Known as “necking” the giraffes use their long and powerful necks to attack, delivering hard blows with each hit. As you watch the video, you can hear the loud whacks coming from the neck ...

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 ...

But something happened over the past millennia that drove giraffes to evolve the longest necks of any living animal. What ...

It was a very tall order — but an Oklahoma chiropractor gave a neck adjustment to a 16-foot male giraffe, The Washington Post reports, and he displayed the whole procedure in a series of cuddly ...

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 ...

Giraffes developed long necks to help them adapt to eating the leaves of tall trees in savanna areas, according to one theory cited by Isobe. It has also been suggested that the animals grew ...