Pleistocene Crash Course

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “and burn their chemically broken down remains for money.”

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blood for the Blood God!

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    • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Skulls for the skull throne!

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  • meteorswarm@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oil and coal are mostly algae and vascular plants!

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• akincisor@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The cause of the extinction of megafauna 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.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• crystal@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “non-Afroeurasian” - so American and Autralian?

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• Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This feels like a fascist meme.

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  • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ya… Cause we’re the fascists.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43426-5

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