Ever wonder what it’s like to wake up with a giraffe staring through your bedroom window, silently judging your bedhead? Blue ...

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A professional photographer shares their secrets on how to capture animals on camera, from choosing the right equipment to picking where to go.

A zoo visit might well be on the cards for families this May half term and there's a new development to see at Blackpool Zoo.

Giraffes are one of those animals you can spot in a second – tall, quiet, almost slow-moving, as if they’ve stepped out of a different version of nature. We grow up recognizing them instantly, but ...

For millennia, philosophers have argued over why humans sleep and dream. In his fourth-century-bc treatise On Sleep and Sleeplessness, the philosopher Aristotle argued that sleep is a necessary, ...

Giraffes have noticeable projections on their heads, but they are not horns; they are called ossicones. Ossicones are permanent bony outgrowths covered with skin. Scientists hypothesize that they are ...

Reticulated giraffes are an endangered species across their primary range in Kenya, most commonly threatened by habitat loss and illegal hunting. Conflicts with people are also rising as giraffes ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Wild Adventures Theme Park, celebrating its 30th anniversary season, is drawing attention to an unusual bond between two of its animal residents. A zebra named Kurtsie, born in ...

Giraffe. Image by Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine watching ...

A growing body of research shows that the stress and habits tied to sleeplessness can make it harder to rest the next night. Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by persistent difficulty falling ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is mourning the loss of a giraffe for the second time in five days. The Colorado Springs zoo said Muziki, a 27-year-old female reticulated giraffe, died ...