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TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s. (www.pbs.org)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I knew horses were brought over in the 1500s, but I didn’t realize they had previously been here! I wonder what the primary cause for extinction was- climate? Disease? Predators?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Not only had they previously been here, they evolved here first and migrated out through Siberia when it still connected the continents.

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