The scan results confirmed the existence of four giraffe species, in line with previous genetic analysis.(Photo by Murat Özgür Güvendik/Anadolu via Getty Images)
When palaeontologist and zoologist Nikolaos Kargopoulos embarked on a research project two years ago to analyse the skull morphology of giraffes, he believed that “a giraffe was just a giraffe”.
Kargopoulos travelled the world to 3D-scan a huge dataset of giraffe skulls — 515 to be exact — from African national…
