The wild Cheetah population is believed to be around 6,600 mature individuals and decreasing. They are currently classified under the genus Acinonyx, whose closest living relatives are cougars and ...

Chilling video shows the moment a cheetah makes the fatal error of drinking from a watering hole and is snatched by a crocodile lurking just beneath the surface. The ...

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team has now shown that several ...

The Cheetah Girls film was released on the Disney Channel 20 years ago on August 15, 2003. The television musical starred Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan, becoming a ...

Even the fastest animal in the world can't outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts. Cheetah populations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures because hotter days are ...

A litter of four cheetah cubs was born on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus in October.

Katie Liu is a science journalist who writes for Discover Magazine, covering scientific studies on human health, archaeology, the environment and space exploration. View Full Profile. Incredible ...

Based on the eponymous book series, Disney's 'The Cheetah Girls' premiered in 2003. See what the cast has been up to since the trilogy ended in 2008 Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter ...

Project Cheetah is the world’s first inter-continental large wild carnivore translocation project. Under the movement, eight spotted cats are released in Kuno National Park Namibia in relevance to an ...

For the first time in 70 years, India's forests will be home to cheetahs. Eight of them are set to arrive in August from Namibia, home to one of the world's largest populations of the wild cat. Their ...