A solo hiker who authorities believe was killed by a mountain lion on a remote Colorado trail on New Year’s Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators in the area in recent weeks.

For many hikers and outdoor enthusiasts, mountain lions seem like ghostly figures – elusive, rarely seen, and often dismissed as something you’ll probably never encounter. But while actual attacks are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Thomas was cooking dinner one January evening when her phone buzzed with a Ring Camera notification. She expected to see a ...

[WATCH: In the video player above, learn how to survive an animal attack.] A woman was killed in a suspected mountain lion attack while she was hiking alone in the mountains of northern Colorado on ...

Colorado wildlife officers euthanized two mountain lions after hikers discovered an adult woman dead on the Crosier Mountain Trail in Larimer County on January 1. The woman had “wounds consistent with ...

Some west Sonoma County residents are on high alert after several mountain lions were seen on camera walking through a neighborhood last week. Outdoor home security cameras caught the mountain lions, ...

The hikers threw rocks at the animal to scare it from the immediate area so they could try to help the woman, Van Hoose said. One of the hikers was a physician who attended to the victim and did not ...

(AP) - A woman was killed in a suspected mountain lion attack while she was hiking alone in the mountains of northern Colorado on Thursday, in what would be the first fatal attack by one of the ...