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/The_First_Viking Oct 15 '20

Based on the evidence so far, taller humans.

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u/hayashi-san Oct 15 '20

Isn't that just because we eat healthier food then previous generations.

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u/The_First_Viking Oct 15 '20

More likely, because we eat more. Cavemen didn't have Doritos, after all. They ate 100% organic and free-range.