I’ve seen this movie, it doesn’t particularly end well for us…
But seriously, I can not help but wonder at what types of artifacts and specimens have just been totally lost and will never be randomly found.
But seriously, I can not help but wonder at what types of artifacts and specimens have just been totally lost and will never be randomly found.
Cartilage-only fishes might have been abundant eons ago and they could be as big as a megalodon or even bigger. But because they didn't have teeth, we will never know of them...
A single cell organism somewhere might have hold a miraculous protein or enzyme that test the boundaries of physics or can cure cancer(s). But they are extinct now and we will never know of them.
An ancestor of the octopi might have developed intelligence and tool-making. But since we have no way to find records of their civilization, we will never know of them.
That is why an extinction of a species is so significant. It means they will disappear forever, never to reappear in the exact same form again. We will forever lose them and never know what secret they might have carried in their genome or biology or life.
And yet, there are species going extinct every single day, many of them are due to human...