We can only guess what the future will look like. But the past? We have evidence to help us paint a picture of it. To visit it.
There's a cool subreddit called 'Nature Was Metal' and its members are like online paleontologists, digging around the internet in search of pictures of dinosaurs and other creatures that are now extinct.
Often, they find pretty good ones: photos of real uncovered skeletons or image projections, built around them.
This subreddit is like a time machine, which may not physically take us to visit the long-gone days, but it certainly allows us glimpses of it, and that can be just enough to please our burning curiosity.
#21 The Diversity Among Homo Erectus Around The World. Homo Erectus Existed For 1.9 Million Years And Was The Most Successful Human Species
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"The signs are already there for those willing to see them," Gee said. "When the habitat becomes degraded such that there are fewer resources to go around; when fertility starts to decline; when the birth rate sinks below the death rate; and when genetic resources are limited—the only way is down. The question is 'How fast?'"
The paleontologist suspects that the human population is set not just for shrinkage but collapse. I guess, time will show.
#27 Tail Of A 99m Yo Dinosaur, The First One Ever Discovered. Perfectly Preserved, Still Covered In Feathers
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#28 Had To Drive 14 Hours To Get Her, But I Finally Have My Little Own Coelophysis
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#29 Sue Is The Largest T.Rex To Be Found So Far, At 90% Of The Body Complete
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#32 An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago!
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#33 The World’s Only Intact Fossil Of An Early Whale - The Basilosaurus Dating About 40 Million Years Ago - Has Been Uncovered During A Excavation At Wadi Al-Hitan In Egypt
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#34 Cretan Dwarf Mammoth. It's Possible Its Skull Was The Origin Of The Myths About Cyclops In Ancient Times. (Not My Photo)
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#35 The Licking Bison Of La Madeleine Was Carved On A Reindeer Antler Fragment In Upper Paleolithic France Sometime Between 20,000 And 12,000 Years Ago. It Depicts The Now Extinct Steppe Bison
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#36 A Preserved Foot Of The Giant Moa Bird. An Extinct Species Native To New Zealand. It Grew To Be 12 Feet Tall
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#37 When Breeding, Australian Gastric-Brooding Frogs (Rheobatrachus) Would Stop Producing Gastric Acid, Swallow Their Eggs, And Carry Them In Their Stomachs Past Metamorphosis. Extinct Since 1985
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#38 100,000 Years Ago, A Group Of Neanderthals In Spain Walked Down To The Beach
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#39 An Argentinian Farmer Recently Found 20,000 Years Old Fossilized Glyptodons
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