Just in time for the holidays, a new feline has landed at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Layan (pronounced LAY-in), a 9-year-old male snow leopard, has arrived from the Idaho Falls Zoo. The arrival is part of ...

Every year, International Snow Leopard Day celebrates one of the most mysterious and majestic creatures roaming the icy peaks of Central and South Asia, the snow leopard. Known as the Ghost of the ...

Snow leopards are often called “ghosts of the mountains,” and for good reason: They’re notoriously difficult to spot. But researchers behind a recent study used a comprehensive set of methods — from ...

The endangered big cats are hanging on in Russia, the first country-wide survey of the animal suggests, while scientists and ...

The snow leopard prowls across some of Earth’s most inhospitable terrain, blending into rocky cliffs with such perfection that locals call it the ‘ghost of the mountains.’ These magnificent cats ...