Horses are not considered part of the mega fauna. Mastodons, ground sloths, giant buffalo were not wiped out by humans.
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Horses where hunted on both continents but went extinct in the new world but not in the old world. Interesting all by itself.
I hear you. As a rule of thumb, with respect to extinction, it seems that mega fauna is loosely defined as animals over about a 100lbs. I hear that cited over and over when listening to lectures on the Younger Dryas Period. In that definition Cliffy, you & I would be considered mega fauna.
The geneticists think that it was a close call in Eurasia as there are no horses alive today from anywhere that don't carry the genetic markers of of the very early domesticated horses they've examined. The horse as we know it is a man-my Ade animal. We et the wild ones long ago.
We are not separate from nature, we are nature.
...Except, of course, for DaSchlepper when he's trolling. He's unnatural.
Let's see now. Since you're the climate change denier who believes that the World is cooling down, I suppose you think that there are more species than ever on Earth and they're increasing in numbers everyday?
They're going like gangbusters, right now. The last time an event like this happened was 65 million years ago ... they come, they go.
And they came back with humans in the fold, maybe mother nature decided to add humans to warm the planet spill carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to grow bigger and stronger plants to feed the next series of mammals to inhabit the planet? lol