A Penn State researcher has been trying to get to the bottom of the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks. Ed Reschke Getty Images Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights ...

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual, you need food. To survive as a species, you need sex. Not surprisingly, then, the age-old question of why ...

Those impossibly long legs that make giraffes look like they’re walking on stilts aren’t just architectural supports for a tall body. Scientists have discovered they’re actually energy-saving devices ...

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 study explores body proportions of Masai giraffes, lending insight into why giraffes have such long necks and how this trait might have evolved. Why do giraffes have such long necks? A study led by ...

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Although male and female giraffes have the same body proportions at birth, they are significantly different as they reach sexual maturity. Females have proportionally longer necks and longer bodies ...

What's with the long neck? While a common hypothesis has been that competition among male giraffes affected the length of their necks in evolution, a new publication has suggested otherwise. This work ...