Today we call it the Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus. The biggest males weighed 1,500 pounds, about the same as an Alaskan moose, and they sported the largest antlers the world has ever known ...

10 of the Biggest Whitetail Shed Antlers Ever Found, Including Three World Record-Size Deer. Some of the biggest whitetail bucks ever to walk this earth were never fooled by a hunter, nor found dead.

Indeed, the Irish elk was one of the largest species of deer to ever exist. ... Wikimedia Commons Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, where the fishermen found the Irish elk skull and antlers.

The antlers of the Irish elk have long obsessed zoologists, bored or otherwise. In the late 1800s, many scientists believed that evolution proceeded in straight lines, with too much momentum to be ...

Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) have been extinct for more than 10,000 years, and were one of the largest deer species to ever roam the Earth, according to the University of California Museum of ...

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.

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 ...

Could the extinct Irish Elk, world’s largest deer, ... “Its antlers alone measured as much as 12 feet ... preserved specimens of the Irish elk can be readily found in melting permafrost, ...