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Ossicones are
columnar or
conical skin-covered bone
structures on the
heads of giraffes, male okapi, and some of
their extinct relatives.
Ossicones are...
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protuberances on
their heads called ossicones, less than 15 cm (5.9 in) in length.
Females possess hair whorls, and
ossicones are absent.
Okapis are primarily...
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Pliocene of
Eurasia and Africa.
Samotherium had two
ossicones on its head, and long legs. The
ossicones usually pointed upward, and were
curved backwards...
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distinguishing characteristics are its
extremely long neck and legs, horn-like
ossicones, and
spotted coat patterns. It is
classified under the
family Giraffidae...
- braincase, basicranium, occipital, and
ossicones ("horn-like"
structures in giraffids). Four
additional ossicone fragments from
other localities in the...
- dark-coloured tongue,
lobed canine teeth, and
horns covered in skin,
called ossicones. The
giraffids are
ruminants of the
clade Pecora.
Other extant pecorans...
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their robust size,
short limbs, and the
presence of
large complicated ossicones in males.
These animals lived in Asia, Africa, and
parts of
Europe from...
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harder to spot, is the
number of
ossicones on the head. This is the only
Giraffa phenotype to be born with five
ossicones. Two of
these are the
larger and...
- deer), have one of four
types of
cranial appendages: true horns, antlers,
ossicones, or pronghorns. True
horns have a bone core that is
covered in a permanent...
- lack of
ossicones. It was also the
smaller species,
being a
little under 2 m (6 ft 7 in) at the shoulders. P.
germaini had a pair of
ossicones, and in...
