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Suggestion for an Alternative Evolution Project
Topic Started: Dec 15 2009, 11:42 PM (842 Views)
TheCoon
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I first thought I could do this project, but I'm actally concentrated in my Lost Island one, so if anybody wants to take it, that's fine.
In this world, the Aptian extinction never happened. For the ones that don't know this extinction, it's not as big as the P-T or the K-T, but this was what basically screwed pterosaurs. Fossil records show that after the Aptian most pterosaur families dissapeared, leaving only pteranodons and azhdarchids.
So, if this extinction never occured, probably birds would never diversify, and probably pterosaurs would be able to survive K-T, but what do you think?
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Ddraig Goch
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Ar hyd y nos

So, is it possible (I might be stretching it a bit, here) that if the Aptian Extinction never occurred, humans might never have evolved?
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Carlos
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Maybe, though I don't think pterosaurs would influence primate niches
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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Canis Lupis
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

I know this might be stretching it, but what about primate-like descendents of pterosaurs?

I don't know my prehistoric life, so if someone could enlighten me on the plausibility of that statement, please do.
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Holben
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Their posture would have to be dramatically altered. Those beaks would be easiest adapted to fruits and nuts, i think. But the teeth could make in omnivorous. The wings could decline to gliders, and it could end up a bit like a flying fox, perhaps?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Carlos
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Tapejarids were already quite on the way; they were omnivorous, had strong claws for tree climbing and were poor fliers. I suppose creatures vaguely similar to Spec's carpos could evolve from them
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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https://www.patreon.com/Carliro

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The Dodo
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Birds would still have some diversity, I think birds like Iberomesornis and Confuciusornis lived before the Aptian extinction.
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