Category Archives: Irish Elk

It’s Miller-time

Posted on February 8, 2018 by twilightbeasts

“Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.” Hugh Miller, “My Schools & Schoolmasters”, 1854 Hugh Miller. Almost before I was aware of who I was, I was aware of who he was. From just after birth … Continue reading →

Posted in Irish Elk, red deer, Reindeer | Tagged ammonites, Aurochs, Black Isle, Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Cromarty, Dama dama, Eurypterids, Fallow Deer, Giant Deer, Hugh Miller, lynx, Megaloceros giganteus, Rangifer tarandus, red deer, reindeer, Roe Deer | 4 Comments

No Bullwinkle

Posted on March 15, 2017 by twilightbeasts

On Twilight Beasts you will hopefully have seen some of the amazing mummified animals of the Pleistocene. Some of these mummies may even be like old familiar friends to you: the woolly mammoths Lyuba, Buttercup, Khroma, Dima, Yuka, and Mascha, … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Irish Elk, moose, Uncategorized | Tagged Alces alces, Beringia, Buttercup, Cervalces, Cervalces latifrons, Cervalces scotti, Clovis culture, Extinction, Irish Elk, Lyuba, Mammoth, Megaloceros giganteus, moose, mummies, Pleistocene | 2 Comments

The Bear from Clare – new evidence for an early human presence in late Pleistocene Ireland

Posted on March 21, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Many people know at least something of the gradual flooding of the palaeolandscape of Doggerland, off the east coast of Britain. They have a pretty good idea of how the sea encroached on that early European land bridge from around … Continue reading →

Posted in Brown Bear, Homo sapiens, Irish Elk, Mega-flood | Tagged Brown Bear, Ireland, Megaloceros giganteus, radiocarbon, Rena Maguire, Ruth Carden | 6 Comments

The last Giant Deer

Posted on April 2, 2015 by twilightbeasts

There’s been recurring themes in much of the research we’ve undertaken while finding new Twilight Beasts for this blog. Overkill, as discussed by Ross in his harrowing blog on the Steller Sea Cow is one of them; environmental changes caused … Continue reading →

Posted in Irish Elk | Tagged Bronze Age, Castoroides ohioensis, Giant Deer, Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus, Megloceros, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Ornimegalonyx, Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Steller Sea Cow, Ulster Museum, Younger Dryas | 4 Comments

An elk that wasn’t an elk

Posted on April 30, 2014 by twilightbeasts

To see an Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) in all its glory, visit the National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin. Here, skeletons of this magnificent beast are articulated, proudly towering higher than the visitors. What really stands out are the incredibly enormous … Continue reading →

Posted in Irish Elk | Tagged Eurasian Elk, Fallow Deer, Holocene, Irish Elk, Lascaux Caves, Last Glacial Maximum, Megaloceros gignanteus, Pleistocene | 19 Comments

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	The most (and least)… on A very brief introduction to…
	The most (and least)… on The Nipple Tooth
	The most (and least)… on The burrowers
	The most (and least)… on The Stuff Of Night-Mares
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