Mac Tire, the son of the land as the wolf was referred to in Ireland. The last one was killed at the end of the 18th century. #extinctirishanimals #paleoart #irishwildlife
It seems that megaloceros’s search for calcium rich marl often led to stags becoming stuck. Oil on canvas #extinctirishanimals #extinctmegafauna #paleoart #irishwildlife
A hungry wolf pack would have struggled to bring down a giant deer, even a sick or injured animal. After Landseer. #extinctirishanimals #irishwildlife #extinction #paleoart #prehistoricanimals
Reindeer and spotted hyena aren’t likely to encounter one another these days but they did live together in the past. Their ranges overlapped in much of Europe, including Ireland. West Kerry #extinctirishanimals #irishwildlife #extinction #paleoart #prehistoricanimals
t must have taken a fair bit of effort for an aquatic tetrapod to make its way out of the water those many millions of years ago. #extinctirishanimals #irishwildlife #extinction #paleoart #prehistoricanimals
Fossil bones of what were probably Sarcosaurus and Scelidosaurus were found in Ireland in the 1980’s #dinosaur #extinctirishanimals #irishwildlife #extinction #rewilding #paleoart
