Dave Hone

I'm sure a few of those patches had some dinosaurs in them, but it is ultimately what killed them.

It's happened.

Look at Australia.

You know, the marsupials have done pretty well there for a very long time.

You can imagine if the next mass extinction happened,

you know, flattens a large chunk of Indonesia, for example, kangaroos could island hop pretty easily, make it to mainland Asia.

I mean, that's extraordinarily unlikely because once your population's been crashed like that, you do have the problems of things like inbreeding or maybe you're a great specialist to a certain area or you're surviving because you're isolated.

You're in a valley or you're on an island and then dispersing again becomes really or breaking out into those areas becomes much, much harder.

Yeah.

Because, because you've still had the extinction event and the environment is no longer what it was that you evolved into.

Um, and when, once those systems start to recover, those other animals are going to adapt much better to them.

I mean, at one level, I probably wouldn't be here if it hadn't.

I mean, my guess is probably not.

I don't think it's quite the, what was it?

Simon Conway Morris had that book, Inevitability of Man, that even if you rewound it, everything would come back.

I'm not,

I don't think it's that far.

I certainly don't think it's anything quite like the butterfly effect of, you know, if one mammal had been trodden on by one T-Rex, then humans would never have evolved either.

Yes, Scandentia, I think it's the group.

Basically, they're rodents.