After Human Existance?

Question

If humans become extinct, what do you think will be the next dominant life form on this planet earth?

Answer 1

Well, if humans were to just all of a sudden dissappear, there would be a "power vacuum" and the next most dominant species would probally take our place, namley ones that we are currently required to control, such as insects and rodents. They reproduce quickly, and are much more suited to living in conditions where food is scarce and climate unfavorable than we are.

It depends on how we go out.
-Nuclear fallout: cockroaches and such
-Meteor (or other such disaster to cool the planet for a prolonged period): We probally wouldn't go "out", but we would be overrun with small rodents probally.
-Natural extinction (the gradual depletion of our species): it would probally be insects and rodents.

There are other ways, but these seem the only ways to absolutley annhilate the human species.

Ocean going creatures would probally just have a general rise in populations of animals that are currently being harvested, and as far as a dominant sea going creature goes, the "balance of power" would probally remain much the same as it is now.

Answer 2

There will be no one dominant lifeform for the simple fact that you have aquatic animals as well as land animals.....nature would take over and resume what it did before man came along
Unfortunately even that will come to end eventually, in case you didn't know the moon is moving away from the earth at a rate of 1/2 inch a yr. They Don't know how long, but eventually when the moon gets farther away it will affect the earths gravity and instead of a 23degree axis the earth will gradually tilt to as far as 90 degrees axis causing global disaster

Answer 3

Humans are too diverse and ubiquitous to become extinct without completely wiping out the planet. If that were to happen, probably some kind of insect might survive.

Answer 4

It won't happen for this earth was created by God for humans and neither will mankind destroy the earth for It was created by God, you can't for a minute imagine that anything created by God could be destroyed by HIS creation-us. But speaking in abstract form(whatever that means but sounds right) were we to die out its been theorized by the scientific community that the cockroach is the ultimate survivor for adapts to environmental changes,eats everything and again adapts to whats available and so on. But even the ultimate cockroach needs air-oxygen- so there would have to also be plant life to make air and then clean it for if its alive then it also makes waste. There'd have to be also a predator to the cockroach -preferably predator and victim to each other-hunt and eat each other for there's have to be a balance . Since I've established that there has to be plant life for clean air then there'd also again have to be a pollinating insect to keep plant life going. Creation is complicated.

Answer 5

Scientists have already said cockroaches will be able to survive a nuclear attack ! But I think humans will too. We will always be the dominant life form.

Answer 6

Not possible for humans to become extinct.
We are offspring of God and that's an eternal truth.
Man cannot cease to exist nor did we evolve. We were created by Jehovah/Jesus and after this life we move onto the next stage of our eternal destination.
(Spirit world or Spirit prison then judgement then, well, where ever we deserve to go after that).

Answer 7

Humans will probably never become extinct. I think that we will just evolve and might have to adapt to our new environment because of Global Warming.

Answer 8

The Tardigrades or WaterBears will still be around of course! They live in the most extreme conditions. Maybe some humans will be re-incarnated to water bears (if they beleive in that sort of thing)/

Answer 9

honestly, if humans did become extinct it'd be from a nuclear war IMO, probably nothing left at all cockroaches or something

Answer 10

Hum? Long Live the King Bono!