Those with longer necks usually stand to an advantage in these battles. Despite its elongated form, the neck of a giraffe is made up of just seven large bones known as cervical vertebrae. By ...

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 ...

Animation describing the evolution of the giraffe. 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 ...

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 ...

Description: The tallest land mammal, with a neck as long as 6 feet, the giraffe is also well known for ... Lack of enforcement of local laws, in addition to civil unrest in certain parts of giraffes' ...

A 3-month-old female giraffe died at Zoo Miami after breaking its neck over the weekend, officials said. The juvenile giraffe, who was born on Dec. 15, was found dead by zoo employees on Saturday ...

It has also been suggested that the animals grew larger to enable them to flee from predators in grasslands but needed a long neck to drink water on the ground. Giraffes are known to have high ...