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Genes tell how the giraffe got its long neck

Reuters: Science - Posted: May 17th, 2016, 11:12am UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giraffe for the first time, uncovering DNA quirks that help explain how the tallest animals on earth developed their remarkably long necks.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=oJ2dicmwEEw:XNjii8XWX9c:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=oJ2dicmwEEw:XNjii8XWX9c:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=oJ2dicmwEEw:XNjii8XWX9c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=oJ2dicmwEEw:XNjii8XWX9c:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=oJ2dicmwEEw:XNjii8XWX9c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/oJ2dicmwEEw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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