Super Predators
Every time I interact with dinosaurs, figuratively, I mean - since my first picture book of dinos when I was in the first grade to the recent dino-flicks off Spielberg, I wondered what would happen if these nasty monsters were still around at large. And obviously, how did they just vaporized so peacefully in making the way for us humans to happily populate this green planet.
Paleontologists say in every 26 million years, a mass extinction occurs in our planet, simply wiping out every single species and members of them while leaving few hardy survivors (like cockroaches for example). Well, at least the fossils say so.
It has been a popular choice to blame the meteors for these regular catastrophic disasters for quite some time now. Though very unfortunately, the biggest meteor to be ever found on the earth weighs only 60 metric tons as you can see in the following pic.
Recently a Polish Physicist, Adam Lipowski, came up with a computer generated statistics model (implemented using Java) which says this sort of mass extinction could very well be caused by evolution of a “mega predator” or “super predator” race.
According to the model, a highly efficient genetically perfected (read mutated) beast is good enough to kill all other races with extreme accuracy while reproduce its own race in a geometrically progressive rate.
Also known as Apex predators, Alpha-Predators, or Super-Predators are predators that are not themselves preyed upon as a species. These beasts are often at the end of long food chains, consumes the other levels super fast and which, in turn, leads to its own extinction. Any species surviving attack of this bio-WMD gradually mutates to fill the new ecological cycle and then the cycle starts afresh.
So how exactly did those super predators look?
Take a 20 feet tall terror bird who can swallow a dog in a single gulp for example,
or a 50 feet 50 ton killer white shark,
or a 20 feet long gray hound,
a 60 ft long marine reptile,
or a 50 feet killer croc,
Or a 115 feet sea serpent!
Any idea who can be this highly efficient genetically perfect next super predator? :)