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 ...

This form of sexual selection could have contributed to the evolution of longer necks in giraffes. A long neck provides giraffes with an elevated vantage point to scan the savanna for predators.

Sam, a young tortoise, wishes he had a longer neck to reach the nicest leaves. Grandad Charlie tells Sam a story about giraffes. Long ago, giraffes didn’t have long necks. They wanted to eat the ...

Here are some reasons why giraffes developed their signature neck length: One primary reason for giraffes' long necks is to reach food that other herbivores can’t access. Giraffes mostly eat ...

Gail McCormick Penn State [email protected] Office: 814-863-0901 More on this News Release Food, not sex, drove the evolution of giraffes’ long neck, new study finds Penn State Journal Mammalian ...

The males stand about 5m tall - as high as a single-story house - and the females are just a little shorter. The giraffe has an incredibly long neck and legs, high shoulders and a sloping back. The ...

Witnessing this gawky effort to obtain the most basic sustenance makes one wonder if the right question to ask isn’t why the giraffe has such a long neck, but rather, why is it so short relative ...

Sydney V. Smith admits she wants to become a "giraffe woman" just for her 11-inch-long neck. According to the Huffington Post, the 28-year-old woman from Los Angeles has extended her neck with 11 ...

Deep in the heart of Africa’s rainforests, there’s a beautiful, unique, rare, and elusive creature that was once believed to ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposed that three populations of the world’s tallest land animal be classified as endangered, a move ...

Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate ...