Metazoica back-up

Here I discuss a little about the work being done on the Metazoica website right now. It's kindof an advertisement video. Remember to check it out!

Hi all! I am just writing this quick message to let you all know that Metazoica will be undergoing some changes. I want to make the website a lot more fun and interesting, so I am looking into some developers who can help me out. I've got several candidates. When the site is all finished, it's going to display more than is on there now. Hopefully better. I'm thinking about making it like a walk through a zoo, or maybe perhaps in the form of an online book. I'm also thinking about changing the homepage. Anyway, it's going to go through an entirely new makeover, which hopefully will be better. I am also hoping the designer I choose will give me more attention than the last designer I had for my other website, and give me more of what I want. If any of my viewers have any further suggestions of what you'd like to see, please leave them in your comments to this post. I'm thinking of fixing the Meet the Mammals portion of this site so that I cover every species o...

The family Ailurocyonidae was originally thought up by my partner in this project. He suggested they be an evolutionary branch-off from the raccoon family. However, I don't want to take anything away from him, but I wanted to make this a true offshoot from the Barofelids, specially designed for running and capturing prey, rather than the typical lying-in-wait mechanism. These cats sacrificed everything that makes a cat a cat. They do not have retractable claws like the felids and barofelids did. However, the claws remain razor-sharp as these animals run with the tips of their phalanges turned under, a process known as "knuckle-walking", and is more famous in apes and anteaters. This keeps the claws from touching the ground, and keeps them sharp for grasping and even tearing into their prey. They also have the large canines of other feline offshoots. They still kill their prey by biting down on the windpipe and suffocating the prey to death. The head is short and blunt, as...

This is very interesting, a new species of predatory amphibian was found in Pennsylvania at the site of a FedEx building. How interesting! The animal lived about 300 million years ago, and was the top predator of it's day. It is believed this animal gave rise to modern amphibians. As it is, it looks like it could have been a giant salamander. It's been named Fedexia striegeli . Named after FedEx??? That's new and different. But I guess it can happen. Not only did this animal pre-date all modern forms of amphibians, it also pre-dated the dinosaurs. Never would this creature have been able to guess it would be named for a very popular shipping business in this age! Send that one, FedEx!!! Anyway, here is the article, be sure to check out the accompanying video: http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/amphibian-dinosaurs-fedexia.html An interesting "rock" initially tossed aside at a FedEx site near Pittsburgh International Airport turns out to be the skull of a mea...

Let me start this post by sending my apologies to my friends on here for not responding to your posts last week. I have been so busy, I'm in the process of building my own cages for birds and herps, simply because I want to see if I can. So far, they've come out pretty darn good!! Anyway... In today's world, though I don't whole-heartedly agree with it, all cat-like animals have been placed in a single family. In the Metazoic, they've been separated, though still closely related. Small cats are placed in the family Felidae; running cats (the Metazoic equivolent to today's cheetahs) are placed in the Ailurocyonidae; and the so-called "big cats" are placed in the family Barofelidae. Most of these species inhabit the New World. They consist of big, bulky animals. During the early part of the Metazoic, small felines dominated the predatory world of the underbrush. Felis brevicaudatus was the largest and most fearsome of the cats then. During the early p...

Metazoic cats are still in the modern family Felidae, with some changes being made. During the Metazoic, all that is left of this family is the tiniest of the species. All the large felines have gone. They still resemble modern cats, the claws are retractable, the tails are long, the ears are triangular-shaped and the eyes are big. They are still very much nocturnal animals, so they do not compete with the Metazoic's daytime predators. The legs have shortened in these animals, so they constantly walk around in a splaying lizard-like fashion. But they are still fast when needed. The whiskers are the most noticable features on the faces of these animals. They are quite thick, and still help aid the animals in getting around on the darkest nights. The fur, as it is today, is quite soft and woolly. Only in the sub-genus Apertauris , fur is lacking on the ears, in exchange for excellent hearing. The sense of smell is almost completely gone in Metazoic felines, instead they use their pow...