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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
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Jan 29 2016, 10:04 PM
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Not even that. During the Eocene there was no Western Interior Seaway, and there was no frozen poles in that epoch.
I think the main reason for that is because of mountain building from the late Cretaceous onwards. The western interior seaway was already almost completely gone even before the Cretaceous ended. The other reason is because of an effect of plate tectonics. When supercontinents break up, the new crust is hotter and floats higher in the mantle. This displaces water from the oceans onto low lying areas. Because this mostly happened in the Jurassic, the high heat flow lingered into the Cretaceous, but was mostly gone by the time the Cenozoic began. This is why the land won't be as flooded as it was in the Cretaceous. Also, and this never gets mentioned enough, ice caps do not form on water. They form on land and move out into water. If there's no land (or not enough land) at the poles then ice caps can't form as the ice drifts away into warmer waters before they can grow to enormous sizes.
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.
"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming
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Feb 3 2016, 12:03 AM
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A 21st-century Earth where, for the past 65 million years, there had not been a single species of the following:
Ginkgophyta (ginkgoes)
Bryophyta (mosses)
Marchantiophyta (liverworts)
Anthotocerotophyta (hornworts)
Pteridophyta (ferns, horsetails, clubmosses, quillworts and spikemosses)
Cycadophyta (cycads)
Stromatopoda (mantis shrimps)
Pycnogodia (sea spiders)
Nautiloidea (nautilus)
Brachiopoda (shells that open up and down, not left to right like the bivalves)
Porifera (sponges)
Anthozoa (corals, sea anemones)
Crinoidea (sea lilies)
Onychophora (velvet worms)
Rhynchocephalia
Amphibia
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Feb 3 2016, 04:05 AM
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Terrestrial Penguins in either pre-Glaciation Antarctica or pre-sinking Kergulen/Zealandia
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Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5035229/1/
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Feb 3 2016, 02:49 PM
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Ooh, how about flight-capable descendents of extremely basal penguins?
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Spoiler: click to toggle OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death for my amusement to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. 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Feb 8 2016, 11:46 AM
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Speaking of penguins, another idea I had a while ago was burrowing penguins (some already nest in burrows, so it's not too much of a leap). Their webbed feet would be repurposed as spades, and they would also have flattened beaks and facial shields (like a coot has) to aid in pushing dirt aside.
And I know this has been done before a couple times, but how about armored birds? I imagine the ancestor would be flightless and have simplified hairlike feathers similar to those of a kiwi. From there, the feather quills could flatten out and the barbules could be lost (or somehow fuse together completely?), producing a hard scale-like structure like those of pangolins.
Another idea I've had, inspired by the wonderful Cinereous Mourner-- birds whose eggs employ Batesian mimicry. There would be some toxic, aposematically-colored, and reasonably egg-shaped species (e.g. snails, mushrooms) living in the area, and the eggs would develop similar colors and patterns.
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]Also, and this never gets mentioned enough, ice caps do not form on water. They form on land and move out into water. If there's no land (or not enough land) at the poles then ice caps can't form as the ice drifts away into warmer waters before they can grow to enormous sizes. Interesting, do you know where I can read more about this? Would water on the poles just be a collection of ice blocks, constantly drifting away and then forming anew?
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Feb 9 2016, 03:48 PM
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- Jan 14 2016, 11:32 PM
Leoarachne I think would be a more proper name linguistically
And why pass the pun and not make the SpiderPig of The Simpsons' fame? Some sort of brusque omnivorous relative of the SpiderCow Why must I forget about the Spider Pig!?!?!?!
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Good point about the Murder spider.
Spider Pig: Mainly Omnivorous Spider that has fangs and 2 psuedo fangs that the males use for fighting each other in territorial disoutes, they're mainly solitary. Ony coming together during breeding season. They mainly eat other animals like grasshoppers, crickets, other spiders, mice and other creatures they can tackle.
Sugar Strider: A small arachnid that feeds mainly on nectar, Beltian Bodies, Pollen, fruit, sweet stuff, sweet foods that humans throw away or forget about (Yogurt, Cakes, Ice Cream, etc...). When they jump they open 2 small flaps on their abdomen to acheive places where other spiders cannot. Even though they are mainly vegetarian, they do not turn up the opportunity for more free protein such as insect larvae or carrion.
Floofcrocs: Omnivorous heterodontic crocodylomorphs from North and South America, it's floofy and warm-blooded and can run bipedally. It eats anything and it's some what social, they can tolerate each others presence, but they really don't do much with each other outside of breeding season. The South American group is totally unrelated to the North American groups, the South American ones descend from Warm-Blooded Terrestrial relatives od Caimans and the North American ones descend from relatives of the American Alligator. They merely look like one another because of convergent evolution.
Eosuchus: A warm-blooded crocodylopmorph that survives the famous 6th Holocene Extinction. It can tolerate other members of its species, it's a generalist and its descendants survived the 6th Mass Extinction. Cool.
Alternative to the Floofcrocs, Procynoteiids: It's a warm-blooded tegu with floof and can wak erect on its limbs. What can I say?
Cursorial Turkeys: Well this one is weird... It looks like a long legged skinny and an even more colorful turkey. And it can run fast and it has a shorter, but more colorful tail.
Murderburb: Ambush predator seriemas.
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Feb 9 2016, 04:02 PM
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]Also, and this never gets mentioned enough, ice caps do not form on water. They form on land and move out into water. If there's no land (or not enough land) at the poles then ice caps can't form as the ice drifts away into warmer waters before they can grow to enormous sizes.
Interesting, do you know where I can read more about this? Would water on the poles just be a collection of ice blocks, constantly drifting away and then forming anew? Read up on glaciers, ice sheets, and ice-sheet dynamics on wikipedia.
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.
"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming
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Feb 9 2016, 07:02 PM
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Ooh, I have a few ideas!
Sneks: A group of aistopod descendants with dry, leathery skin that keeps them from drying out, although they do need to return to the water to lay eggs.
Porka: A primitive whale related to Dorudon with jaws like those of an entelodont.
A group of small permanently bipedal poposaur descendants that look very similar to old depictions of small dinosaurs.
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Spoiler: click to toggle OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death for my amusement to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault.
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The smell of rotting flesh really kills my appetite, surprising, but the visual appearance of corpses makes me hungry. Is that weird?
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When I first saw that picture, I thought you were dissecting a condom.
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All hail Robo-Stalin.
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Seems like everything in this project is now dead.
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Seagulls are pretty much trees, right?
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We all must finish chapters of our lives to go on to the next. Sometime this means leaving behind versions of ourselves that don't want to die.
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Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim. But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods. So you think we should just shut up and die?! If that is the fate decided by a god. You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die. We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end. To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
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What about a large bat that can use its echolocation as a sonic weapon?
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- Feb 9 2016, 07:02 PM
A group of small permanently bipedal poposaur descendants that look very similar to old depictions of small dinosaurs.
 Your argument is invalid.  [spoiler/] Just kidding, but poposaurs ARE obligate bipeds.
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Going and checking on the old wiki, I came across an article I'd forgotten about, for a "project" which was never lively to begin with long since fallen apart: Plankton Fish. However, despite the quality of most stuff from that "project" these actually stand out to me as a very interesting concept. - Quote:
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Plankton fish (Micropisces) are a subphylum of very small chordates existing 200 million years into the future. They evolved from ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii).Their skeletal structure has been reduced to a primitive dorsal nerve akin to the notochord of Cambrian cephalochordates such as Pikaia.
Plankton fish fill the ecological niche of plankton. Their lack of a skeletal structure is due to their reduced size. Their jaws are operated by sphincter-like muscles. They live in all sorts of habitats, from the open ocean, to the deep sea, to coral reefs, and even lake and ponds.
There are two classes of plankton fish: common plankton fish (Anophthalmiformes) and giant plankton fish (Ophthalmiformes). Anophtalmiforms contain the smallest species, barely measuring 0.05 millimeters in length - smaller than some single-celled organisms. Members of this class lack functional eyes and swim with a tiny whip-like tail that is similar to the flagella seen in some microbes. The genus Longipterus is known for its unusually long 'flagella-tail'.
Ophthalmiforms are larger plankton fish, the largest species reaching 2 centimeters in length, and possess rudimentary eyes. This class is divided into 3 orders: Ophiuromorpha, known for their whip-like tails and often mistaken for anophthalmiforms, Xenomorpha, which have strange broad-shaped bodies used to glide through the water, and Parodontomorpha, which possess tooth-like hooks around their mouths, used to attach to other sea creatures and scrape off skin cells.
In total, 2,637 species are known, the bulk of which belong to the ophthalmiform class.
I don't know who wrote it, but I love the concept? Anyone else find it cool? Is it plausible? This is an old post on an even older concept, but I think it's worthy of commentary. I like the idea a lot, but I'm not sure how plausible it is for vertebrates to shrink to literally microscopic size, even if they lose their skeletons. They'd probably have to lose or simplify a lot of organs, too. For comparison, the smallest known fish are 7.9mm-- so the larger plankton fish are entirely plausible, but it's the tiny ones I'm less sure about.
There's also the question of what happened to the numerous other planktonic species, if they've all been replaced by fish as the text seems to imply.
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The Library is open. (Now under new management!)
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As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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This animal is in my Future Planet project but I'm not sure how plausible it will be so I'll place it here for now.
Basically it's called the Panda Bird and lives in the tropical rainforests of East Africa (as a subcontinent). Basically it's a species of parrot that became flightless due to a lack of large herbivores (kind of like a Kakapo I guess) but gradually grew into a giant more erect bird. The body became more rotund with a large round stomach. The legs have become more stockier and pillar like to support the bird's weight, but still have a zygodactyl design (though the toes are shorter and wider). They have a long neck with a small head that has a large beak used to break into tough fruits and nuts. I originally planned for them to have a single large claw on each arm but I've since scrapped this idea as parrots re-evolving claws on their wings is unlikely, so now they just have large wings used for display but not flight; because they are so heavy now. They are also colourful animals and have wide multi-coloured tail feathers.
This animal lives between 36 - 49 million ACE (somewhere in that time).
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- Drakeking10
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What about a large bat that can use its echolocation as a sonic weapon? You know in the Godzilla 1998 animated series there was giant monster that was exactly like that which attacked Nigeria
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