Genetic study shines light on Toronto’s ancient ‘subway deer’ | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ivan Semeniuk
Publication Date: October 9, 2025 - 21:54

Genetic study shines light on Toronto’s ancient ‘subway deer’

October 9, 2025

For visitors wandering among mastodon skeletons and other impressive remains from the Pleistocene epoch at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, a non-descript piece of cranium with broken stubs of antlers may not be the most arresting sight.

Yet the bony fragment inside the glass case is a tantalizing clue to the vanished world that once existed where the city stands today – a nascent wilderness that emerged from the frozen mantle of the ice age more than 11,000 years ago.



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