Dinosaurs have been ostensibly dead for 65 million years (if you don’t count birds). Yet rarely a month goes by without a finding that rattles the establishment. How many creatures do you know who set so many records so long after their death? Today we heard about the longest neck. Recently it was the biggest carnivore. This is why science is so much fun.

We also heard today about an extinction that appears to be worse than the one in which the dinosaurs (ostensibly) perished. This 6th worse mass extinction ever is going on now. And, the scientists tell us, you and I are responsible.

I wrote “you and I” here because the story says “humans” are responsible, and that sounds like something you and I can’t do much about. Can we? Is there a (magical) technological bullet? Or will we use so much of Earth’s land and resources that we lose the rhinos (hey, do they look like dinosaurs or what?) and the mysterious deep-sea fish and even our closest relatives? And the related question: Would we miss them?