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Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« on: January 06, 2025, 02:58:02 PM »
How many of you are familiar with all the different extinct antlered cloven hooved animals of the past? Some of them I never heard of until I started looking. Irish elk being the most commonly known.
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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2025, 03:00:42 PM »
Irish elk

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2025, 03:03:13 PM »
Pretty weird looking

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2025, 03:08:33 PM »
Some crazy antler configurations

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2025, 03:22:39 PM »
Eucladoceros dicranios

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2025, 03:24:17 PM »
Stag moose

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2025, 03:45:15 PM »
That’s some interesting evidence God put there. :tup:
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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2025, 12:33:30 PM »
Awesome post! That Thailand species looks like a mix of elk/mule deer based on the front of the rack and then the rear section forked out.

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2025, 05:45:19 PM »
Crazy thing is the Thailand species of Schomburgks deer is thought to possibly still be alive. Deep in the backwoods a scientist was in a market and came across a fairly fresh set of antlers from one. They should get DNA from it and revive it!

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Re: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2025, 05:20:36 PM »
With so many different past deer species it also make me think of the predators that went extinct as well. I wonder if there was a super cougar (not to be confused with anything else  :chuckle:) or something like that.

 


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