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Answer: Corvette Z06

In those three seconds, the cheetah has taken only about three strides. A full-grown cheetah's stride is nearly 25 feet. However, if a cheetah were to run more than approximately 20 seconds at maximum speed, its body temperature would exceed 109ºF, and the cheetah would literally die mid-stride.

Answer: ostrich

Ostriches are also the largest bird species still living. While ostriches rarely attack humans (preferring to run away), their speed and deadly claws kill, on average, three people a year in South Africa alone.

Answer: spotted hyena

Hyenas are well known to have high endurance, making them almost impossible to outrun. Plagued by bad press, hyenas are actually very skilled pack hunters. Hunting primarily at night, they are better known as daytime scavengers.

Answer: peregrine falcon

Some people claim the peregrine falcon isn't the fastest because the bird is simply in freefall when diving. Excluding dive speed would then make the common swift the fastest bird, at 70 mph.

Answer: 140° F

A maximum of only half a mile per hour seems laughable for one of the fastest animals. However, that means if it were human-sized, it would be running nearly 1,400 mph. This particular mite was found in the summer, running on concrete and asphalt that were around 140° F.

Answer: mantis shrimp

There are two broad categories of mantis shrimp, but both able to strike within one millisecond. Those that don't punch have spear-like weapons to slice prey instead of bashing it. The force behind the punch has been known to break the glass in an aquarium.

Answer: vacuum

Stonefish, exquisitely camouflaged for their coral reef habitat, are ambush predators able to sit unmoving for great lengths of time waiting for prey to swim close enough to attack. Excess skin allows the stonefish to greatly expand its mouth, causing the pressure difference, and thus, the vacuum.

Answer: hummingbird

A hummingbird's resting heart rate can drop to a snail-like 180 beats per minute. In comparison, if exercising, a human would have tachycardia at much over 200 beats per minute. A hummingbird's breathing rate can also reach unbelievable speeds - 250 breaths per minute.

Answer: sailfish

The fastest verified speed was 68 mph, but included the fish leaping out of the water. While sailfish, and those similar, such as swordfish, can sprint at speeds greater than 60 mph, they usually only swim that fast when hunting or escaping a fisherman.

Answer: Mexican free-tail

Also known as the Brazilian free-tail, bats from Frio Cave in Texas were monitored over the course of a week. All the bats tracked flew at least 60 mph, having discarded one bat's measurements because it would have been flying at nearly 100 mph.