Turns Out Giraffes Might Have Long Necks To Fight Off Love Rivals In Next Level Horny Energy

Everyone, stop what you’re doing because there’s an important giraffe science update. This is the news you need today. Scientists reckon giraffes’ super long necks might not just be for eating leaves off those pesky tall trees. They might instead have been designed for fighting off romantic rivals. It’s the plot twist none of us saw coming, but which makes sense the more I think about it. Giraffes have big lad energy. As a general rule, scientists have believed the long necks of giraffes evolved so they could munch on trees no other animals can reach. But actually, neck length might’ve played a role in sexual selection too. How do we hypothesise this? Well my friends, we do it through fossils! First we have to rewind to 1996. Dr Jin Meng, who’s now a vertebrate palaeontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, found a weird fossilised skull in China’s Junggar Basin. The skull was nicknamed “strange beast” by Dr Meng and his co-workers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The skull had this big old bone plate on its head — perfect for headbutting. Another palaeontologist, Dr Shi-Qui Wang

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So, they just discovered a new species of Giraffe which is essentially just the mammalian version of Pachycephalosaurus…

This Domed Giraffe has been named Discokeryx xiezhi, and I love this thing so much.
(art by Y. Wang) pic.twitter.com/8A9wpJy2Vn

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