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TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s. (www.pbs.org)

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[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So death?

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

People. The secret ingredient is people. Pretty much any large species of mammal (or bird) that went extinct in the past 10.000 years or so was hunted to extinction.

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