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| Varhjem: The Lost World; My very first project, remasterized! | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 7 2010, 06:53 PM (1,276 Views) | |
| TheCoon | Dec 7 2010, 06:53 PM Post #1 |
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This was my very first project. I found it while cleaning my computer, and started to tweek some things just for the fun of it. After analizing how wrong I was (Because this is a project I did when I was a n00b), I think i finnally changed it to a project that worths posting. Here's the background so you know what I'm talking about. It's a classic "What if dinosaurs never got extinct" project: Paleocene: The Paleocene did cooled down in this world, but the temperature wasn’t as exageratedly less warm because there was no meteorite that would support that effect. However, the cooling did killed a bunch of creatures that, with or without the meteorite, would still perish. From this creatures, we can mention the following: *Ankylosaurs. *Ceratopsians. *Large Ornithopods *Pachycephalosaurs. *Plesiosaurs. *Sauropods. *Tyranosaurs and other gigantic theropods. (Except Therizinosaurids) This leaves the following creatures alive: *Birds and Proto-Birds *Crocodilians *Primitive Mammals *Small Ornithopods (In South America and Africa only.) *Azhdarchid Pterosaurs *Mosasaurs (Declining) *Dromaeosaurs and other small theropods. This small extinction allowed mammals in the north to develop and fill the lost niches. This leaves the world more “Sauric” in the south, and more similar to ours in the north. Eocene: The Thermal Maximum that starts in the Eocene epoch warmed up the Earth almost 6° C. This increase in the temperature, along other climate conditions, transformed the earth into a planet covered mostly by either tropical forests or deserts. This impulsed the extinction and proliferation of some species. In the Northern Hemisphere, specially in North America and Asia, both bulky and slender herviborous mammals have successfully replaced the dinosaurs that once lived there as the general browzers of the place. Some carnivorous mammal species exist too, but they are hindered by the ever-growing species of diversified dromaeosaurs and crocodilians. Some azhdarchids exist here but they are in the verge of extinction. In the Southern Hemisphere, mammals weren’t as successfull as in the north. Ornithopods recovered, and the small species became bigger and bigger, as they filled the once lost hervivorous dinosaur niche. They are not as big as their ancestors, but some species can get as big as a rhinoceros. Crocodilians and Dromaeosaurs are also proliferating on this side of the planet, leaving mammals hindered in small hervivorous and carnivorous species, even if they rule the forest canopy. In the more desertic areas, Azdharchids also exist. Now flightless and more giraffe-like, this creatures are also taking the advantage of this hotter climate. In the oceans, Mosasaurs are almost gone, being replaced by sharks. Some creatures present in this epoch are: *Modern-like Birds. *Artiodactyl and Perissodactyl-like mammals. *Bat-like mammals. *Rodent-like mammals. *Feline and Canine-like mammals (Quite small and not very diverse). *Crocodilians *Large Neo-Ornithopods. *Perissodactyl-like Pterosaurs. *Mosasaurs (On the edge of extinction). *Monkey-like Dromaeosaurs. *Raptor-like Dromaeosaurs. *Therizinosaurs Oligocene: The first ice caps appear in both poles of the Earth. This is because of a temperature decrease of almost 8°C in Earth’s Global Temperature, being one of the biggest temperature depresions ever recorded. This will be a great advantage for mammals, which can adapt quite easily to cold. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, will have a hard time trying to adapt this new enviroment. Specially Non-avian dinosaurs. In the Northern Hemisphere, Mammals became diverse, now filling all large hervivore niches, and also starting to fill some large carnivore niches as well. Mammal shapes come from Rhinoceros-like to Hyena-like (This forms in particular replaced Feline and Canine-like mammals, sending them to extinction). Dromaeosaurs still exist. Some of them even got quite a a large size for the time. However, they were also forced to move south, were there was less coldness. In the South Hemisphere, Ornithopod dinosaurs harshly declined. Again, only small to medium-sized Ornithopod species survived (Some of them even developed carrion-feeding to survive). Azdharchids surprisingly survived this time with minor damage, and towards the end of this epoch they replaced some of the ornithopods in their niches. Dromaeosaurs are more common on this side of the planet, and the first signs of primate-like life appears in South America. In the oceans, Mosasaurs dissapeared, and some cephalopod species are starting to take filter-feeding niches. Mammals have also arrived to this parts of the world, but only as otter and seal-like forms. Some of the creatures from this epoch are: *Modern-like Birds (Penguin-like forms also appear for the first time). *Hervivorous Ungulated mammals. *Carnivorous Ungulated mammals. *Again, Bat-like mammals and Rodent-like Mammals. *Crocodilians *Small Hervivorous Ornithopods. *Small Carrion-feeding Ornithopods. *All types of Ungulated-like Pterosaurs (From giraffe-like to deer-like). *Monkey-like Dromaeosaurs. *Raptor-like Dromaeosaurs. *Therizinosaurs. Miocene: The miocene can be seen as an epoch of improvement in the species. Most of the species in the Miocene were more specialized versions of the Oligocene ones to their enviroment. A series of Ice Ages interrupted every certain time this epoch, and the Middle Miocene Disruption reduced specially the number of crocodilians and some Neo-Ornithopods. But, besides this series of events, the miocene and the later Epochs look very similar between them. On a special note, it seems that two sentient species were on development by this epoch: one, an intelligent race of dromeosaurids in South America. The other, some sort of intelligent hyena-like creature in Eurasia. Pliocene and Pleistocene: The modern times. The last epoch (Plesitocene) will be explored deeply in the following posts, as it is modern times. This is all the background there is. Expect more and keep coming for more updates on this little project of mine. This is so exiting
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 7 2010, 07:03 PM Post #2 |
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sounds good but i think at least the small ankylosaurs should survive as they were resistant and found within the antarctic circe(minmi, for example) |
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| TheCoon | Dec 7 2010, 07:06 PM Post #3 |
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Meh... I figured out that even if they survived the cold, they would be smashed later by other hervivores, and would starve to death as they stole their ecological niche. But on the other hand, it sounds like a good idea to have them around. Would make it more interesting. I'll concider them.
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 7 2010, 07:12 PM Post #4 |
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They can survive on any low plant matter, and can pretty much walk through preadator territory and eat while othe herbivores couln't come with in 3 miles. Maybe something symbiotic with predators that grazes in their territory, but attracts herbivore herds that think its safe, one herbivore than gets eaten and the anky gets a meal. Sort of like a living trap. |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| TheCoon | Dec 7 2010, 07:14 PM Post #5 |
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I like it. A little too elaborate, but I think it could happen by the late Eocene. You're making me concider Ankylosaurs more and more
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 7 2010, 08:47 PM Post #6 |
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ya. Or some domesticated as tanks by your dino sentients |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Cephylus | Dec 8 2010, 12:19 AM Post #7 |
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What about a giant terror-bird version of Azhdarchids? They'd be the largest predators in their habitats. Flighted or flightless? I dunno. But personally I think flighted because they can travel over long distances searching for carrion. Maybe hooked bills? |
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| TheCoon | Dec 8 2010, 10:35 AM Post #8 |
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I was thinking in some small cervid-like forms that would eat carrion. I was also thinking that, since all of the Azhdarchids have complex frontal limbs, some of them might evolve them as a method of defending themselves against predators. Maybe some of them evolve some sort of boxing-like style of fight. Like those boxing kangaroos. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 8 2010, 07:20 PM Post #9 |
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or the wing turns into a slasing sythe |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Cephylus | Dec 8 2010, 11:35 PM Post #10 |
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I still go for Terror-bird azhdarchids. They would be perfect at filling that niche, with long kicking legs apt for striding and a massive beak which it uses to gobble up small animals. Oh well, not really terror bird analogues but kind of a grizzly bear-terror bird in between omnivore niches. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 11 2010, 08:36 AM Post #11 |
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yaa... |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| spartan | Dec 18 2010, 10:45 AM Post #12 |
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Yeah! That idea looks so good and very badass in design
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| TheCoon | Dec 18 2010, 12:19 PM Post #13 |
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Since you insist, I'll rewright some of South America's history to make Terror Bird-like Adzharchids fit in. Also, sorry for not uploading anything but I'm busy with exams and everything. Maybe next week I can post something. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 18 2010, 02:45 PM Post #14 |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Cephylus | Dec 18 2010, 09:29 PM Post #15 |
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OK. What I especially like about this project is the diversification of mammals, which isn't so common in other no-KT projects. |
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