Defensive attacks from cougars are rare, but when they occur, they are almost always the result of misinterpreted threat signals or sudden pressure placed on the animal. Cougars, also called mountain ...

Hikers came across a woman who was attacked by a mountain lion on a trail in the Colorado Rockies. They threw rocks at the animal to scare it away, but they didn’t find a pulse on the woman when they ...

State game officials trapped and killed a cougar Saturday after it attacked a family’s dog in the yard of their Sudden Valley home, and it’s possibly the same animal that’s been seen repeatedly over ...