Children sat in awe Friday in Barnes & Noble as Debra Young Hatch read to them a story about three giraffes sneaking into a young boy's closet and creating a lifelong friendship. The bookstore hosted ...

Hattiesburg Zoo is adding to its collection of giraffes, with one more joining mother Sue Ellen and her daughter Alberta. Grace, a reticulated giraffe, arrived Tuesday morning at the zoo. She is ...

June 21 is World Giraffe Day. "It is an important day meant to celebrate and raise awareness for these magnificent, gentle giants," according to a post from the Greenville Zoo. The Zoo will be ...

Giraffes are the tallest land mammals on the planet and they only live in Africa. Currently, there is only one species of giraffe recognized, with nine subspecies, differentiated by the look of their ...

Giraffes might be facing extinction, with their numbers dropping over 40% in the last three decades, but there's an effort to save the long-necked creatures, and it involves a procedure familiar to ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) celebrated a significant milestone on Wednesday, Oct. 22, with the placement of the final steel beam for the new International Center for the ...

Poor Marius. At 10 a.m. Sunday morning, the young giraffe was put down by his minders at the Copenhagen Zoo, despite the fact that he was perfectly healthy (and utterly adorable). Then, with ...

The sighting follows the July 31 birth of a spotless giraffe calf named Kipekee at a Tennessee zoo Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop ...