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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by maxerickson on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:05PM (#35722429)
Large land animals only really survive in Africa, where they evolved alongside early hominids. Everywhere else they got slaughtered.
Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by CyberDildonics on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:11PM (#35737080)
What about elephants, grizzly bears and polar bears?
Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by dredmorbius on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:22AM (#35738085)
Wrong end of the viewscope. You're considering what's survived. Those are largely exceptions.

What's gone extinct: Virtually all of South America's marsupial megafauna (much of this prior to the arrival of humans, triggered by the rising of the central American ithsmus), mammoths, mastodons, native horses (the species was reintroduced by Europeans), giant ground sloth (Megalonyx), short-faced bears, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, tapirs, peccaries, giant tortoises, the American lion, Miracinonyx (the American cheetah), siaga antelope, several species of llamas, Camelops (a giant camel), and more, all in North America alone. Very nearly the American bison ("buffalo") and California condor, amongst others.

In Europe there were also several species of mammoth and mastodons, native straight-tusked elephants, lions, cave bear, Irish elk, woolly rhinocerous, aurochs, and more.

Australia saw two phases of human-driven extinctions, one triggered by the aboriginies roughly 50kya, the second by Europeans, beginning about 250 years ago.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_animals...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna>

Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by CyberDildonics on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:58AM (#35740204)
You're considering what's survived.

It was about what has survived

Large land animals only really survive in Africa

Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by dredmorbius on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:40PM (#35747421)
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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by CyberDildonics on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:58AM (#35752107)
tl;dr?