yknow I was just thinking about, when looking at an animal like the anomalocaris, is that its entire species went extinct and for 500 million years, not a single living thing thought about it, not a single living thing remembered they had ever existed, until humans came along and found their fossils, and now we think about them and make art of them and know what their lives might have been like... just the idea that their entire species came and went and nothing was there to remember them, for an unfathomably long amount of time, until us
