• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      viruses, locusts… pretty much every plague that’s ever happened… brontosauruses started nesting in swamps and cause an ice age…

      but i mean, animals evolved to strike balances because animals that didn’t went extinct… so it must’ve happened many times before…

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        8 days ago

        The biggest differences is those changes occur over thousands if not millions of years thus giving time to species to adapt to new habitats. Many went extinct, but many more arose.

        What is devasting is rapid and immediate changes such as an asteroid impact, or volcanic eruption, or humans pumping trillions of tons of co2 while cutting down forests globally within a century.

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        8 days ago

        No, animals have not evolved to strike a balance in anyway, the eco system as a whole, possibly, but not animals on their own.