Daily History Picture: Paleo Tines January 5, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures , trackback
When these animals were frightening. The intricacy and unreality of the horns…
Invisible, 8 Jan 2017: While the creature in the painting is a little Seussian, I don’t see that the horns are completely unrealistic. The Cincinnati Museum Center has a prehistoric elk skeleton that is utterly terrifying; the horns depicted aren’t that far from the genuine article. I think they took a pretty good stab at it. It’s hard to get a really accurate view while you’re running away.
CMC’s collections are not online, but here’s a comparable Irish Elk
