The researchers are calling the remains of this ancient beast true "transitional ... major neck between that of the giraffe neck and the okapi neck, but its shape and the angles between bones ...

The team named the ancient giraffoid Discokeryx xiezhi after ... deer and pronghorns. Even though giraffe species today all have similar headgear, the team found that their ancestors sported ...

An ancient type of giraffe had a shorter neck and a disk-shaped armor on its head in order to head-butt rivals, a new study has found. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, the study ...

The oddball giraffoid didn’t have the signature long neck of today’s giraffe. Instead, the ancient animal, built for fierce fighting, sported helmet-like headgear and the most complex head ...

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"It's a different branch of the tree of the giraffe family," Meng said ... the detection of more ancient giraffoid fossils could help clarify how modern giraffes came to look the way they do ...

‘With this CT scan, we wanted to confirm whether the ancient giraffe had a basilar artery, which forms where the vertebral arteries of the neck merge at the base of the brain,’ explained Dr ...

The remarkably detailed Dabous giraffe rock art petroglyphs are among many ancient petroglyphs featuring giraffes across Africa—a testament to early humans’ fascination with these unique ...

The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding ... Around 10 million years ago, in the late Miocene epoch, an ancient moose-sized herbivore named Samotherium roamed the grasslands ...