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

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

Slender, agile cheetahs that roamed the Yukon 30,000 years ago were not technically cheetahs at all, but relatives of the puma that adapted to mostly eat fish instead of antelopes in a harsh northern ...

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 ...

An extinct North American cat commonly called the American cheetah was not a true cheetah at all. New genetic evidence shows ...