There are several names for the North American Cougar: Panther, Puma, Mountain Lion, Catamount – the large wild cat whose scientific name is Felix Concolor. It has the largest range of any American mammal, showing up from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America. The common ancestor of the Cougar, Lynx, Bobcat, Jaguar, and other cats migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge to the Americas between eight and eight and a half million years ago. Learn more about cougars in this capsule.