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The partial skeleton of Gemina, the crooked-neck giraffe that lived at the zoo for 18 years, can now be visited for years to come in the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Discovery Pavilion. Caitlin Fitch Once ...
The giraffe manages these handicaps with a suite of anatomical innovations. Its heart is “turbocharged,” according to Agaba and Cavener, small in proportion to the animal’s over-all size but ...
The skeleton is based on a fossil found in Big Bend National Park in west Texas. The real fossil skeleton is incomplete and far too fragile for display, so paleontologists are turning to fossil ...
A prehistoric giraffe that died out 10,000 years ago might have been the largest ruminant that walked the ... he used modern computer methods to investigate the skeleton of the giraffe "cousin".
A male giraffe tosses a dead wildebeest into the air in Masai Mara National Reserve, ... which likely provides plant-eating mammals with skeleton-enriching elements such as calcium and phosphorus.
After about 40,000 votes, a Tennessee zoo revealed the name of a rare spotless giraffe that was born last month – Kipekee. Here's what the name means.
A Tennessee zoo is asking the public to help name a rare spotless giraffe that was born last month. The giraffe was born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tenn., on July 31 and is on view at the zoo.