Sinomegaceros yabei. Illustration and photo-reconstruction of the giant Japanese elk Sinomegaceros yabei. Sinomegaceros yabei was almost as large as t

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Sinomegaceros yabei. Illustration and photo-reconstruction of the giant Japanese elk Sinomegaceros yabei. Sinomegaceros yabei was almost as large as the Irish elk, but had much smaller antlers and much longer metatarsals. Sinomegaceros yabei probably lived in forests that obstructed flight but allowed hiding. Sinomegaceros occupied Japan during the Villafranchian age and vanished, as did other megacerines, at the end of the Pleistocene. Sinomegaceros yabei was m in length, 170 cm in height and weighed 600 kg; its antlers were m long.

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Photo credit: © ROMAN UCHYTEL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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