Quick Take The official 4-species status was achieved only after reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic ...

Giraffes might be facing extinction, with their numbers dropping over 40% in the last three decades, but there's an effort to save the long-necked creatures, and it involves a procedure familiar to ...

NEW DELHI – Giraffes, the world’s tallest animals, are no longer considered a single species. A new global review has confirmed that there are actually four distinct species, reshaping how scientists ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – A fresh assessment of the tallest living land animal and largest ruminant on Earth has officially recognized four distinct species of giraffes, overturning ...

Photographed on a private game reserve in central Namibia, this young Angolan giraffe is the first spotless giraffe recorded in the wild in Africa A so-far unique wild spotless giraffe has been ...

There’s nothing tiny about a baby giraffe. Standing about six feet tall and weighing around 150 pounds at birth, a newborn ...

The El Paso Zoo made history April 19 with the birth of its first giraffe, an endangered species. Zoo officials announced that Gigi had a healthy male giraffe, born about 9 p.m. in the zoo's hoof ...

Giraffes are just as astonishing on the inside as they are to look at. Standing up to 19 feet tall, they require enormously high blood pressure to pump blood up to the head, yet they suffer few, if ...