But those dancers’ legs are most valuable for bounding through snow and ice ... in the Eurasian lynx’s resilience. But they’re also remarkably successful at hiding in their environment.

A lynx prowls through thick snow with trees in the background. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station-Canada Lynx of the Rockies Research Program. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

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 ...

hoping to see a lynx against the pristine snow. Hearing a distant lynx call, he watched from his hide as a group of alert chamois formed a circle. It was a cloudy day, “when the snow and sky shared ...