article_snippet: But scientists have discovered that Irish elk lived on in Siberia for around 2,000 years after Irish elk was presumed scientists had gone extinct.
article_snippet: Scientists have discovered that Irish elk lived on in Siberia for around 2,000 years after Irish elk was presumed to have become extinct.
article_snippet: The Siberian Times was thought that the last habitat of the species was in western and north Europe, including the British Isles and Scandinavia, 10,300 years ago (marked on the map at 1), but new analysis has shown that another population lived on in Western Siberia between 8,800 and 7,900 years ago (marked at 3)
article_snippet: It was also known that the last habitat of the species in western and north Europe, including the British Isles and Scandinavia, was about 10,300 years ago.
article_snippet: But now we have shown that there were at least two habitats: the European and Siberian.
article_snippet: It means the Irish elk, presumed to have become extinct in Europe, was alive and well in Siberia thousands of years later.
article_snippet: Dr Kuzmin said: ‘We do not know if the Siberian habitat was continuous or consisted of two separate sub-habitats: one in central Western Siberia and the Trans-Urals, and a second one in the middle course of the Angara River.
highlights_snippet: Fossils reveal Irish elk lived on in Siberia for around 2,000 years afterwards .
  