Giant Irish Elk: The Largest Deer To Ever Live | Extinct Animals Documentary | Real Wild

[@jayteah1349]

I just want to take a moment and give serious props to the CGI department who produced not just ancient deer pooping but also mating. Good on you mates.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

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.

[@SassaFrass28]

Elk are huge animals even today. On a visit to the Grand Canyon, they had elk and bison at the info ranch & the size of the animals were absolutely shocking to me. Unless we have seen them in person, we usually see bison & elk from an aerial view on a tv show and they look much smaller. I didn't like that these huge animals were in a confined section. (I do not like zoos even if they provide an opportunity for people to see wild animals.) ELK & bison also probably clock in thousands of miles a year roaming the wilderness for food, mating, rearing calfs, and to avoid predators & severe weather.

[@pbh9195]

OMG I've been looking for this series for years, please upload more

[@dougg1075]

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

[@ΧρυσόστομοςΠαππαδόπουλος]

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…)

[@philipcastro8805]

You meant cloning

[@robertsansone1680]

It would be like a childhood fantasy movie. It would be better than seeing a unicorn.

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

I hope this is one of the animals we do bring back.

[@ronfroehlich4697]

Imagine what the wealthy elite would pay to hunt these creatures if

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

@@ronfroehlich4697 Yeah. You know it. It was probably rich cavemen that drove them into extinction the first time. 🤣😜

[@robertsansone1680]

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

[@SameerPrehistorica]

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.

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

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.

[@SameerPrehistorica]

@@Tigershark-qy2gq The size of C.latifrons is quite large for deer standards, weighing as much as an American bison.

[@SmoothBlue34]

That has never been proven

[@myfavoritemartian1]

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.

[@mariedelozier2530]

Now the Megaloceros would be an amazing animal to bring back from extinction!

[@rrbernhardt5810]

Why focus on megaloceros when its antlers were smaller than the Irish elk?

[@Traderjoe]

They went extinct right around the Younger Dryas event. That event was likely around the same latitude as Ireland too. I suspect a connection

[@wmden1]

There was no mention of large predators of these giant deer, as in the large antlers being useful defense against said, possible, large predators.

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

I bet they messed some predators right up.

[@colbyzur4642]

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

[@wmden1]

@@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.

[@michaelbruns449]

Great point, like other than in fighting and humans, what other animals hunted them? dire wolves and sabre tooths for two likely examples.

[@bradleylawless9595]

Bro… sabertooth tigers for sure, a pack of dire wolves maybe. I’m sure there’s more too

[@techforthedisabled9514]

Would love to see one of these.

[@bigDbigDbigD]

Range was across Europe and Asia. If talk is about extinction we need to consider the entire range

[@michelebriere9569]

The size of those antlers! Respect!

[@DragonFae16]

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 KZbin channel EDGE Science actually did a video about it a year ago.

[@KaponoMonster]

This animal is the closest thing to a mythical creature

[@indyreno2933]

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).

[@philipcastro8805]

One of the largest

[@indyreno2933]

The Broad-Fronted Deer (Cervalces latifrons) was the largest deer that ever lived, while the Irish Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) is smaller.

[@mentalasylumescapee6389]

@@indyreno2933 so did it come from broad land?

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

​@@mentalasylumescapee6389 😂

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

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!

[@Birdylockso]

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.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Less food.

[@Kusina_at_Patalim]

Those are the elks used by elves on battle in the Hobbit (battle of five armies).

[@stormengine3261]

In princess mononke too

[@Tigershark-qy2gq]

Yup. They did a great job of it too. They looked real.

[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

Very dark in the museum. Hard to see. Glad the did animation of these in Lord of the Rings Movie.

[@slappy8941]

Don't even mention that travesty. 🤮

[@lucbelzile9407]

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 .

[@shibolinemress8913]

That 1000-year cold snap sounds alot like the Younger Dryas.

[@bradleylawless9595]

It was the younger dryas, I’m glad someone else knows

[@lozo4745]

I think the Y.D. is how the story of the so called "flood" came from. It lines up to around the same time period

[@austinhughes1924]

It would be so cool.If the Irish elk was still alive!

[@mentalasylumescapee6389]

humans would hunt the sh*t out of them until they're all dead

[@chrisx5127]

Send them to Vietnam!

[@austinhughes1924]

@@chrisx5127 why?

[@marksauder9247]

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".

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

So true I think of the large extinct hyper carnivores of Pleistocene North America.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

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.

[@Junketh71]

The king of deer.

[@donaldsharp3682]

Wow,! wish this animal was still around, That would be something to see!

[@jimd5955]

And could you imagine how good that beast would taste mm mm

[@Rink03]

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.

[@michaelbruns449]

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 😂

[@disqusmacabre6246]

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

[@TigerTeamWork_Media]

Powerful animal

[@entrepreneursfinest]

That dudes key ring was legendary status. Somewhere on there was a key to every door in existence including a couple black holes.

[@outdoorsythings2573]

I still remeber the sound of the clashing of these antlers every fall, echoing off the hills.

[@penguinagents2015]

Megaloceros. Another magnificent creature lost to human overhunting.

[@MOEMUGGY]

So they were about the same size as moose, but with larger horns.

[@knotkool1]

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.

[@iteerrex8166]

What? I had never heard of this deer.

[@ghosty28]

Oh deer… (sorry)

[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

I'm Irish.They find them in the bogs

[@user-ii1iy8fz1d]

Looks tasty af ❤ whats a backstrap weigh?

[@harrymiller3986]

The antlers look like they would be able to defend against wolves leopard and most predators

[@jandrews6254]

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!

[@Svensk7119]

Imagine Boone & Crockett for these guys! Oh, I humbly suggest ticks may have played a part in their disappearance. If ticks and global warming are affecting moose today, (moose who in Norway are called elg (moose), then global warming at the end of the Pleistocene could very well have affected these giant deer, too.

[@HavocHerseim]

Considering the moose is a member of the deer family, the Irish elk was hardly the largest deer to live.

[@baneofbanes]

The Irish elk was larger than a moose.

[@ivantheterrible2594]

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.

[@lozo4745]

So sad it is true

[@brookerickettson4950]

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?

[@SometimesTurtle]

I wonder if your stupid surface level theories are pointless...beast system drone.

[@kellyschram5486]

You realize just sharing trait does not make one spices related to another

[@XianicRepublic56886]

Me in far cry primal:mammoth and irish elk serial killer💀

[@dallasmore6703]

Now that's one they need to bring back! That, Aurochs, Mammoth, Thylacine! For starters! But they can keep that short faced bear extinct!

[@RizzectThaTrizzec]

If it's fighting off Smilodons it probably needed larger antlers.

[@martijn9568]

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.

[@ZevenART]

The average hunter's knowledge > Andrew's research

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the Extinct Carnivorous Marsupials, Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Thylacines, or the Tasmanian Wolves on the next Real Wild coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@Svensk7119]

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.

[@PedroCampos-r1j]

Moose moose.

[@joepontiac4868]

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.

[@Jim-ic2of]

Butt eye liked it tooo!

[@lorrietsaoussis5168]

Imagine seeing one of these beauties in real life

[@alaanahjadyengarrett5229]

not me doing this in my free time and actually enjoying it ☺

[@djquinn11]

Ireland also had bears.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

and loonies

[@bigDbigDbigD]

Lighting in the museum or lab was really poor. Otherwise great video

[@behydrated]

12 feet antlers??? How much they weigh?? They carry them all the time?? Now imagine the neck muscles they would have??crazyy

[@justinpihama3405]

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

[@pedrocampos1787]

Love.

[@Grand_History]

The title is already incorrect, as there are extinct moose species larger than the Irish elk. And as we all know, moose are deer

[@ghostmanscores1666]

I'm going to start working on my antlers.

[@stevenquackenbush6358]

They would also gig with their antlers to get at the sweet high nutrition of the roots of plants

[@wenthulk8439]

I’ve seen a really small Irish elk skeleton at the Smithsonian Museum

[@HassanMohamed-jy4kk]

Why don’t you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin 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?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@indyreno2933]

Another suggestion would be the recently extinct Linneaus's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido).

[@SandraNelson063]

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!

[@taleandclawrock2606]

And protect their herds from predation?

[@MrWolfheart111]

Bigger Antlers means bigger muscles. :)

[@Svensk7119]

But the Irish elk didn't only live in Ireland. They lived across Europe.

[@tattoofthesun]

I think the Elk got caught up in the potato famine and caught the ships out to Ellis Island. The remaining fought in the Easter Rising

[@citomp1240]

If the ice age ended before we had internal combustion engines then what caused the global warming then?

[@chrishenicke2052]

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!

[@lozo4745]

All of the poop from these huge animals

[@madisona3907]

Wow

[@rosegarza676]

The earth and everything on was made by Yahweh. Noah's flood destroyed everything on earth, except Noah and his family. Soon every knee will bow and proclaim Jesus as their Lord. Jesus is returning very soon. Repent; accept Jesus as your Lord and Savour. Only Jesus can save you. This earth will be destroyed in the end.

[@jandrews6254]

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?

[@emwjmannen2]

I wonder if this animal was aggressive?

[@HavocHerseim]

Not irony. Its a coincidence. Learn the difference.

[@danielmartin7838]

Only (an idiot) someone unfamiliar with how Moose or Elk behave during a rutting season would argue that this Irish Elk only used their antlers for display.

[@jamesfulerten8494]

The question is...what hunted them.....

[@michaelwoods4495]

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.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

They're always after me Lucky Charms!

[@jimd5955]

It was such a a glorious animal it would jump into Irish Stew and Irishmens bellies

[@jaimeruiz521]

Not sure if the largest. The north American moose is quite large.

[@RogerKomula-kl9lb]

Can't blame them for wanting to leave Ireland.

[@hazynpeterson4083]

Are they comparing to moose and elk in north america?

[@lxdgr8]

What happens to human poop after poop bugs finished using them? Can the dna of their food still survive?

[@jamesl2846]

Why didn't it evolve back into a goat to survive?😅

[@jamesconner8374]

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.

[@user-ut4zw6so6o]

Maybe they should just recreate a few so people can see them

[@gilsongeiss5749]

Grandes chifres dao execelentes pr secdefender de lobos como remover neves profundas em busca de liquens

[@markmccarty9793]

I don't know know, we still have moose?! Over hunting comes to mind!

[@bradleylawless9595]

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.

[@markmccarty9793]

@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!

[@fedupwithem6208]

So they used their antlers like all other deer and moose...

[@joepontiac4868]

best meat!

[@pedrocampos691]

Asia!

[@earlrussell1026]

"The flood" flows of waters. Noah.

[@bradleylawless9595]

The younger dryas period, out biblical tones to it if you want but yes that’s how the Noah story came about

[@chilirasbora]

They are extinct because early man got hungry.

[@bradleylawless9595]

Not at all bro, google the “younger dryas period”. To much evidence to exponentially prove it happened, it’s some crazy interesting shit

[@jozebutinar44]

this elk lived everywhere in europe

[@Rainyy-94]

Im soryy call me childish but... did they really have to make that elk take a shit?

[@seantyler7401]

They could just be for mating. Larger the antler may be considered attractive.

[@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal]

Fae tank

[@ARSENICKMUSIC]

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

[@daveyhouston]

Aren’t moose also deer?! They are the biggest imo

[@bradleylawless9595]

They aren’t deer but they are in the same genus of animal

[@pedrocampos1787]

Hey this okay.

[@MrAdal206]

Intelligent monkeys killed it.

[@craigwalters4618]

Havefaiths

[@sherlockbonez]

Gonna need another freezer if these are still around.

[@Scuba8way2many]

Those deer must have been burning a lot of fossil fuels to cause all that climate change.

[@gilsongeiss5749]

Evendo younger dryas.

[@earlrussell1026]

You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the Anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Evangelism.

[@lozo4745]

You must provide references. That are not from some guy who decided to start a new religion