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hamburgheftig@feddit.org to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Giant eagles once ruled the skies. They snatched human children, and shaped our evolution

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Giant eagles once ruled the skies. They snatched human children, and shaped our evolution

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hamburgheftig@feddit.org to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years – and humans were among their prey.
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    Unpaywalled

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      uh? there is no paywall on the BBC. They might ask to get on a mailing list but just close the pop up

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        Weird how I’m seeing a paywall then. Maybe you don’t see one if you’re in the UK.

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          I’m in the US and I’m getting an uncloseable paywall once I scroll down a bit.

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            Weird, I’m also in the US and can read the entire thing.

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          It’s definitely done by country. I think North America is paywalled. It’s not paywalled in my country.

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      The real hero

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    THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

    GARD GARD GARD GARD

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    This is news to me. I was under the impression that humans don’t ever know to look up in most situations precisely because we never had any predators that hunt us from above. Therefore there wouldn’t have been evolutionary pressure to be wary of things above us.

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      What gave you that impression?

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        A pinecone once landed on my head on a hike

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        My gut and an 8 ball.

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    Gotta be honest, this sounds better than the world we currently live in.

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      Don’t be such a Doomer. There is plenty of good stuff in these times too. Like your mum not dying during childbirth and access to music over the internet.

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        apparently you’ve never met my mother.

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    Wow that’s crazy I didn’t know. Why don’t they teach this in schools??

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