10,500-year-old extinct Great Irish Elk skull and antlers found in lake

A fisherman in Ardboe, a small village in Ireland, discovered the skull and antler remains of an extinct Great Irish Elk, a creature that hasn’t roamed the Irish landscape in thousands of years. Though this isn’t the oldest Great Irish Elk discovery — that distinction goes to one dated around 14,000-years-old — it is far more notable: the massive skull …