Animal ears may not get as much attention as cool eyes or weird noses, but the glorious cheetah owes its running prowess in part to its inner ear. The cheetah is, famously, the fastest land animal ...

The cheetah is off the leash! Researchers at MIT have built a four-legged robot that runs like the super-fast spotted feline and can even run on its own power, off a treadmill. The robot has now ...

Moving at a relaxing pace - at least, by their standards - a trio of cheetahs jaunted back and forth across their enclosure as a crowd watched. It was just another day for the three sisters at ...

Imagine you are an impala, racing across the African savannah to try and escape a cheetah – the world's fastest land animal, which can reach a running speed of more than 100 km/h (62 mph).