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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]
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 ...
Increasing size of antlers year on year in different European game species, 1891 illustration ... Irish elk, extinct species. Young red deer, with velvet.
Irish elk skeleton with antlers spanning 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) and a mass of 40 kg (88 lb) Peramorphosis is delayed maturation with extended periods of growth. An example is the extinct Irish elk. From the fossil record, its antlers spanned up to 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, which is about a third larger than the antlers of its close relative, the moose ...
For most of its history, the British Isles were part of the main continent of Eurasia, linked by the region now known as Doggerland.Throughout the Pleistocene the climate alternated between cold glacial periods, including times when the climate was too cold to support much fauna, and temperate interglacials when a much larger fauna was present.
In the 25 years since free-roaming elk were restored to Kentucky, they have adapted and are thriving, state wildlife officials say. 25 years ago, you couldn't find elk in Kentucky. Now there are ...
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