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Inbreeding has long been identified as a major threat to the survival of mountain lions living in the isolated habitat of the Santa Monica Mountains, and biologists said on Wednesday that they have spotted the first physical abnormalities to develop in lions as a result of the limited genetic diversity.

A mountain lion that had been roaming around a Monrovia neighborhood for days was tranquilized after it was found Thursday morning under a house. Monrovia police and California Department of Fish and Wildlife agents responded to the foothill neighborhood at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The big cat was under the house Wednesday night before coming out and…

A young mountain lion that had been spotted sleeping in a planter box along a normally busy street and looking at his reflection in the glass of an office tower in downtown San Francisco was safely captured Thursday and will be released into the wild, officials said.

In a unanimous decision, the California Fish and Game Commission Thursday moved a step closer to protecting six struggling mountain lion populations — including those in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains — under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The commission’s decision clears the way for a yearlong review on whether the six populations of mountain lions should be…

A mountain lion was captured early Thursday just hours after police warned residents about the big cat in a Simi Valley neighborhood. The sightings came about a week after a miniature Schnauzer was killed by a mountain lion in the community northwest of Los Angeles. The captured mountain lion is not the same animal in last week’s attack, authorities...

The mountain lion known as P-61, who successfully managed to cross the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass in July, was struck and killed today on that same section of the freeway, park officials said.

In an ongoing saga of the difficulty mountain lions face as they attempt to cross one of Southern California’s busiest freeways, wildlife officials shared an amazing update Thursday: a 4-year-old male mountain lion, named P-61, crossed the 405 Freeway around the Sepulveda Pass area, after many others had been killed trying to do the same in the past.

Firefighters rescued a mountain lion from a tree outside a home in the Southern California desert.

He survived the flames of Southern California’s Woolsey Fire that ripped through his habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains, but a mountain lion known as P-64 has now been found dead of unknown causes, National Park Service officials said Friday.

Two mountain lions were caught on security cameras walking up to a Poway home on July 22 a little after midnight.

Two mountain lions were spotted outside a home in Poway on July 22. Homeowner Amy Young was surprised to seem them so close when she checked her camera surveillance footage.

An orphaned mountain lion cub whose paws were burned during the massive Thomas fire was rescued Dec. 22 by the Santa Paula Police Department. The cub — who most likely would have starved and died if she was not captured — is now recovering at a wildlife center.

A permit to shoot and possibly kill a mountain lion was granted to a ranch owner in the mountains above Malibu Monday, when a state game warden determined the lion was the culprit in the killing of a dozen farm animals over the weekend.

When a Murrieta resident suspected a mountain lion was sneaking into his backyard, he set up motion sensor cameras and caught his new visitor on camera walking near his swimming pool.

Wildlife officials and police officers fanned out across a Southern California neighborhood Friday morning as they tried to capture a mountain lion roaming a high school campus.

Multiple mountain lion sightings have been reported in the past week in Santa Cruz, police said.

Hillsborough police report that a mountain lion is most likely responsible for killing a deer whose body was discovered on a resident’s walkway Sunday morning.

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s office is investigating a mountain lion sighting in Portola Valley Friday night.

Three mountain lions were spotted in Portola Valley late Thursday night near Westridge Drive and Cervantes Road, according to an alert from San Mateo County.