Photo credit: Flickr user Keith Williams. Of the four existing species in the genus Lynx, two live in North America. One is the bobcat; the other is its furry northern cousin, the Canada lynx (Lynx ...

Jennifer Vashon of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, left, and UMass lynx team coordinator, Tanya Lama, with an adult male lynx from northern Maine whose DNA was used to create ...

This February, the World Wildlife Fund will be transferring lynx from forests in Estonia in an attempt to bolster the lynx population in Poland, where hunting and habitat loss have reduced their ...

A black-coated Canada lynx was photographed for the first time by a researcher at the University of Alberta, Canada. Thomas Jung, also employed by the Government of Yukon, recorded the animal in a 30 ...

If you live in the southern United States, you probably won't see any Canada lynx. These similarities aren’t surprising, given that both animals belong to the Lynx genus, which consists of four ...

The remains of an Iberian lynx specimen which lived 1.6 million years ago - the oldest ever discovered - were found resting in a cave in Barcelona (Spain). This discovery not only allows us to shed ...

The Lynx, particularly Canada lynx, are larger with longer legs and larger paws, and their tails are black all around. Bobcats are more aggressive in nature, though they pose little risk to humans ...