• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There are no earthworms that used to be here; read the article.

    Admittedly I didn’t, because I already know this.

    But here you go:

    During the last ice age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago, a massive ice sheet covered what’s roughly the northern third of the continent. Scientists think that this most recent glaciation killed off the earthworms that may have inhabited the area.

    Only had to get to second paragraph…

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      6 months ago

      Yeah I was 100% wrong about it, I read the article for some weird reason as “northern North America” = “all of North America”. My apologies.