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Edit Note: Make pages of all notable fauna and flora from Serina, including pages for some species of a certain clade

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Serina[1] is a speculative evolution project by Dylan Badja (Sheather888).

On a faraway terraformed moon of a gas giant planet, Earth organisms are introduced by unknown forces: a wide variety of plants, invertebrates and microorganisms, but only eight vertebrates: seven species of live-bearing fish, such as guppies, and only a single land tetrapod: the domestic canary. As generations pass over millions of years, the humble colonists evolve into a wide diversity of life, occupying a wide variety of niches as they evolve into a myriad of different forms both familiar and alien.

The project covers several eons of evolution on Serina, punctuated by mass extinctions:

  • The Hypostecene: (0-10 million years)
  • The Tempuscene: (11-50 million years)
  • The Cryocene: (50-75 million years)
  • The Thermocene: (75-175 million years)
  • The Pangaeacene: (188-250 million years)
  • The Ultimocene: (Beyond 250 million years)

Notable species include:

Birds:

  • Aardgeese, semi-aquatic birds resembling ducks and geese
  • Falconaries, airborne predators that are the first hypercarnivorous birds on Serina
  • Canaribou: a flightless herbivorous bird that is ovoviviparous, living in herds in the tundra
  • Boarbirds: an omnivorous cousin of the canaribou that supplements its diet with carrion
  • Elefinches: large herbivorous birds with soft, trunk-like nasal appendages
  • Snuffles: a group of kiwi-like flightless birds that have sensitive bills like a platypus
  • Bumblets: a class of quadrupedal burrowers that are a unique branch of the Aardgeese family tree which later evolve into the predatory bumblebadgers and Dolfinchs
  • Gravediggers: a sapient species that evolved from the bumblebadgers with a true language and cultural and currently has 3 sapient subspecies that are as follows, the Southern Gravedigger, the Tundra Gravedigger and the Social Gravedigger(and for the Social Gravedigger it would later on evolve into the thalassic gravedigger)
  • Dolfinchs: a fully aquatic group of Bumblets that have a similer body plan like that of small short necked pliosaurs
  • Daydreamers: a sapient species that evolved from the Dolfinchs, they are a culturally rich people with super detailed oral history dating all the the way back to the beginning of their people and having spit off into 2 ecotypes some 300,000 years ago, the Fishers(small prey specialist) and the pastoralists(large prey specialists)
  • Serezelles: quadrupedal deer-like birds that feed on grasses in herds
  • Spearrunners: a type of carnivorous serezelle that hunts small prey
  • Pseudornithopods: descendants of the aardgeese that resemble ornithopod dinosaurs
  • Tyrant serins: large flightless predatory birds similar to tyrannosaurs
  • Boggle birds: a type of chatteravens that hunt at night
  • Mucks: scaly featherless ectothermic birds similar to sloths and iguanas
  • Ornkeys: arboreal flightless birds, and among the first true placental avians
  • Archangels: four-winged herbivorous giant flyers, similar to swans and Quetzalcoatlus
  • Porporants: fully-aquatic avians resembling cetaceans
  • Mittens: softbill birds with prehensile facial tentacles
  • Bludgebirds: plains-dwelling softbill birds that hunt prey using weapons and tools
  • Fork-tailed babbling jay: a sapient species of bird with a true language and cultural traditions
  • Changelings: birds that undergo metamorphosis, with larval young that pupate
  • Ornimorphs: descendants of the changelings that undergo a dramatic multi-stage metamorphosis
  • Grapplers: predatory softbills with clawed facial tentacles
  • Squicks: parasitic changelings whose larvae feed on living tissue like botflies
  • Lumberbeest: descendants of mucks similar to Galapagos tortoises
  • Burdles: marine descendants of mucks resembling sea turtles
  • Mourner-in-the-mist: the last of the Boomsingers that now eat seaweed
  • Villaingulls: a type of sea raven that hunt in gangs
  • Shadowskimmers: a large species Ornimorphs that hunt at sea
  • Sealumps: a type of sea dwelling trunko that eats seaweed
  • Chatterchaser: a ground-dwelling chatter raven
  • Pretenguins: swim in the ice age oceans for fish
  • Efts: birds that share the niche of may flies

Fish:

  • Swordwhales: large marine predators analogous to sharks
  • Daredevil Fish: Fish that live on the back of Mollontees for protection.
  • Mudwickets: amphibious fish similar to mudskippers
  • Tribbets: fully-terrestrial descendants of mudwickets resembling tripodal frogs
  • Tribtiles: lizard-like tribbets with bright colors and thermoregulating dorsal fins
  • Handfishes: arboreal tribbets that modified their fin spines into multiple walking legs
  • Dropdown: a handfish that ambushes flying prey from the treetops
  • Gibbet: a hexapedal handfish that has four arms modified from fingers
  • Hoppers: mesothermic tribbets that posess muscular forearms and mobile ears
  • Tribbetheres: furred, warm-blooded mammal-like descendants of hoppers with three legs
  • Canitheres: predatory hyena-like tribbetheres that hunt in packs
  • Mertribs: secondarily-aquatic tribbetheres similar to sea lions
  • Tribbats: flying bat-like tribbetheres that live in the forest canopy
  • Molodonts: rodent-like tribbetheres with grinding teeth resembling a mortar and pestle
  • Circuagodonts: ungulate-like tribbetheres with wheel-like teeth that rotate to crop vegetation
  • Antlears: moose-like circuagodonts whose antler-like ears help in browsing higher branches
  • Woodcrafters: a sapient species that evolved from the Antlears and are Masters at cultivating there fast growing tree into the shape of basket like house, bridges and walls around there villages all of which is made from living trees
  • Simiagibs: ape-like descendants of the gibbet that swing through the trees
  • Swampstilt: a type of foxtrotter that lives in the long-dark swamp
  • Gash-hoppers: small cat like predators that evolved to hunt thorngrazers
  • Lumpus: a small frog-like fish with a body shape shared by there Tribbets cousins
  • Nightsharks: a type of sword shark that nocturnal and gives birth to live young
  • Skyland unicorns: climb rocky cliffs in the sky islands
  • Viridescent Sawjaws: bipepedal hunters that hunt helmetheads in The Northern Soglands

Invertebrates:

  • Florgusts: descendants of crickets that resemble butterflies
  • Spider-crabs: terrestrial crustaceans filling the niche of spiders
  • Billion-stingers: an ant species similar to army ants that travel in massive swarming raids
  • King trawlers: a marine snail filling the niche of baleen whales
  • Snarks: swimming carnivorous shark-like marine snails
  • Mollontee: Large grazing sea slugs which are extremely poisonous.
  • Chain jellies: photosynthetic colonial jellyfish that are the main food of Burdles
  • Walking Hydras: A clade of hydras which have become more motile with starfish-like species.

Plants:

  • Sunflower trees: large, flowering descendants of sunflowers that form forests in Serina
  • Ant trees: trees with a symbiotic relationship with ants that protect them from herbivores
  • Razorgrass: a sharp, unpalatable prairie grass that the circuagodonts evolved to feed on
  • Rockroots: the descendents of sunflowers which are adapted to eat small unlucky animals
  • Centipedeweed: a vicious plant known for killing small birds
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