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An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old

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Re: An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old

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They lost mainly due to climate change. Ice ages, all that stuff.

>They lost mainly due to... And in the case of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and cave bear, likely humans.

Which may be another reason to bring them back: They probably taste really good.

Re: An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>They lost mainly due to... And in the case of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and cave bear, likely humans.

Which may be another reason to bring them back: They probably taste really good.

>They probably taste really good.

Could be- Or they could have been a good investment for the ratio of effort to food gained. In the case of the cave bear it may have been a case of killing of creatures that could be predators when humans were not in a pack and competed for the same shelter sources.

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