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The start of hothouse age allowed the pocketfowl to spread south to Serinaustra, which soon became a land of verdant swamps and forests with relatively few competitors. These seraphs, which carried their pupating young in pouches on the female's lower abdomen, were generalized omnivores but fed mainly on plants, and found an endless garden buffet as the land warmed, trees grew, and the world turned evergreen. And as their food grew more abundant, the pocketfowl evolved into a far larger animal.

Fallen angels are a species of giant pocketfowl that, in adulthood, are browsers. Their necks, reaching to nine feet, are now long enough to reach the canopies of trees. They move through forest in small herds, and are competent runners on the ground with powerful arms and legs. They need to be, for in order to get taller and grow a more efficient stomach to digest huge amounts of leaves, they became too heavy to take flight and become marooned on the ground, lending their name. Now weighing up to five hundred pounds, adults outgrow the ability of their wings to carry them through ontogeny, transitioning from small flocking goose-like fliers which live around freshwater habitats to fully terrestrial, woodland-dwelling adults that are similar in niche to deer and giraffes.

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Description

The start of hothouse age allowed the pocketfowl to spread south to Serinaustra, which soon became a land of verdant swamps and forests with relatively few competitors. These seraphs, which carried their pupating young in pouches on the female's lower abdomen, were generalized omnivores but fed mainly on plants, and found an endless garden buffet as the land warmed, trees grew, and the world turned evergreen. And as their food grew more abundant, the pocketfowl evolved into a far larger animal.

Fallen angels are a species of giant pocketfowl that, in adulthood, are browsers. Their necks, reaching to nine feet, are now long enough to reach the canopies of trees. They move through forest in small herds, and are competent runners on the ground with powerful arms and legs. They need to be, for in order to get taller and grow a more efficient stomach to digest huge amounts of leaves, they became too heavy to take flight and become marooned on the ground, lending their name. Now weighing up to five hundred pounds, adults outgrow the ability of their wings to carry them through ontogeny, transitioning from small flocking goose-like fliers which live around freshwater habitats to fully terrestrial, woodland-dwelling adults that are similar in niche to deer and giraffes.

Full entry: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…