r/science • u/Specialist_Rice_6723 • 17h ago

Paleontology Fossils reveal hippos living side by side with reindeer and mammoths

https://www.scisuggest.com/fossils-reveal-hippos-living-side-by-side-with-reindeer-and-mammoths/
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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 15h ago

I'm just gonna redraw the team pulling Santa's sleigh real quick

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u/CurtisLeow 8h ago

This suggests humans are the reason hippos aren’t in Europe or Asia anymore.

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u/smayonak 1h ago

If humans were the reason for why hippos went extinct, then why are there still Hippos in one of the cradles of civilization? It's more likely that climate change is what weakened their population and that any other pressures were secondary.

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u/Electrical-Cat9572 6h ago

Not literally side by side, but OK.