South African rugby star Bryan Habana was one of the fastest players in international rugby history, so organizers gave him a generous head start against a cheetah. Watch what happens when the cat is ...

Illustration of an 'American cheetah' (Miracinonyx trumani). (Julius Csotonyi/UAF) The Ice Age movies get one major thing ...

For decades, the extinct Ice Age predator known as the American cheetah was assumed to be a close relative of the cheetahs ...

M. trumani lived across North America during the Pleistocene, from about 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago. Fossils show that it had a slender body, long front legs, and large nasal cavities, features ...

Cheetahs have been recorded running at 93 kilometers per hour. This figure was measured by attaching transmitters to wild individuals. There is no faster record for any land animal.The duration for ...

The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle. Fossils from the Yukon suggest northern populations survived partly by ...

Here’s how medium-sized animals, like the cheetah, occupy an optimal balance between muscle size and body mechanics. Being the largest or having the longest limbs doesn’t guarantee the title of the ...

With the help of 3D modeling technology, a team of veterinary experts successfully carried out a rare spinal surgery on an 11-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Ancient DNA from fossils found in Wyoming and Canada's Yukon Territory suggests the wild cat more closely resembled modern ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use them.