Electromagnetic Flyers
In the Late Cretaceous a lineage of deltatheroidean metatherians developed specialised, tightly packed hairs with branching filaments, superficially similar to plumes. This permitted an unique development in vertebrate history: by extending these hairs...
The Last Placental
55 million years ago, Wyoming. A small mammal scurries along the tree branches. It is dusk, and it has just left its shelter in the deeper canopy to forage for food. It is an omnivore: it can do a little bit of everything, which is likely how it...
Another World's Hell Creek
Mammals Tyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid. Napioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid. Napioa leonina A polar bear sized gobiconodontid. Circavelocipterus major: A 2 meter wingspanned volaticothere. ...
Seahorse Placoderms
A speculative evolution exercise in an alternate timeline two lineages of placoderms convergent with syngnathid fish evolved: - longmaiformes were a clade of arthrodires of uncertain affinities as they more or less appear in the mid-devonian fossil
Spectember: Ichthyornithid Parrots
A speculative evolution concept i've had for a while. in one timeline crown birds didn't make it past the kt event, but ichthyornithids did.
Another World's Lijialaowu
In a world where the KT event didn't happen, all bets truly are off. Even in the placid climate of the Paleocene - just before the Eocene Thermal Maximum and its ensuing turnover, long before the drastic changes of the Cenozoic - entire biotas were...
Reminiscent Speculation
Julie lay in bed with her phone early the following afternoon on her stomach with Midnight curled up and asleep atop her back. He'd initially gotten up there hours ago to make her smile but had decided to stay and dozed off, which she didn't mind....
Candy Forests
A speculative biome candy forests are an unique type of subtropical environment found over most of mediterranean and iberian europe, central and western australia, western madagascar and most of northern mesoamerica, with "false candy forests" in south america
The Blind Rabbit (a poem)
The Blind Rabbit couldn't see. And It lamented that It would never know anything and everything of the world of light. It cursed Its fate, It cursed Its name, Blind from what It surmised as a cruel joke of fate. As It sat alone in...
Milk Egg
Another speculative evolution musing non-placental mammals are faced with an unique predicament. possessing epipubic bones, they cannot expand their torsos, and thus cannot give birth to complex, well developed young you take for granted.
The Day when Placoderms flew
In another world, there wasn't a first tetrapod dragging itself on the mud. Or, if there was, it faded into obscurity. Rather, another group of animals took to the land. And they did it by the air. Somewhere in the mid-Devonian, a placoderm...
An Alternate History For Placodonts
Placodonts were some of the most resilient groups of Triassic marine reptiles, consistently surviving minor extinction events with minimal diversity loss until the mass extinction. In one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity...