Professor Ian Taylor

Professor Ian Taylor

Head of the Jack Brockhoff Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Research Unit, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne and Professor Emeritus, Department of Plastic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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Health & Medicine

Why giraffes have spots

A new study provides the first anatomical proof of why giraffes have spots – and how they relate to plastic surgery