• Question: If you could time travel to see any extinct animal what would it be.

    Asked by eddy532dura98 on 20 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Joanna Bagniewska

      Joanna Bagniewska answered on 20 Oct 2025:

      I would like to see the Bramble Cay melomys – a small rodent from a sandy Australian island. It went extinct only ten years ago because of the rising water levels linked to climate change – the island on which it lived got flooded, and that was it.
      I would like to figure out if there’s any way in which we could have prevented the extinction.

    • Photo: Caroline Mullen

      Caroline Mullen answered on 21 Oct 2025:

      Maybe a giant sloth, or a dodo, or an archeopteryx.. I’d like to see so many!

    • Photo: Liam Herringshaw

      Liam Herringshaw answered on 6 Nov 2025:

      I would travel back 425 million years ago to when Dudley and the West Midlands were covered in a shallow, tropical sea, a bit like modern-day Fiji. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures lived in those waters, including two of my favourites: Lepidocoleus, which was a worm in a suit of armour, and Lepidaster, a 13-armed starfish!

Comments

  • Photo: melissau

    melissau commented on :

    I would like to see a hairy mammoth – I think elephants are amazing so I’d be interested to see how similar or different mammoths were compared to elephants.

  • Photo: Andrew M

    Andrew M commented on :

    I’d rather like to meet the ancestors, so perhaps the Rift Valley 2 or 2.5 million years ago when there seems to have been a whole variety of australopithecines, paranthropuses (paranthropi?) and early homo. It would be rather fascinating to see where we came from and what we’ve inherited from them. To see also some of the paths not taken, the other humans we could have been.