This past August local blogs were aflutter with images of a mountain lion that had been spotted in Malibu by an early-morning motorcyclist. The cat, a female named P23, was photographed on ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter day in southern California, and busloads of tourists are pulling into an overlook above Beverly ...

Or perhaps you know someone who swears they can still hear their childhood cat moving around the house, scratching at the door at night. Tales of ghost animals in our modern world are often framed ...