The jaguar and leopard are members of the Panthera genus. They are part of the big cat family with tigers and lions. These ...

W hat are big cats anyway? They are the lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard in the Panthera genus, the cheetah, which belongs to the Acinonyx genus, and the mountain lion, which belongs ...

The researchers were able to identify some of the fossil records as snow leopards by combining DNA sequences with morphological data, thus inferring the phylogeny of the Panthera genus.

At 59kg on average, leopards are the smallest of the big cats within the genus Panthera (which includes lions, tigers and jaguars), but they are also the most adaptable. They use the full terrain ...