Female Giraffes Drove the Evolution of Long Giraffe Necks in Order to Feed on the Most Nutritious Leaves, New Research Suggests June 05th, 16PM June 05th, 16PM (The Conversation is an independent ...

The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. At 14 to 19 feet tall, giraffes tower over the entire animal kingdom. But their iconic height, which evolved over ...

But for every bird poop moth, there are plenty of less-elegant examples of evolution. One is the inside of a giraffe’s neck.

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 ...

and is a crucial element of the theory of evolution. A classic example of natural selection at work is the origin of giraffes’ long necks. The ancestors of modern giraffes were animals similar ...

For example, giraffes developed their elongated necks ... Unlike Darwin, Lamarck held that evolution was a constant process of striving toward greater complexity and perfection.

Reticulated giraffes (pictured) were one of three species studied by the researchers. By sequencing DNA from faecal samples, they were able to determine both the bacterial composition of the gut ...

Mice and giraffes may look like they could not be more different from each other. But under the surface they have more in common than it may first seem. There are thought to be over 5,400 species of ...

Jose Fragozo’s image The Disappearing Giraffe captures the contrast between the natural world and human infrastructure. In Jose Fragozo’s image The Disappearing Giraffe, the patterned flank of a ...

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 ...