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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? A species that was hunted to extinction after humans entered North America, and you think their ecological niche was eating humans?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They weren't hunted into extinction, their megafauna prey was. Humans outcompeted them