A full 17 years after being listed as endangered across its entire range, critical habitat was finally designated for the jaguar (Panthera onca) this spring. A total of 764,207 acres in the three ...

At first glance, jaguars and leopards appear strikingly similar, muscular, golden-coated big cats adorned with captivating rosette spots. Yet, beneath their lookalike exteriors lie fascinating ...

Jaguars are among the most powerful predators in the animal kingdom, with striking spotted coats and incredible hunting abilities. These solitary big cats roam the rainforests and wetlands of Central ...

The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by a remote ...

For much of the 20th century, the jaguar disappeared from large parts of Argentina’s landscape. Hunting pressure and the ...

Scientists in Brazil recently recorded evidence that a jaguar visited an isolated island in the reservoir area of the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam in northern Goiás State. The same jaguar had ...

The post Jaguars Once Roamed the Grand Canyon. One Is Back. appeared first on A-Z Animals. Recently in southern Arizona, a jaguar broke the stillness of night as it drank from a remote desert watering ...

Jaguars, the powerful big cats often linked to the rainforests of Central and South America, are still roaming parts of the United States. Though rare and mysterious, their survival here is an ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Panama’s Darién province, jaguar predation on cattle is one of the top reasons for people killing the locally endangered felines, and a top ...

There’s little prey left for jaguars in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, which is driving the big cat’s decline there, according to new research. Hunting is wiping out species like deer and peccaries that ...

At first glance, a cougar and a jaguar might appear to belong to the same mould. Both are solitary hunters, both sit near the top of the food chain, and both have earned a reputation for remarkable ...