Diet

 

Their diet is composed mostly of leaves, although they are not hesitant to eat wood, flowers, fruit, and occasionally insects and small bats.

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Megapomakro
Common Name: Pacdeer
Ancestor: Paca
Diet: Grass, flowers, and fallen leaves.
Habitat: 25 MYF South America Rain Forest
Origin of the Greek Name: "μεγαλόστομος" (big-mouth) (megalostomos) "πόδι" (leg (I'm pretty sure)) (podi) "μακρά" (long) (makro). Translates into "Big-mouthed long leg".
Pacas today are small deer-like rodents. The Pacdeer is still deer-like, although a lot bigger with a longer neck and legs. They can reach sizes of 5 feet tall.

Pacdeers are a dark brown color with spots of white, which they use as camouflage from predators. They go up to a tree, lay down and lay their head vertical against the tree. Their body colors blend into the tree and the spots of white look like spots look like spots of sunlight.

Pacdeers are fast, agile, and solitary animals, although it's not uncommon to see multiple grazing together and bounding through the forest together.

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Megaloulogon
Common Name: Amazonian Birdsnatcher Frog
Ancestor: An Amazonian frog
Diet: Birds and eggs.
Habitat: 25 MYF South America Rain Forest
Origin of the Greek Name: "μεγάλο άλμα" (big jump) (megálo álma) "πουλί τρώγων" (bird eater) (poulí trógon).

25 million years before the Amazon was devastated. Near-completely eliminated, lots of species died, especially the native amphibians. But not all died, and when the Amazon grew back this became bigger than Beelzebufo ampinga, a titan among a nearly-extinct class.

The Amazonian Birdsnatcher Frog grows to be 3 feet long, twice as big as Beelzebuffo. They live in the tops of the trees, waiting to spring at the sight of a close flying bird and bat with a wingspan of 2 feet or less. They then secrete a venom, which kills their prey quickly. Once near the bottom of the tree, they will drop their catch so that it gets broken up and easier to eat.

Like bullfrogs, these have a leathery skin, allowing them stay hours out of water at a time. They will also eat any arthropod they can catch and any but the largest eggs that are unguarded.

Hipposwine

 

Aquasus Iratus
Common Name: Hipposwine
Ancestor: Pigs/hogs
Diet: Aquatic vegetation
Range: The coastlines of the European grasslands, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Aqua" (water), "Sus" (pig), and "Iratus" (angry). The name together forms "Angry Water Pig".
The type species of Aquasus, they are semi-aquatic descendants of pigs filling the niche of hippos in Europe. Aquasus Iratus is 9 feet long and 5 feet tall.

Like hippos and Toxodon, they have a huge powerful mouth and an angry temper. They will not hesitate to impale anything that angers them. Unlike hippos they do not use their bulk and their mouth as their main weapons, rather their keratin covered tusks.

Buffalo Rabbit

 

Nitidupus Frons
Common Name: Buffalo Rabbit/Rabbuffalo
Ancestor: Rabbits
Diet: Grass
Range: The European grasslands, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Nitidus" (fat), "lepus" (rabbit), and "Frons" (brown). The name together forms "Brown Fat Rabbit".
5 foot tall descendants of rabbits, they are the peaceful giants of the grassland. Their neck has lengthened and they no longer hop. Although they no longer hop, they can still run, but not as fast as a horse.

Although they are not social animals, it isn't rare to see a group of 3 or 4 buffalo rabbits grazing on the grass. To protect themselves they have powerful legs which can shatter bone and a thick skull, which they use to headbutt.


Sorry about the nose, something happened. It's still there in the next pic.

Grazer Duck

 

Platyoris Gramerussi
Common Name: Grazer Duck
Ancestor: Ducks
Diet: Grass
Range: The European grasslands, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Platy" (flat), "Oris" (mouth) "Gramen" (grass), and "Perussi" (consume). The name together forms "Flat Mouth Grass Consumer".
3 foot tall duck descendants, they have small ridges on their beak to chew it up, and the rest is broken up by gizzards. Platyoris Gramerussi is actually quite stupid, on the level of the dodo.

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Procerumapra
Common Name: Goatraffe
Ancestor: Domestic Goats
Diet: Shrubs
Range: The European grasslands, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Procerus" (tall), "Collum" (neck) and "Capra" (goat). The name together forms "Tall Necked Goat".
Procerumapra, the Goatraffes are giraffe-like goats. They can reach shoulder heights of 7-8 feet and head heights of 13-15 feet. The particular species pictured below is Procerumapra Magnucornu, or Tall Necked Big Horned Goat, which has shoulder heights of 7 feet and head heights of 14 feet.

Procerumapra have huge territories due to the amount of brush they need to eat. The adults have no predators, except for a large pack of Lionboons.

Bee Birds

 

Anthophiaves
Common Name: Bee Birds
Ancestor: Red-Billed Quelea
Diet: Arthropods, sometimes carrion and small animals
Range: Lemuria, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Anthophila" (bee) and "Aves" (bird). The name together forms "Bee Bird".
It's no surprise that the red-billed quelea has descendants, at 1.5 billion individuals as of 2010. These little brown birds have a better social system, becoming eusocial.

The workers build nests that can grow up to 30 feet tall. They have a woodpecker-like beak for digging and also take care of the young. The gatherers have a hornbill-like beak to gather as much food as they can in it. The guards can spit a foul-smelling acid out of their mouth.

In the inside of the nests it has a lot of chambers to go in and out, with some branches where the workers sleep. The center of it is hollow, where they store their food, the queens, eggs, young, males, and the guards.

The queens are twice as big as the other birds and are flightless. The males are almost as big as the queen and are bright orange.

Blue Vulturhawk

 

Puteulanervo
Common Name: Blue Vulturhawk, Blue Swarm
Ancestor: Pale Chanting Goshhawk
Diet: Live animals and carrion
Range: Lemuria, 25 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Puteulanus" (blue) and "Efervo" (swarm). The name together forms "Blue Swarm".
One of the scavengers of Lemuria, they exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. The females are solitary, only staying with their young until they start to fly. The females have wingspans of 5-6 feet.

The males are usually solitary, like the female Blue Swarms. But they didn't get the name Blue Swarm for nothing. They will sometimes swarm up on larger prey, and tear it apart like piranha of the sky. When they do so they are more dangerous than even the biggest Emperor Bird. The males have wingspans of 2-4 feet.

Birdfish

 

Volafrontusa
Common Name: Birfish
Ancestor: Flying Fish
Diet: Arthropods
Range: The ocean of 200 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Volatis" (flying), "Frons" (front), and "Artus" (limb). The name together forms "Front-limb flyers".
With the 90 MYF extinction, some islands were wiped from tetrapod life, and with the flooding of the world they never returned, and the main inhabitants became arthropods. Which leaves a niche open. A niche filled by a descendant of the flying fish of today.

The Birfish are an order of fish that like their name, can fly. Their pectoral fins became adjusted for rapid beating and the fins became enlarged. Thus they fly like hummingbirds.

They come in large flocks everyday to feed on the arthropods that live there. They can't actually breathe though. They live in the water. To stay out of the water they breathe through the skin, which supplies enough oxygen to their small bodies. They still need it wet, so they can only stay about an hour out of the water at a time.

Possumena

 

Hyaenusinus Maximus
Common Name: Possumena, the opposum on steroids.
Ancestor: Virginia Opossum
Diet: Mostly carrion, also some small animals and grasses.
Range: North America Plains, 90 MYF
Origin of the Latin name: "Hyaena" (hyena), "Sinus" (pocket), and "Maximus" (large). The name together forms "Large Pocket Hyena (referring to the pouch).
The biggest member of the genus Hyaenusinus, they can grow to a hulking 7 feet tall. The second biggest species is a mere 4 feet tall.

Hyaenusinus Maximus is a general scavenger, but it'll also hunt its own prey if needed, similar to the Entelodonts, which occupied the same stretch of land 130-110 million years before. They also have the characteristics of entelodonts - the giant shoulders, ability to run fast, and giant powerful mouth.

Like the Thylacine, the males have a pouch to protect their genitals from the hard grass. They are vicious to everything, including its own species, except for males to females and vice versa. The females go in heat 3 times a year, and consequently raise 3-6 young a year. While you may think it causes overpopulation it is fixed by cannibalistic adults (everyone except their own mother) and herbivores who will try to trample the young, like wilderbeest with lion cubs.