Extinct deer and elk species from the past

[LDennis24]

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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Irish elk

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Pretty weird looking

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Some crazy antler configurations

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This one is cool. Schomburgks deer from Thailand

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Eucladoceros dicranios

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Stag moose

[Jake Dogfish]

That’s some interesting evidence God put there.

[OutHouse]

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.

[LDennis24]

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!

[OutHouse]

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  ) or something like that.