not really--Neanderthals were shorter than Anatomically Modern Humans, but were also tougher
Animals you wished didn’t go extinct (due to human contact)
- Thread starter GameBawesome
- Start date
-
- Tags
- animals extinct species
On average they were shorter and stockier than Paleolithic Homo sapiens, although in terms of height (not build), they were about on average with much later agricultural populations. They'd definitely be shorter than upper class Homo sapiens who enjoyed better nutrition.
Cro magnon where around 166 to 171 cm tall.
Neanderthals where around 150 to 175 cm tall
Cro magnon where what you would call modern humans from the same era.
I wouldn't call them dwarves more barrel chested tough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis homo heidelberg had specimen that where +180cm tall they had a pretty flat faces
One thing in watching this, you get that mammoths and giant camels and ground sloths would not do well in the city. But I could see thylacines if they hadn't been targeted and had a larger population adapting to Australian cities kinda like Coyotes. Passenger Pigeon similarly could do well in cities if they so weren't tasty.
I do enjoy fantasies of dropping some terror birds or a short-faced bear or two in the white house or on golf courses.
It amazes me that of all the animals we like to eat, nobody ever thought of at least breeding more passenger pigeons.
Crazy Boris
Banned
given how they used to be so common their flocks would practically block out the sun, I'm just guessing people assumed there would always be tons of them....until there all of a sudden wasn't
Right, but by the end it was obvious that the flocks were shrinking and God could actually allow animals to go extinct... and the answer was to shoot the last survivors while they still had the chance. I can't believe we share the same genes.
That was worse, because the express goal was extermination of the bison, as a way to force Native Americans onto reservations...At least the bison didn't go the same way.
This would butterfly me out of existence(I'm a New Zealander) but it would be a worthy sacrifice
Surely there's a timeline - however unlikely - that allows the Maori and local megabirds to share an island?
Crazy Boris
Banned
this is probably totally unrealistic but I just got the idea in my head of moa-mounted Maori cavalry
ALL megabirds? Almost certainly not. Some of the smaller species of moa, such as the upland one? Maybe.
Yeah, check this bull out for example:
There's still a lot of work left to be done, since this particular specimen's dewlap is still enormous, but the color pattern's perfect and I'm pretty sure the horn shape is too.
Crazy Boris
Banned
and while we're on the topic of breeding back...
I've been keeping up with the Quagga Project's progress on and off ever since I was a kid, and it's fantastic how close they are to recreating the subspecies.