Discokeryx Xiezhi : The Head-Butting Giraffe

Discokeryx had a thick-boned cranium which had disk-shaped headgear located in the middle of the head, cervical vertebrae with thickened centra, and the most complicated head-neck joints in any mammal known at the time of its discovery in 2022.

These adaptations were for head-butting behavior between males, comparable to the behaviors of rams and musk-oxen as well as the neck-blowing in modern male giraffes.

The neck adaptations of Discokeryx help scientists to better understand the triggers for the evolution of the necks of giraffoids.

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