1 Million Years P.E. [The Early Origocene]

Despite a long stagnation during the Glaciocene, the line of the stellasnoots would find new opportunities in the caverns beneath the ground: and evolve into nigh-alien forms unrecognizable from their forebearers.

Automatic Weedwackers - The Nomwats

10 Million Years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]

10 million years Into the history of Macroterra, the first giants have evolved.

While Not quite megafauna, they are the largest animals Macroterra has yet to produce.

Those giant grazers are known as the Nomwats (Family: Vombatmacrotidae).

The secret of their size Is the lack of large scale herbivores on the planet, with the niche empty, the descendants of the Shorts-Tail quickly expanded In size.

As of right know there are about 5 different species of them, with the following 3 being the most widespread.

The Plains Nomwat (Campimacrotis Magnus) Is the second largest Nomwat living In this time and feeds on soft grasses and other vegetation.

The Koala-Nose Nomwat (Phascolarctosnasusmacrotis Griseus) posses an shorter, broader snout, more adapted for grazing on though vegetation.

As herbivores became more frequent, many plants have adapted thougher stems In order to be less appetizing to the grazers.

Among the evolutionary armsrace, the fauna although has also been evolving, trying to get away from competetion and the Koala-Nose Nomwat managed to adapt Its diet to range from soft to though vegatation.

The Tundra Nomwat (Frigidusmacrotis Fuscus) Is the largest of the Nomwats and thus the largest Bilby to live In this time.

Their large size Is an great adaption for the chilly climate they live in.

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Spec Evo Challenge: Aquatic April - Day 1 (Producer)

This month Im attending an Spec Evo challenge. :D

--Source: R/Speculativeevolution--

I cant ensure I´ll be posting every day, but I´ll try anyways.

For day 1 I came up with a species of Kelp called the Keelp (Anguillapiscisalgarum Sp.).

The Keelp has the coloration of eels to fend of herbivores that might try to eat It.

This unique coloration although also come at the cost of not being able to do very efficient photosynthese, thus the Keelp has an symbiotic relationship with many aquatic plants.

The plant provides the Keelp with nutrients and In return the Keelp keeps them safe from plant eaters.

1 Million Years P.E. [The Early Origocene]

*Let's Split Up: Emerging Of New Species*

It's been 1 million years since the Bilbies have been left on Planet Macroterra and with the lack of predators and an almost infinite food source the Bilbies have been living an blissful live, though this was not meant to last as things quickly changed.

Eventually evolution took Its course and mutations of various kind spread through the bloodlines of the Bilbies, with these mutations some Bilbies could eventually fill new niches a lot better and an arms race soon was set loose.

Larger Bilbies could feed more effectively on grasses or other Bilbies, while smaller ones could focus on finding small bugs and seeds.

This Is the first big step In the great game of life which could soon extend to an level the lifeforms that brought them here could have never predicted.

Spec Evo Challenge: Aquatic April - Day 2 (Bug)

--The second entry for the Aquatic April challenge--

The Ever Youth Dragonfly Is unique among Its kind, when other Dragonfly species only spend their juvenile stage fully aquatic,

The Ever Youth Dragonfly never developes lungs and thus remains In water for Its entire life.

It posses sturdy hairs on Its legs making them work like flippers.

These hairs are also found on their back acting like a dorsal fin

and to top It of they posses an extention of their abdomen that works like a fluke.

--Source: Reddit--

Treasure The Rodent - Mausbies Of The Late Origocene

(20 Million Years P.E.)

The Middle Origocene saw the rise of the Mausbies, small rodent analogues, In the niche of seedeaters or small scale omnivores.

But now In the Late Origocene the Mausbies saw alot more diversity trying to cover still avaible niches or make a living In new Habitats.

The Beavalis are descendants of the Rattuffs which have adapted to an semi-aquatic lifestyle.

Similiar to the Shell-Fishers 10 Million years prior they have adapted an mechanism that allows them to seal their pouch when underwater, preventing their joeys from drowning.

The Greater Beavali (Flumenmus Nonaustralianus) Is one of the more basal species.

Their strong incisors are perfectly adapted for crushing the hard shells of mussels and crustaceans, but also for breaking wooden bark. Similiar to earthern Beavers, the Greater Beavali builds dams which can controll the river streams, giving them the perfect conditions to build their nests, find and store food as well as giving them an safe place to rest.

The Grey Bilbypus (Macrotisornithorhynchus Griseus) Is an fellow widespread Beavali species, It posses long sensitive whiskers which It uses to find arthropods and other goods hidden under the river bed.

Another clade of Rattuff are the Hampters, as their name suggest they have heavily converged with earthern hamsters.

They posses an small, round body with an short tail, but those are not all features they took from the earthern hamster, as they also have the hamsters signature trait, cheek pouches.

Their flexible cheeks help them to hord all of the goods they find, saving time foraging, which makes them visible to predators.

The Field Hampter (Pseudocricetus Ager) Is an plains dwelling small-scale herbivore feeding on seeds, roots, vegetables and various grasses. Field Hampters are one of the few unsocial Mausby species, not forming family colonies and only interacting with another when mating.

The Greater Dwarf Hampter (Nainuspseudocricetus Maxillutus) Is pretty similiar to Its larger cousin, although they are not herbivores but rather omnivores, eating seeds, roots and insects.

They also havent completly abondend their colonies, althought the family bonds are very loose and tend to fall apart quickly.

Talking about unsocial Mausbies, we have the Terrisquis, an clade of Squruffies, solitary Mausbies that by now have become incredibly territorial and even straight up aggressive animals.

Similiar to the Hampters the Terrisqui have found an way to take their food to go, but instead of developing cheek pouches, they used an feature they already possed and have just modified It a bit, as the Terrisquis use their marsupial-pouches to store their food.

This alsomeans that both the males and the females posses pouches to store food, we see something similiar In earthern Yapoks, marsupials In which both males and females posses pouches.

Also similiar to the Yapok they posses an mechanism that allows them to seal their pouch, the same Shell-Fishers and the Beavalis posses, this prevents their food from accidentally falling out of their pouch.

The Colorbark Terrisqui (Colossciurus Fuscusanrufus) Is an pretty basal member of the Terrisqui family.

The females sport an camouflaging brown color, while the males are alot more eye-stinging. As territorial as the Terrisquis are, the males have evolved an brighter fur color to make their presence clear to rivals. The males also posses the ability to make the fur on their back stand up, In turn making them appear larger to predators and rivals.

Back to the more peacefull and social creatures, we have the Wabillies. Plains dwelling descendants of the Jerbaroos.

Normally the desert Is the kingdom of the Jerbaroos, with the plains dwelling individualls standing In the shadow of their relatives, but the Wabillies managed to stay relevant amongst the competetion.

As of right now the Wabillies are the largest Mausbies to ever exist, turns out, living In the plains among swarms of Pterobats of prey, being big has Its benefits.

The Plains Wabilly (Subterranotamacropus Fodiens) Is the most common species of the rather small Wabilly family.

They live In huge family colonies and burrow equally huge, complex burrows. They are omnivores eating whatever they can find, vegetables, seeds, insects and even the occasional small marsupial.

Flap Your Wings! - The Pterobats

20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)

The lack of flying vertabrates has greatly encouraged the developement of powered flight In the Protein Gliders of the Middle Origocene.

Now their descendants, the Pterobats have dominated the planet as the dominant flyers.

The more basal species are airborn insect-catchers like the Canopy-Catcher (Cortinacaptor Striatus), still very similiar to their ancestor.

But some Pterobats started to focus on larger prey, similiar as the Birds of prey on earth there are also Pterobats of prey, as of right now they are rather small and thus only hunt small prey like Mausbies or other smaller Pterobats.

One of those Pterobats of prey Is the Dusty Pterohawk (Anuroganthusaccipeter Pulverulentus), flying over open plains In search for prey.

But truly the most unique of the Pterobats In this time would be the Monarch Pterobat (Sucusvespertilo Danausplexippus), as It Isnt even In the slightest predatory.

The Monarch Pterobat Is rather interested In sweet foods like fruits and nectar. Another unique factor In these Pterobats Is their ability to see colors, colorvision appears quite rarely In mammals and usually only evolves In frugivores to find brightly clored fruits and since the Monarch Pterobats are fans of bright colored fruits and flowers, natural selection favored them color vision.

Their color vision eventually allowed them one more trait except to find food with ease, communication.

With their bright orange-yellow colors on their otherwise black fur, their colors quite pop and make themselfs visible to other members of their species.

You might think that these colors might attract predators as well, but the predators In question dont posses color vision themselfs and since Monarch Pterobats are mostly adorned with black and orange colors they can actually be pretty hard to spot, or well, atleast not easier then other Pterobat species.

Pterobats get their name from their unique flying build which resembles that of early Pterosaurs.

Since the Pterobats are marsupials, they heavily rely on their claws In order to get Into their mothers pouch.

Thus natural selection has favored an build for flight which retained most of the claws.

Unlike the placental Bats from Earth they only use a single finger to support their skin membrane.

Being an flying marsupial although has more issues then just the claws, the joeys In the mothers pouch can put on quite alot of weight and hinder their flight capabilites.

Although they have found an solution for this issue as well.

Pterobats will stay together as an mated pair until their joey are old enough, when the joeys are getting to heavy for the mothers pouch, she will leave the young with the father, who will then find an safe spot that will hide the joeys, the father will then also feed their offspring and keep them safe untill they are old enough to depart.

Pterobats have 2 ways of takeoff, either from the solid ground by using their front legs to push them into the air, or hang and swing from trees or cliffes.

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