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‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
(www.theguardian.com)
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Years from now ( think tens of millions) paleontologists of some species will wonder about this age, and think that this was great extinction caused by a period of volcanic instability; with monkeys and some mammals overrepresented in the fossil record
"These 'sheep' animals must have been the dominant species in the archipelago formerly known as New Zealand"