Porcorumeta 80-90 millions of years (Pig explosion/vertebrazoic) **Ep 3 Part 5**
Welcome back to Porcorumeta, 80 million years post-establishment
Let's start with the forests, okay?
In the forests lives a ferocious predator, the
The butterfly circuagodon is a fast and agile predator that swings on branches. Its proboscis is divided horizontally into two segments, which function as tentacles. Most of the time, its mouth is coiled. When it catches prey, it snaps its mouth shut with a whip-like motion, killing its prey. It catches its prey with its legs, not its arms.
one of their prey are the
Fluseoral butterflies are a type of arboreal butterfly that has evolved legs for hooking onto surfaces. With spikes to anchor themselves, these butterflies lost their ability to fly. When the Circuagodon appeared, the Flysecorala had to evolve membranes to glide from tree to tree.
Although the flight range is only about 10 meters, it is very efficient
In the trees, we found another butterfly, something.... curious
This butterfly developed only front arms to manipulate and examine its young. If a young butterfly is born weak and small, it abandons it. If a young butterfly is born strong and healthy, it gives it 30 leaves and abandons it, leaving it to survive on its own. Because of this, and because many young cannot take care of themselves, its population decreased by 20% over 10 million years.
Going down to the ground, we found peculiar creatures!
The papiloraffe developed an attractive orange color with black spots to break up its silhouette. These butterflies also have a 30% mortality rate, since they always eat leaves from trees and leave their young unprotected, and predators come and kill them. If a papiloraffe survives, it's a great stroke of luck.
other types of butterflies are
The Butterpider is an omnivorous, almost arboreal butterfly that walks super fast; sometimes it dives into water to eat the young of either Papiloraffe or Selfly, whichever of the two it likes.
The Pantherig Brown is a saber-toothed pig that evolved its form for efficient muscle mass, reaching speeds of up to 38 km/h, making it the fastest pig in porcorumeta, Its size is larger than a human's, making it an unstoppable beast, or well, for now.
Continuing with mainland (and venturing a little into the water) we will find the papibufoidae family
This family is characterized by having a shape almost similar to frogs. The first creature of this family is the common butrog. Its size is small. Spore-eating? I think. It jumps on plants and vegetation, catching the spores of the great lemurian tree with its sticky tongue.
The second creature is the giant butrog. This frog (or butterfly) is very similar to the other, only this one is carnivorous.
The third and last are the water butrogs, they live in seasonal lakes, they lay a single egg, which is very resistant, this species only lives 4 months, during those 4 months, 5 days before they end, the young grow and reach sexual maturity, becoming fertile, in each river there are at least 50, only inside aquatic burrows so as not to crowd together.
Speaking of water, inside the sea, we see some peculiar whale butterflies.
Papiliobalaena barouensis developed a sac in its dewlap to store meat because... yes, it is carnivorous. Its red crest detects vibrations greater than its own vibration in the water; when it detects them, it will become defensive and attack whatever it encounters.
The Papiliopiscis flumibus inhabits rivers, lakes, seas, and many other places where there is water; they are basically the porcorumeta fish, with a sac in their belly that allows them to store eggs.
Papilocancer pastormarinus, which takes the form of a crab, or something similar, grazes on the seabed
The quatorrpinis papilioconservatiovorum stores its eggs in its dewlap, like its ancestors, they almost lost their wings and developed 4 fins as a method of mobility
At the end of this episode, I want to promote my two YouTube channels.
In Mundos Sin Rumbos I have my Coati World project, where I explore how life would evolve from a coati on an alien planet. Just so you know, my native language is Spanish, and I'll be speaking Spanish in the videos. Please turn on English subtitles, as I speak very fast... so the subtitles might not work.
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With the episode concluded, I'll leave you with this image of Porcorumeta in the darkness with an aurora borealis...