The "ghost cat" is just that. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday declared the eastern cougar to be extinct, confirming a widely held belief among wildlife biologists that native ...

Wes lives in Montana with his wife, Virginia McQueen, and their three rescue dogs. News that the eastern cougar has gone extinct is capturing headlines today. That’s a bit misleading ...

But the big cats weren't always so scarce. Before the 19th century, cougars were abundant in this range. However, on January 22, the Eastern cougar subspecies was officially declared extinct in ...

Cougars once had the run of the continent, ranging far and wide. But they were virtually eliminated in the Eastern United States by the early 1900s (except for a small population that survives in ...

Cougars, pumas, and mountain lions. Are they the same animal? Depending on where you live, you’ve probably heard of at least ...

Although the list could be much longer, here are 7 extinct big cats. The eastern cougar was a sub-species of cougar that ...

Except there's one big problem, at least for East Coasters: cougars don't really live here. The big cats largely disappeared from the eastern U.S. roughly a century ago. In 2011, the U.S. Fish and ...

The U.S. government declared the eastern cougar--a victim of bounty hunting and habit change in the 1700s and 1800s--officially extinct on Wednesday, even though the last proven sighting of the ...