Analyses of DNA of the Irish elk, which died out after the last ice age, may settle a long-running debate about the massive creature’s place on the deer family tree.
The Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus, was actually a giant deer. Adult males were about the size of a bull moose and had broad, flat antlers that could span more than 3.5
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