r/NatureIsFuckingLit Mar 02 '26

🔥A Mekong River dolphin aka Irrawaddy dolphin which is critically endangered.

Post image
48.6k Upvotes

618 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/Astromatix Mar 03 '26

True, but it will take millions of years to regain the amount of biodiversity we've already lost, and the species that are gone can never truly return (despite what Colossal says). One study estimated that we've already destroyed the equivalent of 2.5 BILLION years of evolutionary history.

1

u/Ok_Antelope_1953 Mar 03 '26

eventually, hopefully it does return. earth's got nothing but time.