Fig. 10From: Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed MammalsEvolution of the giraffe family. The modern okapi is more typical of the group, with its short neck and relatively short horns or “ossicones.” Some fossil giraffids, however, had very unusual branching and flaring cranial appendages. Only the lineage of the modern giraffe evolved a long neck (after Prothero 1994)Back to article page