The official tumblr of the Speculative Evolution forum! Speculative biology is simultaneously a science and form of art in which one speculates on the possibilities of life and evolution.
A collection of quick sketches showcasing some of the lifeforms developed for an ongoing project in speculative evolution. Seiek is a world in which the K-PG mass extinction event never occurred.
Dougal Dixon - After Man- A Zoology of the Future (PDF) - Free download as PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free. After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981, ISBN 978-0312011635) is a 1981 book by the Scottish geologist and author, Dougal Dixon. In it, he presents his hypothesis of various organisms apparent after a mass extinction succeeding our own time. The book is the first of Dougal Dixon's speculative evolution series, including the books After Man (1981), The New Dinosaurs (1988), and Man After Man (1990),[1][2][3] which were pivotal in establishing the speculative evolution genre.
Ubiquitous to Spec's coasts and seas, the hesperornithines are the last of the basal Ornithuromorpha. "Hespies", as they are commonly called, were the first dinosaurs to successfully enter the marine niches in a big way. They are known from early Cretaceous deposits, some of the fossils...
Species of vekia
Marvelous valley
Speculative dinosaur project
Order Paraselenodontia contains over 40 species of herbivorous eutherians that range in size from 5 to 300 kg in weight. The largest members of this group have managed carve a place for themselves amongst niches usually reserved for dinosaurs by thriving in harsh or remote environments that all...
speculative biology, speculative evolution, future evolution, exobiology, astrobiology, world building, science fiction art
subterramundus
Examples of Extinct Species in the Spec World: Sauropodimimus giganticus (Late Oligocene) (Chattian) Asian lambeosaurid that attained enormous sizes, growing up to lengths of 16 meters. One of the last of the lambeosaurs with the extinction of Sauropodimimus and it's kin, Asia was devoid of...
Imagine a world where today's animals have evolved into incredible new forms. That’s exactly what artist Paleorex explores in his captivating speculative evolution art.
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No group of dinosaurs best expresses the innovation yet familiarity of Spec’s fauna as ungulapedes. Clearly hadrosaurian in nature, the origins of these dinosaurs extend as far back as the Cretaceous. With over an estimated 150 species, these are one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs in...
In the early days of Specworld exploration, legendary specbiologist Tiina Aumula led many expeditions into tropical Asia and northern Africa. Among the countless new specimens obtained from these forays were a number of graceful "raptor"-type theropods that were clearly very different animals...
Pokemuroids represent another group of Spec mammals that are almost, but not quite, the familiar mammals of Home-Earth. While these furry little tree-climbers are technically primates, they differ significantly from RL's apes and monkeys, although they are related to the lemurs (albeit...
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