Even whales, with their seemingly short necks, follow the same ... that sexual selection also played a role in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck. Male giraffes use their necks as weapons ...

When they crunched the numbers, Cavener and his colleagues discovered that the males fell short ... for giraffes' long necks.

A giraffe’s most notable feature is a long neck, but in evolutionary terms they’re virtually bulldogian. To watch a giraffe drinking is to observe the problem of a long neck. It must require a ...

The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works. How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologist ...

After debating this question for the past 150 years, biologists still cannot agree on which of these two factors was the most important in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck. In the past three years, ...

After debating this question for the past 150 years, biologists still cannot agree on which of these two factors was the most important in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck. In the past three ...

After debating this question for the past 150 years, biologists still cannot agree on which of these two factors was the most important in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck. In the past three ...

When they crunched the numbers, Cavener and his colleagues discovered that the males fell short. "What we found ... are the reason for giraffes' long necks. That's important not only for understanding ...

He brought in the skull and several vertebrae of the now extinct short-necked giraffe ... animal (Sivatherium hendeyi). The evolution of the giraffe’s long neck is a fascinating example of ...