Fishermen Caught a 10,500-Year-Old Giant Irish Elk Skull—Antlers and All
The Irish elk ( megaloceros giganteus ) has been nonextant in Ireland for about 10,500 year . So you could imagine how surprised two fishermen were when they draw up their net and discovered a prehistorical elk skull — with antlers attached — as their taking into custody of the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . AsSmithsonianreports , Raymond McElroy and Charlie Coyle were fishing in Ireland ’s Lough Neagh , a lake near the town of Ardboe , when they thought their net had snagged on a art object of driftwood ....