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Del, mentioned earlier that he would like to go back in time and hunt the extinct Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus).
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The Moose is the closest living relative of Megaloceros giganteus.
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Del, mentioned earlier that he would like to go back in time and hunt the extinct Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus).
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The Moose is the closest living relative of Megaloceros giganteus.
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P.S. Dave; speaking of F&S articles, exactly which caliber would you suggest if one ever had the opportunity to hunt Megaloceros?
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The Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) died out around 5,000 B. C for example.
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I've seen many Megaloceros fossils, but I've never got to handle them, and it was great to actually pick up some of those antlers and see what they felt like.
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Megaloceros is consistently being depicted as like a big, shaggy red deer when cave art shows that this giant, highly cursorial animal had a dark shoulder hump, and was mostly light-coloured with horizontal striping on the neck and running along the body (Geist 1999).
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Evidence of an abundance of grazing herbivores of large body mass, some extant (e.g., reindeer/caribou – '' Rangifer tarandus ''; muskox – '' Ovibos moschatus '') and others extinct (e.g., giant deer or "Irish elk" – '' Megaloceros giganteus ''; woolly mammoth – '' Mammuthus primigenius ''; woolly rhinoceros – '' Coelodonta antiquitatis ''), associated with this biome suggests that it was much more productive than is the contemporary tundra biome.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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