Today we call it the Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus. The biggest males weighed 1,500 pounds, about the same as an Alaskan moose, and they sported the largest antlers the world has ever known ...

Potter Park Zoo announced Thursday that its bull, Emmett, had shed his rack. The Facebook post includes a photo of five ...

Casey Brooks may have killed the biggest non-typical elk ever. According to an Instagram ... thinking its sheer body size made the antlers appear smaller than they actually were.

Elk are the largest land mammals in the state. Males weigh around 700 pounds and can sport antlers up to five feet wide. More than 200 years after elk disappeared from North Carolina's mountains ...