Tardigrades

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Nobody because humans will unfortunately take earth when we become extinct...think about all the nuclear power plants melting..when they have no one to monitor them?? Earth is doomed

Christians.

I remember watching this series (The Future is Wild) from the early 2000s. I m sure certain extrapolations would've changed if the series was made today but still, it was definitely interesting.

Hic, I hope and pray, hic, I'd become meek, hic!

Right now AI seems to be making the most noise among scientists and writers. There are a whole lot of TED talks, articles, books and commentators either saying it’s our savior or it will bring our demise. “Homo Deus” by Yuval Noah Harari and “Origin” by Dan Brown are two very popular books that I have read recently that may bring this controversy into the spotlight.

No-one. The Earth got by quite nicely for over four billion years before Humans evolved. All of our related hominin species (Neanderthals, Denisovans, H. Floriensis) are already extinct, and never got beyond stone knives and basket weaving in any case (neither did we for the first 99% of our generations so far).

Contrary to what most of us assume, technological civilisation is not the 'natural culmination of history', it is, to be blunt, a bit of an aberration.

if / when humans leave the stage, the stage itself will just become overgrown and slowly turn back into forest.

Cockroaches will survive anything, but don't think they will evolve as intelligent species. If we wipe ourselves out, most mammals will die also, and that includes smart animals like monkees, raccoons, pigs, dogs, stc.

All the species that have managed to survive in spite of us, will breathe a large sigh of relief, and go about their peaceful lives !

only about 800million years left of habitable time on earth before the oceans boil away. considering how we have and continue to destroy the natural environment, it could take 10's of millions of years for conditions to go back to a point where intelligence could arise.

my bets on the Cephalopods, as they alone seem to be prospering in degrading conditions humans are creating.

Hahaha! The cockroaches! They will inherit the earth! And the earth will be a better place without us.

I put my money on dogs. They're plentiful and adaptable. In any case I hope it's dogs. They've been servants far too long. They deserve more.

Who cares? The earth, itself, will eventually be destroyed in some astrophysical event -- the sun dying, being hit by an asteroid, the core losing its electromagnetism, another big bang, etc.

If any other great apes survive, I suspect they may evolve along human lines over again. If you didn't know already,humans are classified as a branch of "great apes".

Anyway, th dexterity of fingers and an opposable thumb would give other great apes an evolutionary advantage if humans were no longer present.