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[OC]Amazonian Savannah-10 milion years in the future

The amazonian rainforest were deforested during the Anthropocene,giving way to farms and pastures,but fragments of the forest survived in the Andes mountains and reserves.At the end of the anthropocene,the tropical forest grew again and biodiversity increased again,but as the warm conditions of the period after the Anthropocene ends,the climate cools down and the forests all over the world diminish,transforming into savannah and dry open forests,some areas still harbor tropical forests but they are in the mountains,Sundaland and other small refuges,the animals had to adapt to changes and evolved in new interesting forms.

1. Ascentor-Uakari

Size-1,75 m body length 95 kg in weight
Diet-Ungulates,small animals,roots,eggs

Ecology-Descendants of uakari of the Amazon Basin have evolved into carnivorous and omnivorous species and one of them is the saber tooth uakari.They are sociable living in packs of 10 members each,mating in the summer.Fangs have a role for the prey to break the trachea.

The frowning monkey (Miriboki doki)

Ascentor-Tarsiers
Size-30 cm body length 300 grams in weight
Diet-fruit,grass,insects

Ecology-The amazonian forest became savannah and tarsiers came down from the trees to live on the ground.These are small omnivores that will live in logs and burrows.They are solitary life.

The amazonian eucalyptus (Eucalyptulus amazonis)

Ascentor-Eucalyptus
Size-2,31m in height

Ecology-Eucalyptus was introduced to South America, became quite widespread after the Helocene, and the drying of the Amazonian Forest made it thrive and the extinction rate of Amazonian trees in the Helocene was very high,which means that eucalyptus and some surviving plants will occupy many niches of savannah trees,they bloom during the rainy season and dry in the dry season.

Iron Beak (Bastornis Major)

Ascentor-Red legged seriema
Size-2 m in height 65 kg in weight
Diet-meat

Ecology-During the Cenozoic there were many forms of terror birds for example-
-Gastornis from the Eocene of Europe 56 myh ago
-Kelenken from the Miocene of South America 15 myh ago
-Dromornis from the Miocene Australia 15 myh ago
-Titanis Walleri from Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of North America 5 myh ago-1,8 myh ago.
-Psiloperus from Oligocene-Late Pleistocene of South America 26 myh ago-100.000 years ago (The last terror bird recording from fossils,Red legged seriema are a very close relative of the terror bird).

10 milion years in the future the terror birds are re-evolved from Red legged seriema that survive the Helocene extinction.They kill their prey by striking the head with their beak,they make the victim die because of the broken head and blood vessels.

Brown Stalker Raccon (Notherium)

Ascentor-American Raccon
Size-3 m in height 850 kg in weight
Diet-meat,bones,grass,fruit

Ecology-During the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of South America 5 myh ago,giant raccons lived now is Argentina,Venezuela and Columbia.

-Chapalmalania lived in most of South America at that time they were by the ice age that was approaching ,they weighed between 100-160 kg and 1,30 m.

The raccon evolved into an even larger form than its Pliocene counterpart,Chapalmalania ,even the size of the Grizzly bear that is an ambush predator.It stays in the bushes until an animal comes close enough to tear it apart,it is not fast enough to run the prey for long distances,but it does not bother to eat bones,grass,fruits.Bones are easily digested by their gastric juice ,therefore these large raccoons will be able to survive tens of million of years after the ice age ,they are adaptable and have a large diet.

,,The american ostrich,, (Loxobon Paleogna)

Ascentor-Rhea
Size-1,95 m in height 70 kg in weight
Diet-grass,seeds,insects

Ecology-Rhea during the anthropocene was a flightless bird that had the ability to run.It became the South American analogue of the ostrich.It is sociable living in groups of 5 then during the rainy season they mate.

Artyodon

Ascentor-African Hippos
Size-1,97 m in height 150 kg in weight
Diet-grass,seeds,leaf

Ecology-After hippos escapes from a private zoo owned by Pablo Escobar,the population of hippos grew and at the end of the annthropocene they began evolve towards new forms,even occupying niches of large animals from the Pliocene and Pleistocene,an example being Artyodon a descendant of hippopotamus that evolved convergently with primitive ungulates from the Eocene and Oligocene,they are herbivores that graze in the solitary in the savannah.In the mating season they go to a wooded place in the savannah whare they will mate in the rainy season,they only give birth to one baby.

Phonianes gigas

Ascentor-Anaconda
Size-10 m in height 270 kg in weight
Diet-meat

Ecology-Anaconda during the Anthropocene was not affected by deforestation, the ice age came and tropical forests dry in most of South America.These snakes have not changed much but the size has increased and their tongue has become like a sword that pierces the prey.

Colibrianis ikes

Ascentor-Sparkling violotear
Size-13-14 cm 7,5 g in weight
Diet-grass,sparrows

u/Adventurous-Tea-2461 — 12 days ago

What if Constantine the Great had issued an edict requiring the Roman people to become hunter-gatherers?

Well, let’s suppose Constantine spends some time in the Alps, immersed in nature, and the idea occurs to him: what if all Roman territories were to become hunter-gatherers? Some people agree with him, and—even before issuing an official edict—he calls upon Rome's neighbors (Persia, the Germanic tribes, the islanders, and even Nubia) to adopt this hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They present arguments in favor of it, noting that hunting and gathering prevent the rapid depletion of resources. How would history have changed? What about the arrival of the Huns? Which other peoples might have been convinced—given that everyone has plenty of arguments? The arrival of the Huns? The Middle Ages? I realize, of course, that the Silk Road would have collapsed.

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u/Adventurous-Tea-2461 — 2 months ago

[OC] Protocordyceps Arthropleurae (Extinct ghost lineage of parasite fungi)

Well we all know about modern Cordyceps taking over ants. But imagine this fungus at monstrous proportions.

The Carboniferous was a time when oxygen was 35% and invertebrates were thriving, well in the Carboniferous rainforests, a silent monster had made its appearance in the middle Carboniferous, well the infection cycle was pure biological terror, spores lay waiting among the fallen trunks of Calamites waiting until an Arthropleura or any other large invertebrate passed through the area but Arthropleura was the most targeted host.

When an Arthropleura passed through the area, the adherent spores secreted an extremely corrosive cocktail of chitinolytic enzymes, capable of melting the hard armor (cuticle) of the millipede. Once infiltrated into the body, the mycelium of the fungus directly attacked the "on-board computer": the ventral nerve cord (the nerve cord located on the belly, which controlled the legs). Through neuro-chemical manipulation, the fungus put the animal in a trance and forced it to climb a natural ramp, such as a Calamites log, to gain height. Once at the top, the parasite triggered the "death grip": the massive mandibles of the millipede would permanently sink into the wood, and the dozens of legs would lock in a rigid spasm.

After the death of the host, the metabolism of the fungus exploded due to the abundant oxygen. It consumed the inside of the millipede and mummified it in a rigid structure (sclerotium). Then, from the monster's head erupted the fruiting body: a giant mushroom, the mushroom was as big as an adult man, well, spores came out of the bags and the cycle repeated itself.

These parasites disappeared before the early Permian, but they survived the collapse of the Carboniferous forests, they also benefited from the last arthropods in their pockets, then they moved on to other smaller millipedes but not enough and disappeared 286 million years ago. They did not fossilize well because the mushroom slowly consumed the host + the acidic soil made the preservation not take place effectively.

u/Adventurous-Tea-2461 — 4 months ago

If the Eocene-Oligocene boundary wasn't a cooling but actually another thermal maximum, stronger than the Eocene? How would that affect evolution?

Well, a device the size of a large closet lands on Earth accidentally, the device belongs to a civilization that is so advanced that it travels through universes, and an object of theirs accidentally reaches Earth and can release from nowhere huge amounts of CO2, Methane, Silver Iodide, Sodium Chloride in mass. Well, huge amounts are released into the atmosphere. Silver Iodide is released in mass for 3 million years continuously. CO2 and Methane are released permanently and well controlled (the device knows how much to release and how much not to do to ensure the habitability of the Earth). Instead of the cooling at the end of the Eocene we have a thermal maximum that approaches even the Permian-Triassic peaks for a few million years but not catastrophic with volcanoes, then stabilizes between the Permian-Triassic and Cretaceous hothouse values. Well, it prevents any cooling. As it would be evolution? Mammals? Reptiles? Could it be mammals? Amphibians? Modern groups that had appeared in that very period? Multiberculates are disappearing, choristodera? Reptiles claim everything? Birds? Ecosystems from the poles to the equator?

u/Adventurous-Tea-2461 — 5 months ago

If the Eocene-Oligocene boundary wasn't a cooling but actually another thermal maximum, stronger than the Eocene? How would that affect evolution?

Well, a device the size of a large closet lands on Earth accidentally, the device belongs to a civilization that is so advanced that it travels through universes, and an object of theirs accidentally reaches Earth and can release from nowhere huge amounts of CO2, Methane, Silver Iodide, Sodium Chloride in mass. Well, huge amounts are released into the atmosphere. Silver Iodide is released in mass for 3 million years continuously. CO2 and Methane are released permanently and well controlled (the device knows how much to release and how much not to do to ensure the habitability of the Earth). Instead of the cooling at the end of the Eocene we have a thermal maximum that approaches even the Permian-Triassic peaks for a few million years but not catastrophic with volcanoes, then stabilizes between the Permian-Triassic and Cretaceous hothouse values. Well, it prevents any cooling. As it would be evolution? Mammals? Reptiles? Could it be mammals? Amphibians? Modern groups that had appeared in that very period? Multiberculates are disappearing, choristodera? Reptiles claim everything? Birds? Ecosystems from the poles to the equator?

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u/Adventurous-Tea-2461 — 5 months ago