/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>1161242

THESE. Very true, in fact it's crazy to sometimes think that we have actually had 5 mass extinctions on our planet. That's 5 times when life was nearly completely wiped out. The last one is the one most people know about and without it dinosaurs may still be roaming as the dominant species but the ones preceding it were even more devastating and killed off the greatest biodiversity of them all. Forget scales versus fur, these fucking organism didn't even have eyeballs, something a staple with most animals. Even insects have them. The would would be unrecognizable without all five of those mass extinctions.

I more or less wonder what the world would evolve into after humans and our massive influence on the world suddenly and spontaneously disappears for famine, disease, or pollution. Fast forward a few million years and we might have something of a worldwide insect dominating planet.