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Guess what viewer, it is now MY BIRTHDAY!and to celebrate me being another year older, I've decided to draw a fan-art image from a show that i watch roughly ten years ago...
the subject, why less realistic than Jurassic park/world, was still fascinating to me for it allowed the designers to REALLY get creative...
this tv show goes by the name of "Primeval!"
The idea behind this series was there were these "anomalies" which were strange doorways in time to different parts of the earth's world's very long history....
often-times, an episode would feature a creature from some point in prehistory, like a dinosaur, a mammoth, a giant carbonfious insect or even a synapsid.
But since episode 6, the producers of the show had found a way of mixing up the formula (as to not run out of obscure prehistoric animals so fast)
they added in that the "anomalies" not only lead to the distant past, letting in extinct creatures, but can occasionally lead to the distant future, letting in animals the like of which the world has literally not seen.
now whenever the future animals of primeval are brought up, people normally think of the demonic-looking bat-descendant called: "The Future Predator"
But that is not what my favorite creature is...
no, my favorite creature of the future comes SEASON 2 EPISODE 4, when the team is trying to find out what kidnapped a young man named Lucien (and later, one of their own team-members Abby) and what they find, is this creature...
a semi-aquatic marine mammal from some unknown point in the future, with huge canines, forward-facing eyes, large muscular arms and a large set of rear-flippers...
It is called the "Mer Creature" and although at first glance, it looks like a vicious seal, the details that I've explained seem to indicate that is, in fact, a type of marine primate species, one that simply adapted to life in the sea and replaced the seals in their niche.
that is pretty in itself but what is even cooler is the possible place by nick cutter, that they may somehow be a distant descendant of us humans!
if that is the case, then it is third "post-human" species to be used in pop-culture...
(after the Eloi and the Morlocks)
but with all that said, I hope to have a great birthday...
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Comments: 153
tyyrson In reply to ??? [2018-01-24 21:22:25 +0000 UTC]
3-Yeah, a large female controls a beach and has a harem o smaller males.
3.2-I don`t know, if anything i hope he dosen`t live this state of the world with how how people think.
4-Really/ i for one actually liked the show, and besides, out of all the animals we`ve found, not all are preserved...
5-How about talking the first specimens being mostly scaly, then the later generations were deigned to be more feathered.
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Taliesaurus In reply to tyyrson [2018-01-24 21:28:02 +0000 UTC]
3- maybe...
3.2- huh?
4- true but brachiosaur lived in the Jurassic, carnotaurus lived the creactous
plus why do you think it never got a second season or even proper recognition?
5- nope. I'm talking JP canon
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tyyrson In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-24 22:14:01 +0000 UTC]
3-Indeed.
3.2-I mean, it`s just that people these days feel shitty about themselves and are incredibly sensitive to a variety of things.
4-I don`t know?
5-Well then i`ve got nothing.
Happy Birthday!!!
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tyyrson In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 22:00:03 +0000 UTC]
3.1-For saying about how people are like.
4-I don`t understand.
5-For not giving any good ideas to showcase.
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Taliesaurus In reply to tyyrson [2018-01-25 22:04:10 +0000 UTC]
3.1 no that is just the truth (unfortunately)
4- Tera Nova has animals in the same place that we know lived in different time periods and different places.
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tyyrson In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 22:22:56 +0000 UTC]
3.1-Thanks for agreeing with me.
4-Well in that case, the moment the humans colonized those points in time they splinted off into their own timeline.
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Taliesaurus In reply to tyyrson [2018-01-25 22:29:30 +0000 UTC]
4- really, from carnotaurus being there you think it was South America in the late Cretaceous, but then there is ankylosaurus and triceratops (North-American dinosaurs)
brachiosaurus (an African Jurassic dinosaur) and even something that is basically a spinosaurus rip-off.
I'm ok with speculative species (the nikoraptor and the Acceraptor) but if you want it to be interesting and more believable, use dinosaurs of that time-period and from that region.
otherwise, it just gets confusing and convoluted
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tyyrson In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 23:11:24 +0000 UTC]
4-OKAY, i understand now, we`ll never find ALL the fossils, it`s possible in some areas, some dinosaurs evolved and survived.
"Life Finds a Wat"
-Ian Malcolm.
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Taliesaurus In reply to tyyrson [2018-01-25 23:14:58 +0000 UTC]
4- yes but not brachiosaurus or spinosaurus
or even triceratops.
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to ??? [2018-01-24 16:08:15 +0000 UTC]
Aw yes, its one of my favorites too...
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 09:35:42 +0000 UTC]
I like apes and seals so its just natural
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Taliesaurus In reply to Lediblock2 [2018-01-24 16:12:22 +0000 UTC]
1- thank you.
2- what do you like about this creature?
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Lediblock2 In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 19:12:49 +0000 UTC]
It's very detailed - I like how baboon-like you made the face.
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Taliesaurus In reply to Lediblock2 [2018-01-25 19:37:20 +0000 UTC]
indeed, especially since it is a primate
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Dinoslayer84 In reply to ??? [2018-01-24 13:13:45 +0000 UTC]
Happy birthday man. Love the Primeval art
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Taliesaurus In reply to Dinoslayer84 [2018-01-24 13:19:24 +0000 UTC]
1- thanks
2- what do you like about the Mer creature.
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Dinoslayer84 In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-24 13:47:00 +0000 UTC]
It's nice, the tusks could be more larger. I really like to grey coloration, even though you don't have their speckled pattern.
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Taliesaurus In reply to Dinoslayer84 [2018-01-24 13:56:01 +0000 UTC]
actually, this is the female, the male is MUCH LARGER and has tusks, look-vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pr…
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Dinoslayer84 In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-24 14:51:34 +0000 UTC]
Are you talking about the Mer Queen, the massive one with blubber?
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Taliesaurus In reply to Dinoslayer84 [2018-01-24 15:02:31 +0000 UTC]
yep..., just like how today elephant seals have huge males...
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-24 16:19:23 +0000 UTC]
I think its actually the females who are the red speckled, larger and tusked... I mean she is nicknamed the queen
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-24 16:23:18 +0000 UTC]
maybe, but it's a bit odd to have it that way, particularly in mammals
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 09:36:39 +0000 UTC]
Hyenas have lead females, and in apes the Bonobo does too...
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-25 14:12:57 +0000 UTC]
but those animals live in a niche where that's fine...
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 16:59:01 +0000 UTC]
I dont see how Hyenas are in a niche that would support that specific social structure.
I mean possibly since there are predators on land like the Future preds and beeatles as well as sharks in the seas, living in a group would be better for defence and gathering food...
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-25 19:40:59 +0000 UTC]
actually because living by the sea a young male is more likely to die.
so it requires as many females as possible
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-26 15:29:28 +0000 UTC]
Females are the child makers, so wouldn't males be the less important in furthering their population?
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-26 15:58:18 +0000 UTC]
no, think of it like this, the more females there are the more pups are born, so I think the colony should be mostly female and very few males.
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-26 17:09:01 +0000 UTC]
More females and few males fits for seals cuz reproduction is quicker for them as they are not as intelligent.
But consider for a type of near human intelligent aquatic ape that need longer time for babies to develop and can only afford a few young at a time and needing to teach them as they grow, land would be safer from the sharks and so the large females stay there most often, as the males get the food the female could defend the young from land predators, it really does work just as well given their evolutionary origins and circumstance.
Basically Im saying the Mer are using a different set of tactics fitted to their biology so to ensure what precious few offspring they have will reach adulthood, having evolved off a much different type of animal.
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-26 17:12:57 +0000 UTC]
or, it is more like elephant seals...
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-27 05:29:19 +0000 UTC]
I guess in some ways it is, but what i mean is like an ape society fitted to be like the seals with some difference
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-27 14:10:36 +0000 UTC]
Speculative evolution is so much fun
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-27 14:23:19 +0000 UTC]
indeed it is.
you should look at this-taliesaurus.deviantart.com/gal…
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Dinoslayer84 In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-24 17:42:14 +0000 UTC]
well, it could be like Naked Mole Rats, where this is the only one that can reproduce.
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Taliesaurus In reply to Dinoslayer84 [2018-01-24 17:45:19 +0000 UTC]
perhaps, bt for something living like a seal, wouldn't' it make sense to have it the other way around?
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 09:55:57 +0000 UTC]
How different would that be?
maybe they just stay together for protection around a female... leave as they like.
Y'know something like reverse gorilla troops but in the sea, their females can leave.
Kind of makes sense now why the males have a more streamlined look and larger eyes while the female seems more bulky and smaller eyed with large tusks, she might have a role of defending territories while the other focus on hunting like with lion prides.
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-25 14:12:33 +0000 UTC]
maybe... but then there'd be a limited amount of babies
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-25 17:04:03 +0000 UTC]
Hmmm... maybe.
Given their intelligence the females would have a hard long time pregnant.
Wait a sec, there was also a large tusked one that passed the anomaly. Maybe there are more than one female in a troop... maybe it is like Hyenas, the females are top but there are more than one...
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-25 19:38:30 +0000 UTC]
i'm still thinking it's the other way around, especially if pregnancy takes so long
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TheWatcherofWorlds In reply to Taliesaurus [2018-01-26 15:26:07 +0000 UTC]
If it takes so long maybe that is why the female looks less adapted to the sea and the males so very adapted... they feed her and maybe other lead females while they focus on birthing and maybe territorial defence
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Taliesaurus In reply to TheWatcherofWorlds [2018-01-26 15:29:48 +0000 UTC]
perhaps but I still see a lot of issues with that...
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