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The giant deer is sometimes referred to as the Irish elk or Irish deer, but these names are misleading because this extinct deer species lived all over Europe. It also wasn't an elk, which is a ...

Scientists believe that some extinct animals, including the Irish elk once immortalized in poem by Seamus Heaney, may walk on Earth again as advances continue in cloning. While the science of ...

5), when they caught an enormous Irish elk skull that's estimated to be more ... relatively bountiful spot for skeletal remains of the extinct giant deer. In 1987, a fisherman named Felix Conlon ...

Meet the Irish elk: an enormous extinct deer with a pair of comically large antlers to boot. The ancient behemoth’s unusual appendages, which measure a whopping 3.5 meters (11.5 feet ...

Measuring 3.5 metres from tip to tip, the antlers of the extinct Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) were the largest of any deer ever – but it is no longer completely clear why they grew to such ...

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.

Instead, it was the perfectly preserved antlers of a giant Irish elk. Now extinct, this magnificent animal stood more than two metres tall and had antlers of up to four metres in diameter.

The antlers of an ancient Irish Elk have been found by two fisherman in Lough Neagh. The antlers are thought to be more than 10,000 years old and have a span of more than 3 metres. Due to being ...

The Irish elk is extinct, and while we have seen great advancements in DNA technology, we are still far from seeing them back in the Irish landscape. "We do have four other fantastic species of ...