Megaloceros - The Grand Deer
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2019
- Megaloceros is one of many remarkable megafauna that inhabited earth during the last ice age, with its giant, awe-inspiring antlers as its main source of intrigue. I hope you enjoy!
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Here's my very late Christmas special! I hope you enjoy!
so 1:04 Megaloceros is not related to the moose or the wapiti (which are completely different species, but just called "elk") but at relation to red deer IS possible at 1:24 -> how does that work? since wapiti and red deer are sister species
Screw the mammoth! Can we bring this stud back?
YESSSSSS!!!!!
I wanna put an arrow in one!
@@fermiticus4034
"Beautiful animal. Nice to see it's back. Let's kill it."
...and eat it!!!!
Having a legal hunting season on a particular animal, means that said animal is thriving.
I hunt for food, and eat every bit (possible) of every animal I harvest.
Fermiticus my family eats every bit of deer we can and treat the bones to give to our dog. We use the skulls and antlers as decoration too. I even paint some of them once all the flesh and bacteria is cleaned off. We sell the hide to people who make clothing out of animal pelts and the rest get eaten by the coyotes or rot.
It could be that the artists were depicting the animal correctly, or showing the best places to strike the animal to kill it as a visual hunting aid for young hunters.
Could very well be a possibility, but it is an unlikely one.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy could it be depiction of shadow instead of fur color?
It’s always going to be hard to interpret cave art as it’s possible they are not “accurate” life defections but rather symbolic with clear meaning to peoples of the time
Australian aborigine art that is around that old is known and plenty of that contains obviously mythical elements.
Could the faint coloration indicate this is a spirit Megaloceros, we’ll never know
I have never wanted scientist to bring back an animal more than this absolutely beautiful
Same...
Ngl I would like to see this absolute beast cloned back instead of some others.
I don't know. Deer have impaled themselves on my fence 3 times. It took three people to remove a 200lb buck. We would have to hire a crane or something to get rid of a Megaloceras.
@@skyem5250 woah ive never heard of them doing that, miss calculating the height of their jumps i assume? either way you must admit a deer with antlers as wide as a planet is pretty cool.
I've always liked deer. So giant deer are just freakishly awesome!
Same here! Megaloceros' were certainly incredibly animals.
I'd really love to see a video on cave hyenas. Those buggers were EVERYWHERE in Pleistocene Eurasia, yet there are barely any videos on them :(
I can most definitely do one at some point! :D
The problem back then was they only had access to beta max not vhs......thats why they don't have videos on them hahahahaha
@Maxx Kroes 😂
@@markcassidy1428 😂😂
Yes! Please make a video on hyenas in the Pleistocene!
Yay one of my favorite paleo creatures ! Thanks man SZ
I love all the artwork so much, both ancient and modern. I loved this stuff so much as a kid, just being able to visualize these amazing creatures.
Hits-yes?
This was amazing! Thank you for teaching me more about one of my favorite prehistoric creatures, Megaloceros is freaking awesome!
Thanks, man! Megaloceros really is a cool animal!
Outstanding video! Well done Henry!
Excellent clip. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to make it.
Yes please do more videos like this I just found your Channel I enjoy it
What magnificent & wonderful creatures. Can you just imagine a huge male with a pack of massive Dire Wolves chasing them through the snow covered tundra of late Pleistocene Europe..?
Personally, I'm fascinated by the sheer speed of growth (we're talking nearly Wolverine level regeneration) required to produce those extraordinary, massive (40kg!) antlers, *annually* . There are several modern species of deer which have growth in the inches per week range, but Megaloceros tops them by nearly an order of magnitude!
I would have thought that the accelerated metabolic rate necessary to achieve this level of growth to be cytotoxic (from waste products building up faster than they can be removed - not to mention waste heat), so I'm extremely curious to see if scientists can eventually reproduce a similar effect therapeutically (for example in bone repair) in humans. (NB: Based on research in animals like moose.)
Dire wolves were barely any bigger than modern day wolves.
@Michaelle Green Ah yes, because i would be so scared of discount wolves.
Dire wolves never hunted the Irish Elk, these wolves were native to the America’s as evident by the numerous remains found in the La Brea Tar pits in California. While the Irish elk lived in Europe, Eurasia & northern Africa and a related species in China and Japan, the two animals lived on two entirely different continents. The Archaeologists know dire wolves lived in North America from about 250,000 to 13,000 years ago, they were about 20% bigger than today’s gray wolves. However, the Irish Elk would have encountered the extinct Steppe Wolves, especially in Siberia where the last remnant Irish Elk population became extinct approximately 7,500 years ago. In a new study, researchers scoured North America trying to extract genetic samples from dozens of dire wolves remains at universities and museums. The genetic material revealed a new evolutionary family tree, and a surprise; Dire wolves occupy their own lineage, separate from those that gave rise to African jackals, gray wolves, coyotes, and dogs by nearly 6 million years, the team reports today in Nature. “Even though they look like wolves, dire wolves actually have nothing to do with wolves,” says Angela Perri, a zooarchaeologist at Durham University and one of the study’s lead authors. (Reference: Sciencemag.org/news the tagline line is “The legendary dire wolf may not have been a wolf at all”)
@@leoaguirre3460 Intriguing. I'll be reading through that source.
I learned a ton of new stuff about a well known creature here. Awesome video!!
Great to hear! Even when you might think you know all there is to know about a certain topic, there is always something new to learn! :D
King of the ice Age.
This was good. Thanks
Fantastic video, love these videos on mega animals and humans
Great video Henry.
Fascinating to learn about and to know about.
It be fascinating to have them round today.
Haha awesome song in the background!!!!
Brilliant thanks helped me understand all about this amazing deer.
I searched for this video because of the fossil in Animal Crossing New Horizons.
One of the few ACNH fossils that are the correct size.
Fantastic video!
Thank you!
Great video!
Thanks! Your videos are really great too!
I would love more videos like this!!
With one of the best christmas songs in the background as well!
what a cool subject to pick. I have to say megaloceros (clearly pronouced mega-lo-SAR-os) are a very cool species of deer, though of course they are defiantly the not the weirdest in antler structure. Its a shame that they did not live to present day. really good Christmas special, even if it was a month late.
Thanks!
What killed the megabeasts (2002)
Before we Ruled the Earth Hunt or be hunted.
Came here because of Durango: Wild Lands. Got me hooked on megalos now.
This video spends some time about the extinction of the species , and reasonably suggests that it was a cumulative effect of many causes, including humans. However, in discussing "the ice age", we should be clear that the entire Pleistocene was "the ice age" and glaciers advanced and retreated many times over a couple of million years, and so concurrently forestation would have changed many times during these changes in climate.
It is with the introduction of modern humans in Eurasia that the last glaciation was different than the previous glaciations. Given this, it is not unreasonable to suggest that the introduction of modern humans was the critical change in the environment of the deer.
@Maxx Kroes doubt it would be caused by wolves or any other natural predators.
@Maxx Kroes modern similar ungulates suffer a huge sexual selection. Only a few males reproduce in a year, an they only do it once or twice in their lifes. That means an entire generation can relly in very few males. Killing some of those males can lead to genetical depresion of entire populations very fast. If you ad on top, the low density population and the nutritional limitant factors of the megaloceros, plus the use of very diferent hunting tecniques of modern humans compared to the other predarors and maybe a trophy hunting motivation, it seems like hunting is a reasonable factor in their extintion. Very dificult to prove tho.
Watched this in the height of summer...... Now I can't wait for Santa.
I've always had a soft spot for the Irish elk.
Can you do an episode on the ground sloth I think it's meglotheriam ? .
Yeah Irish elk are awesome. Ground sloth = yes
The Megaloceros is my favorite prehistoric animal. Also the Ground Sloth is Megatherium, and I really wanna pet it.
Excellent
Wow, you are one of the few that truly understand this animal, for I have always thought that the black lines as you indicated were color breaks as you pointed out. Also, the black lines on the neck and head area are not black lines. But are a result of the rut as in most mature male deer, their neck swell, and these “black lines” are where the fur parts and at a distance give the appearance of a black line. Since the Irish Elk were related to the Fallow Deer and they in-turn are related to the Axis deer this extinct deer would have some features of these animal. I believe since they lived in a more open environment then most Ice Age deer (except Caribou/Reindeer) that their skin pattern would resemble a combination of a Caribou and Fallow deer. I have painted my version of this deer and would love to show it to you and get your opinion. I have hunted Caribou in the past and their coloration in the fall and winter are helpful in camouflaging these deer against there arctic environment. The only dark colored animals I came across where the musk oxen which are solid in color. But these animals are herd animals and form a defensive ring around the group to face predators, like perhaps the woolly mammoth and woolly rhino did. Deer tend to be more inclined to flee then stand and fight, that why it most important for their colorations to blend in with their environment especially in an open landscape. Since their large head gear would be easy for a hunter or predator to spot at a great distance putting all large males at a disadvantage and more subject to predation. I believe this contributed to their eventual extinction. I am an amateur fossil collector and I have many Irish elk fossils and original publications of this deer dating from the late 1880’s and 1920’s and have studied it for a very long time. Sending you a big Howdy from South Texas - Leo (my email address: umimak16@gmail.com)
this was great
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed. :)
Yeeeyyy! Fantastic video, it was interesting for me because I often see deer outside.
Glad you liked it! :)
Holly cow batman that is one big deer, I assume it would be bigger than a full size adult moose. Great video
I bet it taste delicious.
No.
My favorite deer!
What a colossal creature!
Funny, I always thought they looked more like giant caribou. It would be interesting if a DNA test could be done on them and find out.
Poachers and Trophy Hunters would be drooling by now
...and people who eat deer that they harvest.
Trophy hunters, while profoundly micropenised by definition, do far less to hurt endangered species numbers’ as weird Asian boner pills being made from grinding them up instead of mounting them on a plaque, although for surprisingly the same reason.
@@thefloridamanofytcomments5264 Found the trophy hunter.
A very nice video! :)
Thank you!
What killed the megabeasts (2002)
Before we Ruled The Earth (2003)
The bands being color/shading breaks in the pelt seems far more likely
hits-Yes?
This makes me want to play Skyrim.
Wow I never even Knew this existed
Glad you learned something new then! :)
Walking-with-Beasts-2001.
Love your realness!!!!!!
In Galizia, Spain, we have some prehistoric carvings on stone that depicts something like the Megaloceros and his collar-like pattern and 12 pointy ends on each antler (very big antlers). Everyone thought it has to do with a legend of a deer with a golden collar and a king of a tribe...but maybe it could be Megaloceros? We'll never know...
Maybe if you search "ciervo de Castromaior" you can find it
I hope someone can look for genetic material for this animal. The world was richer before we came along.
lol why does henry sound so much happier here
Makes one wonder what the bulls sounded like in the rut.
Megaloceros giganteus is more correctly called an irish deer as it is not closely related to the elk (Cervus canadensis), it belongs to the tribe Megalocerotini, which also contains the currently living chitals (genus Axis), hog deer (genus Hyelaphus), sika deer (genus Ocellelaphus), and fallow deer (genus Dama).
These need to be brought back to Yellowstone Park
I like playing Skyrim and there's Irish Elk in it it's cool at first I mistook them for moose since Irish Elk look like Moose and I wouldn't an Animated Kids Movie about Irish Elk too.
cool
If its closely related to red deer, then its closely related to wapiti as well, as the two can interbreed and hybridize, and the resulting hybrid is fully fertile.
Their size may indicate they could have been loners, if they only got together to mate, they could have been wiped out quickly.
They aren't too much larger than moose, so that point may very well be mute.
Henry the PaleoGuy not really, moose like wet areas, lots of water vegetation. They are loners and don't normally herd.
Conditions in the Glacial retreat were marked (ie sudden), if the huge antlers were key in attracting females, and suddenly the capacity to produce this growth of antler size abruptly vanished with some mineral leaching out of some essential transport medium, caused by higher annual flooding say, the women no longer saw eligible mature males the way their psyche had evolved to recognise visual cues of Megaloceros masculinity. Suddenly da boys could not score.
Unlike cattle. They gather in herds in stockyards for safety in numbers.
9:30 what Skrim mod is this?
18:31.
Megaloceros: *exists*
Grand Megaloceros: welcome to the grand fuselage
Newb megaloceros: *get noob meme*
They were actually carnivorous as well
Deer can be opportunistic eaters, but it's not a particularly unique trait. Quite a few species of animals, whether they are carnivorous or herbivorous, have shown to occasionally eat food that they normally never eat. My dog occasionally eats carrots and grass, as an example.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy dogs are omnivores most dogs eat anything.
You know that humans are about to revive these species
So they were bigger than moose? That’s incredible
I have a very large, atypical mule deer (Odocoileus hemionis) trophy which my husband shot in a certain area of Arizona, USA. He said all the deer in the area were large and many had larger antlers than the one he got. He said the reason for the large bucks with large antlers in this area was limestone which provided the calcium needed for antler growth. We also observed that many bucks in desert areas up and down the western U.S. had larger antlers than deer of the forest.
There are limestone deposits and limestone caves in Europe and Asia. Was there a change in availability of limestone rich areas which could have affected the Irish elk population? Or might these deer have obtained their calcium from mollusks on the sea shore? If the sea shores were drastically changed with rapid melt of ice age ice, might this deer have lost a source of calcium?
Whatever happened, it seems natural selection favoured smaller antlers.
On, Dasher! On, Dancer! On, Prancer, and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Dunder and Blixem!
On Ruldolph, and last but certainly not least.
On Megan the Megaloceros and journey to the east
Megalocerovania
have they ever found a set of fossilized
antlers from one of these things?
3:31
Quite a few. ROM has a complete skeleton. Unfortunately, their paleoanthropology displays disappeared several years ago.
"...closest living relatives more than likely the extinct....??" smh -_-
@Mairi Noir Calling something "the closest living relative" and reiterating with the word "extant" in the same sentence shows a lack of understanding.
It sounds like a child... "Jack climbed up the beanstock and saw the Big Super Huge Giant!"
Extant: means still existing or surviving🙂
@@amandah2490, I know the word but I heard extinct, just sayin. Shit sound quality makes for clouded information and poor videos, but you make a valid point.
@@sabastianlove1286 Accents and sound quality make a lot of difference to a video, that's for sure ☺
Is there a study of the function of the large antlers?
Comments gotta be mostly sexual selection, with added defensive benefits. Same as modern elk and deer
My favourite nz bird...
Wrong video lol
XD
Why are so many Pleistocene animals associated with caves?
Maybe it got preserved better in caves.
That is where they were eaten by cave dwellers mainly, like the Taung child.
That one depiction wasn’t a red deer it was a caribou
Megaloceros seems to apear in Princess Mononoke
Cave people with speers sure did not kill many of them.
I hunt deer and Elk and getting in range with a $2500 carbon fiber crossbow and killing one is a feat .
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Wait isn’t it pronounced Mega-low-ceros and not Mega-Loss-ceros? Have I been saying it wrong this whole time?
I was hoping this was a Skyrim mod showcase :(
Elk plus moose?
My favorite extinct animal - superhorned deer. He was making boast of his horns in front of females if only the handicap conception is right.
Huh.
Well wouldn’t that be an awesome rack to put on the wall
So the pokemon sawabuck is not so unrealistic
What are the chances of recovering DNA and reconstructing these animals?
Dude your voice sounds so much different then, what happened?
I got older, lol.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy man it has been four years since 2019…
*Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
Both are species of humans.
Good, video, had to stop halfway through due to the clicking mouth noises.
To bad they are extict
It's very unfortunate...
Sous français?
Christ makes life grand, dear 😁
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(Romans 10:9)
May God bless you!!
I just have to ask why on a video about an extinct elk
Armored Dragon GREAT question. Seeing this video about the grand deer who is no longer with us just got me thinking about the temporal nature of life. I mean one day you and I will no longer be here. Do we just disappear never to be seen or heard from again???
Well according to the Bible the answer is no. And just like we are now hearing the story of the grand deer, the story of our life continues to eco on. What kind of influence will we have had after its all said and done?
Historically speaking, the most impactful lives have been those who have taken this opportunity and used it for good. Christ can help us do that!
based and bread pilled
that aint the way you hunt deer, watch a hunter hunt with bow and arrow or an atlatl, you got a bunch of stuff right but you make us hunters look like shit, still good video.,.
Not worth taming
I am an expert paleontologist. I got my degree from video games.
I can confirm with my magical sexually attractive sciantific knowage that Megaloceros went extinct because only the males could gather anything, and only wood and thatch, and thus they starved to death.