For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced -- revealing the first clues about the genetic ...

The Sacramento Zoo held the grand opening for its new exhibit Friday, featuring two new residents that look like a cross between a zebra and some sort of antelope. They’re called okapi, and they’re ...

Reseachers from the New York Institute of Technology have finally reconstructed the fossilized neck of a Samotherium major—a genus of giraffe that is more or less its indirect predecessor—and in ...

Two young okapi, an African forest mammal that looks like a cross between a giraffe and a zebra, have taken up residence in the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore‘s giraffe house. The two okapi are ...

The discovery of the okapi shocked the world in 1901. African explorer, Henry Stanley, called it “donkey-like,” while others thought it a new species of zebra, given the stripes. However, this ...

The giraffe is an oddball, both outside and in. By sequencing the giraffe's genome for the first time, researchers have learned that the animal's extraordinary external features are matched by wild ...

Researchers for the first time have sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and the okapi – the squatter, short-necked member of the Giraffidae family. Their findings, described in Nature Communications ...

Okapi, a relative of giraffes, are dwindling in the wild due to human settlement and deforestation Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

CNN has reported that the population of Okapi species is now only at 10,000, due to political instability and misuse of resources in Congo. However, it wasn't always this way. Okapi [Animal spot] The ...

The birth of a rare okapi calf is being celebrated by zookeepers — and its arrival will help reveal the secrets of "one of the least known and understood species on the planet," said British news ...

A viral TikTok alleged the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden "successfully" crossbred a zebra with a giraffe. It then posed the question of whether or not the breeding was ethical. There's one small ...