Basically the cast of Echo can use the colours of mana. Mostly to show why my conclusions on their alignments make sense. Take it as you will.
****
Chase found himself.
All the insecurity, all the self-hatred, of not being good enough, of not being as unique as his friends.
Fuck that.
He knew who he was, and he was ready to show exactly what that entailed.
At the shores of the evil Lake Emma,...
2021-10-06 02:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostAn old speculative evolution project of mine (https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/lemuria-t2653.html), I have since decided to resurrect it and remake some of the old concepts:
https://sites.google.com/view/lemuriaspeculative/p%C3%A1gina-inicial
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<figure>Three birds by Jaime Headden (qilong on wordpress): Pelagornis, Hesperornis and a merganser. The first and last are usually thought to be more closely related to each other than to the middle one, but what if it was the two extinct taxa instead?</figure>
“An in-depth analysis of the affinities of pelagornithids is beyond the scope of this study,but we consider it likely that some of the putatively gal...
2021-09-29 08:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn one timeline crown birds didn’t make it past the KT event, but ichthyornithids did. Like our birds they quickly radiated into a massive array of species; most of the initial niches were raptorial and insectivorous, but gradually aquatic plant eaters and arboreal frugivores kickstarted an herbivorous revolution, and these would eventually pale with the arrival of blunt-beaked herbivores, the toothed parrots.
The ancestor of the toothed parrots was a semi-aquatic, swamphen like ichth...
2021-09-13 02:37:25 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/288021/lands-of-fire-build-55
2021-08-27 12:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostTo honor the new Minotaur Hotel build. Contains spoilers for both the ruthless and normal routes.
***
He sleeps soundly, arms wrapped around you.
You already don't really feel the urge to sleep, as his peace and happiness warms your chest.
But you have something important to do, and so you calmly wait until he rolls around, as instincts demand weight to be distributed around different parts of the body as one sleeps.
Even if it takes two hours.
You take a d...
2021-08-25 16:27:54 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
The double-edged axe or labris, likely the least controversial thing written here.</figure>
To honor the latest release of Minotaur Hotel I decided to do an article on what is known of the Minoan deities.
Known as the “first European city-makers” and a distant precursor to Greece, what is called the Minoan Civiliza...
2021-08-23 17:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostThose who are prudent belong to the Moon.
In life your mind was sharp,
A crescent sickle to pierce ignorance and darkness alike.
Not a decision went by without you knowing,
Not a single shadow tripped your feet
Or flame licked your heart.
You did well, but an imperfection remains:
You were not brave.
Enjoy your rest, the philosopher musing on their cowardice.
Those who are just belong to Venus,
Every seed an action and a g...
2021-08-22 21:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As the image implies, there are currently no bird fossils in the Kem Kem Group or pterosaur fossils in Indo-Madagascar. Lectavis by Tim Morris and Lonchodectes by Ceri Thomas.
By the Early Cretaceous, both birds and pterosaurs had achieved a cosmopolitan distribution, thanks to their abilty to fly. A lot has been written on the diversity of both groups up to the end of the Mesozoic, bu...
2021-08-15 18:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post
(Once again thanks to Ron Blakey, NAU Geology, for the free use in desecrating the maps)
A basic map of ratite "urheimats" during the earliest Cenozoic: red = ostriches and kin, indigo = "lithornithids", green = rheas, yellow = casuariforms, dark red/crimson = moas and tinamous and brown = kiwis and elephant birds.
A Laurasian origin for Paleognathae has been proposed in several recent studies, in contrast to the old idea that ratites are gondwannan vicariants. The two most...
In an alternate timeline two lineages of placoderms convergent with syngnathid fish evolved:
- Longmaiformes were a clade of arthrodires of uncertain affinities as they more or less appear in the mid-Devonian fossil reccord as they are, with the general consensus leaning towards being part of Coccosteina. They developed long, tubular jaws similar to those of the Cretaceous turtle Ocepechelon, the upper jaw dental plates flanking it to keep the suction tube's shape and the lower jaw's de...
2021-07-27 14:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Honestly the lyrics are a bit short so synching was a bit of a challenge, but I suppose I can pass this off as extra shitposty.
Google Translate Lyrics:
Sleep now
Get it
After the death of the river
Oh that dream?
Cool on the website
Heaven heaven
People go to where they go
What does this mean?
Oh that dream?
It burns if it b...
2021-07-22 23:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostPlacodonts were some of the most resilient groups of Triassic marine reptiles, consistently surviving minor extinction events with minimal diversity loss until the mass extinction.
In one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity would continue, in some ways replacing the turtles from our timeline.
The Mesozoic reccord of placodonts is relatively stable. Their diversity remains mostly consistent in spite of several other extinction events affecting other marine repti...
2021-07-19 08:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/274199/lands-of-fire-build-5
2021-07-15 22:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/271455/more-jasper-concept-art
2021-07-07 07:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostMoments between Chase Hunter and his father.
***
"Dad!"
Chase's father barely had time to say "Hello there, champ!" before the otter collided with his dad, nuzzling deep in his embrace.
"How was school today?" the older otter asked, stroking his son's face gently.
"It was okay. Leo met two other kids, Sydney and Flynn, and we got to hang out!"
"Wait, Flynn like Flynn Moore?" the older otter asked, "As in the gila?"
"Yeah I guess" Chase replied sheepis...
2021-07-04 16:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/268336/more-concept-art
2021-06-28 10:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
<figure>Phylogenetic tree of The Speculative Dinosaur Project’s Enantiornithes cladogram.</figure>
Long time readers will know that I contributed a lot to The Speculative Dinosaur Project’s Enantiornithes. Given my recent cladograms (themselves essentially slightly more complex versions of Mortimer 2019’s) I decided to map out Spec’s opposite bird clades given what we now know.
An updated version of the cladogram I achieved with Mortimer et al 2019 methodology + additional enantiornithean characters (as well as taxa). "Martinavis" as before is polyphyletic, North American remains being Halimornis and South American remains being Elbretornis.
2021-06-23 23:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/266330/build-46-released
2021-06-22 14:08:39 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>Various depctions of stem-monotremes. Clockwise: Kollikodon by Cerri Thomas, Steropodon (or “SPEropodon” as the artist puts it) by Joschua Knüppe and Teinolophos by paleozoografica. Kollikodon might be a haramiyidan instead according to more recent papers, so just pretend its some other australosphenidan if you want.</figure>
Of all non-therian mammals, monotremes naturally are the best understood ...
2021-06-19 22:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Surprise, bitch!" everyone shouts as Murdoch walked into the room.
The poor fox still has tear crusts in his fur after waiting all day for his father, mother and Holly to wish him a happy birthday, but it seems all he gave up for them was never enough. His mother did talk to him... to criticise him once more. It was the last straw, and as the sun dipped in the horizon he had a mental breakdown, hiccuping wildly up to the moment Nik and Sam had greeted him at their home.
"Are you ...
2021-06-06 23:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Echo Fanfic:
2009
It was a spring afternoon, though in TJ's room it felt more like winter, much as Sydney loved. He saw snow exactly once in his life and fell in love, and hoped to one day move to the north with the love of his life.
They were both laying in bed, relaxing their paws after so much running in PE and across the Payton school's corridors. At the insistence of TJ's parents and certainly with no protest from TJ, they both began ...
2021-06-06 22:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
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A review of all Mesozoic synapsids of South America, as well as surviving Cenozoic lineages of those groups. Apparently done in quarentine.
I strongly recommend this book. It's not wholly accessible to those not in palaeotological lingo, but it has some cute wit sometimes.
Bombshells:
The angel sighed.
Liquid silver flowed through the Moon Sphere, a glistening ocean where solid and fluid were as inconstant as the celestial body. What was one minute white waves became metallic ice sculptures the next, guided by the careful hands of the artists and scientists who were prudent in life. Perfection was the child of order and chaos, meticulous planning and work to be recrafted under the spirit luminaries, so bliss wasn't stagnant. And for thousands of years the angel had ...
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/257794/sorry-for-the-delay
2021-05-27 20:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently commissioning Jasper for the Budj Bim monster invasion scene. Here's some concept art Jasper made of the Nadubi, Dulagal and Whowhie:
2021-05-24 09:01:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Late Cretaceous a lineage of deltatheroidean metatherians developed specialised, tightly packed hairs with branching filaments, superficially similar to plumes. This permitted an unique development in vertebrate history: by extending these hairs and creating friction, they developed the ability to hover on electromagnetic fields, much as with spiders and their silk.
Some species developed particularly large and fluffy tails, allowing them to be suspended in the air. This allowed ...
2021-05-22 15:47:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Modified from maps from Ron Blakey, NAU Geology. Last time I checked under free use but with the crediting clause.
A revisiting of an old article, improved a bit.
If you think Maastrichtian dinosaur faunas were isolated from one another, you should see their contemporary mammals, which clearly form faunal units across the continents:
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Liaoconodon pic I commissioned from Dylan Bajda. Probably like a mink; I don’t keep minks so I wouldn’t know.</figure>
Many people make articles on whereas you can keep dinosaurs as pets so eh.
Morganucodonts and other basalmost taxa
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2021-05-12 19:08:40 +0000 UTC
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