Michigan officials say there have been 26 cougar sightings in 2025, a record high. What to know about the big cats.

The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed there have been 26 confirmed cougar sightings in Michigan so far ...

Michigan wildlife experts say 2025 marks the third straight year of record cougar sightings in the Upper Peninsula - with more than a month still left in the ...

The number of cougar sightings in Michigan is increasing, with 27 reports in the Upper Peninsula so far during 2025.

There's been a total of 27 sightings in Michigan this year, all of which were in the Upper Peninsula. Since 2008, there's ...

It is the third consecutive record-breaking year and a continuation of the trend that started with 14 sightings in 2021.

For the first time in more than 100 years, cougar cubs have been discovered living in the Michigan wild. This is the first time cougar cubs have been verified since the big cats were hunted out of ...

Cougar cubs were spotted in the wild in Michigan on March 6. It's the first documented and confirmed sighting of cougar cubs since they were hunted out of existence in the early 1900s. The DNR said ...

According to the Michigan DNR, cougar cubs were hunted out of existence in Michigan in the early 1900s. Now, for the first time in over a hundred years, the DNR has verified the existence of two ...

A Michigan resident in the western part of the Upper Peninsula recently discovered something not seen in Michigan for more than a century — cougar cubs in the wild. State biologists on Wednesday ...

DETROIT, Michigan (WXYZ) — For the first time in more than 100 years, cougar cubs have been verified in Michigan, according to the Michigan Department of Natural ...