The giraffe is an oddball, both outside and in. By sequencing the giraffe's genome for the first time, researchers have learned that the animal's extraordinary external features are matched by wild ...

Horace was stridently anti-giraffe. The animal was, he believed, conceptually untidy: ‘If a painter had chosen to set a human head on a horse’s neck [or] if a lovely woman ended repulsively in the ...