Nora female cheetah (Fastest land mammal) and Maasai giraffe (tallest land mammal).

Selenkei female cheetah, when she had two cubs, seen on an afternoon safari. a lovely sighting of the cheetah family with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The remains range from 130 years ...

As renovation projects continue to expand the Montgomery Zoo, its animal population is growing as well. Plans are in the works to add some critically endangered ones in 2026. "We're hoping to have ...

Bertie arrives in the Serengeti as the spectacular wildebeest migration kicks off. He’s here to film the fastest land animal on Earth: the cheetah. As he gets close to a mother caring for her tiny ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biomechanics, University of the Sunshine Coast Every year on the first Tuesday of November, many Australians tune in to watch “the race that stops a nation”: the ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Three cheetah cubs were born in early May at Southwick’s Zoo in Mendon. The cubs’ mother rejected them, a rare but not uncommon occurrence for first-time cheetah mothers, leading zoo staff to ...

First, it helps to understand how cheetahs typically hunt. Cheetahs often live and hunt alone or with just one or two other individuals. On their own, they can take down medium-sized mammals, such as ...

Pepper the cheetah, a longtime resident of the Brevard Zoo, has died at the age of 16. The cheetah suffered from seizures, chronic gastrointestinal and reproductive disease. Her death comes less than ...