Samotherium 2015 study found that "Samotherium" had a neck intermediate in length between the giraffe and the okapi, judging from examination of specimens of "S. major" from Greece. Samotherium Samotherium ("beast of Samos") is an extinct genus of Giraffidae from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eurasia and Africa. "Samotherium" had two ossicones on its head, and long legs. The ossicones usually pointed upward, and were curved backwards, with males having larger, more curved ossicones, though, in the Chinese species, "S. sinense", the straight ossicones point laterally, not upwards. The genus is closely related to "Shansitherium". According to biologist Richard Ellis and
Kordofan giraffe name is a reference to Kordofan in Sudan. There are around 2,000 individuals living in the wild. "The Christian Science Monitor" lists only 38 individuals being alive in the embattled Garamba National Park in The Democratic Republic of Congo due to poaching; their skin is used for luxury goods and they are said to produce enough meat to feed poachers for weeks . Recent genetic studies also shows distinct genetic populations of giraffe that makes conservation of these subspecies even more important. Kordofan giraffe The Kordofan giraffe ("Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum") is a subspecies of giraffe found in northern Cameroon, southern