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The Irish elk stood about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall at the shoulders, [5] and had large palmate (flat and broad) antlers, [32] the largest of any known deer, with the largest specimens reaching over 3.5 m (11 ft) from tip to tip [5] (though it is rare for specimens to exceed 3 metres (9.8 ft) across [11]) and 40 kg (88 lb) in weight. [33]
The Leeds Irish Elk, the skeleton of a great deer or Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus, now extinct), presented by philanthropist William Gott to Leeds Philosophical Society for their museum in 1862. It has been on display for over 150 years in the city, and is now in Leeds City Museum, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Date: 27 July 2021: Source ...
Known from antlers, teeth and postcranial material. Related and possibly ancestral to M. savini [13] M. savini Middle Pleistocene European species [11], with a temporal range spanning approximately 750-450,000 years ago, [14] slightly larger than a caribou/reindeer, first fossils found near Sainte Savine, France and near Soria, Spain. Its ...
The extinct cervid Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) reached over 2.1 m (7 ft) in height, 680 kg (1,500 lb) in mass and could have antlers spanning up to 4.3 m (14 ft) across, about twice the maximum span for a moose's antlers.
Jul. 25—WARROAD, Minn. — A bull elk that hung around the Swift Ditch area of Lake of the Woods east of Warroad, Minnesota, for several years before dying in March was 20 years old, a wildlife ...
Some scientists claim that reindeer domestication started almost 2000 years ago. Since then until now, they have been domesticated for their meat, milk, fur, antlers, and as a means of transportation.
The size and complexity of the antlers increase every year and then remain relatively fixed from the age of 5 onward. The annual development of the antlers is at least partially controlled by ...
Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and-ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3] [4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).