Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2025, 02:58:02 PM
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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
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That’s some interesting evidence God put there. :tup:
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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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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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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.