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> Humans will not last forever, nothing does, but there isn't a species on earth I'd bet on to outlast us.

My money is on Jellyfish, cockroaches, and whole families of bacteria.

Okay yeah bacteria, but cockroaches are just a trope. Why jellyfish? That’s piqued my interest.

As the ocean acidifies jellyfish may be the last complex life left in them.

Cockroaches' prosperity relies on human's.

but they can survive without us, just be less prosperous.