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NEW YORK CITY, United States — The American Museum of Natural History displays this impressive Megaloceros giganteus (Irish Elk) skeleton in the transition between the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing and the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives. Collected from a peat bog near Limerick, Ireland, and gifted to the museum by Albert S. Bickmore in 1872, this specimen represents one of the last populations of this species that lived approximately 11,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene era. Despite its common name, this extinct giant deer was widely distributed across E
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