Southern California Hiker's Harrowing Close Call With Mountain Lion Is Truly Terrifying originally appeared on PetHelpful.

California boasts a ton of hiking trails that allow you to soak in the gorgeous scenery it offers, but you need to keep your ...

Mountain View Fire Department Captain Tim Houweling and his canine Rory, who specializes in detecting human remains, were ...

Video shows a California woman coming face-to-face with a mountain lion during a hike. NBC News' Marissa Parra has more on ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has released more than 600 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the wild as part of a ...

The Los Angeles Zoo released nearly 700 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the San Gabriel Mountains as ...

A woman was rescued after being stranded on top of Mount Williamson in California for 28 hours after breaking her leg and ...

Frogs bred at the L.A. Zoo are hatched and raised to ensure their development. After reaching maturity, these frogs and ...

A mountain lion was just feet away from hiker Cortney Rasura in Ojai, California. Rasura yelled at the animal, telling it to ...

Cortney Rasura was 6 miles into the 8 miles she’d planned to hike on the Gridley Trail in the Los Padres National Forest near ...

In a video taken by a SoCal hiker, a puma appears to stalk toward her while she yells, 'No! Go away!' until, finally, the cat ...

The incident occurred during the afternoon of July 9 at King Gillette Ranch, according to KNBC. The campers were part of Camp ...