Scientists have long theorized that the long neck of modern-day giraffes evolved to enable them to find more vegetation or to develop a specialized method of fighting. A new study of fossil cervical ...

The giraffe is a truly puzzling animal. With its exceptional anatomy and suite of evolutionary adaptations, the giraffe is an outstanding case of animal evolution and physiology. Now, an international ...

Giraffe's may be gentle, but they are impressive beasts. Weighing up to two tons, the giraffe is a colossal animal and unlike any other. Wildlife vet Julian Fennessy walks us through the giraffe's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have size ...

Author's note: Today the finalists for the 2010 Open Laboratory anthology were announced, and I am proud to say that - for the fourth year in a row - one of my posts made it onto the list of winning ...

If you don’t want to know what the inside of a giraffe looks like, look away now. Marius, an 18-month-old male from Copenhagen Zoo, was put down on Sunday. Zookeepers then dissected Marius in front of ...

Scientists have long theorized that the long neck of modern-day giraffes evolved to enable them to find more vegetation or to develop a specialized method of fighting. A new study of fossil cervical ...