A butchered giraffe leg bone recovered from a drain beneath a modest food shop in Pompeii is forcing archaeologists to rethink how exotic animals moved through the Roman Empire. The bone, pulled from ...

People look at the carcass of the giraffe Marius after it was killed in Copenhagen Zoo February 9, 2014. The Copenhagen Zoo went ahead with a plan to shoot and dismember a healthy giraffe on Sunday ...

Rocker Axl Rose has written an open letter in which he takes aim at zoo bosses in Denmark for their lack of humanity after slaughtering a beloved giraffe to prevent inbreeding. The Guns N' Roses ...

Without getting into a debate about the death penalty and focusing entirely on compassion for the victims of cruel deeds, I would like to respond to a letter writer’s bewilderment (Feb. 14) over why ...