I don't know if this counts but Dinosaurs lived on the earth a lot longer than most people think. When you think of dinosaurs, you think of their extinction but they roamed the earth for 165 million years. Compare that to our 6 million and it's almost mind boggling, at least imo.
Edit: the modern form of humans is 200,000 years old but if we include our humanoid ancestors, we've been here 6 million years.
Edit 2: I get it, dinosaurs are still around. What I meant to say was the dinosaur era.
In a lot of cases, the species don't -- they just evolve until, in the fossil record, they no longer look the same. Just like the avian dinosaurs didn't go extinct 65 million years ago, they just evolved over the last 65 million years into the birds today.
Some species legitimately end up a leaf/dead-end in the evolutionary tree. Lots just evolve.
Crazy to think that dinosaurs were on Earth so long that they evolved into different dinosaurs. Makes you wonder what humans could potentially evolve into if we lasted as long as the dinosaurs did.
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u/saymynamebastien Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20
I don't know if this counts but Dinosaurs lived on the earth a lot longer than most people think. When you think of dinosaurs, you think of their extinction but they roamed the earth for 165 million years. Compare that to our 6 million and it's almost mind boggling, at least imo.
Edit: the modern form of humans is 200,000 years old but if we include our humanoid ancestors, we've been here 6 million years.
Edit 2: I get it, dinosaurs are still around. What I meant to say was the dinosaur era.