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.
#41 A Rare Fossil: The Shell Of A Tortoise Stuck In The Jaw Of An Ancient Elephant

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#42 I See Your Various Well-Preserved Animals And Raise To You A Smushed Baby Mammoth (Credit Ruth Hartnup)

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#43 Prehistoric 'Hell Ant' Stuck In Amber Biting It's Prey For 99 Million Years

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#44 Livyatan Is An Extinct Genus Of Sperm Whale And Is Most Notable For Being A Member Of The Raptorial Sperm Whales (Hyper-Predatory Sperm Whales) And Having The Strongest Bite Of Any Tetrapod

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#45 This Was Toughie, The Last Known Living Rabbs' Fringe-Limbed Treefrog. He Was Captured As An Adult In Panama In 2005 And Died In Captivity On September 26, 2016

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