Sara Novak is a science journalist and contributing writer for Discover Magazine, who covers new scientific research on the climate, mental health, and paleontology. View Full Profile. The American ...

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 per ...

Wolves can attain speeds of 30-plus mph in bursts. But in an open chase they cannot come close to catching the planet’s second fastest land animal – the North American pronghorn. These elegant ...

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 - ...

The American pronghorn is the second fastest land mammal on the planet – reaching speeds of fifty miles an hour. But it’s pace long baffled scientists. It’s speculated that an arms race between the ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." The pronghorn is one ...

Resting on my haunches atop a gritty sandstone boulder, I felt the earth tremble beneath my feet. A band of speedy pronghorn antelopes was in the middle of a dead run across the vast Carrizo Plain ...

FAIRFIELD • From a truck on the shoulder of U.S. 20, two researchers with binoculars studied a spot in an alfalfa field east of Fairfield. A very particular spot. About a quarter-mile away, just to ...

A study conducted by the Wildlife Society revealed a strange habit of ungulates. Species like pronghorn tend to avoid utility scale solar instillations, which seem to disrupt animal movement and ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the ...