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Irish elk: the giant deer that towered over humans and went extinct 8,000 years ago
This photo shows how gigantic an Irish Elk looks compared to two humans. Megaloceros giganteus - literally "giant horn" - is ...
Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...
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Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may have hopped—despite weighing up to 550 pounds
For many people, thinking of Ice Age animals evokes images of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. But in ...
Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...
Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...
Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...
Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.
Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
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