Irish elk, giant deer or Irish deer, Megaloceros giganteus, extinct species of deer of Eurasia during the Pleistocene. After a reconstruction by G. Keller in the Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim. Riesenhirsch, Megaceros giganteus. Colour printed illustration by F. John from Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908.

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