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 ...

A tweet from one of Heinrich’s two accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, said “elk were extinct in New Mexico” just a little over a century ago.

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 ...