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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 02:58:02 PM

Title: Extinct deer and elk species from the past
Post by: LDennis24 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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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:00:42 PM: Irish elk
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:03:13 PM: Pretty weird looking
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:08:33 PM: Some crazy antler configurations
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:18:42 PM: This one is cool. Schomburgks deer from Thailand
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:22:39 PM: Eucladoceros dicranios
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 03:24:17 PM: Stag moose
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Post by: Jake Dogfish on January 06, 2025, 03:45:15 PM: That’s some interesting evidence God put there. :tup:
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Post by: OutHouse 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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Post by: LDennis24 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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Post by: OutHouse 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.