As a general rule,giraffes and dinosaurs are not related, and giraffes did not descend from Brachiosaurus. Giraffes are gigantic mammals, while Brachiosaurus were titanic reptiles. Their plant-eating evolution equipped the distinctly modern and ancient species with long necks. What was before dinosaurs?
Hoo boy, this one has been a saga from almost the moment it was conceived. And in fact, the project we originally conceived was very different from the one that finally made it to print. Indulge me in a little trip down memory lane… Anushka Ramnani and Jessica Landeros were first-year...
According to legend, the Leviathan was a fire-breathing creature of such immense size that the sea boils when it swims on the surface. It ruthlessly and fearlessly rules over all the creatures of the sea. The Leviathan's skin is like a double coat of mail, with overlapping scales as ...
Scientists still debate what killed off all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Was it an asteroid strike, or a giant volcanic eruption?
(When I started to write my 2009 paper on Giraffatitan brancai‘s generic separation from Brachiosaurus altithorax, it was with the intention of proving that “Brachiosaurus” brancai was a perfectly cromulent species of Brachiosaurus, and I ended up discovering the exact opposite.) So now I ...