Biologists with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department say they have confirmed more than a dozen reported sightings of the same rare Canada lynx seen in Rutland County in August. Since then, the ...

More than three dozen lynx have been released in the Kettle Range since 2021. At first, biologists weren’t sure how the cats would do, whether they could make a living and reproduce there.

If you have never heard the unearthly noise of Canada lynxes in the forest, check out this extraordinary YouTube clip. It sounds like a pair of domestic cats having a disagreement in a backyard ...

Stunning new video shows a Canada lynx prowling around off northern Minnesota's Gunflint Trail. Sarah Hamilton, owner of Grand Marais' Trail Center Lodge, says the rare wild cat was roving around ...

Canada lynx were hunted and trapped throughout Minnesota until becoming a protected species in 1984. In 2000, they were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Canada lynx are made for hunting in deep snow, with thick cushions of hair on the soles of their feet that act like built-in snowshoes. Appropriately enough, this adaptation helps them stalk their ...

Lynx trapping was stopped in Washington in 1990. The state classified the cats as threatened at the state level in 1993, estimating at the time that there were fewer than 200 in the state.

The cat is known to venture into Minnesota when snowshoe hare, its main prey, are hard to find, the DNR says. It's also found in Maine and mountainous parts of the northwestern U.S.