• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    See the interesting thing is African megafauna evolved to be able to somewhat counterplay this, that’s why they ain’t extinct like megafauna everywhere else ended up going.

    The horse was indigenous to North America before it was hunted to extinction there, making the age of exploration inadvertently one of the first ever native species repopulation projects.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Been reading the “Deathworlders” novel. Earth is a Level-12 “deathworld”. Too impossibly dangerous for sentient life to evolve on a Level-10. Gravity, parasites, bacteria, fungi, viruses, predators, solar radiation, extreme heat and cold, tectonic activity, tornadoes, hurricanes, all that.

    Rest of the galaxy wrote us off as too dangerous to even investigate. And besides, there can’t be intelligent life there.

    https://deathworlders.com/

    Until Kevin chimps out on a space station…

    https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/

    Free book, kinda like a FOSS story, if you will, but not fan fiction either. Getting a little odd several thousand pages in, but I’m hanging in for the last 800 pages (out of 10,000+).

    Google “humans fuck yeah” or “HFY” for more fiction along these lines.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Apeman is the It Follows monster of the animal kingdom.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    You believe this shit? It’s all just a scam by the big museum of natural history. Wake up sheeple!

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think we ever successfully hunted, it was all Sarah Palin aliens hanging out their ufos with semi-auto plasma rifles.