"I've always had a long neck," said Smith. "In middle school, they used to call me a giraffe girl," she added. Smith's fascination with a long neck has been inspired by watching the long-necked tribes ...

which may reveal why modern giraffes are so throaty. “Discokeryx has extreme morphologies of the head and neck adapted for head-butting behavior,” study coauthor and paleontologist Jin Meng tells ...

It has also been suggested that the animals grew larger to enable them to flee from predators in grasslands but needed a long neck to drink water on the ground. Giraffes are known to have high ...