Giraffes are among the world's most recognizable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs, their gracious movements ...

After performing the most detailed genomic sequence analysis to date of the world’s tallest land animal, researchers argue for the existence of four distinct giraffe species. But their report, ...

But these tallest of all land ... for the species. Giraffes are poached for their meat in many regions of Africa — as well as for their pelts, bones, hair and tails — by hunters and trappers wielding ...

When palaeontologist and zoologist Nikolaos Kargopoulos embarked on a research project two years ago to analyse the skull morphology of giraffes, he believed that “a giraffe was just a giraffe”.

The taxonomic and conservation status of all four giraffe species is constantly updated by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, in close communication with the committees of the union’s Red List.

A rare baby giraffe species has been born at Chester Zoo in a boost to a special global breeding programme. The Rothschild's giraffe, named Stanley, fell on to a bed of straw at the weekend after ...

Careful management is needed to secure their future and to prevent extinction, either geographically or at the subspecies level - or the complete loss of the species.' A taxidermy giraffe specimen ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – which, it must be pointed out, is not a taxonomic authority – still only recognises one species of giraffe. It lumps all ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species: the southern (Giraffa ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species : the southern (Giraffa ...