What kinds of animals existed when the first human was made?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

So in my Bible it shows all of the modern day animals, but they didn’t occur for a while. And this didn’t happen in Heaven so I don’t think God made what they’d be in the future. Or they went from to what we know as modern, then to what we know as prehistoric, and then back.

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I shouldn’t been able to figure this out. “DAMMIT WILL”

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[OfDeath]

It's hard to pinpoint the first species which you could call humans. So if we just go with modern humans, they evolved somewhere between 250,000 and 130,000 years ago. So we would be talking about the Pleistocene epoch. In that time you had a lot of the same animals we have today but they were a lot more wide spread. For example, you had lions in Europe.

There were also other animals which have since gone extinct such as smilodon which you might know better as the saber toothed cat. There were bigger wolves, wooly mammoths, cave hyenas which were much larger than modern hyenas and in Australia there was even a kind of crocodile which could grow up to 23 feet long, had longer legs and hunted on land. This animal was still extant when humans reached Australia around 50,000 years ago.
Luckily, a 10 foot tall orangutan like creature called gigantopithicus is thought to have died out just as modern humans were branching off from their evolutionary ancestors. So on the journey from Africa to Australia, no human encountered such a horrid beast. However, other species of human such as homo erectus or Asian variations of it may have had the misfortune of encountering this monster.

So the world had a higher diversity of fauna around the time modern humans came about. Most of it died off due to changes in the Earth's climate but a lot of them are thought to have been hunted to extinction by humans themselves.

There is no evidence that any animal was created by a being from human imagination which has never been demonstrated to exist. That includes humans.

[TheSpaceGnome]

God and heaven aren't real.

The number of species that existed when humans first evolved is impossible to say because less than 1% of all species fossilize. But, the oldest known humanoid fossils found thus far that I've heard about, are about 7.20 million years old. So I guess you could look up whatever lived then, but a lot of it is going to be variants of what exists today but with different shapes and sizes added, and odds are the oldest homonid fossil is going to be quite a bit younger than the first homonids.

Also It's largely opinion as to what apes should be considered for the homo genus, as is the case for any genus, since species have no specific line in which one begins and another starts. For example, should it be Tarbosaurus bataar? or Tyrannosaurus bataar?

[jshm2]

You're confused.

Adam and Eve (technically the first humans) did not speak English or Hebrew. What animals existed then is largely immaterial. Mainly as just as Adam and Eve would not look like us today, so the animals back then would be very different to now.

[Anonymous]

God isn't real, so that is nothing to do with anything.

Humans, in their present form (Homo Sapian) have been around for about 300,000 years according to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human article in wikipedia but other sources may state different figures.

[OfDeath]

So they're saying 300,000 years ago now. I'll have to brush up on the latest discoveries.

Human evolution is such a fascinating subject.

[Opinion Owner]

@OfDeath I dont really know, I didn't look into it in any detail, I just did a quick fact check before I posted the figure i had in my head which was 50k years, though I now think that number was probably an estimate for when humans left Africa rather than when they first evolved to the current form.

Its like anything, how deep you go into it depends on how interested you are but as say this is an area in which we are still learning all the time and new information becomes available.

The specifics dont particularly matter, any honest attempt to guesstimate based on reality will always be infinitely superiour to any religious dogma.

[OfDeath]

Yeah I think they say there were multiple migrations now. The earliest possibly ~130,000 years ago for modern humans with further waves to come, with the largest being 70,000, 50,000 and 20,000 years ago. As you say these are all very approximate estimates but we now have archeogenitics to give us clues as well as the fossil record alone. They also believe there were much earlier migrations than that but the migrants were the ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals. This could've been anywhere from ~600,000 to 400,000 years ago. These migrations triggered the evolution of Neanderthals and Denisovans but homo erectus left even earlier than that, possibly over 1,000,000 years ago.

I shudder to think about the sorts of animals those early explorers had to contend with.

But yes, I read your source and it definitely backs 300,000 years ago for the approximate emergence of homo sapiens.

[Opinion Owner]

@OfDeath it is certainly strange and interesting to think about other human like peoples and what would be to us giant monsters but the threat is us, we are the monsters and we killed them all.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much what’s around now since dinosaurs existed before humans we wouldn’t be here if dinosaurs still existed that’s why we still have modern animals

[Hangry06]

Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, aves, other mammals

[tatianamay]

Fishes

[iBeowulf]

Yo mama?