Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America.

American pronghorns evolved speed millions of years before cheetahs, helping movement and survival in changing landscapes.

Cheetahs are super fast and to capture them running at full speed is damn near impossible. Well, almost impossible. National Geographic shows how they captured a running cheetah and it’s pretty ...

The fastest land animal in North America is the American pronghorn, and previously, researchers thought it evolved its speed ...

There’s a discrepancy in the animal kingdom. While many key traits such as strength, limb length, lifespan and brain size tend to increase with animals’ size, maximum running speeds tend to be ...

Cheetahs are the fastest land animals, capable of reaching 120 km/h in short bursts, but can maintain this speed only briefly. Ostriches, while slower at 70 km/h, excel in endurance, sustaining high ...