Absolutely. Saber tooth tigers. Check. Dire wolves. Check. The environment adapted just fine to the loss of these species. The 1000s of other species made

Absolutely. Saber tooth tigers. Check. Dire wolves. Check. The environment adapted just fine to the loss of these species. The 1000s of other species made extinct recently... Oops! ...But again, the natural ecosystem didn't irrecoverably collapse. After eliminating so many much more valuable or interesting species (IMO), I certainly don't want to stop right when we're getting to ticks and mosquitoes.