• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The last American lions died out here about 13 thousand years ago. There was all kinds of wild-ass shit roaming around here back then. Humans have been wrecking the world’s ecosystems far before the industrial revolution, we just kicked it into overdrive the past 200 years.

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      15 hours ago

      It was about 25% larger than the modern lion, making it one of the largest known felids to ever exist, and an important apex predator.

      That would be effective to get attention.