Postozoic is my project about the future of life on Earth.In
the Postozoic the focus is on 4 time zones. They will
be 25, 90, 120, and 200 million years future.
In 25 million
years future the world is 1 degree hotter than 2010, and rain forests
cover the equator but Africa-like savannas are dominant. In the sea
dolphins hold their niche but seals filter feed and otters have taken
the role of seals and the ambush predator niche north of the equator,
where they can't compete with the better adapted crocodilians. An order
of primates descended from the Hamadryas baboon start to compete with
carnivora for the niche of apex predators.
In 90 million years
the world is 1 degree colder than 2010, and there are no rain forests
with Mediterranean climate replacing them. The savannas and grasslands
are more spread, up until the taiga (boreal forests) that start around
the height of Canada. Mammals are at their height. An order of
neo-mesonychids descended from pigs have overthrown the carnivore
baboons. Carnivora is extinct except in South America. Bats have become
more dominant, keeping most birds as raptorial-like forms. During this
period a mass extinction in between KT and P-Tr arrives, heating up the
world and bringing an end to the reign of mammals and the extinction of
monotremes.
In 120 million years the world is a hot place rules
by reptiles. Amphibians have been in decline ever since the human
extinction, and the 90 MYF extinction brought their end. All birds also
go extinct in the extinction, except for an Asian group of quadruped
birds, descended from junglefowl. Bats rule the skies, with the group
that rules the skies losing another finger from the membrane, allowing
them to walk better and grow bigger. All the continents are connected
except for South America and Antarctica, which is the only place that
mammals are still dominant. Monitor lizard descendants are the apex
predators. Mice and antechinus descendants rule the insectivorous niche.
In the trees a group of carnivorous primates rule predator niche and
another group rule the fruigivorous and insectivorous niches, all
descended from the 1 monkey that survived the extinction. A group of
arboreal geckos rule the rodent niche. In Antarctica a group of swingers
similar to monkeys have evolved, descended from bats. In the sea
dolphin-like sharks rule the dolphin niche and giant filter feeding
squid rule the filter feeding niches. A new class of reptile-like
chordates descended from pangolins emerge from Lemuria when it crashes
into India, including the neo-theropods descended from lizargolins,
which had the chance to rise with the extinction of Emperor Birds.
In
200 million years all
the continents have grown in a neo-Pangea. Birds and neo-reptile
pangolins have taken control of
the land, winning over mammals because of their better water
conservation. In the trees the monkey bats has a cosmopolitan range in
the coastline rain forests from when Antarctica collided with
neo-Pangea. Antechinus now completely control the insectivore niche, and
opossums from South America rule the rodent niche, and are the last
marsupials. A few armadillos, neo-ground sloths (from South America) and
ground Kinkajou (from Antarctica) roam in the southern rain forests of
neo-Pangea. Flying lizards descended from the rodent geckos have taken
pterosaur-like form and fill a niche similar to what bats have today.
