Giant Irish Elk: The Largest Deer To Ever Live | Extinct Animals Documentary | Real Wild
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- Known as the "Giant Deer", the Irish Elk was last seen nearly 11,000 years ago. This extinct series episode chronicles the habits and traits of the extinct deer species. It settled in Ireland where human hunters had not reached and antlers that reach 12ft from tip to tip. Why did this giant deer endure catastrophic extinction?
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Everything was bigger then, including predators. This Elk stood almost 7ft high at the shoulder. Must have been 8 or 9 feet with head up and antlers grown in. What a sight to behold.
OMG I've been looking for this series for years, please upload more
There was no mention of large predators of these giant deer, as in the large antlers being useful defense against said, possible, large predators.
I bet they messed some predators right up.
Well for elk and moose in North America the only predators are bears and wolves, and both did live across Northern Europe so I would assume a large wolf and bear
@@colbyzur4642 As far as North America, I believe there was a large, American Lion, around that time. In Europe, there was the Cave Lion, which was pretty large and I believe was around until about 15,000 years ago. I could be wrong on the times, though. I am also wondering if the Irish Elk was very close to the same as the European Megaceros. Both had very large antlers.
Great point, like other than in fighting and humans, what other animals hunted them? dire wolves and sabre tooths for two likely examples.
Bro… sabertooth tigers for sure, a pack of dire wolves maybe. I’m sure there’s more too
This is a nice documentary. The video title says the giant Irish Elk is the largest deer to ever live, however it is not said in the documentary which is right. The giant Irish Elk certainly had the largest antlers of any deer while the largest species of deer that ever lived was Cervalces latifrons.
Yup. I just mentioned that too. Just noticed your comment. In fact, the Alaskan and Northern Canadian Moose is larger than the Irish Elk too. Making a present day survivor being as tall and heavy as the ancient elk species.
@@Tigershark-qy2gq The size of C.latifrons is quite large for deer standards, weighing as much as an American bison.
That has never been proven
The size of those antlers! Respect!
Now the Megaloceros would be an amazing animal to bring back from extinction!
Would love to see one of these.
Excellent. Very excellent. Thank You. I have had fantasies since I was a kid of going back in a time machine & seeing magnificent animals like this. Computer images are probably as close as I will succeed. Thanks again
I know that there’re serious moral and scientific questions about “recreation” of extinct animals; still, I’m looking forward to the de-extinction of this magnificent creature (among others…)
You meant cloning
It would be like a childhood fantasy movie. It would be better than seeing a unicorn.
I hope this is one of the animals we do bring back.
Imagine what the wealthy elite would pay to hunt these creatures if
@@ronfroehlich4697 Yeah. You know it. It was probably rich cavemen that drove them into extinction the first time. 🤣😜
Man I don’t think that dude even knew those antlers were there. I’ve seen a bull pick the back of a car up with his head and neck. No hesitation he just picked the back up and flipped it sideways about five feet. Hydraulic like. These beast are super powerful
Range was across Europe and Asia. If talk is about extinction we need to consider the entire range
There is a pair of those in the Arizona State fairgrounds AG building. They are 14' tip to tip. They are so old that they are bolted to a steel framework as they will not hold their own weight. The skull is still in the middle and attached. I could never imagine an animal so large to wear these.
Actually, the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) was not the largest deer that ever lived, the largest deer that ever lived was actually the Broad-Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons).
One of the largest
The Broad-Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons) was the largest deer that ever lived, while the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) is smaller.
@@indyreno2933 so did it come from broad land?
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 😂
Sorry, but also technically wrong. The largest deer of all time is a Moose species that is also extinct. Remember Moose are part of the deer family as well. So the largest of all time is the Broad Fronted Moose (Cervalces latifrons). It was taller, heavier and was a deer. In fact, the Alaskan and Canadian Moose are bigger than both Megaloceros giganteus, and the Broad Fronted Deer. Making a living deer species the second largest deer of all time.
When I was a kid, our car hit a moose in the fog. It got up, tore the hood off the car with one swipe of it's antlers. Then rammed the side, making the door protrude slightly. The second hit the door came off. Then it lifted the car off the ground through the door jam with it's antlers and my family of 6 in the car escaped out the other side. The moose hammered that Toyota for 4 more minutes. The car was a total loss, we were safe, the Moose looked unharmed. They are unreal!
Those are the elks used by elves on battle in the Hobbit (battle of five armies).
In princess mononke too
Yup. They did a great job of it too. They looked real.
Very dark in the museum. Hard to see. Glad the did animation of these in Lord of the Rings Movie.
Don't even mention that travesty. 🤮
They went extinct right around the Younger Dryas event. That event was likely around the same latitude as Ireland too. I suspect a connection
It would be so cool.If the Irish elk was still alive!
humans would hunt the sh*t out of them until they're all dead
Send them to Vietnam!
@@chrisx5127 why?
The king of deer.
So they were about the same size as moose, but with larger horns.
Wow,! wish this animal was still around, That would be something to see!
And could you imagine how good that beast would taste mm mm
That 1000-year cold snap sounds alot like the Younger Dryas.
It was the younger dryas, I’m glad someone else knows
The fighting is the exact same as any of the deer family, look at how the moose fight, it's deadly brutal,why try to invent what already exists, any of the deer family fight this way, the only difference is their extraordinary gigantic size, everything else is exactly the same, however very good vidéo, tanks for sharing, wasn't aware of their existance .
Powerful animal
Me in far cry primal:mammoth and irish elk serial killer💀
Thanks to cave art, we actually now know what the markings of the Giant Deer were. They weren't actually a solid colour as shown in this episode, but had very distinct and unique markings. The CZcams channel EDGE Science actually did a video about it a year ago.
The extinction of the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus), Broad- Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons) and (Cervalces scotti) prove that from an evolutionary standpoint bigger isn't always better. Large size is risky when it comes to survival of the "fittest".
So true I think of the large extinct hyper carnivores of Pleistocene North America.
Evolution acts at a particular time in a particular place. No trait - like large size - is 'better' in all environments. Therer have been miniature elephants and mammoths on islands. In that case in those places, smaller was better. Fittest means fit to the local environment, nothing more. There is no 'always' possible.
Megaloceros. Another magnificent creature lost to human overhunting.
Love.
Imagine Boone & Crockett for these guys!
You realize just sharing trait does not make one spices related to another
though it did have the largest set of furniture, the Cervalces latifrons or giant moose was far larger and even the extant alaska can get bigger.
What? I had never heard of this deer.
Oh deer… (sorry)
I'm Irish.They find them in the bogs
Imagine seeing one of these beauties in real life
I still remeber the sound of the clashing of these antlers every fall, echoing off the hills.
With more oxygen in the atmosphere the irish Elk probably flourished, when the atmosphere changed and there weren't enough oxygen as the world once had, this became a death sentence for the Irish Elk and many other large species of animals, on land and in the seas.
The antlers look like they would be able to defend against wolves leopard and most predators
I thought such displays were for showing off, to the other boys and also as a come hither to the girls.
Generally speaking if a species has tusks and antlers on both sexes, they’re for protection or for foraging (tusks used for helping to bring down trees, or for mining salt in underground caves). The fancier the show (almost to the detriment of the individual) was for display and warning off other males - I’m bigger than you! Stand back!
not me doing this in my free time and actually enjoying it ☺
Butt eye liked it tooo!
Wow
If it's fighting off Smilodons it probably needed larger antlers.
Probably not considering that Smilodon lived in the Americas😅. What's more likely is that Cave Lions and other large carnivores from Ice Age Europe hunted Irish Elk.
Now that the crater for the comet that struck 11,000 years ago, can we consider that as the primary cause. Hancock and Carlson were laughed at. Until they weren't
Looks tasty af ❤ whats a backstrap weigh?
Another creature that has the sense that we just missed it, time wise.
I wonder too if the calcium found in the grass at the time was truly enough to replace the calcium used in the antlers. Would they not be chewing on the sheds? Were their bones staying strong during such regrowth? I swear Ive heard of extant species of deer using the calcium in their skeleton to make their antlers when the mineral was hard to find. Is there any idea of what predated on these elk, besides early humans?
I wonder if your stupid surface level theories are pointless...beast system drone.
on the west coast of canada our roosevelt elk dont seem to care about humans. ive petted them, chased them off the road. rode my dirt bike with them. smacked their ass. they have large antlers and live in the heavy forest. lots of elk routes are near bodies of water.
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I don't get it. The temperature dropped 7 or 8 degrees, and that favored the smaller-sized deers? I thought the cold temperature should favor larger animals, as they could retain body heat more efficiently. Polar bears are largest bears, Siberian (Amur) tigers are the largest in the 9 subtypes of tigers, etc.
Less food.
Ireland also had bears.
and loonies
This animal is the closest thing to a mythical creature
I'm going to start working on my antlers.
The average hunter's knowledge > Andrew's research
They would also gig with their antlers to get at the sweet high nutrition of the roots of plants
I’ve seen a really small Irish elk skeleton at the Smithsonian Museum
Now that's one they need to bring back! That, Aurochs, Mammoth, Thylacine! For starters! But they can keep that short faced bear extinct!
Lighting in the museum or lab was really poor. Otherwise great video
Meh it would have been fine carrying those huge palm of antlers on its head just look at the skeleton of the beast the neck muscles alone would have been massive but what incredible site to have witnessed seeing a wicked animal like that. Lol yum yum the steaks on it fuuuuuu
Bigger Antlers means bigger muscles. :)
Okay, why is a kind of deer called "fallow"?
To me, "fallow" means land set aside to recover for agriculture. "He let that field lay fallow for a year."
To think fellows thought that these bucks didn't rut like other deer seems absurd.
Moose moose.
Considering the moose is a member of the deer family, the Irish elk was hardly the largest deer to live.
The Irish elk was larger than a moose.
Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a CZcams Videos all about the Extinct Carnivorous Marsupials, Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Thylacines, or the Tasmanian Wolves on the next Paleofactus coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
Another suggestion would be the recently extinct Linneaus's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido).
It was such a a glorious animal it would jump into Irish Stew and Irishmens bellies
The antlers would show the females how healthy the stag was. A big rack shows he'd been eating well, and will pass on healthy genes. That's part of what those huge racks are for. The other part, well , boys need to prove to each other who the toughest dude is. THWACK!
And protect their herds from predation?
Maybe it's a good thing these magnificent creatures are no longer around, I can just imagine big-game hunters wanting to bag such a trophy and paying large sums of money just to mount an Irish Elk stag over their fireplace. This animal would probably be on the endangered species list if it was still around.
I wonder if this animal was aggressive?
Not sure if the largest. The north American moose is quite large.
Fae tank
best meat!
Asia!
Maybe they should just recreate a few so people can see them
The title is already incorrect, as there are extinct moose species larger than the Irish elk. And as we all know, moose are deer
The question is...what hunted them.....
If the ice age ended before we had internal combustion engines then what caused the global warming then?
That’s one of those sensible questions that you can’t ask…. All the morons that push that crap have no answer so it’s forbidden!
Hey this okay.
But we could only ever recreate 50% of an original animal, because we here and now can never obtain and clone mate a male and female, just one or the other.
"And your momma" > 11:03 😂
They could just be for mating. Larger the antler may be considered attractive.
So they used their antlers like all other deer and moose...
Why didn't it evolve back into a goat to survive?😅
How could a deer species evolve "back into a goat" if they were NEVER a goat. Goats have horns, deer have antlers. Nobody else caught this and called him on this? That would be like saying dire wolves should have evolved back into tabby cats.
Actually, in Europe, moose are called "elk". Hence you can see the great dee antlers are more moose like than elk like.
I don't know know, we still have moose?! Over hunting comes to mind!
The extinctions of this animal had nothing to do with humans and everything to do with real climate effects. I’m talking massive scale meteor impacts on the northern hemisphere, causing rapid melting of ice, causing massive global scale floods earthquakes and volcano eruptions. All cause by the flip of the earth magnetosphere.
@bradleylawless9595 look here, I'm 64 years old, heard all thar bs all my life snowflake!! Guess what? The environment is far cleaner in Western countries!! Walk to the kitchen and put that blunt out! I worked for the largest OME supplier for automotive parts for 33 years, and industrial in the West has met all the environmental requirements! The rivers and lakes are cleaner here than in my lifetime! I'm sitting on my porch as we speak, listening to the frogs and crickets! Maybe you should consider that every time you exhale, you are releasing carbon dioxide!
I suppose that antlers must be used to antle, but you neglected to tell me what antling is.
Also, you explain why the elk died out at the end of the ice age, but didn't consider whether the climate change might have made the island more amenable to leprechauns who might have cast spells.
They're always after me Lucky Charms!
Can't blame them for wanting to leave Ireland.
Fight.
Just from watching this animation, my main takeaway from the video is that these animals take quite a lot of shits. That's all I can see now
"The flood" flows of waters. Noah.
The younger dryas period, out biblical tones to it if you want but yes that’s how the Noah story came about
And only after they have deleted a thing do they then try to study its remains to try to figure out how, why, when and for what it was there in the first place.
Havefaiths
Gonna need another freezer if these are still around.
Im soryy call me childish but... did they really have to make that elk take a shit?
Not irony. Its a coincidence. Learn the difference.
se los hartaron todos si aqui en el continente americano por poco y se terminan hasta los sapo se hartaron hasta la extincion
They are extinct because early man got hungry.
Not at all bro, google the “younger dryas period”.
To much evidence to exponentially prove it happened, it’s some crazy interesting shit
Aren’t moose also deer?! They are the biggest imo
They aren’t deer but they are in the same genus of animal
irish elk and moose are comparable in size
Not at all bro. Great Irish elk got a good 3 foot on a moose. If I ever shoot a elk that has 1 antler as tall as me I will literally come back to this video and comment but it will never happen
@@bradleylawless9595 if you are talking about its antlers yes but not in size they are about equal in size and weight..
Before We Ruled the Earth Hunt or be hunted.
Intelligent monkeys killed it.
If you're going to use kilograms you need to learn the conversions into pounds again. Most of CZcams 's watchers are going to be in the United States and and that needs to be imperial measurements. I don't care whether you want to put measurements in there but you need to put imperial measurements in it. CZcams listen to me clearly in your algorithms. I want imperial measurements and I'm sick of paying for something that doesn't have them
Those deer must have been burning a lot of fossil fuels to cause all that climate change.
What caused the downfall of the Irish Elk? Superficial women! lol
Geez wonder what happened? Everything over 150 pounds went extinct at the same time. Must of been the size, the teeth, the horns, the climate, man, everything but the obvious...... what did happen. How do you get a job spewing nonsense? I got no pension I could use some easy money. What do souls fetch these days?
this elk lived everywhere in europe
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I’d have to wonder why you’re watching this video on some kind of computerised device concerning an extinct animal, while still yet living in a time long since past. Shouldn’t you be better spending your time wearing sackcloth and living in a cave, while living on wild grasses and water in perpetual repentance?
The Most High created incredible magnificent creatures and white men destroy them because they just have to have a trophy to convinced themselves that they are special. Killing and spreading death is their spectialty.
“White-men” is a social term, not a scientific one. We are all homo-sapiens. The animal in question was not hunted to extinction. Although all anatomical parts were used for survival the hunter-gatherers had no use for trophies. The Irish Elk became extinct due to climate, botanical and geological changes.
The narrator might have pointed out the enormous metabolic cost of growing the new antlers every year. Males would have had relatively short life spans.
@@garypaquin9571 Your fancy way of trying to deflect from the truth and you know exactly what it is, is nothing more than a typical attempt practiced by y'all who have turned our planet upside down and inside out with everything that introduces death! Your best bet is to convince yourself that you are not from the seed death spreaders. And changing the truth for a lie doesn't make the truth any less the truth. It simply proves that it is what it is and liars hate hearing it and having it told to others.
@@garypaquin9571 And since you were not there when that creature did roam the earth, you have no proof of anything. But I have historical proof past and present that your type has an insatiable appetit for deleting things and making trophies of them. The museums of Europeans are filled with what they have either exterminated or stolen from grave robbings from other cultures. So try your brainwashing on someone who doesn't know you!
Eating for survival is pretty lmportant.
White peoples, Lordy Lordy, Lordy
If they figure out how to bring them back I want to hunt one dam that would look good on my wall I know bring it back to hunt but I can't help myself
The great flood they couldn't swim with those large antlers