And while it is called an “elk,” the Irish elk was more closely related to modern fallow deer than to the elk or moose found in North America today. The antlers of the Irish elk are the stuff ...

What Americans call "elk" are really wapiti--Eurasian red deer. Moose are related to the extinct Irish elk, which were the same size as modern Norwegian elk, weighing between 900 and 1,200 pounds ...

Obviously moose have managed to survive with antlers that size, so Irish elk should have as well.Worman and Kimbrell argue that even if stags with big antlers died off, there would have been ...

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 ...

The Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus, was actually a giant deer. Adult males were about the size of a bull moose and had broad, flat antlers that could span more than 3.5 meters. Scientists in ...

Dr Thomas Molyneux, the first scientist to describe the Irish elk, erroneously identified it with the American moose (Alces alces) - confusingly known as the Eurasian elk in Europe - because of ...

Get the facts on Europe's biggest ever deer and discover why it's sometimes called the Irish elk. More than 20,000 years ago, early humans were drawing giant deer on the walls of caves in what is now ...

The Irish elk, actually a form of deer, was about the size of a modern moose, but had a remarkable set of antlers, which weighted up to 40kg. Most remains date from between 12,000 years and 11,000 ...

Megaloceros giganteus actually was a giant deer that stood more than 2.1 meters high at the shoulder, about the size of today’s bull moose. Antlers sported by male Irish elk spanned up to about ...