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 ...

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Scientists have worked out the anatomical secret to giraffes' long and spindly - but strong - legs. Researchers from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) of London found that a supportive ligament is ...

It turns out the secret to the evolution of the giraffe’s long neck has been sitting in museums for the last hundred years. In a recent study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, ...

A Bedfordshire safari park has successfully performed high-risk surgery on a 500kg giraffe with a rare knee condition. Woburn Safari Park said one of its tallest residents, the Nubian giraffe Sahara, ...