Panther, puma, cougar: All names for the same cat Vermonters have catamounts while Northwesterners have cougars. But, it turns out, there's only one wild cat in the New World, Puma concolor.

A team of Florida researchers recently captured and collared what they say is the heaviest panther ever caught in the state. The big cat, a male, weighed 166 pounds, according to a statement by the ...

Florida panther related to puma. The puma, of which Florida's panthers are a subspecies, once had the largest range of any land mammal in the Americas, living as far north as the Yukon to the ...

The Florida panther’s home is a patchwork of swamps, pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and prairie. These habitats offer dense cover for stalking prey, water for drinking, and shelter from the ...

Jerel Hall, a Huntsville resident, said he spotted a black panther on his property. But Texas wildlife officials believe it to be a house cat.