Striding on curved fore-claws
across the Mato Grosso
you stop
almost casually
to slip
a long tongue
down this or that hill:
Antbear, what's it like to go through life with no teeth?
Sucking it up
as the ranchers
hunt you down
& drive you out...
Anteaters, Nature, Violence, ants, extinction
I still find myself wondering how the hell they weren't made extinct when 2012 hit."_ 2012 was the supposed 'end of the world' but 2,000 humans survived the cataclysm. they died off when the sun had died aswell.
Black, Cat, Corruption, Evil, Mass, dead, dying, extinction, sun, two
_Crocuta spelea_, she pumps in my blood,
heart pounds, legs pound, lungs pound,
mind is silent.
Silent as the Death it mates with.
Stronger than _Lupus dirus_,
yet weaker with each passing evolution.
She sighs, she dies.
_Crocuta crocuta_...
Dire Wolf, Hyena, Spotted Hyena, Wolf, evolution, extinction, striped hyena
The large beast lowered her head down to Bartleby's own, her near-scorching breath washing over his face like heat radiating from a furnace. She spoke then, and there was a vicious growl to her tone. "Where is it, you pitiful little human?" She asked,...
Clean, Dragon, Dwarf, Male, Mountain
What happened to us?
We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea.
A single moment of...
Atmosphere, Character Development, City, Decline, Dystopia, Nature, Reclamation, War, environment, extinction, ruin, scene setting, water
Working through the system of tunnels that all led to and from the main valley was no easy task. It took the two of them a good three hours of endless crawling through the cramped, unpleasant spaces. Three hours filled with pain, complaints, bruised...
Blood, Dragon, Dwarf, Male, Mountain, Violence
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.
Placodont, Reptile, Speculative, Zoology, biology, evolution
#2 of scriptures of oddclaw 20 - extinction
with family torn and struggling to understand a generation apart, a father and son must struggle on together to face one final enemy who has wrapped itself in a labyrinth of memories, both old and new.
Ghost, Koopa, Raptor, Violence (Not In Yiff), Yoshi
Jurakaniformes, however, were the longer survivors: longmaiform diversity plummeted in the early permian and eventually the group became extinct in the capitanian extinction event, while seahorse and pipefish like jurakaniforms made it into the earliest triassic
Placoderm, Speculative biology, Speculative evolution, seahorse
They face the choice between either eventual extinction or the nearly equally unthinkable solution of including feral genes to their population.
Tags, Two of them