Extinction Detective Mugs

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

E=mc2.

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.

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

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

"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."

Asteroid Denying Dinosaur vs. Asteroid Believing Dinosaur.

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

"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.'

Geekasaurus.

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

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

You heard earth's just entered its sixth great extinction event? Really? Vertebrate species are dying at a rate not seen since the dinosaurs died off. This time It's thanks to us. But the good thing is, scientists think humans will die off pretty early in this mass extinction. How's that a good thing? We won't be around to hear the other animals say "I told you so."

"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."

"Of course, it might help if we actually found something every once in a while!"

"I had a dream about a huge flaming rock falling from the sky! What do you think it means?"

Bio-obsolescence

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

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

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

'Any history of extinction in your family?'

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

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