The researchers analyzed five snow leopard fossil records from locations outside the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, including ...

Rare fossils challenge assumptions about how the big cats thrived in a challenging environment.

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time. The discovery has allowed ...

In less than a minute, the snow leopard had its prey in its jaws, and proceeded to carry it back to its den. Both species are very well camouflaged and extremely hard to spot. While large birds of ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time, in a research published in ...

Still, they prefer to hunt large herbivores such as ibexes and mountain sheep. And the snow leopard can capture prey three times as heavy as themselves. They will eat smaller animals, such as ...

The wild mountain sheep and goats that they prey on are declining in some parts of the snow leopard range too, because of competition for grazing land from livestock and illegal hunting. With ...

Snow leopards live in some of the most extreme habitats in the world. They are now classed as vulnerable and are threatened by climate change, mining and hunting, which targets both them and their ...

The study highlights the unique traits that set snow leopards apart from their more common cousins. While common leopards are built to hunt swift and agile prey in partially forested habitats ...

This was a stark contrast with what I had always previously understood – that locals did not get on with snow leopards, as they hunt their livestock ... and its main prey, the blue sheep ...