A 6-foot-tall male reticulated giraffe calf weighed in at an impressive 150 pounds when he arrived on the morning of January 9 at the West Bank campus of the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival ...

Read full article: Buena Vista police warn drivers after spike in vehicle break-ins Researchers previously considered all giraffes across Africa to belong to a single species. New data and genetic ...

The giraffe population has dwindled to a point where the species should be protected under federal endangered species laws, U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday, signaling what would be the first ...

The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, now officially recognizes four distinct giraffe species, it announced on Aug. 21. Until recently, giraffes ...

A new assessment has concluded there are four distinct giraffe species, overturning the classification of the world’s tallest land mammal as a single species. The review of giraffes was described as ...

Rendering of the emergency and patient tower being built by Wolfson Children's Hospital and Baptist Health Jacksonville. Read full article: Baptist Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s break ground on new ...

We’re used to thinking of giraffes as one species. Turns out there are actually four distinct species of the world’s tallest mammal. That’s according to a review published in August by the ...

The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species – not by what they eat. A group of wild reticulated giraffes (Giraffa ...

Even as the staff attempted to help Kiko, the distressed animal “panicked and sustained injuries that, due to the unique ...

Kiko, the first giraffe born at the Greenville Zoo, has died after a tragic accident at the Toronto Zoo, officials confirmed.

Toronto Zoo has confirmed the death of Kiko, a 13-year-old Masai giraffe. The animal died on January 1, 2026, after a ...