Winter weather will make an unexpected appearance at the Santa Barbara Zoo, with 80 tons of snow transforming the grounds into a frosty playground, at the Snow Leopard Festival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a carnivorous hunter admired for its striking coat of white, yellow, or grey fur with black rosettes. Snow leopards live mainly in the alpine and subalpine ...

Do you know which big cat is the biggest? The answer might surprise you! Have you ever wondered what makes a big cat a big cat? How about which one of these fierce felines is the biggest of them all?

Snow leopards have spotted white-greyish fur that keeps them well insulated in cold weather – it can be 5cm long on their back and sides and almost 12cm long on their belly. A snow leopard's tail can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snow leopard walks across a mountainside at Thiksey village on the outskirts of Leh in India's Ladakh region on February 13, ...

Most wild animals today are constantly seen online. Tigers show up in documentaries every week, lions dominate wildlife reels, and cheetah videos somehow appear on everyone’s social media feed sooner ...

Whole genome sequencing has revealed that snow leopards have low genetic diversity because they are rare, and probably always have been. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia). (Credit: Paul Groom Photography ...

Big cats are elusive, but the snow leopard, especially so. Locals living alongside the leopards often refer to them as the ‘ghosts of the mountains’ as they are hardly ever seen. The snow leopard ...

SXSW: Set deep in the Himalayas, "Snow Leopard Sisters" follows a mentor/mentee relationship that speaks to a larger conflict between herders and the wildlife they must learn to respect. With the ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. As the apex predator in the region, the snow leopard plays a crucial role in ...