In 2012, work on the construction of a reservoir and dam for the Boguchany hydroelectric station on the Angara River, in Eastern Siberia, uncovered more bones, including six joint neck vertebrae.Īt the site of Sosnovy Tushamsky, located on a large island in the main channel of the Angara, six more bones were found. The srawing comparing the skeletons of the Giant deer and modern man. The main cultural remains from these sites are associated with the Bronze Age which is dated to no older than about 4500 years ago. Now examinations of other bones and fossils found in Siberia have confirmed that theory and revealed that the Irish Elk survived long after the Ice Age far from its European home.Īmong the remains found over the past 15 years are: 1) fragment of antler discovered at the Sopka 2 ancient cemetery in Baraba steppe, in Western Siberia, and 2) a complete upper jaw with teeth in a burial ground called Preobrazhenka 6 in the same region. This unexpected result was subsequently published in Nature by A.J. In 2004, a British-Russian team of scientists analysed the remains of a deer found in 1886, about 130km east of Ekaterinburg in the Trans-Urals region, and said they believed this animal dated back to 7,500 years. Yaroslav Kuzmin and the skeleton of the deer dated back to 7,500 year in the Ekaterinburg Nature Museum. The emergence of an unknown population of giant deer across Siberia thousands of years after the species was said to have died in this region has come from the discovery of remains in various parts of the western and eastern Siberia. 'But now we have confirmed that there were at least two habitats: the European and Siberian.' Stuart (now at Durham University, UK) and his colleagues. The last 'stronghold' of giant deer was identified in the Trans-Urals region of Asia, where it lived until 7,500 years ago, as it was published in one of the top scientific journals, Nature, in 2004, by Dr Anthony J. It was also known that about 10,300 years ago in Western and Northern Europe, including the British Isles and Scandinavia, existed one of the last habitats of the deer. 'Previously we knew that the habitat of giant deer was dramatically reduced from about 12,000 years ago. Numbers next to black-and-white circles indicate the youngest calibrated dates (median values, rounded to the next 10 years) for giant deer remains. Picture: Yaroslav Kuzminĭr Yaroslav Kuzmin, a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy in Novosibirsk, Russia, said: 'We can today significantly update the model of the final extinction of the giant deer. The development comes following analysis of fossils found at various locations in Siberia.Įarly Holocene refugia of giant deer in Eurasia. Indeed, in an article published in the highly-ranked scientific journal, Quaternary Science Reviews, the experts have extended the early Holocene habitat of the animal at least 2,400km to the east. However now new data suggests not only did they live longer than that, but also survived in Siberia in the Holocene Era, about 9,000 years ago, much further than anyone ever knew. It had been previously thought that this animal, also known as the Irish Elk, a massive creature that stood 7ft (2 meters) tall and had antlers up to 10ft (up to 3.5 meters) wide, all but died out at around the time of the end of last Ice Age about 10,300 years ago.ĭistinctive animals because of their sheer size, they first appeared 400,000 years ago and were common in Ireland, Britain, and mainland Europe and Asia. It had been previously thought that this animal, also known as the Irish Elk all but died out at around the time of the end of last Ice Age about 10,300 years ago. Picture: The Siberian TimesĪ team of Siberian scientists is among those that have contributed to breakthrough research on the extinction of a giant deer that once roamed the Earth.
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