People have been reporting sightings of mountain lions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for years and the Game Commission has always denied that they exist.
Well, here we have, from Facebook, a photo taken 10/27 at Claysburg, PA, at southern end of Blair County. Officially, the last wild mountain lion in Pennsylvania was killed near Hawk Mountain in Berks County in August of 1874, but here is Felix concolor back in 2026.
Months later, while reviewing his first set of images, Grooms, a Ph.D. student at New Mexico State University, came across something so rare he initially didn’t believe his eyes.
Hidden among the pictured squirrels, rabbits, bears and foxes—wildlife known to roam the San Juan Mountains that straddle the New Mexico-Colorado border—was clear photographic evidence of a snow-adapted wild cat known as a Canada lynx, a species last documented in New Mexico about a quarter-century ago.
Student finds proof of rare wild cat in northern New Mexico
When I saw the article title, I immediately thought of an ocelot and was surprised it was a Canada Lynx.
Despite reintroduction efforts in the San Juan Mountains between 1999 and 2006, Canada lynx populations have remained stubbornly low throughout the contiguous United States, and they’re still considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act, Frey said.
This is a boreal cat so I can see why.