Sprinting towards extinction? Cheetah numbers crash globally

Monday, December 26, 2016 - 16:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is sprinting towards the edge of extinction and could soon be lost forever unless urgent, landscape-wide conservation action is taken, according to a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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