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| Dragonthunders | Mar 22 2015, 08:19 PM Post #1 |
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Well, I've wanted to do this for a while, I wanted to post some of my concepts of speculative evolution, several of them are concepts random and probably in the near future are not part of any particular project (and some probably yes). Here are some of them Secondarily Terrestrial Ichthyosaurs Well, this was something that came in small talk skype after I made the terrestrial dolphin, The Kelperycete (looking down). This is just a thought experiment, so there is not much plausibility about whether or not would happen. Spoiler: click to toggle The idea is simple: what if a group of ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic (I will not specify species) is transferred to a distant world where they are the only living tetrapods? Well, the point of divergence is approximately 150 million years, who led these ichthyosaurs this planet are left, and ichthyosaurs begin to populate the oceans of the planet. About 20 to 35 million years after its arrival there is a variety of aquatic species, large filter feeders, heavy predators, some species that live in shoals, ect. However, a small group in particular has begun to venture into the fresh water, invading rivers and lakes. They began to adapt to constant changes suffered such environments, some species even became amphibious (A), probably because of the lack of competition, it was of much benefit. The fully terrestrial ichthyosaurs would have to be around 70 to 80 million years after the arrival on the planet, these have developed similarly to the first amniotes tetrapods, with long bodies, short legs with legs with a lateral position. In the Holocene, ie 150 million years after the ichthyosaurs they were transferred to this other planet, the terrestrial species are able to diversify and have taken a variety of ecological niches, among which are: 1- A arboreal being, similar to a tamandua 2- This being like lizard is one of the first species that have developed fully terrestrial features 3- A large heavy predator 4- One of the largest herbivores in the world, used his hump for storing food in dry seasons 5- A relative newcomer, this species fly with membranous wings held by two fingers hypertrophied 6- A distant relative and probable ancestor of the flying species are small endothermic omnivores. The Future Is Far Concepts Spoiler: click to toggle a) The Cetosui 145-215 myh This is a descendant of pigs, but completely different, has lost all recognizable as a pig, developing a similar to the archaic whales form, however, their anatomy differs with the archaic whales, especially in the jaw, which still remains his heterodont structure (has differentiated teeth) b) Arboreal bat 145-215 myh These bats native from antartida now have adapted to a completely arboreal life, no longer have wings, these have been replaced by functional hand c) Burrowing Owl 39-65 myh This flightless owl species spends most of its time in the underground d) Integumented crocodilian 215-350 myh there are several likely that the earliest archosaurs can redevelop integument like their extinct relatives, however, that It would take time and would have to spend dozens of changes to make this happen, probably by that time, these crocodilians no longer have the same appearance as their relative ancestors. e) The serpentine thing 215-350 myh hiding something, and probably lead to the emergence of something new f) A hoofed procyonid 145-215 myh It takes a little imaginative about how mammals could diversify after major events of mass extinction, it would not be foolish to think, that someday an active carnivore or a generalist omnivore could after a couple of tens of millions of years take the niche of any herbivore, and become something like a horse, a deer, a deer or any other specialized herbivore Here I show you an example, a descendant of some procyonid (probably raccoons) which after several radiation, a group of them managed to adapt to the diet of herbivores, to becomes of one of them. Aquatic Spinosaur Spoiler: click to toggle A likely alternative species descended from the Spinosaurs (no direct descendant of spinosaurus) where the male is fully aquatic, while the female is amphibious. The reason? As archosaurs, they are even forced to lay eggs, as they are unable to evolve a vivipara, these dinosaurs have developed a sexual dimorphism where females are smaller than males, even possess several characteristics of their semi-terrestrial ancestors, allowing them to return to land, clumsily, but efficient. Tatzels Spoiler: click to toggle The tatzels are a species of vertebrate future will evolve in 500 million years in the future, are descendants of vipers. They are completely different from their ancestors in many ways, have redeveloped limbs, but not from its original parts, but from the bottom of his jaw. The upper jaw or rather, the teeth, have evolved as mouthparts and now these vertebrates possess a mouth divided into three parts. The Mammaloid Spoiler: click to toggle "Students, this would have been the result if the mammals had ruled the earth, and had developed intelligence like us, we know if they had the opportunity to dominate the world, probably would have developed the same characteristics like ours, they will be bipedal, with a long tail for balance, probably his hands would not be so skillful to create utensils, so they could have developed hypertrophied teeth, something similar to our beaks" Some Dinosauroid Spoiler: click to toggle This was something that had drawn for some theropod dinosaurs sophonts designs, this species but not descended from a Cretaceous theropod, descended from the most basal forms, dating from the Triassic. Note: it has no feathers because it is only a sketch of its form Tunicate sophont Spoiler: click to toggle The life in a nebulous alternative earth, a planet with a dense atmosphere, cover the surface so that the light is scarce. Nevertheless, it seems that life has survived, has developed many methods to survive in this "extraterrestrial" environment. The organisms here are descendants of lower Paleozoic fauna, of which managed to survive and prosper. The true vertebrates are not present, did not have the time and space to evolve, however, their close relatives, the other types of chordates arrived and occupied most of their niches, Although none of them was like a "chordate" that known. Some were conservative, and even on land, preserved their own personal plans. for example, tunicates, who just changed their evolutionary strategy in part during their conquest of the land. The first land tunicates were something like a cross between a tadpole with a slug, they had developed a unique foot. These forms were left in their larval stage, in this way, still possessed a nervous system developed, which gave a huge amount of opportunities. At some point of time, some of these tunicates again began to develop sessile forms, but were a little different from their relatives of our timeline, because they kept their nervous systems intact. Of all advanced life forms that exist in this alternate world, in tunicates was conceived wisdom There might have been some major changes in your biosphere, a mutation, or some kind of fluke, but these beings emerged. They are aware of the world around them, have begun to reason among those who are close to them, and have even emepezado to develop tools that can help them boost their species. For now (right) Young ways to lower intellect are the workforce and hands of these minds motionless, but soon they will soon find a way to move on their own. Kelperycete Spoiler: click to toggle On a distant planet, forgotten by the time, strange creatures roam the extensive and green plains. This creature originated from an ancestor from the earth, but no from land, it comes from water. Their ancestors once swam the oceans of earth, they were vulnerable to hand of smarter and more dangerous mammals. I'm talking about cetaceans, specifically, dolphins. long time ago, the humans, a race that had hunted term to save them and even gave them a chance in the form of knowledge, although in the end some of them eventually return to their basal roots, so returning to its aquatic forms. Some of these were established in one peaceful place and evolution eventually took care of them Almost 215 million years after, the descendants of these dolphins now haunt every corner of the planet, and I'm not just talking water, 'm talking about the land. Only 50 million years after the dolphins colonize this planet, some species by the lack of competitors and with so many vacant niches amphibious forms began to evolve, eventually venturing on land. For that, they had to make some morphological changes to retake their former place of origin. Her anatomy prevented them to return to adapt completely, still, they began to develop in other ways. 175 million years after the colonization of this planet, the dolphins had managed to completely conquer the earth, some with strange morphologies, the commonly bipeds, monopedals, tripods, and even some types limbless that move like caterpillars. with more time, these kinds of strange dolphins were redeveloped fur. A group of tripods had developed a heterodont jaw, which meant a big advantage compared to other terrestrial dolphins because it allowed them to develop a wider range of feed. A little longer, and some extinctions, left the tripods as one of the most advanced and diverse groups on this planet. The example that we see above, belongs to a family of specialized herbivores had entered the scene just 30 million years ago, are known as Kelperycetae (Of the creatures kelpie, Peryton and the word Cetus) most are medium sized ruminant animals, living mainly in grasslands and savannas. They are characterized by bony projections, derived from the very atrophied pelvis, in several species, serves as a defensive weapon against predators. |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Velociraptor | Mar 22 2015, 10:10 PM Post #2 |
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Those already exist but they can fly. |
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| Scrublord | Mar 23 2015, 02:58 PM Post #3 |
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The cetiosui honestly doesn't need 145 million years to evolve. It only took whales about 15 million years to get from Pakicetus to Basilosaurus, after all. |
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| Archipithecus | Mar 23 2015, 04:19 PM Post #4 |
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And it took whales 145 million years to get from some shrew thingy in the Cretaceous to get to how they are now. Even though it could evolve from modern pigs, and be whale-like in 15 myh, that doesn't mean that they're starting now. Maybe they start becoming aquatic 130 myh. |
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| Dragonthunders | Mar 23 2015, 06:36 PM Post #5 |
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Yes I know, for that I chose the owls. The ones I'm showing are slightly different from the present, already can not fly, his claws are adapted for digging, and they do not live in america, they live in antarctica. Also, thanks Archipithecus to clarify the doubt of Squibbonator. |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Dragonthunders | Mar 28 2015, 08:27 PM Post #6 |
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Hunter Spoiler: click to toggle In the plains of cetis, The Kelpicete, a distant descendant of dolphins that occupies the niches of modern herbivores, escapes after being ambushed by two Arponclaws, a kind of flying mollusk descended from octopus, that once were genetically modified to inhabit the land. Oni Spoiler: click to toggle A world is on fire. The war with the tyrants had lasted over 30 years now, the neighbouring system had only put up limited resistance, and yet the tyrants had punished them by destroying their intelligence. This system was bound to share a similar fate unless it acted against the enemy soon. The way they would do this would be to launch a first strike at the invasion force, making sure they would be crippled. Thousands of nuclear weapons were launched at the tyrant armada, destroying thousands of ships, each containing tens or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and thus devastating the first invasion wave effectively. Then the second came. Sick of their ancestor’s brutality, the tyrant scientists demanded a far more humiliating fate for these poor humans then those in the first system had ever had. They wanted to make the humans suffer before disposing of them. After the torture, they genetically modified a new race of humans, totally different to their ancestor. The original species is known as oni (xenonianthropus primus) and it is almost unrecognisable from its ancestor. What were once the limbs have been completely atrophied, leaving only the former hands, which have fused with the tiny body. The 8 fingers now function as legs for this creature, being quite similar to the old ones, only with more supportive power and with gecko like hairs to assist in climbing. The thumbs would be used for grabbing, digging or signalling, or just plain scratching. The animal’s organs would be developed to some extent as well. The lungs of the animal would be adapted to survive in the limited oxygen supply, which at this point in time is just over 15% after the invasion, as well as giving it a conveyer belt structure in its heart, allowing it to constantly pump blood and oxygen through its system, meaning it can be fast and effective. The spine would contain extensions from it that help link what look like two separate hands together, as well as help defend it from predators such as the insects, centipedes, velvet worms, carnivorous slugs and dwindling populations of rabid dogs that roam, as well as their own kind. Their stomach is strong and powerful, allowing an omnivorous diet which allows them to digest almost anything available. Overall, the animal’s body is similar or slightly wider than a normal human hand, though significantly longer to include the space for the tail and neck. The tail is divided into 3 parts. Below it is an enlargened placenta, allowing them to give birth to several offspring at a time, useful at a time when the population is dwindling. This combined with their small size, means they are fast breeders. It still possesses mammary glands from its ancestors, though they are reduced and are only really an option when the mother is well fed, meaning young tend to be more autonomous than many placental mammals on Earth. The tail is forked with a flap of skin between them. This helps a number of things, such as signalling for mates, monitoring wind and air currents, and even swimming. The neck is quite long for its size, having about 12 vertebrae within it. The least warped part of the body is the head, and even that is nauseating for a human. The lower jaw has been split in two, similar to that of a snake. This means that as well as chewing its food like a normal mammal, it can open its mouth far wider than any mammal ever could and swallow large items whole, depending on the purpose. It possesses a long tongue which works as a more effective manipulator than the thumbs it has, and is often used in grooming as well as feeding. The upper jaw is elongated to a significant extent too, with a large bulbous nose, allowing for a strong sense of smell as well as effective breathing. Below this nose is a set of effective facial hair which functions like whiskers to help detect food. Finally, another unusual feature from the genetic modification is the presence of a ‘third eye’ on its forehead, which functions somewhat similarly to that of a tuatara, except unlike the other regular eyes it is used to see in both infrared and ultraviolet, as it has an adjustable mechanism which allows it to see in wavelengths the other eyes are incapable of seeing. Several areas of the body are covered in hair, such as the top of the head, a light coating on its back and a protective layer around the genetalia too. This curious little creature soon finds itself the only vertebrate of this world, and as recovery programs begin to pump more oxygen into the atmosphere, the world is becoming more habitable, both for them and the other animals the invertebrates. What happens from this point onwards is a tale full of even more mystery than how it was originally... by Forbidden3 Aeroslug Spoiler: click to toggle "In the skies of Afroterra, the skies are not dominated by vertebrates or para verts, but by flying creatures called aeroslugs. Descended from a pelagic gliding ancestor sometime around 50 million years before the introduction of the first afrotheres, these intriguing creatures come in an array of shapes and sizes. The biggest species are as wide as an SUV, but most are the size of songbirds and crows. The way these creatures fly is very intriguing: unlike any other afroterran creature, aeroslugs move through the air by tilting their bodies up and down, making them almost like living kites. This is also helped by the fact that these creatures are very light, thanks to a system of air tubes, with the biggest species barely weighing 20 pounds. If they lose an air thermal, two wide growths on the sides of the mollusk help it fly in the absence of air currents. Despite their appearances, aeroslugs can move on the ground quite well, using their two side growths as a makeshift pair of legs. However, they prefer to land on trees, perching themselves by wrapping around branches. With the notable exception of the Blue Skimmers, all Aeroslugs lay three to nine hard shelled eggs in a nook or crevice, and closely guard them." by Adman The humans Spoiler: click to toggle They were here, they ruled this world, and they destroyed it, do not believe that they not will do again? Welcome to The Inner Spoiler: click to toggle Greetings to people who want to enter this universe, welcome to this hollow earth, ruled by an incredible number of strange and incredible animals. Those who want to enter will have to be prepared, the atmosphere and the air density are different, making it unbreathable for all life on the surface. No prepare sleeping bags, here there has never been a cycle of day and night, the core is always constantly shining in the center of the planet. The view is spectacular, at a time when the sky clears or one can get to climb mountains, one can obtain a complete view of the inner sphere, except for those parts eclipsed by the core. The sky is constantly a sepia color, there is always constant rain throughout the Ecuador to the tropics. Surpassing the tropics and surrounding the poles, these areas are almost lacking of life due to the constant radiation emanating from the core. Edited by Dragonthunders, Mar 28 2015, 08:30 PM.
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Dragonthunders | Jul 16 2015, 06:19 PM Post #7 |
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The fall of Qu After 500 million years of waiting, mankind got revenge on those who began their history in the galaxy, which brought down and had humiliated for 40 million years... The Qu. It was going to happen sooner or later, the United Galaxies were always moving looking for and exploring the known universe, trying to contact peacefully with advanced species which could find. But also, they were on full alert on the latent threat that still represented the Qu in the universe, they probably are traveling between galaxies and changing, his twisted and horrific image, maiming civilizations for pleasure. While humanity continued on their path to unity, they also had in mind other and more important thing: try to stop the Qu once for all. ...And so, the time came... It is not known if it was the "Qu" or the galaxies who made contact, but what followed is well known. Despite the age of the Qu, they could not be competing against dozens of extragalactic civilizations that not only outnumbered, but they also were at an advanced technological level like them.ç In a few million years, the great empire of nomads was devastated, its dogma was smashed and its power faded into the darkness. The Qu, was defeated. The beings who celebrated above of the remains more that other species were the asteromorphs, the machines, the subjects, the mankind, who after long time, they avenged for all that preceded them... However, it was not finished, the asteromorphs, in their great intelligence, knew that extinction could be too much for their old subduers, but, they ought not to leave them unpunished. In the end they reached one of the most logical options. Soon, The Qu was preparing to spend in the purgatory Spoiler: click to toggle After Qu After the defeat of the Qu, humans had in his own hands, the task of punishing, or give judgment them for their atrocities. The asteromorphs, the kind of "sub-men" more powerful at the time, took them some mercy by not exterminate them at the time, but did not mean that they were pious with Qu descendants. The most appropriate punishment for extra-galactic subduers was quite interesting. Almost like an irony, the Qu had been reduced to mere creatures, forced to live like wild beasts in many new environments even transformed by asteromorphs gods, still rebuilding after the ephemeral galaxy war against the machines. This is obvious, even to the sub-men less wise, and they had little knowledge of ancient human history, it was the "pay" for what they did happen to humanity to be submitted by 40 million years. It was an eye for an eye, the men had humiliated the Qu, most had been modified to meet the primary functions of ecosystems, were in the lowest part of the food chain, being victims of sub-men, descendants of the subjects who served as archetypes in shaping the new life in galaxy. None of the descendants of Qu occupied some important niche in first part of the , no large predators, no large herbivores, most were little swimmers, diggers and crawlers are down under the shadow of the sub-man in the ecosystems. There was another detail, the most brutal that could be say, since the Qu, was allowed to keep his conscience, that is, were even intelligent beings in these PostQu forms. However, they could not manipulate the environment, or any tool, they could not manipulate anything. In their brains conceived ideas and memories of his kind, but their bodies were useless to manipulate their environments to build a society. They developed several dialects and languages to continue to keep their memories in the following generations Most of these forms, living their lives. It was to survive as any other creature, yet had a conscience, felt, loved, hated, feared, suffered. Many of the early generations suffered greatly for their physical disabilities and could not do something about it, they were doomed to suffer the fate of being animals permanently, with intelligent minds. Like the ancient mantelopes, they only could shout with their voices to the air. And then, as both gods and beasts enjoyed the punishment. The post-Qu remained scattered throughout the galaxy, many did not survive the first few million years, most had been annihilated by several sub-men inhabitants who were not so according to afford to live in the post-Qu. It was much extinction as genocide. It was no crime, no one had to respond to massive deaths, everyone was free to cause extinction. The Post-Qu that survived gradually lost consciousness and fell into the life of the instincts, without trying to reason or think about their environment, so forget everything that made the false gods that were. The result of the radiation was changing hundreds of lineages that had adapted to their environment, their appearance completely change their ancestor in common, many of them had been through about 100 million years fighting for survival in the evolutionary race . Some fell and others prospered. Could be mentioned some examples: 1)Swimmerpincers When they were mutated into primitive forms, some of the most common were the aquatic forms, many of these were short and small beings that occupying no more than plankton niches and a few were small detritivorous forms. Most of these had been left in several worlds with water covered surfaces. Many of these world, s had been "sterilized", leaving in the end only one planet with aquatic offspring. Their fins derived from their mouthparts, allowed them to move and walk in his prison ecosystem for a long time. Extinction came quickly, leaving devastated their world, and eradicating posthumans that inhabited it. His position helped them withstand the disaster, leaving intact lineage. This could have given the perfect opportunity to finally stalling out, but fate is most cruel that punishments made by mankind. The disaster was caused by the gradual growth of the star to which orbited the planet, which was in the final stages of stellar evolution. Without further ado, this world was dried and what it remained, than it could be the restart, are evaporated and dissected in a huge salt. 2) HummingQu These flying graceful, fluttering in the peaceful skies of a dwarf planet habitable only 6000 km in diameter. This little world, turned out to be a world plunged into chaos with the passage of time by its thin atmosphere and disintegrated, its volatile climate, and above all, for its weak magnetic field which has allowed the entry of harmful solar radiation. Even with the probabilities, on the poles of the small planet, offered an ideal habitat in which these creatures could live. These creatures are nectarivorous absorb fluids from different and aberrant forms of autotrophic life, some aliens, some posthumans. Their lives went fast, your metabolism was fairly accelerated by its slender and small size, this had been compensated by an enormous capacity for reproduction, which allowed them to keep a steady rhythm of descent, which could maintain stable healthy populations. There were many individuals who from time to time, the sky was covered with swarms of these creatures. This advantage to offset their short lives, resulted in its final. The ecosystem and the amount of food had been reduced, making the balance of population and resources was not maintained, thus generating destabilization. One can only deduce that in a moment, their habitat collapsed, and they perished. 3) Mite Other small and reduced forms of the Ex-"star gods" had been resigned to life like "parasites." between flesh and skin of advanced creatures. They were not more than mere tiny creatures. Huddled in the skins of some post-men who inhabited a planet on the brink of becoming a snowball because is too far from its star. Its habitat was resigned to the body of their designated hosts, without any possibility of moving to another guest as physically exposed to the environment would kill instantly. 4) Globcloud Some gaseous planets turned out to be quite suitable for habitability, being able to sustain complex life forms, and were one of several candidates to be the worlds to keep the Post-Qu. From there came to develop diversity of species, from high speed predatory forms, air-plankton, the long serpentslike forms and finally the floaters. The Globcloud is characterized as one of the Biggest post-Qu that may have existed, reaching 50 meters in diameter. They were quiet and gentle floats bristles used their mouth to collect large amounts of plankton floating in the atmosphere of their home world. 5) Echinoderm The larger planets with gravity several times higher than the average severity of a meso-planet, kept some strange varieties of post-Qu. These creatures were low, with five tentacles extended from its center, with two eye stalks which jutted her huge eyes designed to perceive their world in all directions. Did not have a rigid skeleton that would allow them to sustain their body, instead, they had been integrated with a series of plates ossified way of scales that cover its entire body, plus several specialized tendons that hold rigid body. 6) Equines Not all the children of Qu had been left forgotten in wild planets. For some primitive civilizations worlds, led by the terrestrials, they saw a huge potential for the use of post-Qu as domestic animals, especially as beasts of burden. The equine played the most important role in the history of many peoples of the first rebuilt civilizations, as it allowed the spread of sub-men subject and several of its domains for each part of each of its worlds. Being useful creature of the moment, it's staying at these colony worlds turned out to be good and peaceful. But in the end, it was just an experiment, that at the end, quickly, were exterminated and wiped off the face of the world when its inhabitants developed their own artificial transportations, and left abandoned their pets. There was neither joy or sorrow, only silence, and the sounds of technologic transports. 7) Nightmarejaw Among the improbabilities that one lineage "ascended" to more prominent positions in the food chain in any ecosystem, the nightmare had come. This monster was part of a great macro-predator species, which for millions of years had devoured tens of species of primitive sub-men. Most nightmares were bipedal, their forelimbs began to atrophy and had huge jaws formed by several mouthparts derived from thin tweezers. Without competition, they evolved into the apex predators of the planet. Here, without any control of men-gods, these large predators diversified into dozens of species. 8) Mangler Another predatory forms that lived in other world free from mankind control, had adapted to conquer the arboreal environments, lost most of his limbs and had become in serpentine creatures. The mangler was these macro-predatorswhich had re-evolved in a way long slender pincers, eyestalks and especially the long, narrow head, making it looks like his ancestors. 9) Leafeyes All Post-Qu that we views so far have only drifted into heterotrophic lifeforms, able to move in their environments. However, not all were so radiated from the mobile creatures. Some of them, at the first, had been modified to be sessile creatures just absorbed nutrients from their surroundings, some of them went further and evolved into autotrophic creatures, by symbiosis with photosynthetic bacteria. The place where resided the process of photosynthesis occurred in the crystal structures derived from the eyes, which were modified. The exchange of gases happened in the stems of the "leaves" The environment where they flourished, was a planet located in a small red dwarf star, where this world had no night or day, one side was burned, and the other was frozen. The middle part of the planet, the twilight zone offered the ideal environment for their survival. They simply just pointed to the side of the sun, without moving, perpetually facing its star. 10) Vermin Thus like predators, herbivores appeared randomly from planet to planet. Although only one of these herbivores had excelled. The vermin had been on track to be one of the first PostQu that held regain wisdom. Something amazing, had since been suppressed for some time by the yoke of humanity. These strange 4 meters high herbivores possessed a tentacle-like limb derivative of the old "tail" of their ancestors. This limb was led them to more far. Had not been discovered their abilities until had already created their own advanced civilization, which had been detected by several of the "new machines". When their homeword was discovered, it had started a big debate about whether to let them live, or take them to extinction. For many, a new Qu, a reincarnation might suggest that's been enough to return to have another opportunity, however, others were fearing thus restarting the narcissistic and dangerous species. In the end, it would give an opportunity to the new civilization of Qu, like they were allowed to live the machines. It would welcome, not as the monsters they had mutilated humanity, but as a new dynasty The only thing they could not make was interfere with the development of their civilization. Humanity had left them in control of their destiny into their own hands... or tentacle in this case. They would only intervene when they began to try to colonize other worlds. But, by bad luck, one of the most predictable things had happened, their civilization had entered a war between various factions of their own species for resources that abound in their solar system. At the height of their civilization, and on the threshold of interstellar colonization and the likely redemption, they ended with all its opportunity in a short war of 100 years, which, I take them to extinction. 11) Homis After the cusp which had reached the Vermin, the only example of intelligence recovered by Qu, it was thought that it would not be returning to another possible descendant of these again become sapient. When humanity would crushing his ancient enemy, now they wanted to return to see if it had changed, if they were to be others. They tried to give hope to a small humanoid species, hand shaped by both nature like human gods. They expected a similar to the 'original humanity "start, could take the same path. He hopes that their body plan had, it was appropriate for the resumption of a natural wisdom. But like everything that happens in the universe, nothing is like expected. The species had opportunities, and yet never succeeded. Humanoid creatures were creatures absinthes of some kind of intelligence. This experiment was eventually abandoned, and the creatures were left free in that world which after a time died without remedy. Epilogue What remained at the end of the remnants of the Qu in the galaxy after their punishment was nothing more than stories and records of human civilization made before leaving. The wild forms, with few probabilities of survived more than humanity, had disappeared when their worlds were affected by huge catastrophes on a global scale. Their attempt to remake the universe to its twisted image had brought the end to ruin. There would be to think that they, with their endless knowledge, will never thought that their great power could have been challenged, or that they would find some adversary able to cope. Qu was only the projection of crazy, blind faith, a complacency that had been fused with strong technological capabilities, leading them on a journey of 1.5 billion years of pain and misery for thousands of species and civilizations. There is still much to discover about the past of these beings for a long time were among galaxies, conquering them and changing all, until the time when they were stopped by the "United galaxies". Who knows what remains, this story has just revealing. Spoiler: click to toggle
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Dragonthunders | Oct 21 2016, 01:34 PM Post #8 |
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Well, it's been a long time since I posted something here, but now, I could start again, so to start: Something Im working, it will try to involve everything about the SE diversity created so far, keep the eye, is coming soon |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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