The giraffe's elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention. In the ...

Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from well-ordered. This is especially true of our internal wiring, specifically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have size ...

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 biologists ...

It’s 1996 and paleontologist Jin Meng is exploring the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China. The valley is nestled between the mountainous borders of Kazakhstan and Mongolia in the northwest. The Basin ...