The male Megalocerosgiganteus is the pride of Irish palaeontology, with a skeleton nearly three metres high from hooves to tine-tips.
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The skull and antlers of a Megalocerosgiganteus (also known as the Irish elk) had been lying forgotten and gathering dust for years.
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The giantdeer were browsing on the tender young leaves of low-growing brush.
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He had fed on the giantdeer brought by his lioness.
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Except for giantdeer and reindeer, most deer don't travel in herds at all.
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We have had good hunting, and a herd of giantdeer are coming this way.
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Ayla nodded, not quite sure how a disguise would be used to hunt giantdeer.
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The antlers, which are 11ft wide, are thought to be from a Great IrishDeer.
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The IrishDeer Society has called for the complete closure of the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
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The Leinster branch of the IrishDeer Society is holding its annual open day in the Phoenix Park tomorrow.
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They pay no attention to the tall man being photographed nearby beside the skeleton of a giant Irishdeer.
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For instance, it becomes possible to follow the Giant IrishDeer from dominance to extinction and later rediscovery as ancient remains during Elizabethan times.
Uso de irish elk en inglés
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There issued from the forest to the westward the stately Irishelk.
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The Cervus Americanus found in Kentucky was as large as the Irishelk, which it greatly resembled.
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The Irishelk ignored this creeping revolution.
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IrishElk, an example of co-adaptation.
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The IrishElk antlers were withdrawn at €7,000 but are under negotiation.
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Mammoths, mastodons, and Irishelks, now extinct, must have lived down to human, if not almost to historic times.
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The Irishelk roamed the earth 10,000 years ago.
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In an excerpt from his latest book, Michael Viney examines the history and demise of the great Irishelk and deer.
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Dick Ahlstrom reports A 100-year debate over the extinct Irishelk, the largest deer to have lived, has finally been settled.
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The misnamed giant Irishelk was not an elk at all and its nearest living relative is the pint-sized fallow deer.
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They've taken the skeleton of the Great IrishElk out of the peat, set it up, an astounding crate full of air.
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If there is to be a returning, why not at once put in a claim on the part of the IrishElk?
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Our prehistoric ancestors hunted the mammoth, the woolly-haired rhinoceros, and Irishelk; the ancient Britons had the wild ox, the deer, and the wolf.
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For decades there has been argument over whether the Irishelk was more closely related to the modern red deer, or the fallow deer.
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A LIFESIZE bronze of the great Irishelk, which became extinct 5,000 years ago, today stands bereft of its maleness.
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The great IrishElk is calculated by Prof. Owen to have cast off and renewed, annually in its antlers eighty pounds of bone.]