Metazoica

It has come to my attention that I have been drawing my sabre-toothed animals all wrong lately. Someone told me that in prehistoric days, when most sabre-toothed mammals as we know them, always had some kind of protection for their elongate canine teeth. It makes sense. I mean check out the ancient marsupial known as Thylacosmilus : Notice how the lower jaw has long folds for the canines to remain protected when the jaws are shut? This is an interesting feature, and would be good to keep the canines from breaking when the animal is relaxing. However, I found that these animals had a bite force that is weaker than that of a housecat. The reason is because their canines rooted so far back in their head that any intense pressure would have forced the roots of their teeth to put too much pressure on their brain cavity, or would have even crushed their brain. So, when creating any sabre-toothed futuristic beast, one has to take things like this in consideration. Well, I took the con...

I've been getting some comments from people who would like to see more on this site. I may not get around to answering all of them, but I am always open to more ideas. So, I want to know, what would you like to see some more of on this site? I am trying to create a page for every animal in my Metazoic world, just head to the Meet The Mammals section. It's a slow process for sure. I am also trying to work on a companion book for Metazoica. This book will also have more info than I could put on this website. Keep in mind, the Meet The Mammals section is a visual list. There you not only see the names, but also what the animal would look like if you were to see it in real life. If I were to put more info on those pages about each of the animals, it'd take forever! So, I try to confine that to the companion book I plan to put out. I don't know when the book will be out, but I will make an announcement on here. I'd just basically like to know if I did decide to put so...

#1. I actually began working on Metazoic mammal prototypes in 1980, but I was too young to make them scientifically accurate. The first mammals I worked on were the therapeds and deinognathids, which laid dormant in my head until I was almost 20 years old. At which time, I brought them back to life and added more accuracy scientifically to them. #2. There were originally more family groups for Metazoica, about a dozen of which never actually made it into today's checklist. When I first started to create the mammals of the future, I went wild with ideas. Sometimes too wild. When I first created the original checklist in 1994, there were family groups on there that you will not find in the checklist of today. They were groups that I just could not find an empty niche in the Metazoic for. So, I threw them away. #3. The odd names you see given as common names of the mammals of the Metazoic were thought up one rainy day by me and my sis in 1995. I got tired of simply calling all th...

Hello again everyone! I am done transferring all the pages. Now, I am working on the Meet The Mammals section. That section is going to take the longest to complete. You all will notice I don't have the pull-down menus on those pages anymore. Now, I just list the mammals' names. I will soon be working on a book that will have more extensive info about the animals' lives, but the new checklist is up and running. I adjusted the setting so it can be viewed by anyone. Last night, I realized someone tried to view it and couldn't without my permission. I didn't want that!! It should be available to everyone!! It's growing and I am getting closer and closer to my goal of 5000 mammals listed. After that, I want to work towards getting a goal of 10,000 mammals listed for the Metazoic. As long as it took me to reach the goal I am at now, to reach a goal of 10,000 mammals is going to take downright forever!! But I think it can be done. Well, bear with me in the Meet the...

I am realizing surely that the old site is just too much now to keep. But I am making a compromise. I am going to turn this blog into the new Metazoic website. This blog will contain everything the website does, with a few improvements made. In this blog, I will be keeping the comments open on all pages, so you can have a chance to comment on each page. I wanted to add that feature to the regular site, but unfortunately Yahoo does not allow that. I won't be adding my guestbook here for that reason. Now, if you want to comment, you can do it directly on the page. Even anonymous comments are welcome. This is a forum of free speech, so please feel free to speak your mind. I even welcome criticism. The only posts that will not be welcome will be those with too much profanity. No F-bombs please!! There is no reason to do that!! Feel free to love, hate, show indifference or whatever to the animals displayed on this site and even to me if you want, but there is no good reason to cuss one...

I thought I would do this early this week, so I can remain at work on some of my stories for the UMG Productions site. The family Promonsamiidae is made up of mostly aquatic lemurs. They are not the typical prosimians that we know today, they are a seperately evolved group that came from modern tree shrews that originated on the ground, more often than not inhabiting swampy areas, such as the flooded rainforests of Indonesia. These lemurs are more otter-like in form, with broad, flat muzzles, large, round eyes, and tiny ears. Though like their modern counterparts, some species are tree-dwellers as well. The ears and nostrils of all the aquatic species in this family are capable of closing, and they have a clear nictitating membrane that acts as eye goggles underwater. Some species prefer rivers and fast-flowing streams, however, most of the species in the sub-family Frissinae are oceanic creatures. These animals are excellent swimmers and divers, and move through the water much like mo...

I added irridescence in some mammals in my Metazoic project. Mostly pteropods. I was told that was not possible in mammals. Though polar bears are probably the closest, or were for a long time. Their fur reflects the colors of their surroundings, which is not the same as irridescence, but the structure of each strand of hair would be about the same. Anyway this feature, according to this article, is possible in mammals, and it does exist. http://news.discovery.com/animals/golden-moles-iridescent-122401.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1 World's First Iridescent Mammal Discovered By Jennifer Viegas Tue Jan 24, 2012 07:00 PM ET Iridescence -- a lustrous rainbow-like play of color caused by differential refraction of light waves -- has just been detected in the fur of golden moles. Aside from the “eye shine” of nocturnal mammals, seen when a headlight or flashlight strikes their eyes, the discovery marks the first known instance of iridescence in a mammal. The findings, published ...