Get the facts on Europe's biggest ever deer and discover why it's sometimes called the Irish elk. More than 20,000 years ago, early humans were drawing giant deer on the walls of caves in what is now ...

The Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus, ranged across northern Eurasia from Siberia to Ireland and shed its giant antlers every year. It is on display in the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep ...

Butte Elks Lodge #240 constructed a 62-foot-tall elk for its National Elks Convention that was held in Butte in July 1916.