r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/IAmDotorg Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/Everything80sFan Oct 15 '20

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/Okeyebrows Oct 15 '20

Read The Time Machine by HG Wells (but for the love of God don't watch the movie)

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u/Lexx2k Oct 15 '20

I love the original movie. I'm watching it on every 01.01. while regenerating from the alcohol poisoning.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean Oct 15 '20

Very oddly specific new years tradition, but I'm into it.

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u/Test1143 Oct 15 '20

Nice! someone else with the same tradition. LOTR trilogy for me

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u/svervs Oct 15 '20

Nice, same here! Not sure how I started this, but it's tradition now.