Thing a Week 41: At a Loss for Words.

After the world ended, the E+Blue super computer (the first ever binary based device known to pass the Turing Test successfully enough to be be accepted as "sentient" by the majority of the scientific populace) began a program to repopulate it with being constructed from the data left in its memory banks. However, due to several unfortunate and highly traumatic events (mainly caused by the world ending), several of the protocols most necessary to carry out a program of this nature had been corrupted, or at the least lost fairly extensive amounts of data. Due to some rather ingenious programming, however, E+Blue was able to form a workaround to this problem by combining the attributes of various animals with similar physical and behavioral characteristics. The workaround was extremely successful, and since E+Blue had a fairly comprehensive backup of human society that had been more heavily protected than the rest of the data, life managed to continue in spite of the minor setback of having completely ended (except for the cockroaches).
In fact, there was only one major setback to the program. Due to a rather severe lack of foresight, an exhaustively thorough collection of mythical beasts had been cataloged in the category of actual animals, and since E+Blue didn't have the appropriate circuitry to identify them as nonexistent, they were brought to life with everything else, and in many cases meshed together. This is understood by historians to be the main contribution to the collapse of the McHane Dynasty in 362 P.A.