“Calling it the American cheetah implies a specific behavior and ecology, which isn’t necessarily appropriate for this ...

・North America used to be home to a now-extinct big cat popularly called the American cheetah. ・New genetic data has proven once and for all that it was actually more closely related to living pumas ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has overturned decades of assumptions about Miracinonyx trumani, the extinct predator popularly known as the American ...

An artistic rendering of two Miracinonyx, one in Beringia preying mainly on fish and one in the Lower 48 feeding on pronghorn antelope. With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx ...