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| Future Earth: 10 to 50 million years later; Overhall of the Noagene, Akupantagene and of the Lemozoit | |
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| Victorbrine | Jan 22 2016, 02:38 PM Post #1 |
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Hey guys! It's my first time that I'm on the speculative evolution forum and I wanted to start a new thread! I am now starting a series called "Future earth"... well of course there are more things like what I am doing right now but I wanted to start my own one. If I accidentally copied someone else I apologies. I will indeed stage this series much like in TFIW (The Future Is Wild): 10myl, 50myl, 100myl, 150myl, 200myl and finally So are you ready to see how the world would evolve in my opinion? Good, then what are we waiting for? Let's start! Future Earth: 10 million years later Overhall: The continental plates are in constant move so I'm first gonna talk about the continents: Africa obviously rams into Europe, closing the Mediterranean sea. This sea starts to dry into a salt plain as the Atlas mountains continue to rise: they spread into Spain and "fuse" with the Pyrenees. The Bering sea shrinks to a strait making America and Siberia extremely close together but not attached. Australia moves north and causes the formation of "Burmia": a sub-continent formed by the Celebes, Borneo and the Philippines. Eastern Africa splits from the rest of Africa and is on it's way to India (I'll call this sub-continent Galeon). Arabia hits Iran, widening the Red Sea and expanding the Iranian Plateau. South America splits from North America, connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean while Antarctica moves north to South America. A fault line is created in the northern part of Europe splitting Scandinavia from Russia. Great Britain moves north and closer to Scandinavia. Ocean currents change and delivers temperate and warm water all around the world. The world is still warming but sea level is almost intact (the area which was once known as Senegal is flooded and southern part of Mexico is underwater). Sumatra collides with Indochina while Java moves north to Burmia. Papua rejoins Australia creating Papaustralia. Anatolia and The Balkans collide, closing the Black Sea. Greenland starts to move south as well as Iceland. Animals don't change that much but some have evolved some special abilities: -Due to the Sahara transforming into a Rain Forest, O2 level increases ans so does the insects and arachnids. -Cockroaches are able to fly while wasps evolve more ant like behaviors. -Iguanas become more aquatic which can lead to the recreation of the Plesiosaurs but from a different species. - -Birds diversify. -Jellyfishes become bigger especially those from the Physaliidae family. This period marks the beginning of the Noagene. I hope you liked it. Again I'm new here so please don't flame. Thanks for taking a look at this! Next I'll talk about some animals of some specific areas of the Noagene. Spoiler: click to toggle
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Victorbrine | Feb 12 2016, 06:10 AM Post #61 |
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47 million years later The worlds of the gigantic beetles is ending. South America continues to push into Florida. Vertebrates are gone on the southern tip of Florida, making insects grow larger but its too late. Cliffs form much further into Florida. Now Florida is an extremely rough land. Swamps and other humid areas are gone. Alligators have however evolved more terrestrial manners much like some crocs before humans. Terrestrial Alligators are born. They move south and disturb the beetle's ecosystem. These beetles go extinct. 47 million years after humans, Florida is dominated by Terrestrial Alligators and pythons. The Alligator become the top of the food chain in Florida. Meanwhile Siberia and North America have finally collided. Now they're attached "permanently". The new land in between them offers new migration routes for Alaskan animals along with Siberian animals. Now we have a super continent known as "Eurasiamericafrica". Antarctica and South America form a new strait between them known as the "Ushuaia Strait". Now you can walk from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Horn. The Antarctic peninsula, along with western Antarctica, is now completely exposed without any seasonal changes. Australia is now at the center of the south Pacific ocean. Meanwhile Malumatra (Malaysia and Sumatra) start separating from Eurasiamericafrica. Volcanic activity becomes common there, gases are released into the atmosphere. The area is hostile and toxic. Galeon (East Africa) continues to head for India with the northern coast of Somalia almost aligned with the western coast of India. The ice caps are now only in actual Canada and in the southern tip of South America. Java isn't home to many species as it is affected by the hostility of Sumatran volcanism (Java is connected with Sumatra). Wind takes the ashes and gases to this "island". The island starts shaking, the ground brakes up. It's an earthquake but much worser than any earthquakes humans have seen. Tsunamis are formed and spread to the pacific coast of Eurasiamericafrica. The ground shatters as it rises up. After the earthquake, the inner composition of the crust is exposed, but there's something else! For the first time in 47 million years, an artifact is seen. The earthquake broke many artifacts but these objects are still visible and understandable. We are in what was once known as the city of Jakarta. Buildings have "disappeared" but smaller objects became "fossilized": the tires of the "becaks" have become oil, some plastic plaques are exposed, stone walls, concrete and very few iron object. But not just human artifacts. Soon the ground cracks again, the rocks liberate tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. The volcanism continues in Malumatra. The Earth's global temperature is now 3.4 C above normal. Thats it for now. More updates to come! |
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Victorbrine | Mar 5 2016, 06:34 AM Post #62 |
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Eclipses of the Future: The Moon slowly moves further and further from the Earth. At one point, the moon would be a tiny white ball, with the Earth AND the Moon showing the same face, like Pluto and Charon (but with the Moon having an orbit of 47 days.). This would take place in billions of years of course and the sun would be bigger and be a red giant. So let's stick to the "near" future. During prehistoric time (dinosaurs, Permian, all those things), it could be possible that they were no solar eclipse. The proximity of the Moon makes it so that it has a bigger apparent size than the sun. While being very close, there won't be enough light, especially red one, for the Moon to become a pure crimson red during a lunar eclipse. So the Moon would appear darker, barely visible. Lunar eclipses and Solar Eclipses will be different in the future. Solar Eclipse: Because the moon is farther, solar eclipses would be annual. This means that a particular amount of light reaches the surface even if the Moon is in front of the sun. Spoiler: click to toggle Lunar Eclipse: The penumbra will always be visible. This creates a central red area on the moon while all around is whitish grey since the Moon is further away from the Earth. Spoiler: click to toggle The next update will take time to come because of many reasons. You must be patient if you want more, but don't worry, updates will come.
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Picrodus | Mar 5 2016, 02:20 PM Post #63 |
:Ominous Wind:
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I like the way you added basic background information, as in how the sky will change as the solar system ages. Great job. |
 My Deviantart A work in progress. Other Liked Quote: "The "habitable zone" will expand along with the Sun. This will warm once-frozen planets and their moons, bringing a brief springtime after a 10-billion-year winter." | |
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| Victorbrine | Mar 11 2016, 01:14 AM Post #64 |
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Thanks. Doing this in MS Paint was easy but also a little pain. So yes, the sky in the future. |
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Victorbrine | Mar 21 2016, 01:49 PM Post #65 |
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The Future of Sharks Sharks, why wouldn't I put them here? These fishes were one of the most successful creatures on Earth. They had evolved in many ways. They were once the preys of bigger fishes. Yet the end of the Devonian emptied many niches. Sharks took those niches and became bigger, stronger and rules the sea once and for all. Today sharks are threatened by humans. By 2034, 10 species of sharks went extinct. The extinction of the humans remarked a chance for sharks to continue their "adventure". By 20 myl, gliding sharks appeared along with another type of sharks: crawling sharks. Gliding sharks are the descendants of some of the modern sharks that jump high like the Spinner shark. They have longer fins and chase on fishes from the Exocoetidae family. Crawling sharks are the descendants of "walking" sharks like the Epaulette shark. A unique feature of the Epaulette shark is that it can survive in almost anoxic 30 C water for 1 hour with no side effects. They also "walk" on the sea floor rather than swimming (but they still can swim) and can even sometimes crawl out of water (to go in another tide pool thanks to their ability to survive in hypoxia):  The future "Epaulette shark" have taken their unique anoxic adaptation to a new level: they start to breathe out of water. With Australia moving eastward across the Pacific ocean (and a little bit upward), landscapes are reshaped and tide pools become a little rare. These crawling sharks can survive much longer out of the water while trying to take O2 from the air but however the quantity of oxygen taken is lower than in the water... for now. 30 myl is this famous Akupantagene Brief Ice Age: sea level dropped and crawling shark evolve more sophisticated gills that start to "transform" into lungs. They are now semi-aquatic and are 2 times the size of the original Epaulettes. This means more developed fins that start to morph into limbs: Spoiler: click to toggle 45 myl, crawling sharks have become more air breathing sharks than water breathing sharks. Little claws start to appear on their pectoral fin and their qeudal fin and dorsal fin start to atrophy. They spend more time out of the water. Gliding sharks on the other hand are semi-aquatic, like crawling sharks, they can breathe in and out of the water. They also improved their gliding habit with a smaller, almost flat and lighter body. Crawling sharks start to shift from a cartilagenous skeleton to a bony skeleton: calcium builds up in the body. But this shift will take millions of years to achieve. 50 myl, we can distinct many type of crawling sharks native to Papua and Australia such as the "Micheal Jackson" shark, Cobaltic shark, Sidney shark, Beach shark (or Papuan shark) and etc. They continue to develop limbs and a more air breathing attitude. Eventually, they will be able to truly walk rather than crawl by at least 100 million years after humans. Crawling sharks are only native to Australia and Papua and will evolve into true Walking sharks. The conquest of the land has begun. Yet they remained a small size and some has become the prey of new predators. Some sharks also take a more omnivorous diet. Some dig in the ground and eat the animals they encounter or the roots. For now, here's a little preview of sharks. The last update will be of course on the 50 myl mark. I will dirrectly skip to 100 myl after that and put more animals (that might be another topic). But for now, we should stick to the end of the Lemozoit.
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 21 2016, 04:12 PM Post #66 |
* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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Interesting... |
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Speculative Evolution: Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack. | |
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| Victorbrine | Apr 1 2016, 05:40 AM Post #67 |
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50 million years later Out of all the ecosystem that we talked about was mostly terrestrial ecosystems. So, let's focus on marine ecosystem, especially 50 million years after humans, on the western part of the Arabian Peninsula:  This particular area is flooded 50 million years hence. Mountains become islands. Jeddah and Mecca are now under a shallow sea, 30 to 100 meters deep. The strait of Hormuz on the other side of the peninsula has closed, so the Arabian gulf is now the Arabian Inland Sea. With the movements of tectonic plates and ocean currents, Arabia starts to become greener and greener. Now it's a grassland dotted with very rare local trees. Oasis have become pocket forests while the Mashreq (Iraq and Syria) is still arid and hot. In the place which was once known as Mecca, dwelling creatures inhabit around the Kaaba, one of the as the last human remains that survived for this long. However unlike today, the Kaaba lost its black texture and is more whitish. Halfway covered in sand, it will soon fall into a mere pile of granite. Its one of the breeding ground of a typical prehistoric looking fish known as the Lime fish (Limanistinus hejazin). It resembles a silurian fish Cephalaspis, but it has a jaw. It has evolved a hard skull and hard head, much like Cephalaspis, used to dig into sand and lay eggs. Here, they lay eggs inside the Kaaba. In fact, most Lime fish in the area lay eggs inside it (as a protection from egg eating fishes). They feed on Hejazian Urchin. These sea urchins have evolved feet and legs from the one of their spines. The sea floor is dotted with trumpet looking plant like living organisms that feed on everything that reaches their mouth. These plants are known as Yahabibi Algaes. Yahabibies aren't plants but rather worms. The Hejazian Urchins have developed 4 limbs used to walk, whch were once spines of the body. Such locomotion transition from rolling on the sea floor to walking is due to predators as they would be faster (but still slow in a way) when running away (today irchin can still escape predators though). It was also used as a way to catch preys much easier. This effective locomtion transformation is a complex step for urchins. But soon these urchins would die off because of volcanic activity in the middle of the red sea, 60 million years after humans. The Lemozoit ends drastically by an extinction that wiped off 76% of urchin genera, 58% of all fishes genera, 53% of all shark genera, 67% of corals, 23% of algaes, 19% of jellyfishes and 97% of arabic crustaceans as well as 68% of all crustaceans. This extinction is known as the Lemozoit Galeogene Extinction (Le-G Extinction). In total, the Le-G Extinction brought 54% of these marine organisms to its demise along with 45% of terrestrial life. The Galeogene (55 myl 71 myl), Ymanogene (71 myl to 90 myl) were times where marine life grew better. As for now, the world starts to become a strange place by the beginning of the Galeogene. Mammals still are as successful as today. However some were brought to extinction but others made it throughout the world especially during the times of the new super continent Eurasiamericafrica and later Pantarctica. |
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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| Victorbrine | Apr 3 2016, 08:56 AM Post #68 |
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Finale We have travelled from 10 to 50 million years into the future. My attempt at doing this is quite good. Yet I indeed put things that can be improbable such as 3 meters beetles. I saw that actually doing a topic stretching over 40 million years is a little difficult. I also didn't put many of the ecosystem, plants and animals in one time mark. So the next one would only focus on one mark. This "adventure" ends here. Hope you guys enjoyed, it was a great time. However this doesn't mean that I will let down this topic so replies are still welcome. |
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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?” "Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire "So if you wake up in the morning and it's a particularly beautiful day you'll know we made it." -Capa "One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing." -me in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" (Act 3) "but by rule 34 of the multiverse, if it exists, there’s a world full of it." -Tet "I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry" Projects Status My Blog (SE Blog) Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzYPIsLp0uHoPtT6ZEyww | |
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