Anthropomorphic Biology
Limits of biological anthropomorphization when does it stop, well not with inanimate objects, but with animals?
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...
Candy Forests
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...
A Brief Overview of the Mycha
Mychas The Masked Ones or The Forest Folk of Old Contents Original Home Myconitha Geography Diversity General Xenobiology General Appearance Skeletal Structure Muscular Structure Digestive System Circulatory...
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...
A werewolf guide: biology Part 1
#4 of werewolf guide hey there, today is about the biology of werewolves. i am splitting this into two part because 1. i know little about biology and i wanted to make it believable. 2. i was procrastinating the entire month for whatever reason. feel free
Milk Egg
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...
Speculative Evolution: Herbivorous Eutriconodont
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....
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
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 reccord as they are, with...
The Cohen Loop, Intro
I'm well aware that most of you in this class are looking to move on the applied route to advanced applications or the liberal arts direction involving cross-culture studies, but let me make this clear: biology is a required course for any degree
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...