Zoo officials announced the death of the 21-year-old black jaguar Wednesday morning. She had developed kidney disease, which ...

The first, Stone Hand Jaguar, spent decades making courtesy calls throughout the Maya lowlands. The reconstructed burial of a Snake king, thought to be Claw of Fire, who died in 697, includes jade ...

(WDAM) - Staff at the Hattiesburg Zoo as well as the public are remembering Maya after news of her passing. Recently, the Hattiesburg Zoo announced the death of its beloved jaguar. Animals at ...

The ancestral Mayan culture pays tribute to its god, Kukulkán, with the arrival of spring. He descends along the pyramid steps of the Chichen Itzá temple in Yucatán, Mexico, to fertilize Mother ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above ... bird to the spotted skin of the jaguar, which was sometimes worn as a cape ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Friends of the Hattiesburg Zoo are grieving after officials announced the death of its Jaguar, Maya. The announcement was posted to the Zoo’s Facebook page on Wednesday ...

Maya society was very complex ... there used to be a large carving of king Jasaw Chan K'awiil sitting on a Jaguar throne. Image caption, This is a commemorative slab which was placed here in ...

under the reign of Smoke Jaguar, followed by his son, Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, nicknamed “Eighteen Rabbits.” Copán would later reach its apogee and become one of the most influential Maya ...

Maya the jaguar, who resided at the Hattiesburg Zoo since 2016, passed away at 21 years old. The jaguar was diagnosed with kidney disease in January and exhibited other age-related health issues.