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A cool link for ancient maps and the climates for those time periods.
WI: Wetter, Warmer Earth
- Thread starter Phaeton
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Sorry guys for the four week long waiting period.Here it is the next installment of my Wetter, Warmer, Earth Timeline.
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The fauna in this next installment aren’t the only creatures that inhabits the continent of Asia.
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Taiga
—The first creature of the thick hardwood forest of Asia, are the huge’‘ Tree Busters’‘ or Battuere Aboreus. The Tree Busters are descendants of the massive Entelodonts , and because the trying out cooling trend of OTL, and the grasslands that don’t develop as largely as they did in OTL. The growth of the massive wetlands/Grasslands in central Asia forced The Entelodonts to find an new territory..The thick Taiga forest of Northern Asia. The average Tree Buster stands over Two meters tall, its thick woolly black coat that holds massive Layers of fat which insulates the large creatures is similar to that of OTL Wooly Mammoth or Rhinoceros. It’s thick bony head which is designed to crush skulls was mostly used in the past in mating rituals has found another use to Bulldoze the thick trees of The Taiga. The Skull of an Tree Buster that over the years have reevolved the Bony skull of the Pachycephalosaurus Dinosaurs of The Cretaceous period. The male Tree Busters have also evolved large tusk meant to scoop up large Pieces of Timber. The reason why the Tree Buster bust trees is too build large damns meant to hold up too hold an family of five Tree Busters from protection and for its long period of Hibernation.
There are few carnivores that reach into the Taigia region of North Asia, One of the more notable are The Koma Inu/Karashishi or The ‘’Lion-Dog’‘ which is neither but it is an Creodont. Due too Overall Warmer and Wetter climate in this TL causes grasslands to appear at an later time. The slower, Dumber Creodonts remained the top predators in the ecosystem for an much later time than OTL. The grasslands did eventually come bring smarter and faster predators beat the competetion by a long run. Most of the Creodonts went extinct but The Hyaenodon finds solace in the thick Taigia forest of The North. The Lion-Dogs retain an thick layer of Insulated fur to keep them warm on a good hunt. Unlike their dim-witted Ancestors The Lion-Dog’s are one of the smartest creatues in Asia, they communicate with an serious of sonar like songs much like The Whales and Dolphins of OTL. The Lion-Dogs also are nocturnal creatures which roam the dark Forest using the acute sense of hearing and eyesight make up for an poor taste of smell. The Lion-Dogs retain the Bone crushing jaws of Their Ancestors and also have strong hind legs which is needed to leap on an herd of unexpecting Tree Busters. Another key advantage is that the female Lion-Dogs in packs usually make the kill for the males and for their cubs. One last fact on The Lion-Dog is that it’s bite is Poisonous, Lion-Dog venom contains neurotoxins and cardiotoxins. Neurotoxins cause damage to the nervous system, such as parts of the brain controlling motor functions, while cardiotoxins attack the heart. As little as two drops of venom can kill any animal no matter what size and a Lion-Dog can have up to 200 drops of venom in its Jaws.
Grasslands/Wetlands
----There are many creatures that thrive in lush Grasslands of Central Asia, The most dominant Herbivore creatures of they area the Bovids(Cows, Bison, Gazelles) have began to appear on the continent. With these new creatures must come new predators
The first creature we will examine is the top predator in the True Grasslands of Central asia. They are the Andrewsarchus Diomedes , or simply called the ‘’Diomededonts’‘. The Diomededonts are mesonychids - a group of carnivorous wolf-like hoofed animals, The Diomededonts are strictly descents from Andrewsarchus, The largest Mammal to ever walk this earth. The reason why The Andrewsarchus probably went extinct because of drying up of Riverbed that it primarily scavenged on . In the WWE TL, Most of the riverbeds stayed wet and grew to record sizes letting the Big Andrewsarchus to stay dominant for much longer. Still the Emerging Grasslands/Wetlands arrived bring Faster, and smarter Carnivores, that pushed the Shoreline Andrewsarchus to the brink of Extinction. Still an Group of Andrewsarchus’ managed to adapted to the plentiful Life on the Grasslands. The Dimededonts appearance would fool almost anything, It’s strong appearance makes it looks like an larger species of the Browsing horses that live in the forest of Asia. The Diomededonts stand head to toe up to 1.8 meters tall, it has lost the primitive claw like hooves, instead have evolved the strong Hooves like OTL modern Horses. Unlike their Ancestors, The Diomededonts are not solitarily creatures and are most often seen stampeding together in Groups of Twelve or more. The Diomededonts do share the huge wolf-like heads of its ancestors, their huge black noses and long tongue make up for an poor eyesight. The bone crushing jaws of the Diomededonts have serrated teeth used for tearing the flesh of an Bovide. When sleeping, to warn approaching animals to steer clear. The Diomededonts have developed to long, cone like plumage that are activated by two things, the Setae at the end of the Diomededont’s lega that are extremley sensitive to numerous chemicals that tell the Diomededonts if the prey is edible and Trichobothria can detect the slightest disturbance in the air made by possible prey. The plumage is to warn the creature not to come closer and to direct any other Diomededonts to come in for the Kill.
The next creatures up are the strange but ingenious, Ambeloctus Fluvius or The ‘’River Whale’‘. The River Whale’s are directly descended from Ambeloctus Natas the semi aquatic whale that lived strangley both in Fresh water and Salt water Now one trully knows why the Ambeloctus species went extinct in OTL, Some say that larger bigger whale beat them out of the game or the drying up off the huge streches of The Eocene European Forest that streched all the way to OTL Pakistan. In the WWE timeline the drying out and cooling trend never happens, The primitive whales stay in the seas mush longer, but eventually bigger whales like The Basilosaurs and The Durudons push the Ambelouectus out of salty territory in to the fresh Marshes and Streams of Central Asia. The River whale in length is only Two meters long relatively smaller than it ancestor. The river whale has also lost the clumsy webbed fingers, and have four sleek and powerful fins. The River whale in times Off need to get out of the waters of the marsh, the River whale is Lobe-finned, It powerful back muscles help propel it ashore. The River Whale in appearance would look like OTL Baby Dolphins except for the dorsal fin and the large paddle like tail. The River whales are Omnivores feeding on the sweet grasses on the marsh and feeding on the small fish that thrive within the Habitat. To communicate with other River whales uses intense sonar, and to save their children from predators The Female River what will emit and powerful and potent ink like substance that temporally blinds the predator from her Blowhole.
The are many notable predators to the murky waters of the Central Asia Marshes is The ‘’Marsh Stalker’‘ or Amphicynoditictis Calamus. THE Marsh Stalker is an Amphicynoid, descended from the small Bear dogs that roamed the thick forest of Eurasia for more than 39 million years in OTL, finally succumbing to the colder, drier temperatures of OTL’s Miocene period. In the WWE TL, The Bear dogs get pushed to the Central Asia area’s because of the competitive European wildlife and lack of food. The swift, keen Bear -dogs had to Adapt to the high waters of the marsh. The Marsh Stalker, has lost thick fur of it’s ancestor’s and developed an thin layer of blubber under it’s skin covered by an smooth hairless skin which water rolls off of. The Marsh Stalker’s skin extremely delicate and easily injured by rough surfaces, making it very similar to human skin. Dolphin sheds its outer layer of skin about every two hours. The Marsh stalker is an bipedal organism, it’s powerful hind legs leads down to webbed feet and his thick powerful Fluke-like tail which helps propel The Marsh Stalker while swimming. The Marsh stalker stands about One meter tall and Three meters in length an two key essential tools for hunting for food above water are it’s powerful jaws known to snap open turtles and, The Marsh Stalker has revolved the long curved claw not seen since the age of the Dinosaurs. The Marsh Stalker is an excellent swimmer using it’s tail to propel themselves using it’s webbed feet and tail. If in case of hunting underwater The Marsh stalkers hunt in packs to catch big prey, are solitary creatures out of the water sleeping alone in the High grasses of the Marshes.
Savannah
Between the steamy rainforest jungles of South Asia, The cold, Arid Taiga forest of North Asia, and The thick wetlands of Central Asia lies an belt of green Savannah seemingly endless plain to the untrained eye. Many animal species have adapted to these dry temperatures, and here are just a couple.
The Kirin is the distant cousin of the Knuckle walking Chalicothere. The Chalicothere in own wright is an strange creature. The bones in the Chalicothere's arms show that its hands must have been twisted so that the palms faced inwards when on the ground. The hands themselves had long claws and are clearly adapted to bear weight on the knuckles, with the claws pointing upwards off the ground. Most of the weight was taken by the short, very strong hind legs. The chalicotheres also had no front teeth, and their grinding back teeth had hardly any wear on them, suggesting that they ate only the softest vegetation. While in The WWE Timeline has many chalicothere left on the thick western hardwood forest of Eurasia, an group of Chalicothere’s adapted to the large Asian Savanah, probbly because of lower competing the browsing horses of the woodlands. The largest of The Kirin measures up to be around 2.6 meters tall. The Kirin have abandoned the Knuckle walking tradition of the Chalicothere and developed Hooves like the small Pronghorn creatures the roam the Area, The Kirin does still scoot along sometimes during grazing giving the appearance that it glides on the grass. The Kirin have also developed stronger teen needed to consume the hard grasses of the plains. It’s large nose is for usually detecting the scent of nearby predators or other rival males, or for smell of an female pheromones usually given off during mating season. The Kirin is mostly known for it sharp one horn place on top of it’s head and it long following mane and light fur that in the sun gives of the appearance that the creature is on flames and most likely adapted from the frequent fires that plague the Savannah.
The next creature that roam Asia’s belt of Savannah, are one of the most dangerous predators the world has ever seen since the age of the dinosaurs. Formicium Eurypterida giganteum, or the’‘ Spined Ant’‘. In OTL The Spined Ant’s direct ancestor ,The Giant ant who once ruled the steamy forests of OTL Germany during the Eocene period. A combination of Faster, bigger smarter carnivores with Backbones pushed the big insects and the transformation from an thick hot canopied rainforest to an colder, more Arid coniferous hardwood forest had an total on the thirteen centimeter long ants. Although in the WWE TL, the overall climate is more humid and hotter in OTL , the Rainforest of Germany still do disappear just not a soon as in OTL. The Mammals do still come also and push The Giant ant’s out of the steamy habitat into dry and hot Savannah. The Spined Ant strangely doesn’t look like The Giant Ant of Old. The Spined ant have revolved many characteristics that showed op in The Arthropod-group known Eurypterids of the Ordovician period. The Spined ant retained the basic ant like head with huge bone crushing pincers and long Antennas used to communicate with other ants in building an colony. The Six-legged animal has adapted using it for legs for pouncing on it’s prey in the thick brush. The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments. Alternatively it can be divided into the first six (the mesosoma - "middle body") and the last six (metasoma). All Spined Ant species have a total of twelve flexible opisthomal segments, or tergites as they are called. At the end of the last segment is a stout blade-like spine, the telson. The prosoma is actually made up of the first six exoskeleton segments, which have been fused together. The seventh segment has become the metastoma; and the eighth is the genital aperture. No other known ants have this same genital aperture neither do they have a metasoma. This plate-like eighth segment is also termed the operculum. In its center is the genital appendage, an elongated and sculptured rod of which there are two kinds always found in the Spined Ant population.The Spined ants have grown in size compared to their ancestors know reach two meters in length. The huge winged Male drones are usually have and Meter length wingspan usually swooping down to attack an unexpecting Bovids. The massive colonies usually reach up to fifteen feet high and twelve feet deep, The Massive Queen ant usualy wighs up to seventy five pounds and produces up to fifty ants per day. The Ants make the Savannah inhabitable for humans for many years to come.
The Rainforest
The last few creatures we will examine are those that thrive in the deep, hot and steamy rainforest of Southern Asia. In the WWE TL, The South Asian Rainforest holds some of the Most species of animals on earth, most of wich haven’t even been Identified . The next creatures I shall speak of does.
Not one of the most dangerous creatures of the South Asian Rainforest, Apidium Martichora, The Manticore is the most dangerous carnivore to stalk the South Asian Rainforest. Contrary to popular belief The Manticore is neither Feline or an creodont but The Manticore is an primate. It descends from species Apidium
Moustafai an small primate that roamed the lush forest of The Nile and of Eurasia. It was particularly adapted for leaping from branch to branch. The males were much bigger, and had large canine teeth to fight over groups of females, so they were probably social like most monkeys today. Unlike their mostly nocturnal Descendants, these primates seem to have been daytime feeders, using sight more than smell to find ripe fruit and insects in the forests. Unlike in OTL, The Eurasian forest dried out much sooner than in our timeline, But more adapted animals such as The Nectar-eating Picrodontids, The sloth-like Grendel and among others forced The Apidium’s southward to an more non competitive Habitat. Unlike their tiny ancestors The Manticore stand at most one and at least one and half meters tall not including the tail. The Manticores head still looks relatively like an primate except for it huge jaws, when opened can have up to three rows of fully serrated teeth used for tearing away at tough hide and flesh. The Manticore retains the leaping ability of it’s ancestors and are usually found in groups sleeping in the trees at night. The Manticore are very social creatures, have very large vocal cords which allows the Manticore to communicate in horn-sounding like signals to one another. The Manticore have developed to natural tools for hunting in the Jungles, One are huge curved caws used for slashing at the prey’s neck and a set of Sharp, barbed quills protect the back, sides, and tail; long, stiff guard hairs cover the front upper part of the body. The quills are usually held flat against the Manticore's body. When the Manticore is in danger, it raises the quills upright, and ejects the neurotoxins eject from the tail and lodge in the prey when near the Manticore. The barbs in the quills make them difficult to remove, since they point backwards. A Manticore’s camouflage is designed so well, In its normal habitat, it is practically invisible. In the jungles of India and Burma, the Manticore’s camouflage has probably led to its success. Manticores have a unique type of stripes. No Manticore's stripes are exactly the same as another, making it possible to identify individuals. The stripes are more beautiful than OTL zebra's. The orange patches of the Manticore's coat fool animals into thinking they are leaves, and the black, the leaves' shadows. Cunning. This is the reason why they hunt in the evenings, when the shadows are long. These are the reasons why The Manticore is the most dangerous predator of the jungles.
Written By
Austin Ross
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The fauna in this next installment aren’t the only creatures that inhabits the continent of Asia.
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Taiga
—The first creature of the thick hardwood forest of Asia, are the huge’‘ Tree Busters’‘ or Battuere Aboreus. The Tree Busters are descendants of the massive Entelodonts , and because the trying out cooling trend of OTL, and the grasslands that don’t develop as largely as they did in OTL. The growth of the massive wetlands/Grasslands in central Asia forced The Entelodonts to find an new territory..The thick Taiga forest of Northern Asia. The average Tree Buster stands over Two meters tall, its thick woolly black coat that holds massive Layers of fat which insulates the large creatures is similar to that of OTL Wooly Mammoth or Rhinoceros. It’s thick bony head which is designed to crush skulls was mostly used in the past in mating rituals has found another use to Bulldoze the thick trees of The Taiga. The Skull of an Tree Buster that over the years have reevolved the Bony skull of the Pachycephalosaurus Dinosaurs of The Cretaceous period. The male Tree Busters have also evolved large tusk meant to scoop up large Pieces of Timber. The reason why the Tree Buster bust trees is too build large damns meant to hold up too hold an family of five Tree Busters from protection and for its long period of Hibernation.
There are few carnivores that reach into the Taigia region of North Asia, One of the more notable are The Koma Inu/Karashishi or The ‘’Lion-Dog’‘ which is neither but it is an Creodont. Due too Overall Warmer and Wetter climate in this TL causes grasslands to appear at an later time. The slower, Dumber Creodonts remained the top predators in the ecosystem for an much later time than OTL. The grasslands did eventually come bring smarter and faster predators beat the competetion by a long run. Most of the Creodonts went extinct but The Hyaenodon finds solace in the thick Taigia forest of The North. The Lion-Dogs retain an thick layer of Insulated fur to keep them warm on a good hunt. Unlike their dim-witted Ancestors The Lion-Dog’s are one of the smartest creatues in Asia, they communicate with an serious of sonar like songs much like The Whales and Dolphins of OTL. The Lion-Dogs also are nocturnal creatures which roam the dark Forest using the acute sense of hearing and eyesight make up for an poor taste of smell. The Lion-Dogs retain the Bone crushing jaws of Their Ancestors and also have strong hind legs which is needed to leap on an herd of unexpecting Tree Busters. Another key advantage is that the female Lion-Dogs in packs usually make the kill for the males and for their cubs. One last fact on The Lion-Dog is that it’s bite is Poisonous, Lion-Dog venom contains neurotoxins and cardiotoxins. Neurotoxins cause damage to the nervous system, such as parts of the brain controlling motor functions, while cardiotoxins attack the heart. As little as two drops of venom can kill any animal no matter what size and a Lion-Dog can have up to 200 drops of venom in its Jaws.
Grasslands/Wetlands
----There are many creatures that thrive in lush Grasslands of Central Asia, The most dominant Herbivore creatures of they area the Bovids(Cows, Bison, Gazelles) have began to appear on the continent. With these new creatures must come new predators
The first creature we will examine is the top predator in the True Grasslands of Central asia. They are the Andrewsarchus Diomedes , or simply called the ‘’Diomededonts’‘. The Diomededonts are mesonychids - a group of carnivorous wolf-like hoofed animals, The Diomededonts are strictly descents from Andrewsarchus, The largest Mammal to ever walk this earth. The reason why The Andrewsarchus probably went extinct because of drying up of Riverbed that it primarily scavenged on . In the WWE TL, Most of the riverbeds stayed wet and grew to record sizes letting the Big Andrewsarchus to stay dominant for much longer. Still the Emerging Grasslands/Wetlands arrived bring Faster, and smarter Carnivores, that pushed the Shoreline Andrewsarchus to the brink of Extinction. Still an Group of Andrewsarchus’ managed to adapted to the plentiful Life on the Grasslands. The Dimededonts appearance would fool almost anything, It’s strong appearance makes it looks like an larger species of the Browsing horses that live in the forest of Asia. The Diomededonts stand head to toe up to 1.8 meters tall, it has lost the primitive claw like hooves, instead have evolved the strong Hooves like OTL modern Horses. Unlike their Ancestors, The Diomededonts are not solitarily creatures and are most often seen stampeding together in Groups of Twelve or more. The Diomededonts do share the huge wolf-like heads of its ancestors, their huge black noses and long tongue make up for an poor eyesight. The bone crushing jaws of the Diomededonts have serrated teeth used for tearing the flesh of an Bovide. When sleeping, to warn approaching animals to steer clear. The Diomededonts have developed to long, cone like plumage that are activated by two things, the Setae at the end of the Diomededont’s lega that are extremley sensitive to numerous chemicals that tell the Diomededonts if the prey is edible and Trichobothria can detect the slightest disturbance in the air made by possible prey. The plumage is to warn the creature not to come closer and to direct any other Diomededonts to come in for the Kill.
The next creatures up are the strange but ingenious, Ambeloctus Fluvius or The ‘’River Whale’‘. The River Whale’s are directly descended from Ambeloctus Natas the semi aquatic whale that lived strangley both in Fresh water and Salt water Now one trully knows why the Ambeloctus species went extinct in OTL, Some say that larger bigger whale beat them out of the game or the drying up off the huge streches of The Eocene European Forest that streched all the way to OTL Pakistan. In the WWE timeline the drying out and cooling trend never happens, The primitive whales stay in the seas mush longer, but eventually bigger whales like The Basilosaurs and The Durudons push the Ambelouectus out of salty territory in to the fresh Marshes and Streams of Central Asia. The River whale in length is only Two meters long relatively smaller than it ancestor. The river whale has also lost the clumsy webbed fingers, and have four sleek and powerful fins. The River whale in times Off need to get out of the waters of the marsh, the River whale is Lobe-finned, It powerful back muscles help propel it ashore. The River Whale in appearance would look like OTL Baby Dolphins except for the dorsal fin and the large paddle like tail. The River whales are Omnivores feeding on the sweet grasses on the marsh and feeding on the small fish that thrive within the Habitat. To communicate with other River whales uses intense sonar, and to save their children from predators The Female River what will emit and powerful and potent ink like substance that temporally blinds the predator from her Blowhole.
The are many notable predators to the murky waters of the Central Asia Marshes is The ‘’Marsh Stalker’‘ or Amphicynoditictis Calamus. THE Marsh Stalker is an Amphicynoid, descended from the small Bear dogs that roamed the thick forest of Eurasia for more than 39 million years in OTL, finally succumbing to the colder, drier temperatures of OTL’s Miocene period. In the WWE TL, The Bear dogs get pushed to the Central Asia area’s because of the competitive European wildlife and lack of food. The swift, keen Bear -dogs had to Adapt to the high waters of the marsh. The Marsh Stalker, has lost thick fur of it’s ancestor’s and developed an thin layer of blubber under it’s skin covered by an smooth hairless skin which water rolls off of. The Marsh Stalker’s skin extremely delicate and easily injured by rough surfaces, making it very similar to human skin. Dolphin sheds its outer layer of skin about every two hours. The Marsh stalker is an bipedal organism, it’s powerful hind legs leads down to webbed feet and his thick powerful Fluke-like tail which helps propel The Marsh Stalker while swimming. The Marsh stalker stands about One meter tall and Three meters in length an two key essential tools for hunting for food above water are it’s powerful jaws known to snap open turtles and, The Marsh Stalker has revolved the long curved claw not seen since the age of the Dinosaurs. The Marsh Stalker is an excellent swimmer using it’s tail to propel themselves using it’s webbed feet and tail. If in case of hunting underwater The Marsh stalkers hunt in packs to catch big prey, are solitary creatures out of the water sleeping alone in the High grasses of the Marshes.
Savannah
Between the steamy rainforest jungles of South Asia, The cold, Arid Taiga forest of North Asia, and The thick wetlands of Central Asia lies an belt of green Savannah seemingly endless plain to the untrained eye. Many animal species have adapted to these dry temperatures, and here are just a couple.
The Kirin is the distant cousin of the Knuckle walking Chalicothere. The Chalicothere in own wright is an strange creature. The bones in the Chalicothere's arms show that its hands must have been twisted so that the palms faced inwards when on the ground. The hands themselves had long claws and are clearly adapted to bear weight on the knuckles, with the claws pointing upwards off the ground. Most of the weight was taken by the short, very strong hind legs. The chalicotheres also had no front teeth, and their grinding back teeth had hardly any wear on them, suggesting that they ate only the softest vegetation. While in The WWE Timeline has many chalicothere left on the thick western hardwood forest of Eurasia, an group of Chalicothere’s adapted to the large Asian Savanah, probbly because of lower competing the browsing horses of the woodlands. The largest of The Kirin measures up to be around 2.6 meters tall. The Kirin have abandoned the Knuckle walking tradition of the Chalicothere and developed Hooves like the small Pronghorn creatures the roam the Area, The Kirin does still scoot along sometimes during grazing giving the appearance that it glides on the grass. The Kirin have also developed stronger teen needed to consume the hard grasses of the plains. It’s large nose is for usually detecting the scent of nearby predators or other rival males, or for smell of an female pheromones usually given off during mating season. The Kirin is mostly known for it sharp one horn place on top of it’s head and it long following mane and light fur that in the sun gives of the appearance that the creature is on flames and most likely adapted from the frequent fires that plague the Savannah.
The next creature that roam Asia’s belt of Savannah, are one of the most dangerous predators the world has ever seen since the age of the dinosaurs. Formicium Eurypterida giganteum, or the’‘ Spined Ant’‘. In OTL The Spined Ant’s direct ancestor ,The Giant ant who once ruled the steamy forests of OTL Germany during the Eocene period. A combination of Faster, bigger smarter carnivores with Backbones pushed the big insects and the transformation from an thick hot canopied rainforest to an colder, more Arid coniferous hardwood forest had an total on the thirteen centimeter long ants. Although in the WWE TL, the overall climate is more humid and hotter in OTL , the Rainforest of Germany still do disappear just not a soon as in OTL. The Mammals do still come also and push The Giant ant’s out of the steamy habitat into dry and hot Savannah. The Spined Ant strangely doesn’t look like The Giant Ant of Old. The Spined ant have revolved many characteristics that showed op in The Arthropod-group known Eurypterids of the Ordovician period. The Spined ant retained the basic ant like head with huge bone crushing pincers and long Antennas used to communicate with other ants in building an colony. The Six-legged animal has adapted using it for legs for pouncing on it’s prey in the thick brush. The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments. Alternatively it can be divided into the first six (the mesosoma - "middle body") and the last six (metasoma). All Spined Ant species have a total of twelve flexible opisthomal segments, or tergites as they are called. At the end of the last segment is a stout blade-like spine, the telson. The prosoma is actually made up of the first six exoskeleton segments, which have been fused together. The seventh segment has become the metastoma; and the eighth is the genital aperture. No other known ants have this same genital aperture neither do they have a metasoma. This plate-like eighth segment is also termed the operculum. In its center is the genital appendage, an elongated and sculptured rod of which there are two kinds always found in the Spined Ant population.The Spined ants have grown in size compared to their ancestors know reach two meters in length. The huge winged Male drones are usually have and Meter length wingspan usually swooping down to attack an unexpecting Bovids. The massive colonies usually reach up to fifteen feet high and twelve feet deep, The Massive Queen ant usualy wighs up to seventy five pounds and produces up to fifty ants per day. The Ants make the Savannah inhabitable for humans for many years to come.
The Rainforest
The last few creatures we will examine are those that thrive in the deep, hot and steamy rainforest of Southern Asia. In the WWE TL, The South Asian Rainforest holds some of the Most species of animals on earth, most of wich haven’t even been Identified . The next creatures I shall speak of does.
Not one of the most dangerous creatures of the South Asian Rainforest, Apidium Martichora, The Manticore is the most dangerous carnivore to stalk the South Asian Rainforest. Contrary to popular belief The Manticore is neither Feline or an creodont but The Manticore is an primate. It descends from species Apidium
Moustafai an small primate that roamed the lush forest of The Nile and of Eurasia. It was particularly adapted for leaping from branch to branch. The males were much bigger, and had large canine teeth to fight over groups of females, so they were probably social like most monkeys today. Unlike their mostly nocturnal Descendants, these primates seem to have been daytime feeders, using sight more than smell to find ripe fruit and insects in the forests. Unlike in OTL, The Eurasian forest dried out much sooner than in our timeline, But more adapted animals such as The Nectar-eating Picrodontids, The sloth-like Grendel and among others forced The Apidium’s southward to an more non competitive Habitat. Unlike their tiny ancestors The Manticore stand at most one and at least one and half meters tall not including the tail. The Manticores head still looks relatively like an primate except for it huge jaws, when opened can have up to three rows of fully serrated teeth used for tearing away at tough hide and flesh. The Manticore retains the leaping ability of it’s ancestors and are usually found in groups sleeping in the trees at night. The Manticore are very social creatures, have very large vocal cords which allows the Manticore to communicate in horn-sounding like signals to one another. The Manticore have developed to natural tools for hunting in the Jungles, One are huge curved caws used for slashing at the prey’s neck and a set of Sharp, barbed quills protect the back, sides, and tail; long, stiff guard hairs cover the front upper part of the body. The quills are usually held flat against the Manticore's body. When the Manticore is in danger, it raises the quills upright, and ejects the neurotoxins eject from the tail and lodge in the prey when near the Manticore. The barbs in the quills make them difficult to remove, since they point backwards. A Manticore’s camouflage is designed so well, In its normal habitat, it is practically invisible. In the jungles of India and Burma, the Manticore’s camouflage has probably led to its success. Manticores have a unique type of stripes. No Manticore's stripes are exactly the same as another, making it possible to identify individuals. The stripes are more beautiful than OTL zebra's. The orange patches of the Manticore's coat fool animals into thinking they are leaves, and the black, the leaves' shadows. Cunning. This is the reason why they hunt in the evenings, when the shadows are long. These are the reasons why The Manticore is the most dangerous predator of the jungles.
Written By
Austin Ross
Straha
Banned
competign world organizations
Office_Fox
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 10:58 am:
What if there were two UN type orgaisations that deal with resolving international conflicts and providing aid to nations?
A good POD would be the Korean war. If the communist nations left the UN they may start a new 'Global Alliance' or something that would be similar to the UN, with its HQ in St. Petersburg or Warsaw.
This would promote more hostility between the communist nations and the UN, maybe meaning China and the USSR stay closer.
Well, what then?
Would the cold war be longer or shorter?
What about the Vietnam War? Who would the as yet non-aligned former colonies of Africa choose?
Office_Fox
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 10:58 am:
What if there were two UN type orgaisations that deal with resolving international conflicts and providing aid to nations?
A good POD would be the Korean war. If the communist nations left the UN they may start a new 'Global Alliance' or something that would be similar to the UN, with its HQ in St. Petersburg or Warsaw.
This would promote more hostility between the communist nations and the UN, maybe meaning China and the USSR stay closer.
Well, what then?
Would the cold war be longer or shorter?
What about the Vietnam War? Who would the as yet non-aligned former colonies of Africa choose?
Please tell me I'm not the only one to find this question ironically hilarious.Musketeer513 said:
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Likely not since he has not visited the site in five years. (November 7th, 2004, apparantly)
This is fascinating. Would the effect on climate be similar if Antarctica moved north with Australia?
Only perused a little from the first page, but I'm wondering if there isn't more as well. I hope so.