Africa; thus, there should be abundant fossil remains.
Some evolutionists claim the lack of evidence for giraffe
evolution is due to a lack of effort in searching for giraffe
fossil evidence. Creationists, in contrast, claim that paleontologists,
after unearthing millions of fossil bones, have
not located any evidence for transitional stages in giraffe
neck elongation because these stages do not exist.
One guess of Darwinists is that the ancestor of giraffes
was an elk-sized creature called Palaeotragus found near
Athens.6,35 This conclusion is based solely on the fact
that the animal ‘closest’ to the giraffe in the fossil record
is the Palaeotragus. The Palaeotragus was believed to be
an early giraffid, which many paleontologists say left two
groups of descendants in the Pleistocene.36 These include
the sivatheres, which were heavy-bodied animals (as big
as an elephant) that once roamed not only Africa, but also
evidently India as well. The sivatheres had short necks
and elaborate horns known as ossicones (palmate, or flat
antler-like structures very different from those on modern
giraffes). Many sivatheres bones were only half as long
as those of modern giraffe, and there were many other
differences between the two taxons as well.31 The second dance of fossil remains, the record does not provide a basis
for any of the many existing evolutionary speculations.