SAM: Ooh! Those leaves look so yummy! Ooh… I wish I had a longer neck so I could reach them! GRANDDAD: Long, long ago, that's exactly what the giraffe said. SAM: Did they? GRANDDAD: Oh ...

Giraffes are majestic animals, whose long necks make them stand apart from other beings. For a long time, researchers have been trying to figure out how giraffes acquired this feature, stated ABC.

In a new study, an international research team used genome sequencing for the first time to reveal clues about the genetic changes that led to the evolution of the giraffe’s stature and its ...

Sydney V. Smith admits she wants to become a "giraffe woman" just for her 11-inch-long neck. According to the Huffington Post, the 28-year-old woman from Los Angeles has extended her neck with 11 ...

D. xiezhi may not be that close of a relative to modern giraffes, he argues, so their headbutting behavior may not tell us much about how long necks evolved. On the other hand, Simmons tells Nature he ...

To survive as a species you need sex. Not surprisingly then, the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks has centered around food and sex. After debating this question for the past 150 ...

Sam, a young tortoise, wishes he had a longer neck to reach the nicest leaves. Grandad Charlie tells Sam a story about giraffes. Long ago, giraffes didn’t have long necks. They wanted to eat the ...