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Re:That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old by colechristensen on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:35PM (#33167246)
We don’t eat land predators, generally, and most of the biomass lots happened much earlier with the spread of humans, i.e. 500 to 20,000 years ago.

Most of the worlds land megafauna are gone because big slow things are really easy to kill for groups of primitive humans with pointy sticks.

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Re:That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old by chucksta on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:21AM (#33190595)
There are certainly more recent records.. https://www.businessinsider.com/skulls-photo-american-bison-...

>In 1800, it was estimated there were forty million bison, by 1883, there were few wild bison in the United States - most were in Yellowstone National Park. By 1900, there were less than a thousand left in North America.

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