which also partly appears on okapi vertebra but not giraffe—and the ventral lamina on the same vertebra was also comparatively transitional. Giraffidae are represented by many extinct species.

While a human’s neck bones are modest in size, a giraffe’s cervical vertebrae are elongated, some reaching up to ten inches long each. This means that the giraffe’s impressive height isn’t ...

Giraffes, like humans, have seven cervical vertebrae, but the giraffe's vertebrae are large, measuring up to 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) long. After Canthumeryx, the ancestor that lived 16 ...

Danowitz and coauthors looked at anatomical landmarks on 71 giraffe vertebrae spanning 11 species from over 16 million years ago to the present, focusing on the second and third vertebrae in the neck.

As a rule all mammals have the same number of vertebrae in their necks regardless of whether they are a giraffe, a mouse, or a human. But both sloths and manatees are exceptions to this rule ...

"These animals have ridiculously long necks," Williams says, adding that, in some species, the fifth vertebra of the neck from the head end is as long as the animal's body. "It makes a giraffe ...

Named Sivatherium giganteum over three decades earlier, the hefty mammal seemed to be a mashup of deer, ox, giraffe ... An outdated restoration of a moose-like Sivatherium. From Extinct Monsters.

In a study published Thursday in Science, a team of paleontologists described Discokeryx xiezhi, a giraffe ancestor, as having helmet-like headgear and bulky neck vertebrae. Discokeryx was adapted ...

The neck of a giraffe isn’t all that different from any other mammal’s. There are seven neck vertebrae, like those of humans, but they are much bigger. (This is a different strategy than other ...

“Even though the neck of a giraffe can be eight feet long and weigh up to 600 pounds, they only have seven neck vertebrae – the same number of neck bones that humans have! But unlike our ...