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Fishermen Discover A Massive 10,000-Year-Old ‘Irish Elk’ Skull
Ardboe Galler/FacebookRaymond McElroy is pictured with the antlers and skull of an Irish elk that he found in Northern Ireland. A fisherman and his assistant were out on the lakebed of Lough Neagh ...
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Five well-known animals that went extinct in Britain
The Irish elk roamed across Eurasia during the last ... This top carnivore is a pack animal, with wolves hunting together in groups to take down larger prey, like deer. Although the Eurasian ...
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The prehistoric beasts that roamed ancient Britain – including giant ‘Irish Elk’ with 12ft antlers and 13-ton elephants
The Irish Elk, or Megaloceros giganteus as it is formally ... or a sub-species of brown bear. The animals' diets were made up almost entirely of seafood - just like today's polar bears.