Megaloceros giganteus SOLD

He irish elk, giant deer either megaloceros It is an extinct species of artiodactyl mammals of the family Cervidae. Similar to a large fallow deer, its antlers measured up to 3.5 meters from tip to tip. Although it lived throughout Europe and much of Asia from half a million years ago until its extinction in recent times, it is often popularly known as "Irish elk" due to the abundant finds of specimens preserved in the peat bogs of Ireland.

But in reality, giant deer were animals that lived in open tundras and steppes and not in closed forests like European deer and fallow deer. The giant deer did not become extinct because of its antlers, which, like current deer, were only worn in autumn and winter, during the mating season. According to studies by paleontologists such as Stephen Jay Gould, the Megaloceros It had the antlers that corresponded to its size.