Ancient DNA confirms Miracinonyx trumani was more closely related to modern pumas than cheetahs and had a more varied diet ...

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

Slender, agile cheetahs that roamed the Yukon 30,000 years ago were not technically cheetahs at all, but relatives of the ...

Ancient DNA reveals that the American cheetah was actually closer to pumas, ranged into Arctic Yukon, and may have regularly ...

An analysis of ancient DNA reveals new details about the range, diet, and evolutionary history of this extinct predator.

A cheetah moves carefully through dense vegetation in the African wilderness, its spotted coat blending naturally with the warm colors of the surrounding landscape. Partially hidden behind a tree and ...

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 ...

For decades, the extinct Ice Age predator known as the American cheetah was assumed to be a close relative of the cheetahs ...

Newly sequenced DNA from bones found in the Yukon and Wyoming reveals that despite its slender body, Miracinonyx trumani is ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has overturned decades of assumptions about ...

New paleogenomics research reveals how the so-called American 'cheetah' adapted to harsh Arctic conditions by preying on fish ...

This is where the American cheetah comes in. It was suggested that, perhaps, the pronghorn evolved alongside the big cat, ...