Cheetah's Evolutionary Speed

News breed: An artist's rendering of the cheetah-cub robot released by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) yesterday. Photo - AFP /EPFL Geneva: Swiss researchers said yesterday they have created a small four-legged, ...

British researchers fitted three female and two male cheetahs in Botswana with special collars equipped with GPS, accelerometers and gyroscopes to track their location and movements. The animals were released back into the wild and their activities ...

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform ...

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Anyone who has watched a cheetah run down an antelope knows that these cats are impressively fast. But it turns out that speed is not the secret to their prodigious hunting skills: a novel study of how cheetahs chase prey in the wild shows that it is their ...

Pop star Shakira teamed up with a couple of deadly cheetahs to pose for a new advertisement of fragrance Wild Elixir, which is the follow-up to her 2012 perfume Shakira Elixir.The 36-year-old singer posed in a low-cut, plunging burgundy dress while ...

Nature documentaries always go on and on about how fast a cheetah can run. Cats in captivity have been clocked at 65 miles an hour, the highest speed recorded for any land animal. And yet, scientists know very little about how the animal runs in ...

Cheetahs may be the world's fastest sprinters, but it is their blinding acceleration—faster than a Lamborghini's—and their phenomenal athleticism, rather than their famous top speed of over 60 miles per hour (96.5 kilometers per hour), that is ...

After eliminating almost all top leaders of the Jharkhand-based criminal outfit Pahadi Cheetah, Sundargarh district police arrested three more members of the outfit including a hardcore criminal early this week and forwarded them to court on ...