This page is about the species. For a list of Earthlings, see Category: Earthlings.
Earthlings are a race of Humans that inhabit planet Earth. Although they believe themselves to be the most intelligent species of that planet, they are in fact only the third most intelligent, coming in behind mice and dolphins, respectively.
Earth was designed with organic life as part of its computer matrix, and as such was inhabited by Humans to begin with. They lived lives of peace and prosperity, with an extremely primitive culture that never developed much of anything. The main reason they never developed much of anything is that they were wiped out by another race of Humans, the Golgafrinchans. When they saw the Golgafrinchans' idiocy it seems that most of them lost the will to live.
The Golgafrinchans are the ancestors of all Earthlings today. Modern Earthlings also contain trace amounts of Furon DNA, due to an incident early in their history when a Furon scout ship came across their planet while returning from a conquest of Mars and the Furon space travelers impregnated the "nubile" Earthlings to "let off a little steam". This is believed though not confirmed to be the source of excessive apathy and sarcasm in some Earthlings.