[L98Fiero]

"of course you have absolute proof of this, right? Public school, right?"

Questioning and then insulting before you had the answer was not really wise. Kind of snotty, actually. Private school, right? ;-)

"In the late Pleistocene (~10,000 years ago), there was a rash of extinctions that wiped out most of the large mammals in North and South America . All the horses of North and South America died out, along with the mammoths and saber-tooth tigers. These extinctions seem to have been caused by a combination of climatic changes and overhunting by humans, who had just reached these continents. For the first time in tens of millions of years, there were no equids in the Americas."

http://www.fs.fed.us/rangelands/ecology/wildhorseburro/whb_faqs.shtml

[fish hawk]

My "public school, right?" may be taken as an insult or not. Public schools teach a lot of things that have been theory for a hundred years or more without any proof. Even if the Indians killed horses for food is no reason to state the the Indians killed off the horses. It was pretty easy to discover the earth travels around the sun but to state things that can not be known is often ridiculous. I went to public schools and I know a lot of things now that is not what those teachers were telling me back then.

A few years ago it was taught that the third whale with a mother and baby Humpback was a "nanny" female whale. It turns out they are males. Also , the Humpbacks are "gentle giants". Now they know that they fight like hell over the females at mating season, often bloodying the waters. And on top of that, are they not still teaching that man evolved from a monkey?

[xcamel]

..about the same time humans prefected "Bravo Sierra"