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| Topic Started: Mar 10 2010, 11:13 AM (10,116 Views) | |
| Ook | Mar 10 2010, 11:13 AM Post #1 |
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| Ook | Jul 5 2010, 05:06 PM Post #151 |
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I need help with redoing this project...lot of future projects looks similarly,with most fauna is descendants of animals like goats,coyotes racoons or pigs and i am always frustrated when i want to develop something that is plausible,but at end looks like todays fauna,for example i want to replace deers with something new,but deers are too succesfull and they will propably rule forest in near future too (as near,i take period from holocene to about 50 MYF) or small cats are very adaptibile and succesfull too,so its possible they give rise to ,,neo big cats,, or foxes evolve into wolf like things(if improve social behaviour) or giant langomorphs or south american rodents are cliché too.THis is my first project and i dont want to delete it,but only drasticaly rebuild it....what do you think? |
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| Pando | Jul 5 2010, 05:30 PM Post #152 |
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You can always make a v2 project. For it you can extend the time zone, or do things like tetrapod extinction. |
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| Ook | Jul 5 2010, 05:39 PM Post #153 |
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ï just want to keep project more plausible,things like mice,shrews or lizard are great survivors..maybe future earth where mammals are not dominant megafauna,but share their kingdom with reptiles,birds and maybe new class of vertebrates(propably descendant of mammals,but i think that they will stay small) |
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| dialforthedevil | Jul 6 2010, 10:40 AM Post #154 |
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Oh no Bexi i like this project But if you wish to change it how about a world dominated by monotremes??? |
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| Ook | Jul 6 2010, 11:08 AM Post #155 |
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i say i want do it plausible,monotremes are too specialized,but there is no animal in australia that competes with them,so they survives.Human extinction push world back to paleocene levels,mammals taht survive will be almost all small and new families will rise from them. how about era,in which will be this project situated?how about 50 MYF? and what about world geography? |
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| dialforthedevil | Jul 6 2010, 01:56 PM Post #156 |
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no super continents they are cliche, how about most continents are surronded by water??? |
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| Ook | Jul 6 2010, 02:00 PM Post #157 |
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oh no,its too early for supercontinent,i mean something like if in this period will be mediterran mountains fully formed and how it affect african and european biomes etc. |
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| dialforthedevil | Jul 6 2010, 02:06 PM Post #158 |
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well if i can find it i have drawn many future maps would you like to see any? |
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| Ook | Jul 6 2010, 02:18 PM Post #159 |
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sure,i will be happy,but first i need to describe the world |
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| Ook | Jul 7 2010, 06:43 AM Post #160 |
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1 MYF Yellowstone supervolcano erupted,that causes ice age,great extinction and eventually extinction of humans too(if they not leave earth) 5 MYF Ice age ends,forest now grows at their original places(easter part of north america,almost all europe is covered by deep forests) Many small unspecialized animals starts to fill empty niches,forests is roamed by dog sized shrews,strange rodents that looks like Old world spineless porcupines and ground birds.One group of bats evolves to fill some niches of predatory birds. 20 MYF World is becoming more hot.Antarctica moves to north and first forests grows in coastal areas.Placentals and Marsupials from south america colonises it,alongside with many birds.Soith america breaks from North america.Mediterran sea is no more,Atlas mountains became higher and longer and at east point is joined with Great Pontic mountains.Asia collides with North america at east. Last carnives and ingulates goest extinct and are replaced by various animals,including marsupials.Newcomers in this eara are omnivorous,racoon sized tenrecs,Mollucs eating sea rats and viviparous lizards. 40 MYF Euramerica (europe,asia and north america) is fully formed.Climate is going down,grasslands become more common. New hoofed mammals evolves from some kind of insectivores. |
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| Holben | Jul 7 2010, 01:15 PM Post #161 |
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By 1MYF, humans will be unimaginable. It's best not to speculate on civilisation at that stage. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Pando | Jul 7 2010, 01:39 PM Post #162 |
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Yellowstone will just make every part of the USA west of the Mississippi uninhabitable for a hundred years or so and launch the world in a nuclear winter. Supervolcano eruptions happened before, but never caused a mass extinction (except for the deccan traps in Siberia 300 million years ago, but that was a lot stronger than Yellowstone).
It will be no more in 5 million years. |
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| Holben | Jul 7 2010, 01:44 PM Post #163 |
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The Deccan traps may only have been a small contribution, compared to other factors. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ook | Jul 7 2010, 02:02 PM Post #164 |
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It will be no more in 5 million years. you have time machine? In this scenario mediterran sea vaporized somewhere between 10-15 MYF and create large salt desert,but in 20 MYF there is no salt desert(except few salt lakes) and plains starts overgrow former floor of sea and you forgot that Mass extinction causes more factors(humankind-wars etc.supervolcano,ice age etc.) |
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| Pando | Jul 7 2010, 03:11 PM Post #165 |
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Ice Ages never caused a mass extinction, and a supervolcano can't cause an Ice Age. The Mediterranean will be closed and Lemuria will split within 5 million years. Geologists can prove that. |
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