The females would mate with the winners.” Extinct Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus. Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo Lister has spent more than 25 years of his career researching M.

These incredible beasts were said to have roamed the earth about 8,000 years ago before becoming extinct. Although scientists ...

Irish elk were widespread in northern Europe ... The Honshu wolf didn't go extinct until 1905, and we would have had a dozen of them living in our yard if we had only been born 150 years sooner.

A signal work in this is Barrie Cooke’s Elk Meets Sweeney, a diptych from 1986. The extinct Irish elk was a frequent subject and theme of Cooke’s work, representing the idea of a once-powerful ...

Their meat, skin and antlers were all sought after. This already huge mammal actually has an even bigger extinct ancestor. The Irish elk roamed across Eurasia during the last glacial period (a ...