Acinonyx pardinensis from France. From Geraads, 2014. The modern cheetah’s true fossil relatives started off in Africa about three million years ago and eventually dispersed through Eurasia ...

The species, Acinonyx pleistocaenicus, roamed Eurasia from around 1.3 million to 500,000 years ago. It was first described in 1925, based on a partial lower jawbone, from Shanxi Province in ...

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is now at home on the African plains, but it started a migration 100, 000 years ago from North America towards its current habitat.The research, published in the ...

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a highly specialized member of the Felidae and is renowned as the fastest land animal. Its survival in the wild is threatened throughout its habitat with a ...

A strange cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) has been photographed in Kenya by wildlife artist Guy Combes. The “golden” cheetah’s telltale spots are bizarrely diluted. “Scientists believe it is a ...

A nearly complete skull of a primitive cheetah that sprinted about in China more than 2 million years ago suggests the agile cats originated in the Old World rather than in the Americas.

Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are unique among large cats. They have a highly specialized body, a mild temperament, and are the fastest living animals on land. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus ...

Estimates put the numbers of the animal, also known as the Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) as low as 250, but, says Sarah Durant of the Zoological Society of London, this is ...

Extinct colossal cat Acinonyx pleistocaenicus was the biggest species of cheetah to have ever lived, scientists reveal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...