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[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

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