The ability to make inferences based on statistical information has so far been tested only in animals having large brains in relation to their body size,...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of giraffoid that lived in northern China during the Early Miocene epoch some 17 million years ago. Named...
Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) exhibit many of the features typical of mammals with complex cooperative social systems and matrilineal societies, according...
An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genomes 50 giraffe individuals representing all traditionally recognized subspecies....
Motifs featuring trios of anthropomorphic figures with stylized buffalo heads have been discovered at a newly-discovered rock art site in the Swaga Swaga...
A new University of Queensland-led study has revealed that the color of spots in male giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) more strongly relates to their...
While already known that giraffes display preferred choices of companion within their social group, until now it has not been clear what drives these and...
According to a new study, published in the journal PeerJ, some features of a giraffe’s spot pattern are passed on from mother to baby.
Newborn giraffes...
A new large species of giraffid being named Decennatherium rex has been discovered by Dr. Maria Rios from the National Museum of Natural History of Spain...
Giraffes actually are not one species, but four, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata)...
Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of palaeomerycid ruminant that lived about 16 million years ago have been found in Spain, paleontologists...
The evolution likely occurred in two stages as one of the animal’s neck vertebrae stretched first toward the head and then toward the tail a few million...
