If sharks become extinct then some other creature will evolve to be the seven seas' greatest predator. There will be a niche to fill, just as mammals (and, more specifically, later humans) replaced the dinosaurs as the dominant land creatures.
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If sharks become extinct then some other creature will evolve to be the seven seas' greatest predator. There will be a niche to fill, just as mammals (and, more specifically, later humans) replaced the dinosaurs as the dominant land creatures.
The dinosaurs came and went 150 million years after sharks became established. Whatever new niches they open up in their absence is totally unpredictable as their affects on us as their ascendance predates terrestrial animal life itself.
