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Megaloceros, popularly known as the Irish Elk has been misnamed for the species is neither elk nor Irish. This is the name of an extinct deer species, the largest ever. The Irish Elk was as tall as seven feet up till its shoulder and its antlers were spread up to twelve feet. The evolution of this giant deer species took place in the glacial periods while the Pleistocene Epoch was on. The species became extinct because it failed to adapt to the subarctic conditions that existed in the final glaciations or the marked change that took place post the retreat of the sheet of ice. The last deer of the species died almost 11,000 years ago in Ireland.


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SUDHA
Even thereafter we won't save some of the animals which is present now, then it will be also like this deer. we will also get that animal's bone one day, and we will conclude that animal shape through computer...
SUDHA at at 06:28AM, Dec 1st 2010.
Lorem Ipsum
poor critters. to dumb to migrate south. what scientist was around 11,000 yr.s ago to record that poor deers death? I dunno, the drawing looks more like a moose to me. The manufactured skeleton looks like an anorexic Dragon also.
Lorem Ipsum at at 01:30PM, May 27th 2011.

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