Life reconstruction of the Portuguese snow leopard hunting an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Credit: Jiangzuo et al., 2025. A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species’ evolutionary ...

Snow leopards, which live in central Asia, can survive in rugged mountains that are more than 9,800 feet tall. These cold, snowy, steep environments can be a hard place to survive. So snow ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), an apex predator native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is a symbol of ecological resilience and a critical component of its high-altitude environment. Despite its ...

In May 2020, a Tibetan official from a township in Shiqu told Lyu that he had captured images of four snow leopards in an isolated valley, and Lyu relayed the news to Luo. Luo went to Shiqu again.

Activists in a nature reserve in central Kyrgyzstan have reintroduced elk in a bid to restore the local ecosystem and preserve snow leopards, who traditionally feed on the elk.

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are in serious danger of extinction, with only about 4,000 specimens remaining. They are medium to large felids that live at high altitudes, over 2,000 meters above ...

The Arabian leopard, the smallest subspecies, has a head-to-rump size of six to seven feet and weighs as little as 44 pounds as an adult. The snow leopard is an endangered species found in Asia’s high ...

An international research team has revealed the snow leopard unique evolutionary path by studying rare snow leopard fossils discovered across the ...

"Snow Leopard Summer" won a highly commended award in the Animals in their Environment category of the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year. LUO XIAOYUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Since deciding to focus ...