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Vita continuus; Earth of the future
Topic Started: Mar 10 2010, 11:13 AM (10,123 Views)
Ook Mar 10 2010, 11:13 AM Post #1
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Pando Apr 1 2010, 02:27 PM Post #46
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New Zealand is so wacked.

There could be cow-like tahrs, small omnivorous cat-like opposums, squirrel possums, mole-like hedgehogs, cat-like stoats, and mega wallabies. Say goodbye to a bird-dominated New Zealand and hello to the mammals!
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Ook Apr 1 2010, 02:32 PM Post #47
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i say taht new zealand will be like madagaskar..there will be descendants of rats(only rats,no dixonian predatory rats,just only rodents,like today...they diverse into many rodent niches) tahr will be small forest antelope.Posumm evolve into glidding and monkey form.Cat niche is occupied by quofellis,stoat will be something like....stoat :D...mole like hedgehog is cool.Wallaby will be quadrapedal(see chamois wallaby...all wallabies will be descendants of quadrapedall ancestor)
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Ook Apr 4 2010, 01:09 PM Post #48
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i need some ideas for australian big herbivores,that are marsupials,but do not look as kangaroos or something bipedal but will be quadrapedal


i have got idea about austalian ground scavenger that are descenant of egret

EDIT:Main australian herbivores will be kangaroos and descendants of bandicoots,what look as ungulates
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Ook Apr 5 2010, 08:58 AM Post #49
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i slightly changed this project
Upgraded map
(map based at omegabeaver 30 MYF future)

There is ice age
and for fauna:

P.S..this will gradually add
Australia

Zealandia

Europe
Middle europe temperate forest-1 from 10 species completed
North europe boreal forest
eastern europe grassland

Asia

North america

South america

West antarctida

East antarctida

Carribean islands

Atlantic islands

South-east asian islands

Australian islands

Iceland



What part of that i should start?
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Pando Apr 5 2010, 11:59 PM Post #50
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Why does there have to be an ice age? It prevents rain forests, which lead to less diversity in life.

As for ungulate bandicoots, I say that it's possible. Hoofs evolved in condylarths, arctostylopids, re-evolved in horses, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, mesonychids, litopterns, notungulates, pyrotheria, dinoceratans, and astrapotheres.

Then paenungulates (proboscids, sirenians, hyrax, embrithopods, and desmotylans) and the pig-footed bandicoot all evolved proto-hooves. So hooves ahoy!
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 08:52 AM Post #51
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there will be only small ice age,but thanks to then,there are many reemnerged islands and lands(zealandia)...rainforest will be there too,but mainly are there grasslands,forests.At antarctida is tundra and thanks to warm gulf at two points(small area at east and west antarctida) is forests.At eurasia and america will be something like pleistocene mammoth steppe
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 11:21 AM Post #52
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Biome map version 1.0 so be tolerant :lol:

dark green-boreal,temperate,tropical forests,rainforests
light green-grasslands,scrub
very light green-tundra,cold steppes
yellow-deserts,semi-deserts
light blue-oceans,lakes...
dark blue-mountains
white-propably glaciers


thanks to warm gulf,there can exist that two places at antarctida

EDIT:i will create new one with less glaciers
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SSJRaptog Apr 6 2010, 12:00 PM Post #53
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How about a hoofed decendants of wombats?
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 12:18 PM Post #54
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i dont think that wombats evolve into hoofed animals,but from they will evolved largest australia herbs...something between diprotodonts,rhinos and hyppos....
bandicoots have got more potentional(see propably extinct pig footed bandicoot)

In this future happened medium sized extinction(something like neocene project)

What should I start?(example-middle europe forest)
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Pando Apr 6 2010, 12:40 PM Post #55
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I've got a question, how does rain forest exist in North America? In an ice age, if rain forests exist they will be limited to the equator.
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 12:42 PM Post #56
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that dark green color means there is forest.If you read better,than you could read,,dark green-boreal,temperate,tropical forests,rainforests- one from them...in north america means that dark green boreal and temperate forests

if will be all OK,then every week will be here update
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Pando Apr 6 2010, 01:18 PM Post #57
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but boreal forests and rain forests are completely different things.
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 01:36 PM Post #58
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that dark green means-there is forest,not specified what species of forest
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Ook Apr 6 2010, 02:30 PM Post #59
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what should by deer replacemend?i dont want any harelopes,because they are in after man and neocene
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What about white tailed deer? They're pretty successful.
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