The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, England, recently announced that a baby snow leopard was born at the facility on Sept. 15 and now wants help naming the new cub ...

"These elusive big cats are known as 'ghosts of the mountains' for good reason–sightings are incredibly rare, and to witness ...

For the eleventh year, October 23 marks International Snow Leopard Day. Only 3,500 to 7,000 of the beautiful speckled cats, listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of ...

Compared to other cats, there are much fewer snow leopard museum specimens and so to address this question we used genetics." But what does the discovery of subspecies mean?

A male snow leopard marks his territory in India’s Ladakh region. The cats spray urine, leave scratch marks, and rub facial glands on rocks to signal their presence. Unlike tigers, their closest ...

In the frigid Indian Himalayas, people manage to eke out a living alongside one of Asia’s most elusive cats: the snow leopard. Explore this fragile relationship through the eyes of Tashi, a ...

Snow leopard debate indicates the real need for more research on this elusive cat. But all agree that snow leopards are threatened, and face a high risk of extinction in the wild.

Rilu is the latest snow leopard in captivity to die shortly after contracting COVID-19, with at least four other big cats dying from COVID complications in the past year A snow leopard at an ...

Scientists have gotten their hands dirty in the name of closer study of snow leopards, one of the planet's most endangered big cats.

SAN DIEGO — A second snow leopard has tested positive for COVID-19 at the San Diego Zoo, just days after an earlier case, the organization said Thursday. Zoo staff tested stool samples from ...