The jaguar's massively thick skull protects him from death, but the pellets blind him in one eye and shatter his left foreleg. Crippled now, unable to find his normal prey in the scrubby forest ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, is home to a sizable population of jaguars. Near one tiny outpost, the ...

A jaguar scans for prey from the cover of tall grasses in the Pantanal. I felt myself swept up in what the poet Dylan Thomas famously described as “the force that through the green fuse drives ...

Jaguars are majestic animals that have captivated people for centuries. But these big cats are facing huge challenges in a ...

Wolves can travel hundreds of miles, with territory size thought to be a function of prey density; jaguars likely have similar dynamics. In the arid Southwest, a 10-year resident jaguar appeared to ...

The thing about jaguars is, you don’t want to see one when it’s hungry. So when Cubs legend Sammy Sosa spoke to the ...

They often live near water and are good swimmers. A jaguar’s ultra-strong jaws and teeth can bite through a crocodile skull or turtle shell, but they’ll prey on almost any wild animal they come across ...

But the local jaguars have found a surprising way to adapt, says study co-author Guilherme Alvarenga, a biologist at the Mamirauá Institute. “When the river starts to flood, their prey ...