This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. At 14 to 19 feet tall, giraffes tower over the entire animal kingdom. But their iconic height, which evolved over ...

Giraffe numbers have dropped by 40 percent in 30 years, to about 110,000 in the wild. This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Of all the large African mammals ...

I stood there thinking, "Heck, of all the ways to die as a new National Geographic explorer, this was the dumbest. Walking into the butt of a giraffe and getting kicked in the face for it ...