PBS Eons: When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia

 

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about the Irish Elk of more correctly, Megaloceros.

Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth. The archaeological record is full of evidence that our ancestors lived alongside and interacted with these giant mammals for millennia. But what happened when they did interact, when humans met this megafauna?

 

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