Imagine standing face to face with a giraffe, your neck craned back as you gaze up at this gentle giant towering over you. At ...

An analysis of skull and vertebrae fossils suggests that an early relative of giraffes butted heads to compete for mates, which may reveal why modern giraffes are so throaty. “Discokeryx has extreme ...

Two palaeontology researchers, Dr. Donald Henderson and Dr. Darren Naish set out to find whether and how a giraffe’s anatomy might facilitate ... but its head would be very close to the surface ...