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What’s the opposite of a dinosaur?

Published 26 Jun 2006

Joe uses “mammal”. I think if we mean it in an “age of” or when “blank ruled the earth” sense, it would have to be insects. Because as much as we mammals don’t like to admit it, the age we are living in now is the age of the insects.

Filed under Animalia, Ponderings, Science

Commentary

James John Malcolm (AkaXakA) writes

Jun 26 at 06:15 PM #

Bzzzzzt. Wrong answer Joe ;)

Anton writes

Jul 24 at 06:05 PM #

Doesn’t it really depend on what measurement is used? Sheer numbers aren’t everything, if that were the case, then it should really be called “age of the bacteria, or single-cell critters”.
If you measure by mass though, it probably comes out different, yeah?
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