Extinct species of cervid (deer/elk)
1 There issued from the forest to the westward the stately Irish elk .
2 The Cervus Americanus found in Kentucky was as large as the Irish elk , which it greatly resembled.
3 The Irish elk ignored this creeping revolution.
4 Irish Elk , an example of co-adaptation.
5 The Irish Elk antlers were withdrawn at €7,000 but are under negotiation.
6 Mammoths, mastodons, and Irish elks , now extinct, must have lived down to human, if not almost to historic times.
7 The Irish elk roamed the earth 10,000 years ago.
8 In an excerpt from his latest book, Michael Viney examines the history and demise of the great Irish elk and deer.
9 Dick Ahlstrom reports A 100-year debate over the extinct Irish elk , the largest deer to have lived, has finally been settled.
10 The misnamed giant Irish elk was not an elk at all and its nearest living relative is the pint-sized fallow deer.
11 They've taken the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk out of the peat, set it up, an astounding crate full of air.
12 If there is to be a returning, why not at once put in a claim on the part of the Irish Elk ?
13 Our prehistoric ancestors hunted the mammoth, the woolly-haired rhinoceros, and Irish elk ; the ancient Britons had the wild ox, the deer, and the wolf.
14 For decades there has been argument over whether the Irish elk was more closely related to the modern red deer, or the fallow deer.
15 A LIFESIZE bronze of the great Irish elk , which became extinct 5,000 years ago, today stands bereft of its maleness.
16 The great Irish Elk is calculated by Prof. Owen to have cast off and renewed, annually in its antlers eighty pounds of bone.]
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