26, the forecast at the Santa Barbara Zoo calls for snow, sledding, and a day full of frosty fun at the annual Snow Leopard Festival, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (9 a.m. early admission for SB Zoo ...

HOUSTON, Texas (TNND) — Parts of Texas are getting hit with snow -- and some of the animals at the Houston Zoo don't seem to ... In another habitat, a leopard is seen strutting in the snow.

Snow leopards, which live in central Asia, can survive in rugged mountains that are more than 9,800 feet tall. These cold, snowy, steep environments can be a hard place to survive. So snow ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), an apex predator native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is a symbol of ecological resilience and a critical component of its high-altitude environment. Despite its ...

Life reconstruction of the Portuguese snow leopard hunting an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Credit: Jiangzuo et al., 2025. A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species’ evolutionary ...

as did the Amur leopard named Lisa and the zoo's pair of bald eagles. Native to North America, cougars and bald eagles can tolerate a wide range of different weather conditions, including snow.

A snow leopard who helped preserve her own endangered species has died of age-related ill health, a zoo has said. The big cat, known as Tara, was kept at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis (LWO) near ...

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 ...

For the first time, a team of researchers has identified the fossils of snow leopards. The discovery has helped them trace the evolutionary history of the species and hypothesize how it went from ...

"It looked like a winter wonderland here, we don't ever see that in Houston," said Kevin Hodge, the ... in the snow, Hodge said staff saw animals including cougars, an Amur leopard, African ...

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 ...

The Houston Zoo shared wonderful photos of animals in the snowfall. From the lions and leopards to the flamingos and bald eagles, they seemed to enjoy exploring the snow. Cougars, like Lisa ...