IT RAN LIKE A CHEETAH AND IT WAS BUILT LIKE A CHEETAH, SO WHY WAS THE ARCTIC ONE EATING SALMON For about forty years, the ...

The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle.

The Ice Age cat looked like a cheetah but DNA, Arctic fossils and isotopes reveal an adaptable puma relative with an unusual diet.

Tens of thousands of years ago, a long-legged cat nicknamed the “American cheetah” prowled North America. But an analysis of the cat family tree reveals this cheetah’s closest living relatives are ...

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study ...

When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two ...