This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1952, cheetahs were officially declared extinct in India.

Cheetahs are set to race on the plains of India for the first time since the world's fastest land animal was driven to extinction in the South Asian country 70 years ago, officials said Wednesday.

STORY: This is the moment eight radio-collared African cheetahs stepped into India, after the big cats disappeared from the wild here 70 years ago. They made a 5,000-mile journey from Namibia. The ...

NEW DELHI — The Indian government plans to import cheetahs from Africa and introduce them into the country's grasslands, six decades after the fleet-footed feline was hunted here until it disappeared, ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

BHOPAL, (IANS) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17 said cheetahs are back on Indian soil after 70 years and the move will lead to the restoration of forest and grassland ecosystems. The ...

NEW DELHI, Delhi — Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they're back. Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of ...

LONDON/NEW DELHI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Eight radio-collared African cheetahs step out on to the grassland of Kuno National Park in central India, their final destination after a 5,000-mile (8,000 km) ...