Zoo visitors are already being charmed by a four-week-old baby giraffe — thanks to his distinctive tuft of hair. Toledo Zoo & ...

In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

In this episode, we’re breaking down the American pronghorn - the smallest member of the giraffe family and the second-fastest land animal on Earth. We’ll see why its speed and endurance are so absurd ...

But this extreme feature comes at a cost: namely the energy required for the heart to pump blood up to the head against gravity. As a result, giraffes have high blood pressure, more than twice that of ...