The Melbourne Cup is considered ‘the race that stops a nation’ (Getty) An evolutionary biomechanist has compared the sustained running speeds of various land animals over 3,200 metres, the distance of ...

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Human beings would be made to look decidedly unimpressive were animals allowed to compete in the Olympics — outperformed by the likes of kangaroos, gorillas and ostriches, a science paper said ...