Male giraffes fight each other by 'necking'! They push their long necks against each other, bending and twisting them in order to win the fight by a show of strength. Many animals fight this way, including snakes, insects and crabs. Competing in this way allows animals to find out who's boss while protecting themselves from injury. The strongest wins and the loser just has to go away.
Lost and found
Lost and found Palaeontologists have unearthed a new specimen of
a rare dinosaur. ‘Spinosaurus’, a large, long-snouted
predator, was first discovered in Egypt in 1915. However, the
original specimen was destroyed during the bombing of Munich in
1944. Now researchers say that they have discovered the original
fossil site and have found another partially complete Spinosaurus
skeleton. This find should help make it easier for scientists to
interpret several other dinosaur specimens found recently who are
related to the Spinosaurus. 30 OCTOBER 1999, P. 25
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