The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected jaguars as endangered in 1972. But in 1980, responding to objections, the Service removed jaguars within the United States from the endangered species list ...

Ancient jaguar bones show that jaguars evolved in the U.S. before expanding their range to Central and South America. Jaguars virtually disappeared from the United States over the past 150 years, ...

Native to south and central America, jaguars can be found in the Amazon basin. The species are the largest cats in the western hemisphere and the third largest overall, outsized only by lions and ...