Ossicones are the tall, bony bumps on giraffes' heads. Adult giraffes use them when 'necking' competitors for dominance, and some even have a second pair of ossicones at the base of their neck.

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...

A giraffe munches on fresh lettuce in an adorably close encounter with nature.

Utah's Hogle Zoo is welcoming a new member of the family after their 8-year-old giraffe gave birth to a calf on Monday.

Utah's Hogle Zoo has a new addition: a healthy giraffe calf. He stood 5 feet 8 inches and weighed 139 pounds at birth.

Thumbs down: In more good news for robots (and bad news for humans), Dow, one of the Houston area’s biggest employers, is planning to lay off nearly 15% of its workforce. The company says that AI and ...

Two little-known animal viruses, influenza D and canine coronavirus, show signs of adapting to humans, according to experts.

Even with limited data, researchers fear the presently overlooked pair represent "a major threat to public health." ...

African lions are being poached in large numbers across Africa. If this does not stop soon, the continent may lose its big ...

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins - influenza D virus and canine coronavirus - have so far been quietly flying under the radar, but researchers warn conditions are ripe for the viruses to ...

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins—influenza D virus and canine coronavirus—have so far been quietly flying under the ...