Contemporary snow leopards are rare — and fossils of their ancient ancestors are even more scarce. Researchers have now identified and examined million-year-old bones of the big cat and have come to ...

Chinese researchers have completed the first large-scale snow leopard population assessment, which is also the largest officially published global survey, estimating a total population of around ...

XINING -- Chinese researchers have surveyed snow leopard populations across an area of approximately 360,000 square km on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, estimating a population size of 1,002 of the ...

In the study now published, researchers reviewed a large amount of samples assigned to the common leopard (Panthera pardus) from Europe and Asia and for the first time identified five snow leopard ...

This is the first time China has completed a major snow leopard population assessment, and it is the largest-scale rare species population survey ever published, according to Xiao Lingyun ...