[Related: Man-eating lions might like us because we’re squishy.] During the early 1990s, Field Museum collections manager Thomas Gnoske took the lions’ skulls out of storage in search of more evidence ...

LIONS INVOLVING UC DAVIS SUGGESTS THE BIG CATS ARE PROACTIVELY SHIFTING THEIR BEHAVIOR TO AVOID HUMANS. THAT’S SOME GOOD NEWS. I THINK SO. KCRA 3’S MIKE TESELLE IS IN OUR NEWSROOM NOW WITH THE LIONS ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To avoid people, mountain lions (Puma concolor) in the greater Los ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway. A ...

Attacks by mountain lions are still incredibly rare, despite recent incidents. Humans are increasingly coming in contact with mountain lions, raising questions as to whether humans are to blame and ...

Lions face a variety of threats. Humans are one of the biggest, according to new research from the University of Georgia. From 1980 to 2018, humans killed 698 lions in the areas around Etosha National ...

Human activity appears to be making mountain lions in California more nocturnal. According to a new study published in the journal Biological Conservation, mountain lions in the greater Los Angeles ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ellie Bolas, the lead author of a seven-year study that suggests mountain lions in Los Angeles have adjusted their schedules to avoid human activity. The city of Los ...

Mountain lions are prowling Greater Los Angeles at night to avoid humans exercising on their mountains, a new study finds. The human population of Greater Los Angeles is increasingly using mountain ...

Scientists analyzed hairs extracted from the broken teeth of two 19th century 'man-eater' lions. Their analysis revealed DNA from giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey, along ...

To avoid people, mountain lions (Puma concolor) in the greater Los Angeles area are changing their activity patterns. The big cats that live near areas where humans hike, run, and cycle are becoming ...