Why do Giraffes have such long necks? Is it just to eat the canopy where no other animal can? Is it just for sex? The precise nature of the evolution of the Giraffe neck has been the focus of intensive research for many decades. All the way back to the time of Darwin and Lamarck, the evolutionary mechanism for the necky boys has been debated. A newly described giraffe relative from Miocene China sheds new light on not just an extraordinary mechanism hitherto undreamt of in giraffoids, but also on the evolutionary mechanism for modern giraffes’ long necks. Meet the Bash Giraffe – Discokeryx.
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Shi-Qi Wang et al. 2022. Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation. Science 376 (6597); doi: 10.1126/science.abl8316
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