Cervalces

Cervalces

The stag-moose or stag moose (Cervalces scotti) was a large, moose-like deer of North America of the Pleistocene epoch. It was slightly larger than the moose, with an elk-like head, long legs, and complex, palmate antlers. Cervalces reached 2.5 m (8.2 ft) in height and a weight of 708.5 kg (1,562 lb). The species went extinct approximately 11,500 years ago, toward the end of the most recent ice age, as part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals.

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