Extinction Detective Gifts

'Yes, as dodos, we can't fly, but if we could only learn to climb trees, we would be safe from predators...'

Pinocchio's Second Realization

Questions about an old case refuse to go away. . .

The interested bystanders.

"And I'll have that lightly sedated, please."

65 Million Years Ago

Evolution.

"Where do you think we are in the food chain right now?"

"The article says there was a break-in at the museum last night. I don't suppose you know anything about that."

"I'm sending you an interesting article about declining birth rates."

Alien flies in a spaceship out of a postbox.

'...And they're giving us sixty million years to get in compliance.'

Stratigraphy

"See? Look what happened to Ook! - I WARNED you about evolution."

'Good grief! Aren't you guys extinct yet?'

Asteroid Denying Dinosaur vs. Asteroid Believing Dinosaur.

"We learnt about Prehistory at school today: Saber-tooth tigers were so cool!"

'If you don't like it here, why don't you go back to Atlantis?'

'Just as I suspected, Simpson. The extinction process happened very suddenly.'

"Some dinosaurs died out more quickly than others" "You want some?"

"You're sucking all the fun out of my misery."

Geekasaurus.

"Just great. These humans bring us back from extinction just in time for another global climate catastrophe."

"Here we still are, eh? So much for the gloom-and-doom types who warned us against eating all the vegetation."

"First, we install proper insulation. Then we call the Museum of Natural History."

'Oh, come on -- everything can't be extinct!'

'Any history of extinction in your family?'

"In the late Cretaceous" "What do you mean, you're here for all of us at once?"

Bio-obsolescence

'It looks like a beaver.' - News Item: Beaver ancestor lived alongside dinosaurs.

The Last Mosquito

"Good news, Mr. Vanderfirth. We've traced your lineage back to a woman who lived in East Africa two hundred thousand years ago."