Speculative evolution

The Age of the Metamorph Bird Clade Metamorphaves ~~~ The world of the Ultimocene is dominated by strange and wild creatures, many of them utterly alien compared to their introduced ancestors, but of all the planet's abundant life possibly no creatures are more derived than the changelings, or

I've been trying to do one speculative creature design a week and I luckily snuck this one in on a saturday. Enjoy some leaping crawly tree toad.

The Megasquid is a large, omnivorous terasquid from the Northern Forest of 200 million AD in the documentary The Future is Wild. It is the biggest of the Terasquids, as well as the biggest land animal of the time. Larger and more massive than any Human-era land animal at 16.375 feet (5 meters) high and 8.8125 tons (8 tonnes) in weight, a Megasquid can be seen pushing its way through the soaking vegetation, splintering conifer trunks and pulping the branches of lichen trees as it goes. Air…

paleontologyworld.com on Instagram: “The New Dinosaurs: MONOCORN! 🙄 By Dougal Dixon The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution is a 1988 speculative evolution book written…”

The lank, Herbafagus longicollum, is an giraffe-like, herbivorous, flightless pterosaur, measuring 3-4 meters (10-13 feet) tall, from Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution. It lives in African tall grass savannahs. The tropical grasslands, when they developed and spread halfway through the Miocene, were a totally novel environment for the great dinosaurs. Grass is a remarkably tough substance, and a grass-eating animal needs a number of extreme specializations to allow…

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Systematic: Aves (Bird), Sphenisciformes (group of Southern Hemisphere seabirds) sphéniscidé (Penguin Group and penguins), Neopygoscelis. Etymology: from the Greek "neo" new and "pygoscelis" name of the kind of penguin. The name "dentate" refers to the toothed beak of the species. Cousins ​​of the 21st century: The penguin Adelie, Pygoscelis adeliae. Excellent diver, this is the most abundant penguins. We pushed to the "extreme" its marine lifestyle imagining a half-armed and half-body…

The ancestors of the terracetes were small dolphins living in the waters around an island landmass roughly equivalent in size and isolation to New Zealand. These cetaceans developed the behavior of driving their aquatic prey up onto the shore, beaching themselves in the process of catching it and then wriggling back into the water – similar to how some modern dolphins are known to intentionally beach themselves when hunting. They gradually became better and better at maneuvering themselves…