Scenario: It is 33,873,034 million years from now. Rodents have become diverse a

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Scenario: It is 33,873,034 million years from now. Rodents have become diverse and important on earth, and one rodent lineage has evolved into intelligent bipedal creatures. Professor Q infomrs his course that 15 taxonomic orders of mammals went extinct 34 million years before the present as well as many other forms of life. One of these species was an up right walking bipedal form with a very large braincase, very similar to us modern intelligent, erect walking "super rats' None of these etinct orders, inlcuing the upright walking creatures are found above a globally disitributed, plutonoium rich radioactive, fall out layer that seems to have been deposited suddenlt about 33.0 million eyars ago. This thin layer seperates older homoecen age strata, yeilding the extinct mammals, fromyounger beds recording the start of the age of rodents that began shortly after the ectinction event. The loswest overlying beds yeield almost nothing accept for a few small rat like fossil rodents, but in the suceeding thick stratigraphic succesion, diversity, variety, and size of the rodent descendants increases, giving arise to numerous seperate lineages over very long time frame of 33.9 million years. Some of these descendant rodents have come to resemlye certain pre extinction animals.

Question 1:" How did this catasthrophe likely unfold and why might it be important to know how it happened?

Question 2: How did we end looking so muhc like those extinct up right walkers?  

Question 3:What good might come from mass extinction events?

Explanation / Answer

1. Catastrophe is associated with extinction of the variety of the species in this given scenario we find that there is a complete extinction of the bipedal rodent. This can be unfolded by studying the fossil content at the plutonium-rich radioactive site.
2. This inference of the extinct species as the upright walkers have been drawn by studying the skeletons which are very much similar to that of modern humans.
3. Mass extinction clears the slate by creating a new opportunity for new species to multiply or grow leading to biodiversity complexity in the organism as they try to strive in the new world.

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