Spotted hyena found in Egypt in 5k years
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·January 31, 2025slwvx
...for the FIRST TIME in 5k...
Article title: "Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the FIRST TIME in 5,000 years"
danpalmer
Indeed, I can't imagine these will still be around in Egypt in 5000 years time as the HN post title currently suggests.
colechristensen
The earth was actually cooling starting about 5000 years ago until whenever carbon emissions started having their effect ~100 years ago. Between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago the Sahara was green. I wonder if this is a little taste of what's to come.
culi
The Sahara is on a regular-ish cycle going from green to desert about every 30k years. It's had multiple green eras. The last one is called the African humid period
irthomasthomas
There where warm periods, called intra-glacials in the bronze age, the late Roman, and the middle-ages.
TacticalCoder
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seems like there are lots of stories like this. X creature, not seen in ages found again.
Could it be genetic engineering. Some prankster billionaires scientist wanting to repopulate the world?
Or are we just getting better at finding them with more tools. (better camera traps, drones, data mining tools with AI?)
I'm curious, does anyone know? Is my billionaire prankster concept plausible? or totally implausible?