Characteristics of extinct animals that would allow them to flourish in today's world?
I was reading Campbell's Biology for an exam tomorrow and came across this line: "A trait that is favorable in one place or time may be useless—or even detrimental—in other places or times."
It got me wondering: are there any examples of the opposite of this? ie., are there any now-extinct species that had characteristics (detrimental or otherwise) that would make them absolutely dominate in the modern world?