for maintaining balance, which allowed snow ...

The skull of the leopard of Algar da Manga Larga, deposited at the Geological Museum of Lisbon. Credit: Darío Estraviz-López, 2019 Differences in the skulls of leopards and snow leopards.