Daily Dose of Prehistory: Back From Extinction 119
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Cervalces scotti, also known as the Stag-Moose, was an extinct species of cervid that lived in North America during the Late Pleistocene. As its name suggests, the Stag-moose had traits of both its relative the modern moose such as its size and proportions while having other features such as its muzzle resembled an elk and its antlers which, while palmate like moose, were more complex and more branching, ending up looking like a cross between the antlers of a moose and an elk. Like other megafauna, it went extinct around 12000 years ago. Of note was that it was first discovered in Big Bone Lick, the so-called "birthplace of American paleontology" in my home state of Kentucky.
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