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Straha
January 13th, 2004, 08:52 PM
I found an interesting "no end-of-Cretaceous asteroid impact, and so
dinosaurs survive" ATL at http://www.geocities.com/dbensen2/index.html

zoomar
January 14th, 2004, 01:42 PM
An interesting site.

Along a similar vein there is the recent (about 10year ago) book, "The New Dinosaurs" by Dougal Dixon (I think, but I could be wrong), which is a nicely illustrated and very thorough natural history of an evolutionary WI world with dinos not going extinct at the end of the cretaceous. The same author also did a book "After Man" which was a future WI evolution of life after the extinction of man and most other contemporary large mammals, and another one (I forget the title) about a future evolutionary radiation of homo sapiens into a wide variety of new species (I never read this one). Check them out. They should be part of the AH fan's basic library.

Straha
January 14th, 2004, 01:44 PM
I've read both books and I won after man :cool:

Jesse
February 1st, 2004, 09:02 PM
If you liked "After Man", you might want to check out the DVD of The Future Is Wild (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000YEDYU/103-7430127-9624658), a CG nature show in the style of Walking with Dinosaurs (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Z4SU/103-7430127-9624658) that looks at the results of evolution 5, 100, and 200 million years in the future. They consulted a lot of scientists in order to try to make things plausible, and Dougal Dixon also played a big role in helping design the various future creatures. The show has some websites where you can look at some of the animals they invented:

http://www.thefutureiswild.com/
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/futureiswild/futureiswild.html