Who's to say sapient beings haven't evolved more than once on this planet, that there isn't another form of sapience incarnated in other biological taxa somewhere in the world? If such is the case, where could they be that we haven't found them yet? Or have we in our distant past? Could supposedly mythological entities such as Fauns, Kappas, Sheti snake brothers, Dirawong, and even Mermaids be historical evidence that Homo sapiens shares the Earth with intellectual siblings?
While we're at it, if so many species could evolve on the same planet at the same time, what's stopping such a thing from happening in other times, like the prehistoric past? Could life have suddenly sprang to the opportunity to evolve sapience just as soon as it had the means to? Could dinosaurs, dimetrodons, Dunkleosteus, or even dinocaridids pursued the path to sapience and made achievements relatable to our own? If so, where could they have gone to? Could their potential have been cut short by an extinction event, or perhaps their civilization met a premature demise prior to such an event? But if the fall of their civilization was not caused by an extinction event, then what? Or, what if they never truly did go extinct, but were advanced enough to have fled Earth from the approaching apocalypses to other worlds? Could there legacy live on in the stars, or perhaps prior to the extinction event they had evolved in ways that we either can not comprehend or deem possible?
Where could they be?…
