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Troll evolution; If trolls were real creatures, how would it have evolved
Topic Started: May 20 2010, 03:44 AM (1,486 Views)
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I've read the artimes fowl novel, and book 1and 4 features trolls, A shaggy, tusked and gigantic predator descibed as a kind of ape. i'm wondering what would be the troll like and its evolutionary past if it is a real predator? would it be an ape? or a carnivourous boar? or something else?
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What interests me more is how they evolved their symbiosis with the various wildlife and why all the lusii turned white.

Also, how did the hemospectrum evolve?

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In my project i thought about this and made them a descendant of gigantopithecus which was slightly bipedal and with a much thicker skin...
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Jan 12 2011, 10:55 AM
What interests me more is how they evolved their symbiosis with the various wildlife and why all the lusii turned white.

Also, how did the hemospectrum evolve?

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Come on, psychic powers aren't that special.
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..In my opinion the Fowl troll would likely be an ape-creature that once roamed the forests of the world but were forced underground. Kept the tusks but their arms and legs evolved to be more for running and pounding than tree swinging and such. Hair that waso cne short is not whick and insulating but the tusks kep the same purpose. Eyes atrophied and more light sensative. while the other sensed sky-rocketed.
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Come on, psychic powers aren't that special.
Even psychic double reacharounds?
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Even psychic double reacharounds.
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