Sentences with phrase «giant deer»

The Tübingen scientists compiled a dataset from the mtDNA of 44 modern deer species and the two giant deer individuals dating from the late Ice Age in order to reconstruct a family tree.

The researchers found hippo fossils at the Pakefield site, as well as fossils of other warmth - loving species such as lion, an extinct giant deer called Megaloceros dawkinsi and Palaeoloxodon antiquus, an extinct straight - tusked elephant.

This is a fun and frivolous piece of art — it's pink and papery and is a real giant deer piñata.

There were also fairly large losses in Europe and Asia, including a number of elephants, rhinoceroses and giant deer.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

The competition with other species and additional hunting by humans likely affected the giant deer and finally led to the extinction of these imposing animals.

«Giant deer were still present in Southern Germany after Ice Age.»

For example, in the constellation Hercules, exoplanets would be named after the Greek hero's 12 labors, which included capturing the giant deer Cerenytis (now 14 Her b) and killing the man - eating birds of Stymphalia (HD 155358 c).

It emerged that the fallow deer is the closest living relative of the giant deer.

Studies in the past did not provide any clear results about which of today's deer are the closest relatives of the giant deer either.

Comparison of a tibia from an elk (below), giant deer (middle) and the tibia fragment of the giant deer from the Hohlenstein - Stadel cave (above).

They include the giant deer, which populated huge areas of Eurasia during the Ice Age.

«It's not easy to distinguish between an elk and a giant deer using the morphology of small bone fragments.

The reconstruction of the mtDNA by Johannes Krause and his team from the Institute for Archaeological Sciences in Tuebingen and the subsequent genetic analysis of the DNA have demonstrated, however, that the findings were bones from Megaloceros giganteus, the giant deer.

The mass extinction at the end of the last Ice Age led to the disappearance of many animal species including the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, cave bears and the Megaloceros, also known as the giant deer or Irish elk, which could weigh as much as 1.5 tons.

The scientists believe that giant deers had to share their habitat and their food with other species of deer after the last Ice Age.

It was generally accepted that the giant deer had become extinct in this region and in the whole of Central Europe after the climax of the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago.

«It was speculated on the basis of the physical size that the red deer was most closely related to the giant deer; but we can clearly reject this hypothesis with our study,» says Alexander Immel, a member of Krause's team.

They compared the carbon - 13 and nitrogen - 15 values in the giant deer bones from the Swabian Alb caves with those of red deer, other giant deer and reindeer, which were living at the beginning and the end of the last glacial period.

In addition the antlers of the giant deer, which measured up to 3.40 meters across, were little suited to life in Europe, which was increasingly becoming forested.

There could be many more bones, which we previously attributed to the elk, but which really come from giant deer,» says Johannes Krause.

The animals Neanderthals hunted — mostly bison and giant deer — died off from extreme climate change.

The paleontological record also shows that there were species that once lived on the islands like the pygmy mammoth and the giant deer mouse, which are now extinct.

Over time some of these species have evolved into new species, and are present today, while others, like the pygmy mammoth, the Santa Barbara Island song sparrow, and the giant deer mouse, evolved into unique island species before becoming extinct.

Let me make it clear that I don't personally weigh 225 pounds at 5» 2 inches tall but just in case I want to wrestle a giant deer head or some other humongous thing up this ladder with me, I will be all set.

I can sometimes sneak a little bunny or birdie in, but if I went too crazy with them and hung sweet things all over the house, he'd want to hang some giant deer head over the fireplace to balance out the cute.