Extinction

[Evanescent]

Of the estimated 500 million species of plants and animals that have existed since life began on earth, only about 2 million are here today. This means that about 99.5 percent of all species have become extinct."

[Kevyboy]

Umm not to sound rude or anything but what is your point with the whole extinction thing apart from alot of species have died????

[Evanescent]

I am just saying when its put in numbers it sounds like a lot more. And its something to think about. By no means am i a tree hugger i kind of despise the sort, its just a big fact.

[Je33ica]

Well, there are millions of bug species... and there are all the animals that died in prehistoric times because they couldn't adapt or whatever the hell happened... It's still sad though

[Alric]

Well if you consider how long the planet has been around it isn't as bad as it sound.

[gameover]

Why is it sad or bad at all? It's just how things are. Nothing lasts forever. Time moves mountains.

[Awaken]

Extinction is a natural process of the Universe. Humans will be extinct some day too.

[Evanescent]

Yes i know, jesus i wasn't saying"Go save the damned things"

[gameover]

I wasnt even commenting on you, but on those comments on what you said. YOu simply stated a fact not an opinion.

[Alric]

I kind of wonder how many people did kill. Humans are like their own personal natural disaster when it comes to the extinction of animals.

[Awaken]

And I was just making an observation, evanescent - were you responding to me?

[Evanescent]

More or less just kevyboy.

[gameover]

Yeah...he said "not to sound rude" but he did, and pretty much didnt make sense. WHats the point?....well whats the point of anything. Its an interesting fact.

[Awaken]

Agreed. I had no idea the earth had that many species!

[Kaniaz]

There are 100 new unidentified ones in, say, a ball of mud. Go facts.

[Awaken]

Yeah well no one cares about those species I suppose

[nightowl]

i wonder how many species humanity has doomed....

[AcidBasick]

Deep Time Flash Every fifty million years or so there has been a mass extinction. Probably caused by any number of events including large space debris, climate change, large scale natural disasters such as volcano erruptions, and perhaps natural predatation. What is also interesting about that above chart is that on the time scale we have been here for a very short amount of time; only about twenty four million years. Compared to the four thousand five hundred and fifty years that the earth has been around that is a relatively short existience. It makes you wonder a bit if there was intelligent life before humans. After all, intelligence has been theorized to be an adaptation of animals; much in the same way that animals use camoflauge, flight, or any such other means to escape predatation. However, mostly that theory is used to place intelligent life on other planets.

[Belisarius]

Humanity has doomed a few. We've doomed an insignificant ammount of species. Many of the species were important to ecosystems and caused more damage, and many of them were big and had fur, but we are the most important and significant animal yet.