[{"sf1_id":2101310,"sf2_id":null,"title":"The Blind Rabbit (a poem)","author":"Ryuji5","summary":"The Blind Rabbit couldn't see.\n\n  \n\nAnd It lamented that It would never know anything and everything of the world of light.\n\n  \n\nIt cursed Its fate, It cursed Its name,\n\n  \n\nBlind from what It surmised as a cruel joke of fate.\n\n  \n\nAs It sat alone in...","words":152,"posted_at":"2024-02-03T18:20:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Poetry","Rabbit","Speculative","pondering"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2101310-the-blind-rabbit-a-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/2101310","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=2101310\u0026ext=.jpg"},{"sf1_id":1795660,"sf2_id":"dmBZzvAm","title":"The Last Placental","author":"harpier","summary":"55 million years ago, Wyoming.  \n  \nA 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...","words":656,"posted_at":"2021-12-14T01:42:00.000Z","tags":["Speculative Zoology","Speculative biology"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1795660-the-last-placental","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmBZzvAm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7d/af/7daf52cf-f79c-4b95-b8a3-d4dce3b2ed8a"},{"sf1_id":2182760,"sf2_id":"YnLBKLve","title":"Speculative Evolution: Herbivorous Eutriconodont","author":"harpier","summary":"In some other timeline, a lineage of eutriconodonts (specifically, within Triconodontidae) survive the KT event in Asia. Though succeeding as carnivores in the absence of carnivorans, one genus, Cynoailurus, begins specializing as bamboo specialists....","words":226,"posted_at":"2024-09-27T06:22:04.000Z","tags":["Eutriconodont","Eutriconodonta","Mammal","Speculative biology","Speculative evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2182760-speculative-evolution-herbivorous-eutriconodont","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/YnLBKLve","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a2/e1/a2e1edf7-a341-4402-9558-78336b88190f"},{"sf1_id":1720931,"sf2_id":"Oe5L4gP1","title":"Electromagnetic Flyers","author":"harpier","summary":"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...","words":261,"posted_at":"2021-05-22T15:56:00.000Z","tags":["Speculative biology","Speculative evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1720931-electromagnetic-flyers","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Oe5L4gP1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/2c/a2/2ca241ed-d7f6-4a78-a050-260c0cea8289"},{"sf1_id":1745257,"sf2_id":"k1VVRBb1","title":"Seahorse Placoderms","author":"harpier","summary":"In an alternate timeline two lineages of placoderms convergent with syngnathid fish evolved:  \n  \n  \n- Longmaiformes were a clade of arthrodires of uncertain affinities as they more or less appear in the mid-Devonian fossil reccord as they are, with...","words":344,"posted_at":"2021-07-27T14:18:00.000Z","tags":["Placoderm","Speculative biology","Speculative evolution","seahorse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1745257-seahorse-placoderms","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/k1VVRBb1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6e/d5/6ed5334c-1eb0-4ed5-b78d-71e770784a1e"},{"sf1_id":1561227,"sf2_id":"lmXdzJ0m","title":"Another World's Hell Creek","author":"harpier","summary":"Mammals \n \nTyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid. \n \nNapioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid. \n \nNapioa leonina A polar bear sized gobiconodontid. \n \nCircavelocipterus major: A 2 meter wingspanned volaticothere. \n...","words":548,"posted_at":"2020-03-27T16:01:00.000Z","tags":["Speculative","Speculative evolution","biology","evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1561227-another-world-s-hell-creek","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/lmXdzJ0m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7d/2e/7d2e3b7e-2afc-47ee-be35-c132370abc36"},{"sf1_id":1762861,"sf2_id":"rn9D5vKm","title":"Spectember: Ichthyornithid Parrots","author":"harpier","summary":"In one timeline crown birds didn't make it past the KT event, but ichthyornithids did. Like our birds they quickly radiated into a massive array of species; most of the initial niches were raptorial and insectivorous, but gradually aquatic plant eaters...","words":490,"posted_at":"2021-09-13T02:51:00.000Z","tags":["Bird","Dinosaur","Ichthyornis","Speculative biology","Speculative evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1762861-spectember-ichthyornithid-parrots","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn9D5vKm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c2/31/c2312587-f838-4f05-a8c1-2650ee4bd011"},{"sf1_id":1518936,"sf2_id":"3egKOVje","title":"Another World's Lijialaowu","author":"harpier","summary":"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...","words":617,"posted_at":"2019-12-02T03:14:00.000Z","tags":["Dinosaur","Speculative evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1518936-another-world-s-lijialaowu","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3egKOVje","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/ac/e8/ace81f19-02f7-4c22-b94a-bf02fab48541"},{"sf1_id":1556035,"sf2_id":"znJO3971","title":"Candy Forests","author":"harpier","summary":"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, South...","words":485,"posted_at":"2020-03-08T14:38:00.000Z","tags":["Plants","Speculative","biology","evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1556035-candy-forests","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/znJO3971","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/fb/6c/fb6c110f-c672-4006-923a-92acc2f541b9"},{"sf1_id":1568818,"sf2_id":"ZmMowEQ1","title":"Milk Egg","author":"harpier","summary":"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. Marsupials eject joeys, monotremes eject eggs that...","words":505,"posted_at":"2020-04-19T12:10:00.000Z","tags":["Speculative","Zoology","biology","evolution","monotreme"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1568818-milk-egg","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmMowEQ1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/56/04/5604257c-f607-484a-8a28-430b58192ec4"},{"sf1_id":1564673,"sf2_id":"rn6xLG5e","title":"The Day when Placoderms flew","author":"harpier","summary":"In another world, there wasn't a first tetrapod dragging itself on the mud. Or, if there was, it faded into obscurity. \n \nRather, another group of animals took to the land. And they did it by the air. \n \nSomewhere in the mid-Devonian, a placoderm...","words":317,"posted_at":"2020-04-09T03:03:00.000Z","tags":["Fish","Placoderm","Placodermi","Speculative","evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1564673-the-day-when-placoderms-flew","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn6xLG5e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e6/04/e6049df5-1ec6-493b-bdb2-43ed665fe282"},{"sf1_id":1742120,"sf2_id":"J1O7XgX1","title":"An Alternate History For Placodonts","author":"harpier","summary":"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.  \n  \nIn one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity...","words":556,"posted_at":"2021-07-19T08:25:00.000Z","tags":["Placodont","Reptile","Speculative","Zoology","biology","evolution"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1742120-an-alternate-history-for-placodonts","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1O7XgX1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/ec/14/ec144c63-b855-4cba-9a67-6af6fd46ac4e"}]