Key Points: There is only one species of jaguar, though scientists originally classified them into 9 subspecies. There are four specific regional types of jaguars with geographic differences only.

The jaguar's massively thick skull protects him from death, but the pellets blind him in one eye and shatter his left foreleg. ... wide-ranging carnivore in the world with no subspecies.

The sample, as Harris recounted in response to an email I sent about the study, included "78 tiger skulls, 176 lion skulls and 57 jaguar skulls, [and] the 14 P. atrox skulls from Rancho La Brea." ...

Qinling pandas were officially recognized as a subspecies in 2005, but the mystery of their brown fur was only resolved almost two decades later. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Their remote and often inaccessible ranges mean that snow leopards are actually the last of the five big cat species – which also includes the lion, leopard, jaguar, and tiger – to have had a ...

The eastern cougar, a subspecies of North America's largest cat, has been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and efforts to remove the cat from the endangered species list are ...

Key Points: There is only one species of jaguar, though scientists originally classified them into 9 subspecies. There are four specific regional types of jaguars with geographic differences only.