What is the fastest animal on earth on land sea or air?

Question

What is the fastest animal on earth on land sea or air?

Answer 1

on air--the peregrine falcon--about 200 km/h in a dive; unless you include humans: fastest is on a space shuttle: mach 25

Answer 2

A duck hawk can dive at speeds of 175 mph.

Answer 3

basilisk lizard-faster than 1.5 meters per second -water Top speed of a cheetah-100�120 km/h

Answer 4

Cheetah

Answer 5

A cheetah can run 100 km per hour.

Answer 6

peregrine falcon

they can reach up to 200 miles per hour during vertical dives

cheetahs reach speeds of up too 70 miles per hour

sailfish reaches speeds of up to 68.18 miles per hour in the water

Answer 7

turtle!

Answer 8

A falcon. The second fastest is a guy being chased by his wife with a butcher knife.

Answer 9

i'm pretty sure it's the leopard... at something like 50mph...

oh yeah the person above is right... i didn't think of air... whoops!

Answer 10

The peregrine falcon (while in a dive, it can reach something like 250 mph).

***edit: oopsie-daisy.  At least we know who isn't the fastest typist on land sea or yahoo answers.

Answer 11

the cheeta. it run over 40 miles an hour.

Answer 12

I've always heard that the fastest animal (not counting humans) was the Peregrine Falcon while diving. They can  exceed 200 mph with their body's aerodynamics and gravity assisted flight speed as they overtake their prey from an extreme angle. They've even evolved adaptations to protect their breathing and eyesight from the air pressure at that kind of speed.

Answer 13

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in altogether, but it reaches speed of 140mph when diving down in the air. The fastest on land is a cheetah, running cross country at speeds of up to 70mph, and the fastest in the sea is a swordfish, which is almost as fast as a cheetah, at 60mph. All these facts i have researched, but the swordfish may not be 100%corrects, but it is simple enough to search on a search engine!

Answer 14

South American tree sloth - they have been known to break the sound barrier when jumping between trees (over 700mph).