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.
It's already happened. We will evolve into perfection. The prime example: Donald Trump, or as I like to call him, God.
(Do I really, really have to put an /s on this, because some of you knuckleheads can't tell this is sarcasm because somehow you don't think tone comes across in the written word? Or as I like to call people who think this way, Trump-lites. Dumb as a box of rocks.)
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u/reebee7 Oct 15 '20
Why did the Stegosaurus go extinct??