We Just Found Out There’s More Than One Species of Giraffe
It seems we’ve been wrong about giraffes since, well, forever. The long-necked, charismatic treetop-munching herbivores you’ll remember from childhood trips to the zoo are not, as biologists long assumed, a single species. In fact, they are four. That is the startling conclusion of a first-of-its-kind genetic analysis of giraffes, which finds that populations from different…
