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Another family to be presented in Metazoica, the Cryptopteridae. I was talking about them on here yesterday and decided to create their page on my site. You can view their page here: http://www.metazoica.com/Cryptopters.html . I "stole" Dixon's idea for Arbovespertilio , only instead of making it a predator, I made it a harmless plant-eater, like a modern sloth. I think it makes better sense, since the animal would not be able to move fast enough to capture mice and such fast-moving animals as that. In their world, which is the Hawaiian (or Batavian--according to Dixon) Islands, their main predator, Cercomoloch , lives in the top level. So these bats live at lower and ground levels, and all have lost their wings. Most do however "fly" in different ways. Acronurus "flies" in the same manner as lemurs and monkeys do today. Another species, Pitheconycteris , brachiates like modern gibbons do. And Cryptopterus "flies" along the ground, like dee...

This is an on-going discussion on the Spec. Evolution forum and I just wanted to give a little bit of my own hypothesis on this subject. In my view, bats will take over from birds. Today, it is the pteropods that are the most intelligent forms, so it is my opinion that they will most likely be the ones to "muscle-out" birds in the competition. Birds are not going to be an easy group to defeat. There are some things that could wipe out birds and leave that niche open to bats. Nobody really knows what wiped out 99% of all living things at the end of the Permian period. It is thought that increased volcanic activity is among the culprits. It could happen again. The same thing could happen to wipe out birds. Let's say bats survive because they live in caves. Only 3 families of birds inhabit caves, whereas almost all bats shelter in caves. So IMHO, bats would survive. This is of course one of those "it could happen this way" kind of scenarios. Bats are among the most...

There is a new family completed on my site, the opossums. The family Segniidae can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/Opossums.html . It is not the typical family of opossums, the Didelphidae, that has been around since the age of the dinosaurs. But then again, almost nothing on my site is the same. These animals do not "play dead" as do their modern relatives, the largest species in this group is equipped with sharp, curved claws ready for battle. Other species have their own methods of defense. One species bounds around like a modern lemur.

I was working on my Metazoic site today and I finished the group of Typical lemurs, the family Chirosapidae . It is one of my favorite groups because it is so varied. It can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/TypicalLemurs.html . Basically all I really did was fix the pics and remodel a couple of species that I think needed better representatives. Only 7 of the 14 genera in the family is discussed on the site, but these are the most interesting. These include the last of the bushbabies, which are the root of this family in the Metazoic. With the African, Eurasian and Australian continents colliding, these lemurs will colonize every corner of the Old World. One species, Oreolemur , will also colonize the old world oceans, as far west as Bermuda and as far south as south Africa, possibly into the northernmost part of the Southern (Antarctic) Ocean. Aside from this group, I have been going around my site breaking the connections to the flash movies, and just sticking with the regula...

Another family has been added to the line-up. The propithecines, we know them as sifakas. I have retained the family Indriidae during the Metazoic, and made them far more varied than they are today, which is pretty much!! I find much more variety in the sifaka family of today than I find in many other larger mammal families. Anyway, the Propithecines can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/LeapingLemurs.html . I am also slowly making progress in fixing the pictures on my site. I am also totally eradicating the flash presentations, except for maybe a few. But even those I may turn into regular movies like on YouTube so anyone can view them even with dial-up. I am trying right now to concentrate on fixing the mystery of the missing pictures on my site. I hope to have this problem completely fixed by the end of this weekend. I will work on the movies some other time. Later on down the road perhaps. I am glad to see I am getting honest opinions on my site. Really, I am! I don't mi...

The futuristic "camel" family, Chameliidae, has been posted! You can see them here: http://www.metazoica.com/camels.html . Of course these are only 4 of the 7 genera in the family, I never post them all. The "camels" of the future are actually "throw offs" of the deer family. They just deeply resemble camels of today. They are tall and appear to be all legs! They have no humps, and are tailless. Also, I updated the deinognathids. They can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/Deinognathids.html . I made the necessary changes, and I put back the pics that had apparently been deleted!! I don't know how that happened! But if it happens again, I'm going to write a very strongly-worded e-mail to my host provider!!!!! That has happened more than once even when I have gone back in and tried to put the pics back up! Well anyway, enjoy! I would also appreciate some input from other evolutionists.

Hello and welcome to Metazoica on Blogspot. Here we will be discussing the future of evolution and also some about animals in today's world. If you have not yet visited my Metazoic site, I would like to recommend it, as it has all kinds of ideas about how I believe tomorrow's animals will look. Some of the ideas are all my own, but there have been some that were aided by friends and comrades who are also into studying future evolution. I will also be discussing some of the ideas they have given me, some of which I have decided to use on my site, which will soon be new and improved all the way! When new things have been added to the site, I will announce them here. I had a forum, but due to the lack of new activity and being taken over by spammers instead, I have decided to delete it. I will have links here to friends who have forums and/or e-mail groups that deals with the subject of future evolution. Any pornographic images posted on this blog will not be accepted. I will set ...