New York - The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is sprinting towards the edge of extinction and could soon be lost forever unless urgent, landscape-wide conservation ...

Could a zebra actually outrun a cheetah? It depends on the distance. Zebras can run pretty fast — up to 40 mph — but cheetahs are even faster, hitting high speeds of 70 to 80 mph! Cheetahs can ...

If you watch a cheetah sprinting in slow motion, you can see that they tend to keep their heads stable and their eyes fixed on prey even while in motion. To learn how the animal's bone structure ...

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden strapped a GoPro onto a cheetah to explore the world’s fastest land animal from a first-person point of view. The task was actually simpler than it sounds.

A 3D simulation has shown how Usain Bolt would compare to three dinosaurs and a cheetah over 100 metres while running world ...