The giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus, no longer roams Europe, but fossil bones and antlers in the Museum's collection hold clues as to how this spectacular prehistoric deer behaved, where it lived ...

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University College London scientists say DNA tests have identified the closest living relative to the extinct Irish Elk, or giant deer, living in England. The team tested for DNA and skeletal features ...

Analyses of DNA of the Irish elk, which died out after the last ice age, may settle a long-running debate about the massive creature’s place on the deer family tree. The Irish elk, or Megaloceros ...

Scientists reconstruct the DNA of the Megaloceros from findings in caves in the Swabian Alb and discover possible causes for its later extinction. The mass extinction at the end of the last Ice Age ...

Scientists reconstruct the DNA of the Megaloceros from findings in caves in the Swabian Alb and discover possible causes for its later extinction. Tübingen scientists reconstruct the DNA of the ...