Authorities are continuing the search for a third mountain lion Friday after a woman was killed Thursday afternoon in what officers are investigating as a potential mountain lion attack on a trail

Mountain lion attacks on humans, especially fatal attacks, are extremely rare. A woman was killed in a mountain lion attack while hiking alone in northern Colorado on New Year’s Day. The death is the first fatal attack by one of these animals in the state since the 1990s.

A Buckeye man who killed a mountain lion that attacked him and his dog would not face legal consequences because he acted in self-defense, state wildlife officials said. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on May 25 in the Verrado community at the ...

The tiny mountain lion cub walked clumsily, its meow a high-pitched squeak, rather than a threatening roar. A latest addition to Orange County’s wildlife population was captured on camera in south Orange County – an insanely adorable baby mountain ...

Mountain lion attacks are rare in California, but incidents have been increasing and the cats' behavior has been changing in the past few decades, according to on-the-ground accounts. Writer Malcolm Brooks, who lost a nephew last year in a mountain lion ...

Travis Kauffman, 31, stepped on the cougar's neck to asphyxiate it, he said. The Colorado man who was attacked by a young mountain lion while he was trail running described the harrowing fight for survival that led him to kill the large cat. Travis ...