... Of course, they will be. But it depends on us now, what species of amphibians will evolve in the future, because their ancesors live or die out right now....
With renewed interest in my post-human project I have new ideas spawning from my brain every day. I am doing much more research into evolutionary biology with...
... more. ... It is interesting. As for me, I use both strategies - I write chapters about new ecosystems, and create "Bestiary" for any scraps and separate ...
what does everone think in term of what will replace baleen whales? Will we see giant anchovies? colossal crabeater-like seals, somplete with echolocation? or...
... my guess is that there won't be a single clade filling the baleen-feeding niches that whales do today -- maybe the ducks/seals dominate the photic zone,...
... Offhand I'd say either teleosts or crabeater seals. Both are well- adapted to marine life (the seals need some tweaking) and are already filter feeders. ...
... already ... whale- ... in ... I admit, I do have a penchant for uber anchovies. Leopard seals seem to echolocate, also, interesting business that....
I think planktophagous species may be also not so large. For example, fossil baleen whales of Cetotheriidae family were small animals - about 3 meters long,...
... example, ... fishes ... to ... I agree. I doubt that fish will become giant like Leedsichthys. If anything they would be shepard-anchovies, living in...
Sorry for my sceptical look, William, but some features of your work look too doubtful. First, just compare Britain and islands Mediterranean had typical...
... I have already done these sorts of things. Thanks to the World Without Us, I have a better understanding of how local flora will stand after the human...
"Super-Plague" ... Diseases caused by bacteria and viruses have caused plagues throughout history. If a viral outbreak were to mutate to such an extreme degree...
... These five scenarios are possible.I suspect there will be dozens, if not hundreds of island species of humans in the future.Continental species might or...
... It sounds too doubtful. Human species is too mobile, and the isolation needed for separating of new species will not proceed for too long time. "Social"...
... <itearuk@> ... isolation ... aggressive ... exterminate ... formed. ... future ... I believe it will most likely be a variety of scenarios combined whether...
I think nuclear war is rather improbable, because the winner will be not able to use the "winned" territory. The most possible scenario is global ecological...
... There wouldn't be a "winner" <_< With nuclear winter with so few survivors, everyone would have lost to some extent whether complete annihilation or what,...
now, Baring in mind that elephants may not make it beyond the human age, I do want to pose this question. If elephants DID somehow out-survive humans, what...
... Dwarf; on contaray, giants like Archidiskodon; aquatic or semi-aquatic; seashore hippo-like ones... Of course, gracile proboscideans are too improbable,...
... aquatic; ... I'm considering having a single relict species of proboscidean living in the tropical forest of southern Ethiopia/Zanj/Zinj/East Africa. Most ...
... may ... aquatic; ... deserts ... I'm inclined to agree with Paul, vary that with different tusk shapes, or numbers of upper tusks (elephants with freak 4...
What are the chances for seabirds such as seagulls or albatrosses to develop "beak-crests" or casques for display? Just working on a new idea for a group of...
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