Strange Fossil Solves Giraffe Evolutionary Mystery  

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机构地区：[1]IVPP

出　　处：《Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences》2022年第2期124-126,共3页中国科学院院刊（英文版）

摘　　要：Fossils of a strange early giraffoid have revealed the key driving forces in giraffe evolution,according to a study led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.The study was published in Science on June 2.How the giraffe’s long neck evolved has long been an evolutionary mystery.Although there have been different opinions about the process of giraffe neck elongation,scientists never doubted that the impetus for neck elongation was high foliage.

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分 类 号：Q915.2[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]