Because so many animals are becoming extinct is there a possibility that all the animals will become extinct in a few million years?
There have been times in the history of the Earth when more than 90% of all animal species have become extinct (like at the end of the Permian – 240 million years ago, when an ice age resulted in mass extinctions). After each mass extinction, the remaining species have evolved into new and varied forms to take advantage of the available resources around them. This may happen again in the future. The problem at the moment is that we are changing the environment so fast that it is difficult for evolution of species to keep up with it!
