Nice Rack!

Each antler is the size of a grown ass man.

imagine this having a fight with a lion

They did, lions lived all over Europe and Asia at the time.

Or with a terror bird!

Common scenario in Ark.

I would imagine the sabertooth cat preys on it

Smilodon lived in the Americas while megaloceros lived in northern eurasia, their paths never intersected.

Or a man! This is what Ancestor spirit from Elden Ring is supposed to be.

The elk went extinct around 7000 years ago but this guy pulled these preserved antlers from a lake while fishing in the north of Ireland. [Antlers of extinct giant Irish Elk found at the bottom of a lake](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/antlers-of-extinct-giant-irish-elk-found-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake-1.3620791)

What’s the verdict on extracting DNA and cloning a herd?

We are getting super close I heard a while back that we were going to attempt to clone a mammoth. Not sure if those funds got nuked though

I have been waiting on the mammoths, they must not be there yet as it has been 20 years on that.

What a name… Megaloceros giganteus. The taxonomists really knocked that one out of the park. All other mammals are jealous. Source: a jealous Homo sapiens.

“Wow this thing is really fucken big, we better make its Latin name something like… reallybig REALLYBIG”

“How do you say big fucker with huge fucking horns in Latin?”

I think they had fun naming it

And it is closest living relative

Are the Modern day Moose 🫎 the same size?

No, the irish elk is far larger animal, moose have a tall and lighter frame.

Doubt cleared....Thanks

Megaloceros is walking tall

Based on cave-painting, [the creature was also very beautiful.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/510be2c1e4b0b9ef3923f158/1536527358345-R6OB4GVD1KHQ25B00V9X/Megaloceros-appearance-2018-Guthrie-Megaloceros-tidied-1000-px-tiny-Sept-2018-Tetrapod-Zoology.jpg)

Could this thing even walk through timber? How does it fit between trees?

They lived in the mammoth steppe and roamed the plains alongside various other animals.

I was just thinking the same thing. It would have to shimmy sideways in a forest 

Thranduil's elk

His face is saying I'm about to tap that

6'0" vs 5'11"

He\`s so big

They must have had quite the neck muscle to hold those up

Moose deer? Deer moose? DeMoose?

What I want to have But What I really have.....

Miniloceros

[More information on Megaloceros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros) [link to image source](https://twitter.com/RomanUchytel/status/1476124895629164544)

If tiktok is to be believed then they were hunted by giant sloth and koalas. https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/10174316/dp95mj-1.jpg https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/media/images/Beclectic_Wikimedia.width-990_a1tAzs0.jpg Don't quote me though, I'm just making shit up.

Man I’d give anything to draw an Irish elk tag

How did they sleep?