Some features of a giraffe's spot pattern are passed on from mother to baby, according to a new study led by researchers from Penn State. The study also reveals that survival of young giraffes is ...

A giraffe without spots at a Tennessee zoo may be plain, but she's definitely not ordinary. The female reticulated giraffe was born July 31 at the family-owned Brights Zoo in Limestone, a rural ...

Jasper is the newest member of the Columbus Zoo family, with the reveal coming just in time for World Giraffe Day.

The beautiful coat patterns of giraffes are individually unique and don't change with age, but their origins and purpose were a mystery. A new study found wild giraffe spot pattern traits were ...

If a giraffe could offer advice, it might not talk about having a long neck or being the tallest animal on land. Instead, it ...

World Giraffe Day 2026 on June 21 celebrates the tallest animal and rallies people to save Africa's vanishing giraffes.

The mottled spots giraffes are known for aren't random, according to a new study that suggests that the patterns are inherited maternally — and that they may impact the chances of a calf surviving its ...

Photographed on a private game reserve in central Namibia, this young Angolan giraffe is the first spotless giraffe recorded in the wild in Africa A so-far unique wild spotless giraffe has been ...

Giraffes, with their distinctive body shape and variations in coat patterns, have long been an example in evolutionary biology teachings. They are a textbook example of how species adapt to their ...

Giraffe babies inherit some features of their mother's spot patterns, according to a new study that used modern techniques to confirm a 49-year-old hypothesis. Survival of newborn giraffes is also ...