Metazoica back-up

I have been doing some work on my Metazoic mammals checklist, and I am considering seriously making it available on my website. I don't know if I want to charge for it or make it a freebie item, but it will have every animal listed on my Metazoic site and thensome. I'm even adding a key to the new places listed as their traditional homes (otherwise, who the heck is going to know what "GBM" means or where "San Diego Island" is?) and a little information on each family, including time period, how long I suspect they will be here, and when the group was established. If I do charge for it it won't be much. Maybe $3 or $4. If I don't charge for it, well, then others can just download it for pleasure reasons. But already it contains detailed info about genera, species, even sub-genera where available. I even list the common names. I'm trying to think what else to add. I am working on a set of books with much more detail about these animals, including m...

One mistake I commonly see being made by some speculative evolutionists is giving their creations "mutt-names", that is combining the names of modern animals to make one name for their future creation. My motto is these animals have almost no connection to modern animals, except for parallel lifestyles created by open niches. So what sense does it make to give these animals the combined names of modern animals? Every time I see someone use these kind of names for their futuristic animal creations, it always reminds me of the dumb names given to mongrel dogs today, like "labradoodle", "goldendoodle" and "pomapoo", etc. I always ask people if they want to start considering these breeds as "pure", why not give them a unique name? For example, why not re-name "labradoodles" and instead call them "Australian water retrievers"? Or "Australian guiding dogs"? Otherwise, the name "Labradoodle" will make me...

Every animal has to reproduce. That's what their lot in life is. That is also how evolution occurs. Humans I don't believe will ever go any farther than they have. We are not strong like other animals on this planet. In fact, if it hadn't have been for us building civilizations, we would have become extinct a long time ago. We almost became extinct with the Tambora eruption some 10,000 years ago. There were only 70 living humans once the eruption was over and settled. Anyway, someone on the SE forum brought up something about the future of sexual organs and our body's built-in outlets (for urinating and dumping). I must say I have never really considered a thing like that. But one thing about my mammals of the Metazoic, you will notice that NONE of them have an external penis or scrotum like today's mammals do. That's because they don't exist in these animals. The females have the same structures as they do today. In the males, the testicles and penis have m...

What is it with new science? It's weird!! Not too long ago I found out that the Malagasy civets have been placed in a family outside the Viverridae. Yet I looked around tonight, and Lynx are now listed under the genus Lynx !! Probably not the only feline whose sub-generic rank has been brought up to full generic either!! It SUCKS!!!! Personally, I still, and will always, classify the malagasy civets in the Viverrid family! Mongooses too. That's how I was brought up to believe, that is how I'll always believe. They've been classified that way on my Metazoic site. And I don't know who's idea it was to classify Felis lynx as Lynx lynx ! Personally, if you ask me, ALL felines, except cheetahs, deserve nothing more than to be classed under the genus Felis . Everyone calls all of them "cats" anyway. That's how I always have and always will classify them. I just don't see how the scientific community can separate all Viverrids the way they have, and...

I have made a new page for the flightless birds of the Metazoic. It is a non-flash page, as I really am trying to eliminate all the flash pages. Now the site is appearing more like an online book about the future of evolution. Anyway, the page can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/FlightlessBirds.html . I even included the newest flightless bird creation of my project, Apteropsittus . It is a flightless parrot of the Antarctic region. In the future it is believed the Antarctic will be more like the Arctic and have some timber zones. That is where this flightless parrot will make it's home. In the future of the site, I plan to have book referrals about the subject of future evolution. Believe me, I will only have links to books I myself would recommend to anyone. I will not have a link to the book for The Future is Wild, as I found it to be a very big disappointment!! When I do that, I will put my own commentary about each book based on what I've read. I have quite a few...

I have just completed another family group, the armadillos of tomorrow. I didn't color these pics, I just didn't feel like it. Someday maybe. Sometimes I just don't feel like coloring the pics so I don't. Anyway, I was watching Jurassic Fight Club last night on the History Channel, and they were displaying a dinosaur called Gastonia . This is a small, squat ankylosaur with a scissors-tail. I saw that and I thought "Well, I have an armadillo that has that very same feature for my Metazoica project!!" So that is what led me to do this project. Funny thing I thought up Grammoclavia back in 1995, and it is the armadillo that has the same chainsaw tail Gastonia does! And until last night I had never even heard of Gastonia ! Amazing! Grammoclavia also is equipped with a club-tipped tail. So it is double armed. It is perfect for this world dominated by Deinognathids and other large predators such as them. Though in the picture on the site, I depict Grammoclavia b...

A new family has been added to the Metazoica line-up, the Metazoic's New world monkey family. You can view them here: http://www.metazoica.com/NewWorldMonkeys.html . As with all the families of the Metazoic, this one is different. These monkeys actually come from the marmosets and tamarins of today. A few have developed the prehensile tails we see in a lot of today's new world monkeys. But these monkeys have had to adapt themselves to the Amazonian region of the future, where there will be a bit less jungle than there is now. Some have even pushed their range up into North America to beat the competition. In doing that, they would have to learn to adapt to colder climates. One species that lives in what is today the Rocky Mountains, has evolved a long, flat tail to wrap it's self up in during snow storms and blizzards. Acting much like our own heaviest coats. Today, monkeys do not live in the USA, except for some that escaped a research facility in Florida and has establish...

Well, I went back and changed the words for the deinognathids and therapeds and all their allies. I erased that chevs are their ancestoral species and put down elephant shrews. I need to fucking STOP this!!! LOL!! I need to settle finally with some ancestoral form for this group. Well, this time anyway, it's a group I plan to stick with. If anyone notices any other changes that need to be made let me know.

Yes, this is still about the thread regarding the future of felines. Personally, I still believe the felines will not make it. I like the idea of having elephant shrews as the ancestoral species for deinognathids and therapeds. I was reading up on them and the more I read about them the more I realized they are perfect predecessors for the therapeds. Therapeds do not have hooves, but most Deinognathids do, so it makes sense to have a species that has the potential to develop hooves, but does not yet have them, listed as their ancestoral species. And the fact that elephant shrews are diurnal, I'd say they are perfect!! Also, I found out that they not only can walk on all fours, but have also been known to run like mini ostriches when they need to make a quick get-away. So there is no worries about these animals not being able to walk along as bipeds. They already can!! Well, that takes care of a believable ancestor for the trelatebrate order. The therapeds and deinognathids can take...

The "Trelatebrates" is what I call the future order that contains the Deinognathids and Therapeds and a few other families of the future. I have been battling with myself over the ancestoral species for this group ever since I first created it. In the beginning, which was in 1993, I thought they would derive from modern swine, or pigs. But at first, that wasn't the way I designed them. I thought their feet more resembled those of aardvarks. But I honestly believe the aardvarks are doomed and will have no descendants in the Metazoic. Then I thought of hyrax, but I think that too would be an impossibility. I have a family in the Metazoic derived from hyrax already. Doesn't mean they couldn't have more descendants, but I think evolving into tomorrow's Deinognathids would be impossible. Then I thought of horses, because of the head design, but then that could just be parallel evolution. And one of my buds recently said for an animal like Deinognathus to come from...

I have posted another family of animals on my site, the Pseudosims. They can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/Pseudosims.html . The family Beradapidae is made up of bipedal creatures descended from the Propithecines. Unlike the large, ground-dwelling propithecines on my site, these animals have developed long, slender feet for running. They stand on their toes rather than on their soles like the true propithecines. Some of the smaller species can climb trees, whereas the larger species rely on their ability to run. The name "Pseudosim" is a collective name of this family, it means "false monkey". On my site, these animals are classified as large grazers, though I could classify them as pentadactyls. Though they are related to lemurs and monkeys, they have evolved quite separately from this group. So they are listed in the large grazers. Anyway, enjoy the group.

I've been following and posting on a topic on the SE forum, all about introducing tigers to South Africa, which I still believe is a waste of time. Tigers will be eliminated. I also believe all modern felines will be gone. But let's say they survive. Actually, I do have a feline family listed on my checklist of mammals of the Metazoic, but they do not live past 5 million years after humans are gone. And there are only 7 species and all are tiny, shrew-like animals. But let's say they do survive. Deinognathids are on the rise, remember mammals of the future are more intelligent than their counterparts today. Deinognathids are descended from relatives of deer and antelope. Modern deer and antelope are rather intelligent. Sometimes intelligent enough to beat a persuing panther or cat. Cheetahs on the other hand, the only feline that can successfully kill a fast-moving gazelle 9 times out of 10, will more likely be extinct before the end of this century. Lions and leopards can...

Another "what if" scenario. Those of us who have pets love them and enjoy them. Typical pets are dogs and cats today. Though some of us have made pets of some exotics. What if in the Metazoic, there were humans around, or some humanoid creatures around (say aliens take over here), what kind of animals of that period would they have as pets? The mammals of tomorrow for sure will be more intelligent than those today. So would aliens. What kind of animals would make the best candidates for domestication? Well, over the years I have thought up some interesting ideas. For tomorrow's 'house cats', I thought Paricteria (formerly known as Donnola ) would be a good candidate. They are good mousers, clean, intelligent and at times even would be funny. They climb and jump as good as cats, maybe better. So in some ways they might be a pest in that they would love to jump on your kitchen countertops. They would love to cuddle up with their owners to keep warm, and like cats t...

I've been quite busy this morning as well as last night. I had to f-disk my computer this past weekend because it was acting strange. That's why I could not answer any e-mails and stuff. But for some reason it would allow me to post here. Anyway, I made up a couple more family groups for my Metazoic site. I made the group for the fruit-eating lemurs. They can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/FruitLemurs.html . These lemurs have a special feature added. It isn't too far-fetched, I mean there are even some birds around today that have this same feature. They get it by the same means too. Find out what it is. Also, I completed the family of gliding "lemurs", which are not in any ways related to today's flying lemurs. They can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/GlidingLemurs.html . They too have a special feature unique among mammals. Again, it isn't too far-fetched. There is a species of lizard in Borneo that has this same feature. There is no r...

Instead of writing this post, I decided to post a movie about what I think. Made special just for anyone referred to this post by the people on the SE forum! Enjoy!

There is a site that offers species names for sale. I like this idea for some reason, people get to have living, unnamed species named after themselves for a price. The price ranges from $600 up and the money goes to scientific research. I do this too with my checklist of mammals of the future, only I name species after people I like and know. It's free, and my friends are immortalized forever in the names of my animals. I even have species named after people I have not spoken to in years (no one since 2002 though). It's about time I made some more. It'd be awesome to have species named after my favorite men of INXS!! hehe! I have a species named after Dian Fossey. I didn't know her, but she was the biggest inspiration of my life. I also have species named after David Johnston and Harry Truman (both well-known figures if you know about Mount St. Helens), but I did know those people, and liked them. David Johnston, if he had survived the eruption of St. Helens, would no...

I have a new family posted up on my site. I talked about them last time, and now have posted them on my site for all to view. If you'd like to see them, you can view them at this link: http://www.metazoica.com/raccoons.html . I even list the smartest of them all, and already appoint them the future masters of the planet. It could happen that way. Raccoons today have definately proven to be smart and adaptable enough to go pretty much the same route as humans. Maybe even be smarter than we are, and build their own civilizations. I doubt they will be civilizations exactly like what we have today, but maybe close.

This generation the primates have the advantage. But after humans are gone, who or what will be the next intelligent life forms? My guess would be raccoons if they don't all die off from disease. Raccoons today are carriers of rabies. If not all of them get it and dies off, they could become the next rulers of the world. They are smart enough, and only a few steps away from learning to use tools, maybe even create their own. It was this ability to make our own tools that made us masters of the planet. Maybe raccoons will do the same? Who really knows? In my book (soon to be on my site) I have raccoons that have longer legs and the ability to stand on their hind legs for long periods, though not necessarily bipedal. The brain is the same size as a human's and just as complex, allowing these animals the ability to solve their own problems. It has been said that raccoons today are almost as smart as monkeys, and they know how to unlock locks and open doors and windows. Who's t...

I thought this would be an interesting discussion. We know there are creatures running around in the World today that science has not been able to identify, like the chupacabra and sasquatch. What if these creatures were to actually survive the next extinction event? Even though we know nothing about their lifestyles, what if judging from what we do know, they did happen to survive? What do we think they would evolve into? Well, look at this pic of what someone believes a chupacabra looks like: Here is a video I found of someone who claims they saw a creature in Texas that resembles drawings made of a chupacabra. One thing about this creature, it's muzzle is a lot longer than that of any living canid species!! If that really is a video of the chupacabra, what could happen to it in future evolution? Most hopping mammals have longer, thicker tails, so it would seem this creature would develop a long, kangaroo-like tail, as many people have reported chupacabras "hop" onto th...

I was watching a show tonight, called Evolution on the History Channel. It's a good show!! I watch it every Tuesday night. This show has opened my eyes further to the world of evolution. It talks about the evolution of everything . Tonight, they discussed the evolution of flight. We all know the insects were the first creatures to take to the air. The pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to do so. But the reason I am discussing this here now is because of the difference between birds and bats. Even this show says that bats fly better than birds and are more maneuverable than birds. It could be this that allows bats to win in the future world over birds. Remember sharks beat out the prehistoric Dunkleosteus . You know why some people believed that happened? Because sharks have jaws that protrude foreward when biting, giving them a bigger advantage in capturing prey over Dunkleosteus , whose jaws were immobile like ours. Little things sometimes can make the biggest difference. Shark...

We know them as octopus and squids, and they have several other cousins around today. If you've ever seen the TV pseudo-documentary The Future is Wild , which premiered on Animal Planet a few years back, at the end they portrayed squids as being the dominant creatures on land. I watched the documentary and I thought I would like it, but it turned out I really didn't. I liked some of their mammals and some of the birds, with the exception of the quail that live underground and crawls in a lizard-like fashion. However, The Future is Wild completely lost my support when they started talking about mammals being "farmed" by large spiders!! That was too stupid!! Spiders I think have evolved as far as they are going to! They've had basically the same form for 300 million years. I don't think they've got much more to do as far as evolving goes. Anyway, back to squids. In TFIW (The Future is Wild), they portrayed small, tree-swinging squids they called "squibb...