who@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1364arrow-down13cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldscience@lemmy.world
arrow-up1361arrow-down1external-linkNo, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinctionwww.newscientist.comwho@feddit.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldscience@lemmy.world
minus-squaremossberg590@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·1 month 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 month 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 month 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