I want to make sure first, otherwise they will laugh at me and then they will not take me seriously. And besides I do not trust them completely, they can destroy the evidence if they have corrupt connections.
Dude.............there are deer all over N. America. I grew up in Montana, and deer and elk were main staples for meat. And, if you are out on the plains, a lot of antelope are out there. Matter of fact, I just moved here to S. Carolina (around 40 miles N. of Columbia), and my future father in law and I killed and butchered 3 deer last season, all of them were bagged on his property (around 15 acres), and they were all shot close to the house (no more than 100 yards away). Now that it's gardening season, we have to figure out ways to keep the deer out of the garden. What part of the country are you in that there is no deer? I thought everywhere that had some kind of forest had deer in it. If you are thinking about tundra dwelling animals, maybe you were thinking of reindeer, which is just a different (larger) breed of deer.
Almost certainly what it is. The position of the hip socket is for an animal that walks on all fours, not upright.
Yes, I apparently confuse deer with reindeer. I am from the Russian Federation. Elks live in our forest-steppe zone, I have never met deer in the steppe and forest-steppe, although theoretically this niche should suit them, places where there is a lot of grass and cereals.
Almost certainly a deer. It's too big for a dog or a coyote, IMO. What else? Baby bear?
I said "could possibly be." "Could possibly be" cannot be disproved.
The "missing link" term is one used exclusively by the extremist creation ministries, especially as it applies to transitional forms depicting human anatomy. There is no single "missing link" that if discovered would describe either human or animal evolution. That is silly. There are transitional, or intermediate fossils describing enomous varieties of humans and animals at every major museum of natural history, and most smaller ones as well.
