Irish elk
Megaloceros giganteus latin

The following habitats are found across the Irish elk distribution range.

This is bigger than even the Irish elk, which was 1.8 meters tall at the shoulders.

The Irish Elk is no different in that respect.

Extinct species include the Irish elk, the great auk and the wolf.

I'd love to see a recreated Irish elk.

Irish Elk had antlers of just the size one would predict from their body size.

Some animals hunted were the red deer, moose, horse, Irish elk and beaver.

He's also a blowhard prone to dramatic speeches about the tragic fate of the Irish elk.

She gazed at the Irish elk.

The most extreme form was the now extinct Irish elk, with its 30 kg (66 lb) pair of antlers.

I had been thinking that long fingernails and high-heeled shoes were like the spectacular antlers on the extinct Irish elk.

Here an Asiatic elephant, there an Irish elk, everywhere birds of all shapes and sizes.

In the antlers of the Irish Elk.

The size of Irish Elk antlers is distinctive, and several theories have arisen as to their evolution.

This differs from the Megacerines, such as the Irish elk, which evolved many species before going extinct.

The disappearance of the local populations of Irish Elk is not surprising, because as climate warmed they would be separated from each other by water.

The situation is less clear for the Irish Elk in continental Eurasia east of the Urals.

The Irish Elk (also known as Megaloceros) was hunted to extinction by early man.

In 1987, Kitchener presented evidence that Irish Elk antlers were in fact used for fighting.

Another example given in textbooks is the extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus.

"The Irish elk," he said.

Neither Irish, nor an elk, the Irish elk was a huge deer adapted to life in the cold.

The Alaska Moose matches the extinct Irish Elk as the largest deer of all time.

For the making of bagpipes, the stomach of the camel is but slightly inferior to that of the Irish elk."

The Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) was one of the largest deer that ever lived.

Megaloceros giganteus first appeared about 400,000 years ago.

Another example given in textbooks is the extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus.

The Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) was one of the largest deer that ever lived.

Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus)

The largest species, Megaloceros giganteus, vernacularly known as the "Irish Elk" or "Giant elk", is also the best known.

The extinct Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) and the stag-moose (Cervalces scotti) were of similar or of slightly larger size than the Alaskan Moose.

During the Pleistocene interglacials, arctic animals that are no longer extant occupied Scotland, including the Woolly Rhinoceros, Mammoth, Polar Bear, lemming, Arctic Fox and the giant deer Megaloceros giganteus.

Sexual selection sometimes creates monstrously absurd features that, in harder times, could help cause a species' extinction, as has been suggested for the giant antlers of the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) that became extinct in Pleistocene Europe.