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5 Things About Red Deer 1.The first deer appeared 50 million years ago. Eumeryx from Oligocene (35 million years ago) in Asia was devoid of antlers and had developed upper tusks, like modern day muntjacs. The first antlered deer appeared 20 MA ago: Dicroceros in Asia had simple antlers, forks on tall pivots. About 2 MA ago, when clime turne... 24 January 2008 16:53 GMT Deer Antlers for Regenerating Lost Limbs? Could you lose one hand and grow back another? Cut off your ears and regrow another pair? Humans cannot do this, deer neither, but they shed their antlers annually and regenerate others, even bigger and this could come with some explanations for us. And deer are closer to us than the limb regenerating salamanders."Th... 30 November 2007 09:56 GMT Hornier Means Hotter Scientists have tried to explain for quite some time now why male ungulates possess such large antlers and horns. When Charles Darwin emitted his famous theory of evolution and natural selection, he pointed out that the size of male ungulate antlers and horns signals a male's individual fitness, and thereby are ... 20 March 2007 09:50 GMT