While travelling through South Africa's Kruger National Park, visitors witnessed a rare, high-stakes pursuit when a cheetah suddenly singled out an ostrich. The explosive burst of speed that followed ...

Cheetahs are the fastest land animals, reaching speeds of 75-80 mph. Jaguars, found in South America, can reach speeds up to 50 mph. Servals, African cats, can reach 40 mph, with bursts up to 50 mph.

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. But she worries that the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — 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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Project Cheetah was an effort to revive lost ecological heritage and urged wildlife enthusiasts to visit India to see the wild cat in all its splendour.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Thursday released three Cheetahs into the wild from their enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, on the occasion of the ...

Bhopal: Three cheetahs, Veera and her two 10-month-old cubs, were on Thursday released into the wild from their enclosures in the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district. The ...

Dec. 4 is International Cheetah Day. It was established in 2010 by the Cheetah Conservation Fund to raise awareness about the dwindling populations and shrinking habitats of the fastest land animal on ...

Jaguar, acquired from Ford along with Land Rover in 2008 by India’s Tata Group to create JLR, has been a problem for years. Attempts by original JLR boss Ralf Speth, a former BMW exec, to reinvent ...

WASHINGTON — See how they grow. Four cheetah cubs born during the government shutdown were on a live display as the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute turned on the 'Cheetah Cub Cam' inside ...

A litter of four cheetah cubs was born on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus last month. Now, they can be seen through the Cheetah Cub Cam, a live camera feed available on ...

Even during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, life goes on — literally. While the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute was closed to the public and not sharing ...