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"The Age of Terror, lasting only 2 or 3 centuries was a period of utter devastation, as proved in Anthropozoic. The survivors were few and far between, and the Earth was stripped bare of most recognisable organisms. Millions of years earlier, man had populated the Earth with GM versions of himself to colonise empty megafaunal niches in the aftermath of a mass extinction, but another group of humans went into space and split into thousands upon thousands of different groups over the millions of years. One group had redescovered their old home and began terraforming it to their new needs. The effects were irreversibly immense. Teh number of phlya in the animal kingdom was reduced from 36 to a mere 4, and even these surviving phyla did not have more than 10 species each, often less (only 2 species of chordate, both minipiscanthropid), most living in the deep ocean. On land, things went worse still. All terrestrial plantlife was destroyed, and only a single species of coastal, algae eating fungus survived, along with one arachnid and one insect. Only tiny scraps of green and red algae survived, now outnumbered by brown algae and diatoms, this being fed upon by the last remnants of the tardigrade and waterflea linaege. In the deep hydrothermal vents many fathoms below, the last of the chordates, and last descendants of the human race have survived. One species was a gentle, slow filter feeder about 25cm long, feeding on bacteria and protozoa, moving around like an undulating version of an eel. The adults will even root their tails into the ground to maximise feeding efficiency in a certain area, and started to compete with tubeworms. The other survivor was a more robust, but agile creature, similar in size to a sardine with a more typical body, small, very degenerated eyes, infra-red sensing organs on the head, and a large mouth with several rows of blade like teeth. More interestingly, it's lips had split into 4 extensions that could extend grabbing, hinting its future evolution.

A staggering 285 million years passed, an amount of time equivalent to going from just before chordates and echinoderms split to just after anapsids and diapsids split (hinting the stage where evolution has taken the survivors) and the Earth changed beyond comprehension. The skies gradually cleared, and slowly but surely oxygen levels rose. The algae littering the beaches became more numerous, and some fungi began to specialise in feeding on different forms of algae, in different areas, or even feeding on minerals in the ground thanks to symbiotic bacteria. The single midge and mite began to diversify as well, forming small communities of herbivore, carnivore, omnivore and fungivore. As algae bloomed, tardigrades and waterfleas multiplied, eventually reaching visible forms as they changed their forms. Although tardigrades diversified massively under this new Earth, very few species grew bigger than 1-2cm thanks to their strange form of growing. The waterfleas began to specialise on feeding on the hard diatoms, and this allowed them to follow them to a unique habitat. The diatoms began moving onto dry land, forming crystaline structures, sort of like a neo-lichen. These spread across the surface, feeding on sunlight and able to survive in arid regions. The Waterfleas followed, forming bizzare crushing creatures, and soon the mites and midges began to feed on this. Eventually, just as a new group of green algae started adapting to terrestrial life, the midges even reevolved wings, and flight once more became a part of the ecosystem. The creatures of the deep meanwhile spread upwards, and conquered the upper waters, competing with the fleas and tardigrades. These included arthropods, annelids and the vertabrates. The 5 groups, with so little competition, exploded nichewise to produce a massive range of creatures. Teh algae on land evolved branching structures, and eventually the first forests began to form and outcompete giant forms of Krystal (terrestrial diatom descendants) (1). As millions of years turned to hundreds of millions of years, oxygen levels climbed further and further, eventually reaching and even exceeding the pre-extinction levels. At the same time, a distant descendant of the survivor of the deep made its way through the saltwater esturies and crawled onto land, following arthropod and annelid food. By 360 million AD, the Earth has carboniferous oxygen levels, a hot, wet climate, and a most bizzare range of fauna the Earth has ever known. Humans are now more dominant than ever before, but in ways unthinkable to the human mind. In the shallow seas, vast reefs stand, replacing all the corals, sponges, echinoderms, brachiopods, bivalves and barnacles that all became extinct. But these are no tubeworms, as they were outcompeted long ago. The bizzare reefs branch out like a tree, sometimes forming structures up to 5m tall, with many fleshy outgrowths, and hundreds of 'branches'. A closer look shows this skeleton is made from the same substances as vertabrate bone, an another look reveals external reproductive organs, and inside, degenerate and highly adapted organs designed to hold algae, caenobacteria and even marine fungi. These reefs are human (2). Within them, millions of small creatures, mainly shrimps and tardigrades flourish, just as they did in old. Bizzare creatures, moving with an undulating movement feed on these, as well as the surrounding algae. They have incredible faces, surrounded by fleshy tentacles, and with 4 fins, and a horizontal tail, with 2 or even 3 dorsal fins depending on species, and often brightly coloured. Inside the tentacles, is a very well developed jaw system, with rows of teeth. These are the other line of human in these seas. They take the niches of both fish and cephalopods in this sea, and are the supreme rulers of this world. A few descendants of this line have even gone onto land and established a strange ecosystem."

B: "In the vast depths of the open ocean, biodiversity is not as high as it is in the shallow seas, but the seas nonetheless buzz with life. Vast swathes of plankton, crustacean, tardigrade and Pyrogotid larvae swim through the ocean, feeding on algae. These are in turn fed upon by strange floating creatures, mainly transparent. They resemble jellyfish greatly, but these are long gone in the extinction. These are instead a new group descended from radically adapted caenoflaggelites, the closest protozoan relatives of animals merging together with annelids to form a single creature. Teh caenoflaggelites have become multicellular creating tentacles, spores and membranes, while the former annelid forms a central control system, as well as the reproductive organs. The group is called Amphizoans (3). They are gentle drifters in the current, but this is not true for other organisms. Swimming in the ocean, a huge descendant of the prawn, a member of a group named pyrogotia (5), is on the move. This enormous species measures about 3.5m long, and is the biggest of his kind. He has highly developed pincers, turned into chaotic puncturing mechanisms and as a defense against the Xenanthropids, the tentacle faced rulers of Earth. Instead of sea slugs and sea cucumbers, strange tardigrades (4) instead inherit their niche. These are fed upon by a specialised species of xenanthropid (8), whos face tentacles are designed to strip the tardigrades of their skins to get at the flesh, in which the deadly jaws finish off. The Xenanthropids (A) also include bigger predators, like the Shredder (6), whos body is as big as a killer whales, with shark like teeth and tentacles covered in deadly hooks. This is the ocean's superpredator, and leaps onto the smaller creature and finishes it off quickly. On him, tiny species of xenanthropid (7), only 4mm long feed on dead skin of his, the smallest vertabrates of all time possibly. Shredders will attack almost anything in the ocean, except for Ceticthys (9), a huge, sperm whale sized filter feeder. It's tentacles have adapted to far reaching filtering organs, rendering the animal about 30m long, but only 50-60 tonnes in weight. It's teeth are relatively small on the other hand, and its mouth is small and round. In this open world of niches, more than 35,000 species of xenanthropid exist, making them the most diverse group of vertabrates ever to exist The red giant scares off all the smaller animals except for the amphizoans and gently filters its way through the plankton, regardless. They live in families usually, but this is a bull, who is alone at this stage in his life. Being the biggest animal alive is a hard job for him, especially in the matter of finding food. Above the surface, a stranger still world exists. "

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Well, to start this project, I must say it is not mine. This project was created in 2011 by fordiddenparadise65, a member of the speculative Evolution forum s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_E… . originates from another project, known as antropozoic, which is a remake of man after man. but had been abandoned a few months after it was created. In 2012 I obtained permission to continue the work, but had abandoned him. But now, 2 years later, I return to work on after making this drawing.

to summarize a bit, the antropozoic begins in 300 years in the future, when after having finished the environment, human fill the planet with their own offspring, genetically modified. unlike man after man, there are more species inhabiting different ecosystems, and lasts longer. after 75 million years of evolution, one of the thousands of space-human species, back to earth, and change to the point of making it uninhabitable. despite the overall damage to the ecosystem, the survivors begin to evolve and take control of the world.

Description

"The Age of Terror, lasting only 2 or 3 centuries was a period of utter devastation, as proved in Anthropozoic. The survivors were few and far between, and the Earth was stripped bare of most recognisable organisms. Millions of years earlier, man had populated the Earth with GM versions of himself to colonise empty megafaunal niches in the aftermath of a mass extinction, but another group of humans went into space and split into thousands upon thousands of different groups over the millions of years. One group had redescovered their old home and began terraforming it to their new needs. The effects were irreversibly immense. Teh number of phlya in the animal kingdom was reduced from 36 to a mere 4, and even these surviving phyla did not have more than 10 species each, often less (only 2 species of chordate, both minipiscanthropid), most living in the deep ocean. On land, things went worse still. All terrestrial plantlife was destroyed, and only a single species of coastal, algae eating fungus survived, along with one arachnid and one insect. Only tiny scraps of green and red algae survived, now outnumbered by brown algae and diatoms, this being fed upon by the last remnants of the tardigrade and waterflea linaege. In the deep hydrothermal vents many fathoms below, the last of the chordates, and last descendants of the human race have survived. One species was a gentle, slow filter feeder about 25cm long, feeding on bacteria and protozoa, moving around like an undulating version of an eel. The adults will even root their tails into the ground to maximise feeding efficiency in a certain area, and started to compete with tubeworms. The other survivor was a more robust, but agile creature, similar in size to a sardine with a more typical body, small, very degenerated eyes, infra-red sensing organs on the head, and a large mouth with several rows of blade like teeth. More interestingly, it's lips had split into 4 extensions that could extend grabbing, hinting its future evolution.

A staggering 285 million years passed, an amount of time equivalent to going from just before chordates and echinoderms split to just after anapsids and diapsids split (hinting the stage where evolution has taken the survivors) and the Earth changed beyond comprehension. The skies gradually cleared, and slowly but surely oxygen levels rose. The algae littering the beaches became more numerous, and some fungi began to specialise in feeding on different forms of algae, in different areas, or even feeding on minerals in the ground thanks to symbiotic bacteria. The single midge and mite began to diversify as well, forming small communities of herbivore, carnivore, omnivore and fungivore. As algae bloomed, tardigrades and waterfleas multiplied, eventually reaching visible forms as they changed their forms. Although tardigrades diversified massively under this new Earth, very few species grew bigger than 1-2cm thanks to their strange form of growing. The waterfleas began to specialise on feeding on the hard diatoms, and this allowed them to follow them to a unique habitat. The diatoms began moving onto dry land, forming crystaline structures, sort of like a neo-lichen. These spread across the surface, feeding on sunlight and able to survive in arid regions. The Waterfleas followed, forming bizzare crushing creatures, and soon the mites and midges began to feed on this. Eventually, just as a new group of green algae started adapting to terrestrial life, the midges even reevolved wings, and flight once more became a part of the ecosystem. The creatures of the deep meanwhile spread upwards, and conquered the upper waters, competing with the fleas and tardigrades. These included arthropods, annelids and the vertabrates. The 5 groups, with so little competition, exploded nichewise to produce a massive range of creatures. Teh algae on land evolved branching structures, and eventually the first forests began to form and outcompete giant forms of Krystal (terrestrial diatom descendants) (1). As millions of years turned to hundreds of millions of years, oxygen levels climbed further and further, eventually reaching and even exceeding the pre-extinction levels. At the same time, a distant descendant of the survivor of the deep made its way through the saltwater esturies and crawled onto land, following arthropod and annelid food. By 360 million AD, the Earth has carboniferous oxygen levels, a hot, wet climate, and a most bizzare range of fauna the Earth has ever known. Humans are now more dominant than ever before, but in ways unthinkable to the human mind. In the shallow seas, vast reefs stand, replacing all the corals, sponges, echinoderms, brachiopods, bivalves and barnacles that all became extinct. But these are no tubeworms, as they were outcompeted long ago. The bizzare reefs branch out like a tree, sometimes forming structures up to 5m tall, with many fleshy outgrowths, and hundreds of 'branches'. A closer look shows this skeleton is made from the same substances as vertabrate bone, an another look reveals external reproductive organs, and inside, degenerate and highly adapted organs designed to hold algae, caenobacteria and even marine fungi. These reefs are human (2). Within them, millions of small creatures, mainly shrimps and tardigrades flourish, just as they did in old. Bizzare creatures, moving with an undulating movement feed on these, as well as the surrounding algae. They have incredible faces, surrounded by fleshy tentacles, and with 4 fins, and a horizontal tail, with 2 or even 3 dorsal fins depending on species, and often brightly coloured. Inside the tentacles, is a very well developed jaw system, with rows of teeth. These are the other line of human in these seas. They take the niches of both fish and cephalopods in this sea, and are the supreme rulers of this world. A few descendants of this line have even gone onto land and established a strange ecosystem."

B: "In the vast depths of the open ocean, biodiversity is not as high as it is in the shallow seas, but the seas nonetheless buzz with life. Vast swathes of plankton, crustacean, tardigrade and Pyrogotid larvae swim through the ocean, feeding on algae. These are in turn fed upon by strange floating creatures, mainly transparent. They resemble jellyfish greatly, but these are long gone in the extinction. These are instead a new group descended from radically adapted caenoflaggelites, the closest protozoan relatives of animals merging together with annelids to form a single creature. Teh caenoflaggelites have become multicellular creating tentacles, spores and membranes, while the former annelid forms a central control system, as well as the reproductive organs. The group is called Amphizoans (3). They are gentle drifters in the current, but this is not true for other organisms. Swimming in the ocean, a huge descendant of the prawn, a member of a group named pyrogotia (5), is on the move. This enormous species measures about 3.5m long, and is the biggest of his kind. He has highly developed pincers, turned into chaotic puncturing mechanisms and as a defense against the Xenanthropids, the tentacle faced rulers of Earth. Instead of sea slugs and sea cucumbers, strange tardigrades (4) instead inherit their niche. These are fed upon by a specialised species of xenanthropid (8), whos face tentacles are designed to strip the tardigrades of their skins to get at the flesh, in which the deadly jaws finish off. The Xenanthropids (A) also include bigger predators, like the Shredder (6), whos body is as big as a killer whales, with shark like teeth and tentacles covered in deadly hooks. This is the ocean's superpredator, and leaps onto the smaller creature and finishes it off quickly. On him, tiny species of xenanthropid (7), only 4mm long feed on dead skin of his, the smallest vertabrates of all time possibly. Shredders will attack almost anything in the ocean, except for Ceticthys (9), a huge, sperm whale sized filter feeder. It's tentacles have adapted to far reaching filtering organs, rendering the animal about 30m long, but only 50-60 tonnes in weight. It's teeth are relatively small on the other hand, and its mouth is small and round. In this open world of niches, more than 35,000 species of xenanthropid exist, making them the most diverse group of vertabrates ever to exist The red giant scares off all the smaller animals except for the amphizoans and gently filters its way through the plankton, regardless. They live in families usually, but this is a bull, who is alone at this stage in his life. Being the biggest animal alive is a hard job for him, especially in the matter of finding food. Above the surface, a stranger still world exists. "

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Well, to start this project, I must say it is not mine. This project was created in 2011 by fordiddenparadise65, a member of the speculative Evolution forum s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_E… . originates from another project, known as antropozoic, which is a remake of man after man. but had been abandoned a few months after it was created. In 2012 I obtained permission to continue the work, but had abandoned him. But now, 2 years later, I return to work on after making this drawing.

to summarize a bit, the antropozoic begins in 300 years in the future, when after having finished the environment, human fill the planet with their own offspring, genetically modified. unlike man after man, there are more species inhabiting different ecosystems, and lasts longer. after 75 million years of evolution, one of the thousands of space-human species, back to earth, and change to the point of making it uninhabitable. despite the overall damage to the ecosystem, the survivors begin to evolve and take control of the world.