GREENSBORO, N.C. — The viral Greensboro home with a giant giraffe head mounted to the wall has sold. Well, the home did. Gerry the Giraffe, on the other hand, has officially been moved to storage. You ...
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 ...
Local art lovers and Boulder City police are seeking the public's help to crack the case of the giraffe that lost its head. Sometime in the past few weeks, a vandal cut the head off the 18-foot-tall ...
Giraffes fascinate physiologists, as well as children at the zoo. The most interesting point about them, physiologically, is that they manage to keep their heads supplied with the proper amount of ...
Have you noticed the small projections on the top of a giraffe’s head and assumed that they were horns? They are called ossicones and are not actually horns at all. These fascinating structures are ...