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290 million years PE, Serinaustra's continent-spanning tropical forests are inhabited by a wide range of tree-climbing foxtrotters known as the scamps. Ancestrally lemur-like, this group of animals evolved from small, generalized animals related to the brushtrotters of 275 MPE. Fifteen years of evolutionary radiation has split them up into many distinct families, each distinct from the other. Some resemble monkeys, others bring to mind birds, and some even resemble frogs. Far from just the prey of the longdark swamp's top predators - though many certainly fall into this role - the scamps are one of the southern foxtrotters' most successful living lineages.

This scamp is probably the most spectacular, for it is the second vertebrate upon Serina - not counting the canary, which came to this world with the ability - to evolve powered flight, after the tribbats did so in the Pangeacene. A tree-hopping insectivore, it has evolved more elongated, interconnected, insect-catching bristles on its fingers to transform a net into an airfoil. Each of its fingers, except for its innermost clawed digit, is now lined with stiff hairs that are hooked along their edges, coming together like velcro to hold the structure in shape. Each of the six flight fingers of this blackbird-sized flittering flutterfox is now structured similarly to a bird's feather.

Full entry, showing a variety of scamp species: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…

Patrons saw these species months ago, for some more than a YEAR ago. Check it out if you want to see what's going on behind the scenes! www.patreon.com/sheatherius

Description

290 million years PE, Serinaustra's continent-spanning tropical forests are inhabited by a wide range of tree-climbing foxtrotters known as the scamps. Ancestrally lemur-like, this group of animals evolved from small, generalized animals related to the brushtrotters of 275 MPE. Fifteen years of evolutionary radiation has split them up into many distinct families, each distinct from the other. Some resemble monkeys, others bring to mind birds, and some even resemble frogs. Far from just the prey of the longdark swamp's top predators - though many certainly fall into this role - the scamps are one of the southern foxtrotters' most successful living lineages.

This scamp is probably the most spectacular, for it is the second vertebrate upon Serina - not counting the canary, which came to this world with the ability - to evolve powered flight, after the tribbats did so in the Pangeacene. A tree-hopping insectivore, it has evolved more elongated, interconnected, insect-catching bristles on its fingers to transform a net into an airfoil. Each of its fingers, except for its innermost clawed digit, is now lined with stiff hairs that are hooked along their edges, coming together like velcro to hold the structure in shape. Each of the six flight fingers of this blackbird-sized flittering flutterfox is now structured similarly to a bird's feather.

Full entry, showing a variety of scamp species: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…

Patrons saw these species months ago, for some more than a YEAR ago. Check it out if you want to see what's going on behind the scenes! www.patreon.com/sheatherius