Was watching a nature documentary this morning on the last ice age. Notable species like the woolly rhino and mammoth. And it got me thinking. Dinosaurs ruled the planet for over 100 million years, until they died out at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago. Just 15,000 years ago or there about the woolly rhino and mammoth died out. Today we have 2 living species of elephant (3 if you include the African forest subspecies) and several rhino species (black, white, javan rhino and more). Then of course there's the mass millions and billions of other types of animals/plants/fungi/bacteria/etc.

From dinosaurs to what we have today in 65 million years. 65 million years of evolution, tampered only by nature itself. Countless species that existed which we'll never discover, species that we have yet to discover both alive and fossilized. But how is the evolutionary process going to go now that humans have 'terraformed' the lands to the detriment of nature itself. How have we interrupted the evolutionary path of countless species? The climates will undoubtedly change again as they have through geological time.

Food for thought. Damn I'm in a deep thinking mood today.