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before we start, this challenge was by Charlott-A has made this speculative evolution challenge, for September (there's da link www.deviantart.com/charlott-a/Speculative-September-805022168 ), it will consist from alternative times to times that are so futuristic, i'm into 1/9 (one out of nine), so lets do it!
The animals that are in this challenge live in different time period, like the others that live in the future are the Letharocene period (11 my), Geocene period (10 my), and the Cretacene period (35-40 my), but in the past, its the Cretaceous period (145-65 mya) that's all of the animals time period lets begin
#1: Speculative Mammal (Scurialestes giganto): during the Parastotic epoch (11.4 - 11.9 my), this little critter is in a family of rodents that look like in the family , it's called Psudeodryolestoidea, or fossil record rodents, like the Nut-Catcher (Cronoius oakus), and the Jungle Squirrel (Psudeodryolestes amazonia), and their closely related to squirrels and mice, but lets continue talking to the North American Oak-Robber (Scurialestes giganto). It's subfamily is the least successful, and surviving Scurialestoidea, or the Tree-Robbers, that live in every continent, except Antarctica, because it's very cold in here, but theres alot of species of rodents in this subfamily, like the Chinese Pine-Robber (Scurialestes hwangshanensis) which eats the cones and seeds of the Humangshan pine (Pinus hwangshanensis), False Sabertooth Squirrel (Cronialestes psudeous) which has the color and the diet of the loving, and funny character from Ice Age, Scrat (this is da link kkk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio… ) and the Fox Squirrel (Scurialestes vulpes) which has the ears of the fox, the tail of the fox, and some traits of a fox, but some traits that are not belong in a fox, like it climb trees, ate cones and seeds, and some stuff like a true tree-robbers do, but the first species which is their ancestor of all tree-robbers is the Common Tree-Robber (Scurialestes americana) which is the first rodent that gave all of the species of all tree-robbers, because they we're successful, they survived 2 mass extinctions (The Yellowstone Mass Extinction (TYE) and The Snow Mass Extinction (L-KG Mass Extinction), and they we're so successful that they tried different diets, some turned to be carnivorous, omnivorous, but all of the species of this subfamily are herbivores (eating cones, acorns, nuts, and seeds, and sometimes plants, conifers, and any type of plant), but lets talk about Scurialestes now.
The North American Oak-Robber (Scurialestes giganto) is a species of rodent from the subfamily that converge from niches to squirrels and mice, and it's relative is the New-York Tree-Robber (Scurialestes redwoodus) and the Canadan Tree-Robber (Drionalestes canada), becuase those two species live the same population (because they live in New York Woods (new name of New York Forest) and Canada), and bred sometimes, that's why they make hybrids if them, but the North American Oak-Robber is not a hybrid, it's an own species, like it can breed like crazy, like rabbits, and some times be belongsided with predators, like badgers, mongooses, and wild ferrets, in their behavior, they have different behavior, behavior of mice and squirrels, their behavior looks like this: North American Oak-Robbers usually run, walk, or stand on all fours, but they can stand up for dominance (like t-posing, and the popular of dominance, the owl, which a pose that is currently from all fossil record rodents), but when eating, fighting, or orienting themselves, they rear up on their hind legs with additional support from the tail - a behavior known as "tripoding". North American Oak-Robbers are good jumpers, climbers, and swimmers, and are generally considered to be thigmotactic, i.e. usually attempt to maintain contract with vertical surfaces. North American Oak-Robbers are sometimes crepuscular or nocturnal; they are averse to bright light. the average sleep time of a scavenging north american oak-robber is reported to be 12 hours per day. they live in a wide variety of hidden places near food sources in North America, and construct nest from various soft minerals. North American Oak-Robbers are social, but some north american oak-robbers are territorial, one dominant male and some males (in social swarms, or packs) usually live together with several females and young. Dominant males respect each other swarms (or packs) and territories and normally enter another's territory or swarm (or pack) only if it is vacant (in territories, not in swarms, and packs). If two or more males are housed together in a cage (when scientists picked up some living specimens and put it in a future pet store), they often sometimes become aggressive, and sometimes just deal with it, unless they have been raised together from birth. North American Oak-Robbers primarily feed on plant matter, but are omnivorous. They eat their own faces to acquire nutrients produced by bacteria in their intestines. North American Oak-Robbers, like most other fossil records rodents or normal rodents, do not vomit. North American Oak-Robbers are generally afraid or Hellrats (Rattus giganteus) which often kill and eat them, a behavior know as muricide. Despite this, free-living populations of rats (Like the hellrat) and fossil record rodents (like the north american oak-robber) do exist together in forested and grassland areas like North America, Canada, and Alaska. North American Oak-Robbers are generally poor competitors in some areas, like Australia, Russia, and South America and in most areas cannot survive away from predators in areas where other small mammals, such as wood mice, are present (a time where humans evolved). However in some areas (such as Canada, and Alaska), north american oak-robbers are able to coexist with other small rodent species. And even in a squirrel niche, they look like this; They have excellent sight, including good coloring vision. the hand-like forepaws are used for holding food. North American Oak-Robbers make nests in holes in trees or on branches. They spend much time on the ground, foraging for fruit, nuts, and insects; they also sometimes eat eggs, younger birds, and smaller mammals. So lets go to the next animal guys.
#2: Speculative Bird (Strigops borealis): The Mountain Kakapo (Strigops borealis) is a species of flightless parrot, related to the critically endangered kakapo, which thrived when humans leaved Earth, and made more herbiverous species of them, like the North Island Kakapo (Strigops diversius), Tree Kakapo (Strigops falanda) after it's named the new plant species in South Island, called the Kakapo Tree (Falanda zealandius) which provides fruit, and the fruit has seeds, and they're called Kakana's or Kaka for short, after the animals that ate them, the Tree Kakapo, these kakapos eat the trees fruit, and the kaka's seeds, and the Megakakapo (Megastrigops giganteus) which is a large species of kakapo, it's about the size of an extinct large parrot in New Zealand, Heracles inexpectatus (if u wanna see this big boi, go-to da link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles… ), which is the largest of all birds in New Zealand, but it's extinct, so no giant parrots, but the thrived kakapos evolved to be large (like about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) like Heracles) and that's gave birth to the largest kakapo lived than Heracles, the Megakakapo! (Megastrigops giganteus), but i know those parrot lived the same epoch as the Mountain Kakapo, but lets talk about this fascinating bird, the Mountain Kakapo has the ability to climb untop of mountains, and they have a call, called the alarm call or scare call, which is a vocalization to scare predators away, like the kea, which lives in the mountains in New Zealand, and they lived in the Geocene to Leonene (10 - 15 my) which is a very long time to the kakapo adapt new features, and it's wingspan is 41 - 45 inches, which it evolved flight, because in the skeletal system, they have the keel and the sternum (breastbone), so they can fly, like true macaws, but it's diet, whats it's diet? They ate cold enviroment berries called the New Zealand Montain Berrybush (Ramus zealandius) which survived the cold, trees that adapted the cold called the New Zealand False Spruce (Psudeopicea zealandius), and they have cones that look like the spruces cones, they have smooth, thin scales and are quite flexible and easy to bend, and grasses in some mountainous areas in North Island, the grasses in all New Zealand islands grow in the spring, and summer, in the breeding season (which starts in the spring (April, and May) and ends in September), all males, even alphas, use their wings, to attract females, they flap their wings to attract females, so they can breed for life, the babies, which are called nestlings, have weak beaks, featherless skin as hatchlings, and are not ready to fly (they will be ready to fly when they're adolescents), the Mountain Kakapo nest acts like a burrow, or an ant hill, where the food is in the burrow, from the left or right side, and the nests are in lefts, and some rights, well how do they make the burrows, they dig in the ground with their beak and sometimes their feet, to make burrows, and like ants, they make some times a hill (or an "Kakapo Hill"), and unlike ants, the workers are not females, they have different genders (like male and female), in burrows, they don't have workers, all of the kakapos make families in burrows, or make family burrows, and some kakapo hills, some families live in these hills, and in all kakapo hills, they have a queen, which weight the same size of the average female mountain kakapo, and females that lived in some kakapo hills, make families (the burrowing starts every season, but the kakapo hills only start in the spring and fall), the predators of this bird is keas, eagles called the New Zealand Mountain Eagle (Aquila zealandius), large cats, carniverous flightless eagles, and saber-toothed otters called insuitans (the real names New Zealand Saber-Toothed Otter (Lutra fatalis zealandius), and those bird have symbiosis with a small bird called the New Zealand Whobber Bird (Albibia zealandius), which is in the family Albibidae, which is a family of birds that have throat pouches to attract mates, intimidate rivals, and dominance, they're about the size of your hand, and they live in all seven continents, except for Antarctica, because it's far away to fly there, the feral sheep that lived in New Zealand have evolved symbiosis with the Mountain Kakapo, New Zealand Whobber Bird (AKA Mountain Kakapo's best friend), and different bird species in different shapes and small and medium sizes, except for keas, which prey on sheep, well the Mountain Kakapo went extinct 15 million years, because of predators, and climate change, but the Mountain Kakapo is in your eyes, if you see one in the future.
#3: Speculative Lizard (Smaug horridus): The North African Girdled Lizard (Smaug horridus) is a species of girdled lizard that is in the genus Smaug, which contains all girdled lizards, even the North African Girdled Lizard's ancestor, the Sungazer (Smaug giganteus, syn. Cordylus giganteus), the diet of this creature is large insects, small mammals, and small fish, even they scavenge large carcasses, which are available of scavenging beetles and old world vultures, the North African Girdled Lizard stomach acid is 100% of acid than human acid, even vulture acid, so they ate large, medium, and small carcasses, that large, medium, and small predators left, and it helps food chains, the grass gets nutrients to the rats (which are the North African Girdled Lizards #1 meal), while the rat gives nutrients to the North African Girdled Lizard (which is the teritary consumer), and the North African Girdled Lizard gives nutrients to the north african eagles (which is the #1 North African Girdled Lizard's Predator), that's what an North African food chain is in the future (35-40 my, the Cretacene period), the predators of this lizard are eagles, giant fish called "insuitanas" (real names: Giant Freshwater False Vampire Fish (Aliampira africana), and medium-sized feral cats called North African Feral Cats (Megafelis africana), in mating season (Which starts during the summer and ends in fall), male North African Girdled Lizards nod their heads to attract mates, its called "head-dance", where the head nods in a fun and a pretty way to attract mates, baby north african girdled lizards, which are called hatchlings, have tiny bodies, and hands and arms that we're so adorable, they you wanna hold it in your hands, in some families, mothers sometimes don't have husbands, because some males will be solitary, killing the same species for dominance, food, and dangerous enviromental conditions, in the end of the Cretacene, half of the population of the North African Girdled Lizards survived, but the other half didn't because there was no hiding spots in Northwest and Southeast of North Africa, while the half survived, because they hided in the hiding spots, but new girdled lizards evolved in the next period before the Cretacene period, but the lizards in North Africa still lived peacefully (while they went extinct 45 million years).
#4: Speculative Fish (Latimeria africana) the Megamawsonia (Latimeria africana) is a giant species of coelacanth that lived in the Cretacene period (35-40 my), it was a omnivore, so that means it ate the aquatic plants in the new Kem Kem River, which is large, because north africa increased the water in the east, and animals migrated to north africa, because in north africa, it has a rich environment, with different species of trees, ferns, grass, and aquatic plants, and fish evolved their and called the river basin home, and ate small and medium fish in the river basin, they have a giant mouth, so it acts like a vacuum, to suck up the animals and plants that it eat, their predators are giant giraffe-like predators called Bauragaurs (Cruduagiraffa horridus), giant varanids, and big cats that adapted in aquatic lifestyle, the genus of the species is hard to think, but a scientist called James Arrow, found this giant fish, near to shore of the Kem Kem River Basin, which has the skull, and vertebrae, complete vertebrae, and he thinks it's related to the extinct Mawsonia, and called the scientific name Megamawsonia africa, but the mawsonia went extinct, and it's not related, it's related to the West Indian Ocean Ceolacanth, and migrated in north africa, and evolved to the big omniverous fish, so James fix the scientific name from Megamawsonia africa to Latimeria africana, finally, this giant fish, which is popular for it's large size, went extinct in the end of the Cretacene, so in the period before the Cretacene period, there will be no giant river basin, but the mammals and other vertabrates that didn't include fish survived in the end of the Cretacene period, but there will be no large fish in the river basin, but in a few million of years, the giant river basin, and the giant fish that live there will evolve will be true.
#5: Speculative Dinosaur (Laurasaurus americana): Laurasaurus (L. americana) is a genus of dryosaur that lived in the Late Creatceous, about 68-66 million years ago, why is it named Laurasaurus. it was discovered in 2027, paleontologist Laura Aircraft discovered this fossil in the Hell Creek Formation, which has the large Anatosaurus, the speedy Dakatoraptor, and the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, the fossil has the skull, vertebrae, arms, and legs, but the tail is about 6 meters long, and the body is 6 meters long too, like the tail, it was a complete fossil, all of the paleontologist paint what the niche, behavior, and what order does belong to, it looks like the famous Dryosaurus, but, they test the skeleton, and it said it was related to later dryosaurids, that survived in the Cretaceous, and in 2028, and 2029, Laurasaurus was popular, it is even in documentary books, documentary movies, and documentary TV shows, well we're done of the history, lets go to the description of this dino!
Laurasaurus ate ferns, bushes, and ancient plants, and make burrows for families and protection, because the carnivores of Hell Creek can't fit in the burrows, only Laurasaurs and other small dinosaurs in Hell Creek, the mating season, which starts in spring, males chirp and sing to attract a mate, and females lay 5-10 eggs an hour, and the eggs live in the protective burrows, or family burrows, the Laurasaurs run really fast, about 40 miles per hour, so the predators from hell creek can't catch those tiny dryosaurids, and have symbiosis with ancient toothed birds during the Cretaceous, in Hell Creek, their smallest predator is Archeraptor, which is a small raptor that lived in hell creek, and kills the laurasaurs, and other small or medium creatures in hell creek, when the dinosaurs went extinct, the Laurasaurs survived the K-Pg mass extinction (because they hide in burrows, protective burrows), but all of the Laurasaurs went extinct, because there was no food, and place to live in, the Paleogene looks like a giant desert in 66 million years ago, but the Laurasaurs will be in their minds and faces.
#6: Speculative humanoid creature (Velociraptor sapiens): About 70 million years ago (in an alternative time), Velociraptor mongoliensis never went extinct, because of food, hunting, and surviving, and now, a new species of Velociraptor has been born, Velociraptor habilis, which is the only carniverous dinosaur that made tools made out of rock, and wood, and hunted giant large dinosaurs easily, well when V. habilis survived 70 million years, a new species evolved, Velociraptor erectus, which is the ancestor of all sapient raptors, like Velociraptor naledi, Velociraptor heidelbergensis, and even the first raptor that have the brain about the size of an human brain, made ancient huts, made of wood, and hay, and kill really large prey, like Tyrannosaurus, and Anatosaurus, Velociraptor sapiens, and all of those sapient raptor went in every land, in different times, like V. erectus evolved to be Velociraptor floresiensis, and it lived in Indochina, not Flores, because Indonesia was not made in the Cretaceous, and Velociraptor luzonesis was evolved by V. erectus, and lived in Indochina, like V. floresiensis, so the species interbred, and made a hybrid species called denisosaurians, Velociraptor neanderthalensis, which is an ancestor of V. erectus, lived in West Eurasia, not Europe, because Europe was split to half many times to make islands, and there's subspecies and other species, but they went extinct, because of climate change, and predators, but all of the sapient raptors went extinct 66 million years ago, but humans (Homo sapiens), which means us, replace the intelligence of those sapient raptors, but those sapient raptors lived in the Cretaceous for a really long time, but every bone or fossil tells a story.
Bonus: History of V. sapiens: Velociraptor sapiens and other sapient raptors we're discovered in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, and 2029, the first sapient raptor, which means V. sapiens, was discovered in 2025, who found the bones of this intelligent raptor was Laura Aircraft, which who found the Laurasaurus, which lived the same time as the sapient raptors, the fossil was a complete fossil, like the Laurasaurus fossil, it has the skull, arms, vertebrae, tail, legs, ribs, and the claws, and plus, it had plumage, and some paleoartists said it has dark brown stripes, the stripes was together, had a throat-pouch, to hold prey items, like pelicans, the throat-pouch was attached to the neck, had a white belly, the legs doesn't have plumage, like not in the hips, the hips have plumage and white, and the body and tail is light brown, and light green, and the jaw (AKA the beginning of the feathers) is light orange, like humans (i think), and new sapient raptors we're discovered, like V. erectus, V. habilis, and V. heidelbergensis, and they we're popular, they we're in documentary movies, and TV shows, and even in non-fiction books, like history books, and dinosaur books, and the sapient raptors are still popular for it's discovery, but they are the famous raptors that we're smart.
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now i will post the next one, which is the speculative environments, there will be 5 environments, they will be posted in a day, and other will be there soon, so see you later, bye!!!