Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex. Not surprisingly then, the age-old question of why ...

Although male and female giraffes have the same body proportions at birth, they are significantly different as they reach sexual maturity. Females have proportionally longer necks and longer bodies ...

A Penn State researcher has been trying to get to the bottom of the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks. Ed Reschke Getty Images Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights ...

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.

What's with the long neck? While a common hypothesis has been that competition among male giraffes affected the length of their necks in evolution, a new publication has suggested otherwise. This work ...

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual, you need food. To survive as a species, you need sex. Not surprisingly, then, the age-old question of why ...

(WHTM) — Pennsylvania researchers may have answered the age-old question of “does size matter” – well at least for the reason on why giraffes have long necks. A “sex-for-necks” theory has long ...

Giraffe ancestors had shorter necks. Why that changed so drastically over their evolution has stirred a surprising amount of debate since the time of Charles Darwin. While a recent theory suggests ...

Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have size and structural differences. Just like humans, giraffes are said to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Douglas R. Cavener, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Everything in biology ultimately ...

Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights different research projects and topics being explored at Penn State. The following originally appeared on The Conversation. Everything in biology ...