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| Plausibility in Mythological critters; yes, cliche..... | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 12 2011, 01:59 AM (1,255 Views) | |
| Cephylus | Mar 12 2011, 01:59 AM Post #1 |
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An alternate world of mythological and legendary creatures- as cliche as it is, here's my new project. There is no clear divergence between our world and this world. The beasts which inhabit this world are different, that's for sure, but there is no clear, distinguishable event which took place in this world which would cause such divergences. Some extinct genera and clades still live; some unfamiliar descendents of familiar creatures exist. Most animals are descendents of familiar Neogene clades. But the striking characteristics of the beasts in this world is that many evolved in a parallel form to mythological/legendary creatures of our own world, the dragons, the gryphons, the sea serpents, the various bizarre chimerical creatures, although in all cases they are rather different from what humans have always imagined them to be. Humans did evolve in this world. In fact, a variety of sapients from the genus Homo exist (it is tricky to claim them all of them as individual species, as it appears that in most cases they can interbreed, a characteristic which has caused the demise or near extinction of some races). Some of them proved to be as destructive as us, shifting the ecological balance and causing various abnormalities and unbalance, mainly due to excessive hunting. But some managed to blend in with the environment before wiping out all large animals in the region. So as a result, the animals also managed to adapt to the erect-walking killer apes, some domesticated, some used as cultural symbols and some even specializing to prey on humans..... That was the introduction. Here are some questions I wanted to ask- Can fire-breathing truly actually evolve? I mean, among tetrapods. Mammals, birds, reptiles.... And poison. Can birds really evolve venom? And bipedal stances in mammals. What possible mammal clades can evolve bipedality? I know kangaroos did it, but any other possible clades, both extinct and living? |
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| Dark-Matter | Apr 21 2011, 12:18 PM Post #16 |
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Are you going to descrive any cryptid that look like a dinosaur? |
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