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>!The backroom's 60th attempt at recreating Noelle and her dialogue!<

Context: Saurian Earth is a semi-supernatural planet-like realm with life analogous to non-mammalian tetrapods and invertebrates generated by the realm after a fraction of it collided with earth. The process of generation isn't exactly seeding, rather more of replicating manually while distributed across the realm.

Birds are a specie of sophont native to Saurian Earth, characterized by their avian appearance and humanoid traits generated by the realm. Alot of their individuals share a diverse array of forms that would differentiate them physically as a whole, yet despite that they are perfectly the same specie, with the physical differentiation process occurring in the fetal development of offsprings midway through developing sensory organs. Traits such as crests, long body parts, coloration, volant limits, heterocheirod types and beak morphology are controlled by their Aviotic Plasma.

Birds always feature a wing, sometimes flightless and sometimes capable of airborne movements, but all bear and controlled by a single digit that unfolds and retract the large primaries, although in rare occasions, their digits are fully feather-like digits. Connected to the lungs, 5 pairs of air sacs acts as bellows, with 2 pairs located at the chest connected to pneumatized bones, giving them lift when flying.

As mentioned before, their human traits are generated by the realm, which is represented through their human-like facial expressions, psychology and language, though their appearance are mostly a 50/50 when it comes to how anthropomorphic an individual will be. Despite being completely out of contact with humans or even earth, birds are able to speak common languages like español and english through human speech formed from their incredibly complex syrinx that produces a perfectly human voice and also sounds that a typical organism wouldn't make. Ironically, however, their voice couldn't change by any means except aging or damage, transitioning overtime from a child's to a grown person's voice, most likely caused by instinctive responses that locks on a single voice that can only change through aging. A common theory around the odd syrinx is that the realm itself, while trying to generate traits of human, had put a limitation to the syrinx of their human equivalent and restricted them from changing what would be the voice that differentiate an individual from one another.

The rest of the anatomical description is present in the picture.

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The Dicambrian period continues on with terrestrial helicids becoming highly diverse and morphologically distinct from each others in new clades, forming an entire ecosystem of only invertebrates. With the terrestrial population of the invertebrates growing, many clades would find themselves filling in predatory niches.

One unique clade of mantler commonly referred to as Tafangs, however, would take on a lifestyle that would challenge local ecosystems to defend against its attack. The Gnathocephala is a group of carnivorous mantler that has transformed their tentacles, including their eyes, into 4 radial jaws not too dissimilar to tetrapods' jaw structures, completed with fangs at the tip. Gnathocephalan radula were curved into a tube-esque tongue shape used for dragging food down their crop rather than pushing. The most notable features among all tafangs is their elongated highly muscular foot, which can move in complex ways rarely seen in helicids found on Moorea. Defined through their snake-like appearance, Tafangs are slithering predators that move by serpentine foot undulation to glide across the floor or wavy muscular contraction across their foot, reaching speeds faster than an average snail-A-pillar. In addition to their complex morphology, their internalized calcium remnants have gone through serial homology, forming a primitive vertebrae that would support half of the entire foot. Their body plan was originally intended to be designed for slithering into mole-like earthworms' burrows and feed on them and their eggs and use elongated tentacles to grab and maim the earthworms, but the clade would eventually give rise to the gnathocephala group itself. When reproducing, tafangs lay their eggs inside their preys' carcass, mostly around 1 - 3 clutches.

In addition to the new predators that emerged 24 million years in, a specialization occurred in the snail-A-pillar family that would allow them to avoid being a target of molluscivorous snails. Characterized by their bright colorations, Ivypillars, or scientifically referred to as Dinophores are a subfamily of shell less snail-A-pillars characterized by its mantle glands that creates terrible, bitter mucus that can repel any molluscivores that would feed on them. This defense is supported by acidic contents in the mucus, extracted from tomato fruits that they feed on.

A clade of mantler commonly referred to as Mitelikes had went on a different carnivorous route, instead of predating on other gastropods entirely, they had adopted a parasitic lifestyle similar to ticks and mites. Their lips are broad, and are able to grip onto the soft surfaces of other snails via suction force along side their foot, and the radula are elongated into a needle-like structure that penetrates into the host's circulatory system and bring blood into their crop. Mitelikes usually swarm at a specific part of the host's body to be close enough to each other to reproduce, resulting in even more individuals covering the host until the host itself deprives of mobility and blood, resulting in it's death.

The planet Pearl-737d, also nicknamed Toyland, is comprised of exotic life that highly resembles toys and playthings on earth, even possessing morphologies more compatible to what a child would probably gnaw on a random tuesday rather than an animal. The thing is, however, that they are not natural at all. Instead, anatomy and paleontological studies of this planet reveals that they don't even have a common ancestor, nor even a past Era, seemingly cut off entirely from the history of this planet. The proposed theory for the mysterious cutoff in the planet's history is that these animals aren't from this planet, literally. It is likely that a more advanced alien race created primitive forms of these animals, either aquatic, terrestrial or even aerial, and seeded them onto the planet, the purpose still unclear. What we do know is that the planet is "coincidentally" earth-like, fixed with water, oxygen, nitrogen and such, and in fact so similar that humans can temporarily breathe in the atmospheric air of the planet, although excessive/foreign materials in the air may poison them. Regarding the lifeforms, their physiology is also highly similar to earth life, comprised of carbon-based biochemistries and the same kind of blood you'd see along side animals on earth, e.g. hemocyanin and hemoglobin blood. The difference, however, is the fact that their cells possess the ability to produce and take in bioplastic, even using it for specific purposes such as creating endoskeletons, which is highly favored by the planet's low gravity. The plants of Toyland possess a symbiotic cyanobacteria-like cells used for the same function as algae on earth, which gave them a distinct blue-green hue, in some case going full on blue.

Around halfway through the Dicambrian period predators are rare due to the fact that most animals seeded on Moorea are rather sluggish, mostly represented through vermivorous earthworms dwelling under the dense undergrowth of highly derived tomato-trees. Most carnivorous animals around 14 my PE feeds on earthworms, not other gastropods entirely. But in 16 my PE, a slow yet subtle appearance of molluscivorous snails are creeping up to the Dicambrian spotlight.

In the Bumpbear family, a genus of large snails commonly referred to as snupralls are coming to a predatory point of feeding on other snails, developing larger, fang-like radula for scraping away the flesh of snails. When hunting, these snails follow the slimy trail that their prey of choice leave behind, before reaching to their target. Once the prey is cornered, the snuprall will wrap around the snail, reach into the shell and use their fang-like radula to tear off chunks of meat and suck up remnants of the organs, leaving behind an almost hollowed out shell.

Physical description:

Made by an anonymous Japanese artist, Aruku kemono, Walking beast, The Sculpture or formally known as "SCP-173," is a statue comprised of concrete, plaster and rebars, topped off with a decorative face paint resembling the cartoon character Doraemon. SCP-173 possess 4 legs, the first pair made up of concrete and plaster, with rebars at the bottom serving as "digits." And the second pair consisting of two long rebars, with bent tips at the bottom resembling feet. Vertically placed rebars tipped with smaller, sharpened rebars bounded together in a hand-like placement is used for █████████.