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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"and burn their chemically broken down remains for money."

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Norgur@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Skulls for the skull throne!

[–] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Oil and coal are mostly algae and vascular plants!

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

To be fair, we killed plenty of the Afro Eurasian animals too.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The cause of the extinction of megafauna in NA is actually quite debated, and while humans likely played a part it's also likely that changing climates played a major part in their extinction as well. I may or may not have just had an Archaeology exam recently. This definitely does apply to bison though.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

Humans just finished the job tbh, that's what the Nature article I linked implies iirc.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think it's necessarily because of humans that the woolly mammoths died out after the ice age either

[–] crystal@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"non-Afroeurasian" - so American and Autralian? (Or Ameritralian? Australican?)

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This feels like a fascist meme.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ya... That's because we're the fascists.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)