Mutant Earth

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Mutant Earth; What if the animals of the future were born in a lab?
Topic Started: Feb 18 2016, 11:40 AM (3,100 Views)
Beetleboy	Feb 18 2016, 11:40 AM Post #1
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	*The Introduction* The unexpected story of the future begins not how you might think. It does not begin with a hand-waving explanation of how humans go extinct - quite the opposite, in fact. It starts with humans, and perhaps it wouldn't be a stretch to say the story is about humans right from the beginning to its finish. For if we are to think about this story, we must also take into account the effects humans will have on the whole future of the world - some of them rather unexpected. Humans do not like going extinct - nor, for that matter, do many species. Humans, it turns out, are almost a sort of sapient cockroach - not because of their natural skills, but because of their intelligence and inventions. As of the year 2016, the species Homo sapiens makes its way through a world war which killed thousands, and a massive epidemic, fighting them off with peace treaties (as well as nuclear bombs) and medicine. Somehow, humans bounce back every time. They may not have much in the way of natural defence mechanisms, but their technology and sapience win, in the end. 700 years from 2016, in the year 2716, the world has changed, and not neccasarily for the better. 90% of all Earthly terrestrial habitats are covered not by natural habitats, but by cities. The spread of humans came on in an impressive spurt, spreading their cities across the land, coating the Earth like scabs infested with tiny creatures - tiny, yet so influential to not only the world of 2716, but many million years afterwards. The amount of damage to Earth that humans have wreaked is incredible. Rainforests are all but gone - tiny pockets are left, most barely a few miles wide, existing in feable strips on the edges of cities and farmland. Beautiful seas of grass where zebras and antelope once roamed, stalked by lions and cheetahs in the grass, are now replaced by African cities and cattle farms. The oceans are thick with rubbish, matted with plastics that choke sea turtles and dolphins. Microplastics infest the foodchain like parasites, and mats of soiled nappies and broken toys clump together - the only things that thrive here are gulls, which bob along besides the mats of litter, feeding on tiny crustaceans hiding there. The baleen of whales is matted with plastic bags and other litter which has become clogged there, and fish lie dead at the bottom of the ocean, the by-catch of wasteful fishing. Reefs and deep sea areas have been dredged up by trawler fishing, and corals have become bleached and dead. The once glorious Great Barrier Reef is now a pale ghost, inhabited by a few fish and crabs which have clung on to survival. Sharks and turtles lie in folded mats of abandoned netting, the fibers cutting through flesh and skin. Prone bodies of dolphins and porpoises lay still choking on fishing hooks and netting, even in death. The icecaps have disappeared, melted away into the ocean, due to global warming which has only continued with renewed vigour since 2016, causing the sea level to rise. Polar bears are now something that can only be gawped at through the glass side of an indoor enclosure, with large areas to swim in and fake chunks of ice. It may look happy, even natural. But ignorance is not perhaps a good thing, but a fake thing. For this once-mighty creature's wild cousins are gone, and it will never again see real ice. It is born to die in a glass cage. In the vastness of the cosmos, it would be folly to think that Earth is the only planet with life. It seems likely, then, that perhaps there are other sapient beings out there, too. Some scientists always said that eventually, they would find us. Some agreed. Though we never actually prepared ourselves for what is really not a possibility, but an eventuality. In the year 2716, they found us. Were they had come from, or for how long they had been travelling to reach their destination, we do not know. In fact, we know practically nothing about these other sapients. Not their appearance, for they were never seen - they remained in their great crafts, like something from H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. They were nicknamed The Visitors, with a capital T and V. Humans attempted communication. The ships circled Earth. Watching, constantly watching, but never replying or giving any sign that they recieved, or understood, the messages sent. Finally, one goverment was foolish enough to fire a bomb at one of these ships. Thus was the beginning of the end for humans. The Visitors may have been at first simply curious to find another sapient species, intent on observing and learning more, perhaps even communication in the end, but they took the bomb as a sign of war - though, who wouldn't? Quite what went through their brains at this point we will never know, but it is most likely that they began to consider humanity as a threat. It soon became all too clear that The Visitors were vastly more technologically advanced than humanity, even in the year 2716. Weapons that humanity could not even begin to understand were fired, directed to the biggest, most important cities which would have the biggest effect on the global population. However, the final straw was the Virus. The Visitors were masters of genetic mutation, and they modified this virus to their will. It could mutate faster than any other, mutate into different strains, but it had a sort of evolutionary floodgate: it could not evolve to another host. Once humans were gone, the Virus would wipe itself out - essentially, in spreading, it would kill itself. And so, just like that, humans went extinct. It was not glorious. It was horrific. We did not end fighting, with gunfire rattling away at our enemies. We were unprepared. Humanity ended with a few cowering specimens of a once glorious, intelligent species, huddled in a corner of a ruined, smoking city, half mad from the Virus, before letting out a final, rattling breath, then death consumed them. Blood trickled from dead, unmoving mouths. A species went extinct, just like that, and the Visitors moved on - perhaps returning to their home planet, perhaps to investigate another species, who knows? Humanity might be dead, but a mark of their previous-succesfulness will remain on Earth for millenia to come. But to tell that story, we must go back to before the Visitors arrived, to the mega-cities that covered the Earth, and to humanity's twisted attempts at playing God . . . ~ Well, my plan is to spend a little time looking at the cities, then move on to after humans die out. I'll be looking at different ecosystems, my aim being to focus heavily on plants as well as other organisms. And the name comes from the amount of genetically modified animals that are going to leave ancestors. I: Cities Zoos and Pets - plants, mammoths, beetles, pygmy sharks and elephants, and wing-rats More domestic animals and pets - tarantulas, fancy stick insects, glowing rodents, and dinohens Urban Wildlife - North and South America, the green city of Tierra Espléndida, Africa, India, and Europe The End of Humanity - after the war, the Virus, the wing-rat The New World - feral dogs, bioluminescence, DinoHens 50 Million Years Later Earth's Next Chapter - geography, continental layout II: The British Isles: The Salty Forests Attached to this post: 24814017740_c15abd8b31_z.jpg (39.39 KB) Edited by Beetleboy, Feb 22 2016, 01:36 PM.
	~ The Age of Forests ~

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GlarnBoudin	Feb 26 2016, 07:57 PM Post #46
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	Question: will there be any elephants in this project?
	Quotes 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. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


Beetleboy	Feb 27 2016, 12:11 PM Post #47
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	Quote: Question: will there be any elephants in this project? Sure thing. There's going to plenty of unusual descendants of the domestic, omnivorous, pygmy elephants. Quote: No, my error, my house will be facing the south-west. (I think) Well, where does your house face now?
	~ The Age of Forests ~


Bruno01	Feb 27 2016, 05:43 PM Post #48
Infant Posts: 129 Group: Members Member #1,833 Joined: Dec 19, 2015 Gender: Male Nationality: Argentinian Also known as: Bruno	Beetleboy Feb 27 2016, 12:11 PM Quote: No, my error, my house will be facing the south-west. (I think) Well, where does your house face now? West.
	Hi! I'm friendly!


GlarnBoudin	Mar 3 2016, 04:36 PM Post #49
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	Hmm, what about resurrected extinct species? How will they do?
	Quotes 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. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


Beetleboy	Mar 4 2016, 10:38 AM Post #50
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	Quote: West. In that case, in this scenario it would be facing North-West. Quote: Hmm, what about resurrected extinct species? How will they do? Well, there will be some mammoths in Europe and North America, and some giant ground sloths in South America. The mammoths remain fairly similar to their original species, though I have got something of a surprise planned. The ground sloths, and other species such as Smilodons, aren't actually that amazing. The sabre-toothed cats, while they have retained some sabre-toothed forms, have also diversified into pretty normal-looking felids, rather like the feral cats. The ground sloths in South America are mostly rainforest dwellers.
	~ The Age of Forests ~


GlarnBoudin	Mar 4 2016, 03:19 PM Post #51
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	What about dodo birds or moas? Also, how are zoo animals going to do here?
	Quotes 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. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


Beetleboy	Mar 5 2016, 10:44 AM Post #52
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	GlarnBoudin Mar 4 2016, 03:19 PM What about dodo birds or moas? Also, how are zoo animals going to do here? Dodos and moas aren't really in big enough populations to survive. Urban animals and pets quickly outcompete them, and rats, pigs, etc, eat their eggs and chicks. They go extinct. The same goes for many zoo animals, except for the most popular ones, like mammoths, rhinos, sabre-toothed cats, etc.
	~ The Age of Forests ~


Beetleboy	Mar 10 2016, 12:12 PM Post #53
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	Apologies for double-post. Sorry it is taking so long to update, I've been busy lately. Anyway, just wanted to say, an update should be coming soon!
	~ The Age of Forests ~


Steampunk FireFinch	Mar 10 2016, 12:22 PM Post #54
Shitposter Posts: 1,367 Group: Members Member #1,840 Joined: Jan 1, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: meh Also known as: Hello World or Stinch	Don't worry Sam says it's all okay. This was found in an older page of a popular thread that still works today.



Beetleboy	Mar 10 2016, 12:33 PM Post #55
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	Thanks.
	~ The Age of Forests ~


Corecin	Mar 26 2016, 07:58 PM Post #56
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #1,893 Joined: Mar 21, 2016 Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American :/ Favorite Quote: “Life’s too short to spend it being mean to people.” Also known as: Literally just any spin on Corecin Gender: Nonbinary	This project is the best, similar to an idea I had, I hope we can see more about how the animals are doing.



Beetleboy	Mar 27 2016, 10:34 AM Post #57
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	AGmantheAG Mar 26 2016, 07:58 PM This project is the best, similar to an idea I had, I hope we can see more about how the animals are doing. Thanks! An update should come fairly soon.
	~ The Age of Forests ~


Corecin	Mar 27 2016, 12:26 PM Post #58
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #1,893 Joined: Mar 21, 2016 Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American :/ Favorite Quote: “Life’s too short to spend it being mean to people.” Also known as: Literally just any spin on Corecin Gender: Nonbinary	Beetleboy Mar 27 2016, 10:34 AM AGmantheAG Mar 26 2016, 07:58 PM This project is the best, similar to an idea I had, I hope we can see more about how the animals are doing. Thanks! An update should come fairly soon. Great, I love this scenario.



flashman63	Mar 27 2016, 04:34 PM Post #59
The Herr From Terre Posts: 988 Group: Members Member #758 Joined: May 17, 2012 Nationality: American	Do the city ruins last any appreciable amount of time? They could be composed of future materials. For that matter, what effects did the Anthropocene have in the long term?
	Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed! It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors! A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs! An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door! Travel back to A Million Years BC ----------------------------------------------------- Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away ----------------------------------------------------- Some dickhead's deviantART


Finncredibad	Mar 27 2016, 08:04 PM Post #60
Edgy and Cool Posts: 1,285 Group: Members Member #1,871 Joined: Feb 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: Kekistani Favorite Quote: "Tet you dickering suid"~ Octo Also known as: Tet Gender: Did you just assume my gender!?	This is my favorite on the topic future evolution! Attached to this post: image.jpg (9.6 KB) Edited by Finncredibad, Mar 27 2016, 08:05 PM.
	Favorite quotes Spoiler: click to toggle "I'm so antigay my lips are adapted to repel penis"~ Octo "Sin is not real. It is a manmade concept to make us feel bad about things that are natural"- MrRepzion "im not turned on by birds goddamnity"- Sheather "But you could just row there, live in the wilderness and have sex with kakapos every day"- Hangin "you leave the dolphins in the fridge for too long and they develop a culture"- Flisch "DON'T GET ME WRONG, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMANS; BUT IF THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US THEN WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN AMIRITE?"- Ivan "Mike Wazowski: he Only has one eye he is incapable of winking because that requires a second and blinking is both eyes, Mike bwinks."- Malik Obama "Kids love frog titties"- Lamna "Other moral of this sad story: never forget how completely the tiny microorganisms living in your nose can betray you for no apparent reason. Trust no one"- Monster "Sometimes in the name of science, you have to give cocain to a fish"- Ben Taub "For the love of Darwin's fluffy beard, not the zebras again."- Beetleboy "Fun fact: Whenever you learn something new, you are slowly approaching omniscience"- Flisch "therefore, hell and heaven must both be filled with camels"- sphenodon "this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather "I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam "You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa "I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky "And he is afraid to be raped by Dutch people, Which is racist"- Olympian "What even happened? I never thought I'd be whistfully looking back on your trying to rape Ivan"-icthyander Projects and stuff Spoiler: click to toggle


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