who@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1364arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1361arrow-down1external-linkNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comwho@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaremossberg590@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·1 year agoTheir “ecological niche” was eating us. We wiped them out or made them into pets. No need to bring them back!
minus-squareWoodScientist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoReally? A species that was hunted to extinction after humans entered North America, and you think their ecological niche was eating humans?
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoThey weren’t hunted into extinction, their megafauna prey was. Humans outcompeted them
Their “ecological niche” was eating us. We wiped them out or made them into pets. No need to bring them back!
Really? A species that was hunted to extinction after humans entered North America, and you think their ecological niche was eating humans?
They weren’t hunted into extinction, their megafauna prey was. Humans outcompeted them