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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 02:17 AM Post #1 |
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 The rule of the mammals is soon to be depleted, when a eruption not to dissimilar to the Great Dying occurs some 200 years from now. Before this, man made many genetic variants of his local fauna. These include the Armed Hoatzin (Opisthocomus Hoatzin) and the Chickenosaurus (Gallus Saurianus), who would survive this eruption. They were the destined rulers of this future earth. Holding niches not to dissimilar to the ancient non avian Dinosaurs such as Compsognathus and Archaeopteryx, and they quickly diversified into two groups: The often predatory Terrornithes and the Gallosaurians. These animals are certainly the oddest of rulers, exploding into a weird and wonderfully diverse range of forms, from Deinocheirus look a likes, to bizarre. Chupacabra mimicking hunters of the desert. These creatures spread everywhere, thus dubbing this new world as the Avizoic, the rule of the Birds. This project takes place 60 million years from now, where Europe, Asia and Africa have collided to form a Super Continent, South America split off into the ocean, and from North America, Antarctica became a lush, vegetative archipelago, dominated by many endemic animals, and home to relics of a time forgotten. This is earth, but not your earth. Welcome, to the Avizoic. Table of Contents I: World of the "Avisaurians" II: Of the Chickenosaurus and the Armed Hoatzin: Man's greatest Avian achievement's III: The Family Tree of the Avisaurians Edited by Dapper Man, Mar 24 2016, 01:00 AM.
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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 02:55 AM Post #2 |
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The World of the "Avisaurians" Blue= Ocean. Orange= Desert Yellow= Grassland Light Green= Woodland Dark Green= Boreal/ Coniferous Forests The world of the "Avisaurians" has become a... very "Wet" place. What might seem like dry land could be two things: What it actually is, dry land, or swamp. Man kind pulled the final straw for the Ice Caps: They melted 25,000 years after Man Kind vanished, taking many large sized fauna that couldn't adapt to the continuously flooding continents drowned. Descendants of basal "Avisaurians" have conquered the niches of this new world; mammals reduced to only Canine, Rodent and Marsupial descendants. "Avisaurians" (A very generic name for the Gallosaurians and the Terrornithes) have conquered every continent except for Australia, although a few, dainty looking forms have been found there. Global warming, caused by mankind, continuously declined the range of the ice caps, until, some 28 million years ago, they were left to just a few splotches along the cost of the melting Antarctic Archipelago. The Arctic feared a little better, remaining intact for some 5 million years afterwards. When it started melting, no land was spared. Most continents were quickly flooded, with the land bridge between North America and South America becoming flooded, with the floods devouring parts of North America and South America. South America has split into two, Antarctica has melted into a lush, coniferous Rain-forested Archipelago, filled with Cycads and Conifers. Eurasia has collided with Africa, thus forming Afroeurasia, and is the most secure landmass of the Avizoic. Australia has matured into a Woodland/ Desert mix, mostly covered in Woodland. North America has split into three; with it being covered in Coniferous Forests, Woodlands and Deserts. Edited by Dapper Man, Mar 22 2016, 06:02 PM.
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| El Dorito | Mar 22 2016, 04:05 AM Post #3 |
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Flood basalts are not one eruption. Think 5 million km3 over the span of a few million years. Not one monumental eruption happening in only a few hundred years. I know I'm not the only one who's going to point this out. Anything incorrect that is regarding volcanoes will see a comment from me. If you want something sudden just smash an asteroid somewhere, or start a nuclear war, or something. Its more believable than a multi-million year process happening in 100 years or less. |
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| Holben | Mar 22 2016, 04:34 AM Post #4 |
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(Removed the duplicate topic  )What's the cause of the big desert in Eastern (former) North America? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Bruno01 | Mar 22 2016, 01:05 PM Post #5 |
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I don't think South America could split in two in that way. |
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| Thylacine | Mar 22 2016, 01:32 PM Post #6 |
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Couldn't the Amazon simply swell larger and form a sea, like the Nile has in the picture? Dunno, seems plausible to me. |
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| Dragonthunders | Mar 22 2016, 02:49 PM Post #7 |
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Eh, just to tell the truth, but the Permian basalt eruption that caused the mass extinction event was only one of several disasters that affected life profoundly. There are other catastrophic events as an anoxic event that caused the collapse of the entire marine food chain, the possible release of methane into the atmosphere in huge quantities and due to the formation of Pangaea, the fauna and flora of the planet had lost considerable diversity. There is also some evidence that the disaster could have been in two parts, ie, it may have started a previous mass extinction event about 10 million years before the end of the Permian. So, just say that an eruption causes a "Great dying" is not only implausible, also improbable. As dorito said, maybe an asteroid would be more plausible.
The second name don't have capitalized letter Also why hoatzin suvirve? just because the chicks can develop claws on their hands? I say this because I saw your question in the questions topic, because they are almost a dead end, would not be able to survive a mass extinction event of great magnitude, and even if it could, probably not going to evolve into something more.
Really no. If all the glaciers melted, the water could flood much of the Amazon basin but there is still a large part of the continent that is above the limits that water could reach. Spoiler: click to toggle To separate South america into two, or it would require a new depression, or that a rift, those are two paths that should not happen in any future.
What Nile? I just see the rift valley separation. Also, from which time period corresponds the map? |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 05:42 PM Post #8 |
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First of all, thanks The desert is probably one of those Rain shadow deserts, or something not to dissimilar to the North American deserts that you see around today (And possibly a expansion of the Mongolian Desert) |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 05:44 PM Post #9 |
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I also planned the world to be not to dissimilar to what it was in the Campanian, so... (Wasn't that a time where the water levels were especially high?) Also, the Hoatzin's could be either a) Genetically Modified, or b) Neoteneus (Do the Chicks of Hoatzin's have claws on their wings?) |
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| Dragonthunders | Mar 22 2016, 06:54 PM Post #10 |
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Yes, but also the continental distribution was different, so past seas were common because not all the land of the planet weren't properly elevated above the sea level.
The "A" option would be the most appropriate, but you need to give a logical reason why genetic engineering would have to apply it. "B" option are probably not going to happen, also, why they need the calws? Apart from the aesthetic aspect, there has been no other use in the claws like their extinct relatives, the appearance of claws would not improve or would give an advantage. Also, Im still wonder, that map is in 60 million years or some some hundreds of thousands of years in the future? |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 07:34 PM Post #11 |
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Thanks for the help. The Hoatzin's are going to be genetically modified, and are the, if you will, the "Dromaeosaurs" (As in, most of the forms are Dromaeosaur esque things) of this time period. And yes, the project is 60 million years from now, so... much could've changed. |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 22 2016, 10:34 PM Post #12 |
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II: Of the Chickenosaurus and the Armed Hoatzin: Man's greatest Avian achievements Spoiler: click to toggle Man's first endeavor, the "Chickenosaurus" was created some 40 years from now. It had the Chicken's head and body, but with a tail stretching some 3 meters behind it. The Chickenosaurus also had arms: These crucial features made it look like a Oviraptorid from the cretaceous, and became a popular pet across many countries, even those such as Australia and remote places like South America: They required almost no food, as they could scrape food from even the hardest of places, and are easily obtained. They laid medium sized eggs, and were usually allowed local farmers and food producers to use their eggs to make products. The Chickenosaurus was quickly aligned the "Most popular pet" of the 22nd century. They even replaced Chickens in terms of importance, and no longer needed fences to keep them contained, as they were able to care for themselves. Another advantage to the Chickenosaurus is that it kept check of pests: It ate everything from seeds to insects, and was a efficient dung eater, removing cow droppings from local farms. However, when man kind and most mega fauna died out due to the asteroid and basalt eruptions, the Chickenosaurus was often the largest creature in it's environment, at a suitable length of 30 centimeters, and it quickly took the niches of large, herbivorous creatures. Spoiler: click to toggle The "Armed Hoatzin" looks similar to the Enantiornis of China, from the late cretaceous. Notable differences, however, include: longer arms, a longer tail and a mouth full of teeth. His other endeavor was the "Armed Hoatzin", the creature was certainly a odd creature. Being modified from modern Hoatzin's, its claws on the wings became more like arms, and it showed a more Dromaeosaur like shape, with most of the population of this creature resembling the Enantiornis from China. It was made for pleasure: The people of the world wanted a Dinosaur. Whilst this is simply impossible; scientists tried their best, and created the Chickenosaurus and the Armed Hoatzin. Whilst the Chickenosaurus was more of a farmer's creature, the Armed Hoatzin was built for racing. Many people even started up clubs and festivals to see who can get their Armed Hoatzin to run the furthest and longest, not to dissimilar to Greyhounds. These vicious creatures soon began to dwindle down on the furiosity: people still wanted a dangerous dinosaur to have, but they also started to want one as a pet. Almost all later generations were adapted to being much more "Behaved" than their ancestors, but were more vicious than a dog by far. When man and his acquaintances died out, these furious fighters were able to "rebuild" the dynasty of their distant cousins, the Maniraptorans. The descendants, often called the "Terrornithes" became the various small to large sized predators of the Avizoic. Edited by Dapper Man, Mar 23 2016, 12:01 AM.
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| El Dorito | Mar 23 2016, 12:08 AM Post #13 |
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Considering Jurassic Park raptors and how villainous they were, I don't think people would want something even vaguely like that to exist outside things like zoos and farms exactly, no matter how exiting it would be to have a pet dinosaur (I know you can get pet birds, but lets face it, its not the same...) But at the same time I have thought about the possible future evolution of genetically modified artificial 'dino-birds' before, so this could be interesting. |
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| Dapper Man | Mar 23 2016, 01:53 AM Post #14 |
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The original ones tended to be "Quite vicious", but later versions that were made where much tamer. I've only just thought of the idea of my current "Dino Birds", as a matter of fact. By the way, that carnivorous Armed Hoatzin descendant is my interpretation of the Chupacabra (Which it will be called) |
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| El Dorito | Mar 23 2016, 03:43 AM Post #15 |
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Chupacabras in real life (the original, not the modern variant that is just a hairless coyote) are apparently misidentified porcupines standing up, or if you want to be speculative, a flightless/mostly flightless bat or a close relative of such. A bird doesnt really fit the description of 'spiny thing with long arms and no obvious feathers' or whatever. But its your project so do what you want with it. |
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