From the days of Charles Darwin, scientists have remarked upon the evolutionary benefits of giraffes' long necks. But after two mysterious deaths, Endless Thread turned to the subreddit AskScience ...

Giraffes, the tallest land animals, possess remarkably long necks measuring up to six feet. This extraordinary adaptation grants them access to food high in trees, minimizing competition with other ...

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.

The video above shows the fascinating way male giraffes fight. Known as “necking” the giraffes use their long and powerful necks to attack, delivering hard blows with each hit.

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.

Giraffes have the longest necks of any living animal today, but scientists debated why for over a century. A new study may finally have the answer.

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.

Finding that female giraffes have proportionally both longer necks and longer body trunks led us to propose that females, and not males, drove the evolution of the giraffe’s long neck, and not ...