who@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1363arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1359arrow-down1external-linkNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comwho@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaremossberg590@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·12 days 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-up12·12 days 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-211 days 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