Why did the giant Irish deer (its horns were 3.6 meters across) go extinct (10,600 years ago)? Did humans hunt them to extinction? Did their horns get too big? Climate change (they died out right before the last major ice age)?
A new analysis of the deer's teeth suggests climate change did the massive creatures in. "As conditions became colder and drier in Ireland at the time, fewer plants grew, gradually starving the deer." (BBC)
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