Giraffes are best known for their towering necks, but their beautifully spotted coats are just as distinctive — and they serve important functions. One reason is for camouflage; a giraffe's spots help ...

Having a dog in your car is enough to make you drive a little more carefully. The same goes for a horse trailer, but to a greater extreme. Now imagine what it'd be like if that honse were 20 feet tall ...

Giraffes might be facing extinction, with their numbers dropping over 40% in the last three decades, but there's an effort to save the long-necked creatures, and it involves a procedure familiar to ...

We're in Tanzania on safari, when two stately looking giraffes walk into view, looking thoughtful, gentle, as giraffes do, and all of a sudden one of them drops way low and swings his whole neck and ...

Saharan Africa towers the giraffe, draped in mosaics of brown and tan patches. Long regarded as a single species, this iconic ...

Giraffes are a beautiful and powerful example of what adaptive evolution can achieve. However, in recent years they have attained notoriety for a completely different reason: it has been suggested ...

The ‘why’, however, is still under speculation, though the most popularised theory is that the black-purple colour prevents ...

The tallest mammals in the San Diego Zoo have welcome a new member to the fold: a 14-month-old male giraffe. The baby comes from the Dallas Zoo and is called Kicheko, which translates to “laughter” in ...

If you've ever wondered why the giraffe has such a long neck, the answer seems clear: it lets them reach succulent leaves atop tall acacia trees in Africa. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...