This is my theory. Once humans go extinct, crows and parrots will become the dominant species of the planet. They will eventually learn how to use/produce fire, and they will evolve to have small hands at the end of their wings (like the ones pterodactyls had) so they could be more proficient at making and using tools. They might also lose their ability to fly, and they will likely evolve much faster technologically if they'll have access to the research left by humans. Lastly, the two species will either evolve together, or one of them will end up like the Neanderthals and go extinct, while the other one takes over the world.
>>4906380you realize crows and parrots were here like 50 million years before humans came along and never evolved any of that right?
>>4906380>aislop
>>4906380Technological civilization is not inevitable.We are likely to not be replaced if we die
Birds are literally a dead end path. They gave up their hands for wings and thus, just like dolphins will never manage to amount to anything. You're literally out of your god damn mind if you think anything other than another ape, will actually achieve anything.
>>4906380The correct answer is otters. They can use tools, can learn new behaviors by observation, can navigate both land and water, and are large enough to defend themselves in groups but small enough to hide in burrows when necessary.>humans, having made land uninhabitable, choose sea otters as their successors and, to help them evolve, erect beach monoliths bearing all knowledge condensed to equations. The narrator watches an otter come ashore and scratch at one. Examining it afterward, he finds some equations corrected and new ones added.https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171003/older-sf-story-about-sea-otters-monoliths-and-equations
>>4906422holy based
>>4906489Holy shit Matt and Trey were right
>>4906617Their tiny ears are so cute
>>4906617Matt and Trey were correct about many things
>>4906380There won't be another "human-like" animal with our level of intelligence after us, just like there won't be another "dinosaur-like" land animal the size of Argentinosaurus after the asteroid.
>>4906489>burrowsDo sea otters ever burrow? There were people who were skeptical about calling them mustelids because they never saw a sea otter burrow
>>4908741Sea otters can spend their entire lives in water and rarely if ever need to go on land, so it's hard to say. Unlike other marine mammals, sea otters still have paws with semi-retractable nails on their forelimbs, like foxes do, so they should be capable of digging soil if necessary.
>>4906380scorpions will rule the earth, they did it once, they'll do it again now that their enemies are dead.the countdown already started
