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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)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Environmental changes. Got it.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I guess everything is an environmental change. Meteor does are just a very rapid environmental change. Bullets: highly localized change in environment.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My point is that humans hunting is barely a blipp on the radar on a larger scale. Like that time 70-80% of all species on this planet went extinct and people still argue about why.

People have this weird view of nature having equilibrium or balance. It never has and never will. Nature is constantly changing whether we are here or not. We mostly notice when our prey animals die out.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Definitely people think nature is an equilibrium when it's actually very dynamic.

But also humans change their environments a lot. Even North America's first nations.