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 ...

When paleontologist Jin Meng uncovered a strange skull in the vast, dry expanse of northern China’s Junggar Basin in 1996, he immediately had a hunch about the favorite activity of the ancient ...

Jin Meng Why it matters — By looking at an ancient giraffe ancestor’s combat equipment, there are indications that giraffes developed a long neck for more than just feeding. This proposal ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

So, I have some exciting giraffe science for you this week. This is, once again, an ancient creature – I do love those fossils – and it is a relative of modern-day giraffes, although one that ...

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 ...

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 ...