Pronghorn are among the fastest animals on Earth. Often ranked second to the cheetah for mammalian land speed records, America’s peculiar giraffoid has been said to hit top speeds over 50 miles ...

The pronghorn has outlived one of its fiercest predators, the now-extinct American cheetah. But how?

Fast species of antelope can achieve a similar speed as the pronghorn. The fastest is the goitered gazelle of Asia, capable of up to 60 mph, followed closely by the African springbok.

And then I realized, it was a pronghorn -- and the reason it seemed to be zooming along so effortlessly is that pronghorn is the fastest land animal in North America. In fact, it is the second ...

Capable of reaching speeds exceeding 70 kilometers per hour, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is one of the fastest mammals on earth. No large North American carnivore can match it for speed ...

Desert naturalists are unsure why pronghorn antelope have returned to one of the hottest places on earth. Will they be in a pickle this summer?

Desert naturalists are unsure why pronghorn antelope have returned to one of the hottest places on earth. Will they be in a pickle this summer?

North America’s fastest land animal, the pronghorn antelope, is getting some traction in Washington.

How do the animals do it? Seeking to solve the riddle of pronghorn speed, biologist Stan Lindstedt bottle-raised pronghorn fawns and taught them to run on a treadmill.

Adult pronghorn have two basic survival mechanisms, says Seidler: vision and speed. Native to North America, pronghorn evolved on the plains and can outrun nearly any predator, with stamina to ...