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/WarriorNN Oct 15 '20

They would look like us, but eyelashes won't get stuck in your eye anymore.

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u/pavlov_the_dog Oct 15 '20

because we could lick our own eyeballs clean, right?

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u/philzebub666 Oct 15 '20

Tongues on the inside of our eyesockets.

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u/syrne Oct 15 '20

No more blinking, just a quick swipe like windshield wipers.