Post by Rishi on Nov 15, 2008 23:29:13 GMT 12
remember reading a book in school during my primary school years which was basically about what kind of animals will exist on Earth in the incredibly DISTANT future. The book contained some really AWESOME speculative illustrations on what the appearance of these creatures could be and also names for them. It was quite an imaginative book but based mainly on well-known biological facts, so the contents of this book weren't JUST the product of someone's imagination but also at least a fairly accurate guess of what animals could look like and also BE like many years from now. I'm not sure how far into the future this book went into, but I'm pretty sure it was AT LEAST 10 million years into the future, if not over a billion. I absolutely LOVED that book yet unfortunately I wasn't been able to read it again or even come across ANYTHING similar to it for a VERY long time. Until about a year ago, that is. That's when I discovered a site that also delves on speculation in regard to what our planet's animals will have evolved into far into the future. Unfortunately, that particular site no longer exists, but I managed to make some screenshots of what I saw on that site. The creatures mentioned on that site were placed into 3 different categories based on 3 different periods of time (which are 5 million years, 100 million years and 200 million years and with a variety of animals in each of these particular categories). An assumption is also made on this site that humankind has departed from Earth before the end of the 21st century to colonise other planets so that their seemingly inevitable extinction can be avoided. Here are screenshots of the different animals depicted on that site along with some information about each of them under the images of them:
5 Million Years Into The Future
Shagrat
Snowstalker
Gannetwhale
Spink
Deathgleaner
Rattleback
Carakilla
Babookari
100 Million Years Into The Future
Reef Glider
Ocean Phantom
Lurkfish
Toraton
I wish I could post screenshots of animals in the '200 Million Years Into The Future' category, but when I originally planned to do it, the site in question suddenly decided to inconveniently stop existing.
Anyway, there was a picture of an animal in that category called a 'flish'... which is basically a fish with wings! I KNEW THEY'D EVENTUALLY EVOLVE TO HAVE WINGS!!!!!! I KNEW IT, DAMMIT!!!!!!!!! That was my most FAVOURITE animal out of ALL the animals that were featured on that site. 
Which is YOUR favourite animal out of the ones I've just posted?
Anyway, I'll post more pics in this thread of hypothetical 'future' animals later!
5 Million Years Into The Future
Shagrat
Snowstalker
Gannetwhale
Spink
Deathgleaner
Rattleback
Carakilla
Babookari
100 Million Years Into The Future
Reef Glider
Ocean Phantom
Lurkfish
Toraton
I wish I could post screenshots of animals in the '200 Million Years Into The Future' category, but when I originally planned to do it, the site in question suddenly decided to inconveniently stop existing.
Anyway, there was a picture of an animal in that category called a 'flish'... which is basically a fish with wings! I KNEW THEY'D EVENTUALLY EVOLVE TO HAVE WINGS!!!!!! I KNEW IT, DAMMIT!!!!!!!!! That was my most FAVOURITE animal out of ALL the animals that were featured on that site. Which is YOUR favourite animal out of the ones I've just posted? Anyway, I'll post more pics in this thread of hypothetical 'future' animals later!
