The jaguar is the third-largest big cat in the world after the tiger and the lion. It is the only living member of the Panthera family native to the Americas. No, there is only one species or type ...

1 of 14 A male jaguar walks along the river bank on the Picari River in Pantanal, Brazil. Photograph courtesy Steve Winter/Panthera, panthera.org Within a few years, though, the new science of DNA ...

Throughout this entire region, there are key sites for safeguarding jaguars (Panthera onca). Known as Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs), they host stable jaguar populations — or could ...

Yet jaguars in the United States were killed one by one without concern for their ecological importance. Jaguar, Panthera onca. Wikimedia Commons / Cburnett. Image is available for media use. The ...