For the past half hour a mother cheetah named Etta has been sitting ... hour or so Etta has been creeping up on a big male gazelle, drawing to within 40 yards of him, while he has remained ...

They're the sprinters of the animal world - cheetahs on land, falcons in the air and marlins in the sea. But, why are they so fast when bigger, more muscular animals might be expected to outpace them?

The antelope can never out-run the cheetah, but it can survive the chase if it twists and turns sharply at the last minute. That's the finding of a study that tracks the dance of death between the ...

The poly-A tail is a long chain of adenine nucleotides that is added to a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule during RNA processing to increase the stability of the molecule. Immediately after a gene in ...

Sea Cheetah WIG vessels would be refueled by decentralized H2Hub hydrogen production systems. Credit: Sea Cheetah Miami-based Sea Cheetah originally planned to target its hydrogen hybrid-electric ...

These sleek cats have long legs and an agile tail that aids in accelerating their speed from 0 to 60 mph in about three seconds. Adult cheetahs weigh 75 to 140 pounds (34 to 64 kilograms), stand ...

Five Card Draw is the the ultimate poker showdown. Draw your hand, outbet your opponents and seize victory with the best 5-card hand or a compelling bluff. The objective of Five Card Draw is to ...

Five male cheetahs strain against the current of the raging Talek River in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve. We are trialling longer online captions for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 57. See ...

Aside from the travelogue language, however, Rosen posits a question that, at last check, remains unanswered: Could the Asiatic cheetah, extinct in Turkmenistan since the Soviet period ...

Ring-tailed lemurs are unmistakable because of their long, vividly striped, black-and-white tail. They are familiar residents of many zoos. Lemurs use their hands and feet to move nimbly through ...