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Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.

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TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.

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Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago
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American Horses ~ Horses in North America: A Comeback Story | Blog | Nature | PBS
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Ancient horses roamed the North American continent for millions of years. And many, many years later, horses played an integral role in building the
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    The usual reason, probably.

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      So death?

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        People. The secret ingredient is people. Pretty much any large species of mammal (or bird) that went extinct in the past 10.000 years or so was hunted to extinction.

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