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| The 7th Act; After the 6th extinction | |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 10 2016, 04:45 PM Post #1 |
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For billions of years, the Earth has been home to life. From microscopic bacteria to behemoth redwoods, every organism is in a constant battle to survive, and, ultimately, to reproduce. In this arms race, there are winners and losers. Win, you live another generation. Lose, you die out. Over time, the losers slowly go extinct, disappearing. But once, every thousands of millennia, a catastrophic event occurs, cause mass extinction, hence it's name. In the past history of life, there has been 5 of these events. Until around 100 000 years ago, A species from the genus Homo, Homo sapiens, helped to start and continue the largest mass extinction in over 60 million years. Creatures from giant sirenians to tiny insects began dying off in huge numbers. Man the changed the ecology of Earth even further, introducing animals from all corners of the globe to one another, from zoos to pests. But in 2016, something changed. Out of seemingly nowhere, humankind began dying. No one could tell what was happening. Some said something biological, a virus of sorts. Others said a event of extra-terrestrial origin, be it a solar flare or alien life form. Others said it was paranormal or supernatural. I didn't matter. 6 months later, the last human died. And with it, the 6th extinction event ended. As the cities turned to dust and the fields turned to woods, mankind's legacy, it's effect on the ecology, would last forever. Welcome to the 7th Act. Table of Contents |
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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Apr 17 2016, 01:26 PM Post #16 |
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I don't think a million years is long enough for a mountain range to form. Hills and small individual mountains, sure. |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 17 2016, 02:43 PM Post #17 |
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Sorry, yes, that's what I meant. Also a lot of volcanos. Also, what should the first update be? The options are the Arctic Elephants, a "marsupial" bird, the pack-hunting owls, the tiger descendant, the macaque descendant, the vulture descendant, the bison, or 200+ species of flightless bees*. *it's more interesting then it sounds. Edited by DroidSyber, Apr 17 2016, 04:39 PM.
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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Apr 17 2016, 04:41 PM Post #18 |
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I don't know about volcanism either but I think Dorito can answer that more easily Oop, you edited that right before I replied. Maybe go with the marsupial bird, I'm really interested in what you did there Edited by CaledonianWarrior96, Apr 17 2016, 04:44 PM.
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| DroidSyber | Apr 17 2016, 04:43 PM Post #19 |
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I might wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure when mountain ranges form, the geological upheaval causes a lot of volcanic activity as well. |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 17 2016, 04:55 PM Post #20 |
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How the hell did humans die out just like that?
Edited by Paleo_Specs, Apr 17 2016, 04:55 PM.
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| DroidSyber | Apr 17 2016, 04:59 PM Post #21 |
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Didn't you read the opener? No one knows. |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 17 2016, 05:26 PM Post #22 |
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Yeah I read the opener, will there be an explanation? |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 17 2016, 05:32 PM Post #23 |
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No, it's just a alien space bat. |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 17 2016, 05:32 PM Post #24 |
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What? |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 17 2016, 05:36 PM Post #25 |
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It's a Alien Space Bat, the forum's name for a supernatural or coincidental scenario explanations. |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 17 2016, 05:47 PM Post #26 |
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Oh. |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 19 2016, 03:19 PM Post #27 |
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Arctic Elephants Genus: Elephas Species: a) borealis b) canadensis The world after one million years has show severe changes in the fauna of the world, from mega to micro fauna. The invasive and introduced species as well have had to suffer with the environmental changes, needing to cope with the strange climate. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the Asian Elephant. A intelligent, adaptable, and opportunistic herbivore, elephants are some of the most successful megafaunal species. It should come as no surprise then that elephants prospered in the new colder world. Asian elephants have evolved into cold-climate dwellers not once but on two separate occasions, in both the New and Old World. One species, Elephas borealis, lives primarily is Mongolia and Russia, while the other, Elephas canadedisis, lives mainly in United States a Canada, hence it's name. Elephas borealis, better known as Russian Elephants, are the larger and better recognizable species. Covered in short reddish brown fur, and with short, stubby tusks, the Russian Elephant is the largest living mammals, weighting up to almost 20 tons when fully grown(and male), although they are usually more around 12 tons. Although when fully grown a healthy bull or cow is devoid of predators, even acting as "safe houses" in their tundra and boreal empire, with smaller birds and mammals staying near the behemoth herbivores. However, calves and the old or wounded are occasionally preyed on by tigers, wolves, and other large predators. They primarily eat grasses and pine needles, but will also eat bark, fruits, roots, and even insects on some occasions. Unlike Asian Elephants, which live in female-only matriarchal herds, both male and female are solitary, only coming together for mating. Russian Elephants are highly intelligent, as well as compassionate, mourning for their dead and adopting orphan calves, and, in some hilarious cases, other animals, both young and fully grown. One example of this is when a young female "adopted" a fully-grown Snow Tiger, keeping it near her and even trying to get it to suckle for almost 6 days. Smaller, but no less impressive, Elephas canadensis, or the False Mammoth, is the North American doppelgänger to the larger Russian Elephant. False Mammoths have long, coarse blackish brown fur, a short, squat, almost tapir-like trunk, a huge display tusks. These tusks, which can reach almost 2 metres in some specimens, are present and visible in both males and females, although only about .3 metres in females. They weigh around 7-10 tons and can live around 60 years. Like their ancestors, they are herding animals, usually in groups of about 3-6 adult females and their young. The males have a incredibly high homosexuality percentage, with around 15% of the population being gay, strangely, "gay" individuals tend to also be more social, with some even trying to join the matriarchal herds, usually unsuccessfully. False Mammoths use their tusks for numerous activities, including display, defence, and foraging for roots and tubers, their primary source of food, especially in winter. Other than that, False Mammoths also eat grasses, leaves, pine needles, bark, and wood pulp. Edited by DroidSyber, Apr 19 2016, 08:47 PM.
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| Corecin | Apr 19 2016, 08:02 PM Post #28 |
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That's very interesting. Will we hear of the snow tiger too? |
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| DroidSyber | Apr 19 2016, 08:40 PM Post #29 |
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| El Dorito | Apr 20 2016, 08:57 AM Post #30 |
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Mountain ranges with lots of volcanoes accompanying them are only really found along subduction zones, like the Andes today or the west coast of North America at the end of the Cretaceous. When two continents collide they crush together but the one on the subducting plate doesn't really go under the other continent, they kind of just crush into each other. You do get some small scale volcanism in continental collisions, there are quite a number of volcanic areas in the Himalayas and Middle East for example, but few to no large stratovolcanoes like in active subduction zones. |
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