Megaloceros (literally meaning "great horn"), also called the European giant deer, is an extinct genus of deer whose members lived throughout Eurasia from the early Pliocene to the beginning of the Holocene and were important herbivores during the Ice Age. The largest and best known species, Megaloceros giganteus, was also vernacularly known as the "Irish elk" or "giant elk", although it was not an elk nor exclusively found in Ireland. Fallow deer are thought to be their closest living relatives. Megaloceros is part of the deer family which includes moose (Alces alces), elk (Cervus canadensis), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), and other cervids.
Megaloceros’ antlers could measure up to 3.65 meter (~12 feet) wide from tip to tip or about twice the size of a grown man.
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Games[]
Jurassic Park: Builder[]
In Jurassic Park: Builder, Megaloceros could be created in the Glacier Park section. It was usually the 3rd animal in the Glacier Park. In Malcolm's mission Home On The Range you had to move and level up the Megaloceros. In Kelly's mission This Modern Age you had to create a path to the Megaloceros.
Jurassic World: The Game[]
Megaloceros appears as a rare non-hybrid snow creature in Jurassic World: The Game. It can be fused with Paraceratherium to make the hybrid Indricoceros.
Jurassic World: Alive[]
Megaloceros appears as a rare resilient Cenozoic mammal in the game.