I would LOVE to see a Curious Archive covering Nausicaä of the valley of the wind, (Preferably the manga since it has much more) it has such amazing and interesting creatures and landscape to be explored. I love your channel and watch all your videos, Thank you for all that you do dude ❤️.
I do like how everything has a unique name. Far too often with these spec projects the names are just taking common names and jumbling them together like The Future Is Wild (Snow Stalker, Reef Glider, Garden Worm, ect.)
Naming things in speculative evolution projects is quite an interesting challenge. Realistically, especially for these kinds where humans are long-gone, none of these creatures have a name. Most speculative biology rather features names of what humans would tend to call these creatures upon first sight and study of their behavior, this one, maybe in part due to the adaptation into a DnD setting as well, goes more for names you'd expect to be given if there was an indigenous civilization who has entire myths or cultures based around these creatures.
Unfortunately those names have more of a discernable naming pattern than these pokemon names. Solmundis? That just means sun-world or sun-earth. I think this chick was just throwing shit at a wall creatively.
These are some delightful speculative species. Something about the style of the illustrations makes me think of -D&D, I could easily see any of these creatures being in a Monster Manual or a Fiend Folio- Nevermind, I hadn't reached that bit of the video yet :p That's so rad!
I do love speculative biology, but I always feel like many of these projects suffer from over-fantasization. Like why does the snail relative on the thumbnail have one eye?
That's a good point. The speculative aquatic animals here are very non-hydrodynamic. I can't think of any good reasons for streamlined swimming animals to evolve in a way that would actively hinder their movement through water.
Barrel eye fish exist and I thought it was fake when I heard about it back in my high school days. A species of creature with toes over time and many generations, evolved to have singular hooves on basically one finger for each foot. I wouldn't be so closed minded, although I can't think of any reason why there would be such a specific environmental pressure that would break the bilateral symmetry of eyes for snails.
I don't know how the artist behind this managed to make a world so connected to our own still feel like it's from another planet, but I'm really digging it.
As much as I enjoy speculative evolution, I’m a bit confused as to how some of the most endangered creatures today, like pangolins and coral species, survived the Anthropocene when people clearly didn’t.
Yeah, coral is especially unbelievable given how sensitive it is to the slightest environmental changes. However I think this is still a fantastic project overall.
I love this project but I do agree. I also think it's unlikely for other phyla to dominate if this amount of mammals survived as mammals are already land adapted
Exactly. It was very hard for me to see how most of these creatures evolved from current ones. I think this project would had make more sense taking place in some other planet
Weirdly the species that bothers me the most is the “Frondilli”. Apparently they are a descendant, or relative of deer; and they use their modified mandible to feed on sap from trees. Weather sap is a good source of energy at all aside, why didn’t they evolve to repurpose their antlers to help feed on sap? Even if the ancestors of the Frondilli didn’t have, or lost their antlers, wouldn’t they evolve antlers anyways as a result of parallel evolution?
@@Diloparker Pretty sure she was just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. I hope that huge mammal dwarfing trees had hollow bones, it's like she doesn't even know size/gravity variables. No mention of atmospheric changes and the effects that would have on the morphology of organisms. Also, even with low gravity which the planet absolutely would not have by that point, that squid evolution would topple easily with that build. She's also making the mistake of making all her creations "look alien" by leaning into reptilian/amphibian or insectoid/molluscoid designs too heavily.
@@kilderok Yea, I guess the issue is that speculative evolution to most people isn’t about “what if?”, but rather “wouldn’t it be cool if.” As pointed out by the Unnatural history channel on RUclips. I think that’s what the channels name is called. (Edit: yeah just looked it up, that’s what the channels name is called.)
Is it just me, is anyone else kinda bothered by the fact that almost the entire bestiary is exclusively about big scary killer monsters? I mean, it's a bit unrealistic that an ecosystem can be comprised entirely out of big huge monsters. What, no prey animals? No decomposers?
Yes, only fantasy,wake up, all this is a fantasy,so you can be sleep and not know the truth, dinosaurs and humans where living at the same time, there is proof, search for the truth,just don't believe what ever in school teaches,because is just theories, there are human prints and dinosaurs prints at the same time,paintings about people riding dinosaurs and the creator of the paintings never heard of dinosaurs before,why is that, because the earth is not that super old that those indoctrinated people teach,no proof at all for what they are talking about.
It’s speculative biology but I’ll admit it seems rather unrealistic and more like fantasy as this seems like something that would take place on a different planet
Yeah, they look very fantasy. Would've been better if the artist were I spired by prehistoric mammals a bit more. Alien, but still evolutionary probable.
What an amazing birthday present - Curious Archive uploading yet another awesome speculative biology summary. I really enjoyed your video on Simon stålenhag's ''Loop'' series. So much, in fact, that I've asked for both "Tales From The Loop" and "The Labyrinth" for Christmas. Seriously love the stiff that you put out here and thank you for unintentionally making my 19th just that bit sweeter :)
What a beautiful art-style and interesting creatures. You should probably check out the highly- detailed and fairly new imaginative biology project of Bennta by the Hybrid Fox.
I don’t know if you’d ever be interested, but a video/series on The Elder Scrolls could be super interesting. Creatures like Guar, Netches, Ice Wraiths, and Grummites (if you count Daedra) would be super cool to see looked at in your style!
@@sonorasgirl The entire series has such interesting creatures, sadly a lot of them get little mention outside of obscure texts, in-game and out. If you’re interested, Camelworks, Fudgemuppet, and Drewmora are three great channels for Elder Scrolls lore. Camelworks actually made a video a while back about 10 obscure creatures and wow, even as a fan for over a decade I only knew about half of them lmao.
The Elder Scrolls is a great universe because the premise is basically "what if all the crazy shit people talk about in various historical documents actually happened?"
can´t Wait when Future Wildlife is featured here, if it will be featured here, Awesome job pal, hopeing to Release Future Wildlife next year, EDIT: Future Wildlife on RUclips is still a bit far away however started to make the family trees and i made a website.
I'd really like to know how the mammal descendants got past the "no green mammals" phenomenon. Symbiosis with algae? Specialized green light reflecting hairs?
@@JudgeNicodemus The algae is in fact beneficial to the sloths, since it provides camouflage with the jungle and recent research suggests that the sloths will supplement their diet with the nutrients from the algae. There is an entire ecosystem based around the algae. Also symbiotic relationships do not have to benefit both parties. Parasitism is still a form of symbiosis.
Humans can get green hair if they shower in an area where the water supply has copper contamination, though maybe I should have mentioned the more obvious green eyes.
I wish an artist recreated the flora of the book Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (in a distant future, plants have replaced all animals on Earth. Plants can fly, swim, and prey). A fascinating premise, and a great novel in my opinion.
The whole time I was thinking these designs looked too fantastical to be an honest spec. evo. project, but then at the end when I saw these are DnD compatible it all made sense. 😬
It's cute, but not very scientifically plausible, from the outdated notions arthropods are limited by oxygen intake (studies on Arthropleura show that was not the case) to hippos somehow surviving when most other mammals died out.
What would a world be like where humanity was extinguished by using nuclear weapons and the animals that survived evolved by radiation into new species?
Radiation does not cause evolution, it's usually straight up harmful and whatever mutations it causes would just make the organism ill and weak. A nuclear war with current arsenals wouldn't even make humanity extinct, much less influence evolution different than other mass extinctions.
You need to know the rules to be able to bend them. If you're going to create a fictional ecosystem with made up geography and geology you need to be able to get a feel for how life could sustain itself there and create a food chain from the bottom up. All of this under a consistent logic so it'll hold up under scrutiny and narratives can be built on it.
You know, through most of the video I kept thinking about how the creatures reminded me of the ones from DnD and I imagined them being the primitive ancestors of the rpg bestiary (for example, the flightless arboreal owl is reminiscent of the arboreal ancestors of bears, and the stalagmite snail could easily evolve to mimic the chests and containers found in dungeons, etc) I'm pleasantly surprised that I was on a similar wavelength to the author's
I'm not a huge fan of this one, the depictions of the animals are 'monsterified' and some of the mechanisms and evolutionary trajectories seem a little unbelievable but it's still cool 😎 🤷♂️. I'm a stickler for the ultra realistic spec projects 😅.
I really enjoy and admire the way you narrate your contents. The way you use words is just as engaging as the different worlds and creatures you feature on this channel. I'm such a huge fan of yours. Here's hoping for more great videos coming from you.
This did not really feel like speculative evolution and I like it but it felt way more like a "I'm making magical creatures" rather than an evolutional thing. I say this after seeing the bestiary without video as well.
Sea slug turning into something so fearsome from something so cute is super unexpected but totally something that happens alot Chickens are a reverse example
Taurachni is basically spidercrab from "The Witcher", which is reasonable, considering the fact that in the books some of the monsters are animals from alternate realities and Elves and Humans are aliens to Dwarves and Gnomes.
Too many of these projects are artistic in origin instead of being made by evolutionary biologists. Most of these folks would be better suited to making game supplements rather than trying to imagine realistic animals. This one in particular looks like a bunch of D&D monsters with weak evolutionary justifications. Edit: I spoke too soon. Maybe instead of trying to play scientist they should stick to D&D - they're _good_ at monster art.
No need for gatekeeping. Spec evo should be open for both artistic and scientific interpretations -- *you* just happen to prefer the latters, but they're always bound to be rarer since actual scientists tend to prefer, you know, actual scientific studies instead of speculative ones.
@@betulla96But the speculation makes no sense. The deer with camouflage chooses to run rather than freeze, and a freaking mollusk evolves limbs but decides to lose an eye, despite supposedly defending themselves by shooting pearls. How tf do they AIM With ONE EYE?
I am pretty sure alligators are still thriving in this future world. These things were living with dinosaurs and survived through today without significant change.
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I love the design and story of speculative evolution,the possibility seem endless and the creatures looks really cool.Wish I had the talent for something like this.Great work to the artist for this and thank you for covering this.
Fur tends to be associated with thermoregulation, so if a creature dwells within temperate latitudes then fur or some other insulating spur might be selected for.
There aren't many channels like Yours. As an artist, I get inspired in new ways with every new archive episode, and as a fan of the creepy and wonderful, I couldn't be more excited to see your takes on all these amazing topics. Great work as always! Much love
From one artist to another: be inspired to put actual science into your designs if you do a speculative biology series. There's no excuse, other people have done the work for you. Set a date, then ask: How far has the moon pulled away from earth? What are the continents doing? What is the suns luminosity? What catastrophic events have occurred between now and the date? Factor in the current extinction event and how that might affect life, just...do more work than dreaming up some bodies, attaching current animals to them, and giving them pokemon names.
I feel like every speculative biology project based on a future earth should just have crocodiles exactly as they are, don’t even draw a crocodile, just everyone who does it has to use the same stock image of a crocodile
hmm, the animal illustrations looks a bit overdesigned, even 'angry'...are these some kind of dungeon and dragon monsters? *goes through video's final part* oh it is
I also managed to turn calcium phosphate I obtained from my diet into some sort of teeth that I use to chew on my prey (the large land mollusc called pizza, preferably)
I think what the artist forgot about when making this was that invertebrates often take on crab-like forms when evolving too much, so there should be a lot of crab lookalikes after 80 million years
Actually no, firstly because a lineage can’t “evolve too much”. And secondly Carcinization only occurs in crustaceans. (Any arthropod with biramous limbs, antennae modified for feeding or locomotion, and a cephalothorax with a carapace.)
Hey Curious Archive ! It's woulb be great to have a serie of video about the video games univers Pikmin ! Because Pikmin games are set in a planet who is easily and obviousely revealed, even whithout any real line of dialogue, to be the Earth in the futur ! And all of the creatures in this franchise, like the eponys creatures, the Pikmins, woulb be a great topic and subjects to analysed and explained ! In any case, It woulb be fun and it's something I will be very exciting to see !
I would just like to point out the fact that if a hermit crab finds a shell that doesn't quite fit then it will sit and wait for another crab to ditch its old shell. This can result in massive conga lines of patient hermit crabs that play musical shells
Hello sir I have been asking about this for a while, but I was hoping you could check a game called Rain World. It is set in a world where a super advanced race of ancients have all died out, leaving behind all their structures to be reclaimed by nature. Much time has passed, and the ancients were masters of genetic tech. The purposed animals they created to perform various tasks roam the world and have evolved to the new environment, but the are also many bio-mechanical creatures still around from the time of the ancients, leading to many unique animals. I think you would find it quite interesting
I like how much these creatures would in place fantasy or video game esthetic, reality is alway either underwhelming or even more curious as most creatures would look more tamer or using beauty Or in adolescent a more adorable natural as most creatures tend to survive with a more likebale appearance
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I would LOVE to see a Curious Archive covering Nausicaä of the valley of the wind, (Preferably the manga since it has much more) it has such amazing and interesting creatures and landscape to be explored. I love your channel and watch all your videos, Thank you for all that you do dude ❤️.
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Movie looks cool, thanks.
I spent the whole ep thinking how cool this setting is for dnd, really excited to see that the creator thought of that
Omg you're right!
I was thinking the exact same thing hah
The Mollucite is already practically a Roper from the basic Monster Manual
Same Lol.
I mean one of them is practically a roper
I really like the kind of mix between a naturalistic element, and one of an air of whimsy and fantasy, really cool project! :D
Exactly what I thought
"What if Earth animals evolved into fantasy monsters?" turns out that would be really cool.
I do like how everything has a unique name. Far too often with these spec projects the names are just taking common names and jumbling them together like The Future Is Wild (Snow Stalker, Reef Glider, Garden Worm, ect.)
The Future is Wild was made for a wide TV audience, I think there's value in making the names easily understandable to everyone as well.
Snagrio just means that many spec evo projects use this kind of naming, with TFIW as an example.
We do that in real life too, though. Woodpecker, stingray, clouded leopard, etc.
Naming things in speculative evolution projects is quite an interesting challenge. Realistically, especially for these kinds where humans are long-gone, none of these creatures have a name. Most speculative biology rather features names of what humans would tend to call these creatures upon first sight and study of their behavior, this one, maybe in part due to the adaptation into a DnD setting as well, goes more for names you'd expect to be given if there was an indigenous civilization who has entire myths or cultures based around these creatures.
Unfortunately those names have more of a discernable naming pattern than these pokemon names. Solmundis? That just means sun-world or sun-earth. I think this chick was just throwing shit at a wall creatively.
These are some delightful speculative species. Something about the style of the illustrations makes me think of -D&D, I could easily see any of these creatures being in a Monster Manual or a Fiend Folio- Nevermind, I hadn't reached that bit of the video yet :p That's so rad!
I was thinking the same during the video... And then, BAM, ending.
I do love speculative biology, but I always feel like many of these projects suffer from over-fantasization. Like why does the snail relative on the thumbnail have one eye?
That's a good point. The speculative aquatic animals here are very non-hydrodynamic. I can't think of any good reasons for streamlined swimming animals to evolve in a way that would actively hinder their movement through water.
Because it’s fun and looks cool
I feel the same way. I enjoy it but I can't help but wonder why snails would evolve arms and legs
Barrel eye fish exist and I thought it was fake when I heard about it back in my high school days. A species of creature with toes over time and many generations, evolved to have singular hooves on basically one finger for each foot. I wouldn't be so closed minded, although I can't think of any reason why there would be such a specific environmental pressure that would break the bilateral symmetry of eyes for snails.
@@littlewolfyzapling8810that’s not the point of speculative biology;-;
Damn, the creatures of Sol'Kesh all sound incredible! I especially like the looks of the Calitross and the Gharril too.
Speculative future animals are so fun to read about
I don't know how the artist behind this managed to make a world so connected to our own still feel like it's from another planet, but I'm really digging it.
4:37 It's Australia!
Well dinosaurs feel like they are from another planet :)
If you like this check out "all future tomorrows"
Doing your home work on existence will do that
As much as I enjoy speculative evolution, I’m a bit confused as to how some of the most endangered creatures today, like pangolins and coral species, survived the Anthropocene when people clearly didn’t.
Might have been something that was disease like? That would do it.
Yeah, coral is especially unbelievable given how sensitive it is to the slightest environmental changes. However I think this is still a fantastic project overall.
I love this project but I do agree. I also think it's unlikely for other phyla to dominate if this amount of mammals survived as mammals are already land adapted
maybe humans came onto their senses and committed (redacted) before it was too late? who knows
@@cerberaodollam lmaoo, they all joined the VHEMT movement
This feels way more like wildly whimsical creature design than strait speculative evolution
Exactly. It was very hard for me to see how most of these creatures evolved from current ones. I think this project would had make more sense taking place in some other planet
Weirdly the species that bothers me the most is the “Frondilli”. Apparently they are a descendant, or relative of deer; and they use their modified mandible to feed on sap from trees. Weather sap is a good source of energy at all aside, why didn’t they evolve to repurpose their antlers to help feed on sap? Even if the ancestors of the Frondilli didn’t have, or lost their antlers, wouldn’t they evolve antlers anyways as a result of parallel evolution?
@@Diloparker Pretty sure she was just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. I hope that huge mammal dwarfing trees had hollow bones, it's like she doesn't even know size/gravity variables. No mention of atmospheric changes and the effects that would have on the morphology of organisms. Also, even with low gravity which the planet absolutely would not have by that point, that squid evolution would topple easily with that build. She's also making the mistake of making all her creations "look alien" by leaning into reptilian/amphibian or insectoid/molluscoid designs too heavily.
@@kilderok Yea, I guess the issue is that speculative evolution to most people isn’t about “what if?”, but rather “wouldn’t it be cool if.” As pointed out by the Unnatural history channel on RUclips.
I think that’s what the channels name is called.
(Edit: yeah just looked it up, that’s what the channels name is called.)
I can believe th3se anima1 can exist on earth mamals evolued from reptile like creatures.
Is it just me, is anyone else kinda bothered by the fact that almost the entire bestiary is exclusively about big scary killer monsters?
I mean, it's a bit unrealistic that an ecosystem can be comprised entirely out of big huge monsters. What, no prey animals? No decomposers?
@@smeggiamagarwine well who tf drew them then
What’s the justification for everything, regardless of order, having a sharp jaw? Feels weird but they look cool!
I love these videos. They’re perfect for me. They talk about fantasy AND animals. I love them, thanks CA!
Yes, only fantasy,wake up, all this is a fantasy,so you can be sleep and not know the truth, dinosaurs and humans where living at the same time, there is proof, search for the truth,just don't believe what ever in school teaches,because is just theories, there are human prints and dinosaurs prints at the same time,paintings about people riding dinosaurs and the creator of the paintings never heard of dinosaurs before,why is that, because the earth is not that super old that those indoctrinated people teach,no proof at all for what they are talking about.
It’s speculative biology but I’ll admit it seems rather unrealistic and more like fantasy as this seems like something that would take place on a different planet
Its not that I dislike these designs, but they feel too fantasy for me to fully immerse myself into envisioning these as future earth creatures.
Yeah they feel a bit to fantasy like
Yeah, they look very fantasy. Would've been better if the artist were I spired by prehistoric mammals a bit more. Alien, but still evolutionary probable.
Author is kinda fixated on "spearing", despite it rarely appears in nature...
I love your channel. I wish someone did this same thing as a David Attenborough sleep podcast, it'd be amazing.
@@Prime501 will definitely check it out thank you
I love this channel to
What an amazing birthday present - Curious Archive uploading yet another awesome speculative biology summary. I really enjoyed your video on Simon stålenhag's ''Loop'' series. So much, in fact, that I've asked for both "Tales From The Loop" and "The Labyrinth" for Christmas. Seriously love the stiff that you put out here and thank you for unintentionally making my 19th just that bit sweeter :)
Happy birthday, mate! 19 is a great age, lots of fond memories.
Happy birthday! Getting closer and closer to death! How exciting! Seriously though, happy b-day.
Happy birthday!!
What a beautiful art-style and interesting creatures. You should probably check out the highly- detailed and fairly new imaginative biology project of Bennta by the Hybrid Fox.
I love how the artist listed the ecological niche of each creature as if they were Pokemon types
Love this--cool art & project, and as always, CA, amazing video! You are the best.
You should definitely do a series on Pandora the world of Avatar. Especially now everyone will like it!
I don’t know if you’d ever be interested, but a video/series on The Elder Scrolls could be super interesting. Creatures like Guar, Netches, Ice Wraiths, and Grummites (if you count Daedra) would be super cool to see looked at in your style!
Yeah - I know Morrowind doesn’t look good compared to modern graphics, but it had interesting animals
@@sonorasgirl The entire series has such interesting creatures, sadly a lot of them get little mention outside of obscure texts, in-game and out. If you’re interested, Camelworks, Fudgemuppet, and Drewmora are three great channels for Elder Scrolls lore. Camelworks actually made a video a while back about 10 obscure creatures and wow, even as a fan for over a decade I only knew about half of them lmao.
@@Patch2112 ooooh thank you! I’ll check it out
The Elder Scrolls is a great universe because the premise is basically "what if all the crazy shit people talk about in various historical documents actually happened?"
@@hedgehog3180HELL YEAH
I know they're supposed to be seen as huge creatures but I like imagining them as the same size as their ancestors
It didn’t say more most i think. Could be small.
Lmao I loved that
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I would adore a deep dive into the species of Pikmin! (Probably Pikmin 3 because it looks the most natural)
I personally love you videos, it's just calm. No catchy thumbnails, no puns, no hyperactive voice.
Yeah. The only video that he makes jokes is the leg number video
I wish he made a lil more jokes tbh like once every other video
It would be fantastic for Curious Archive to cover my favourite book series, Stormlight Archive, the flora and fauna are so cool.
yall maybe they dont have to be accurate to be cool and interesting
I really don't think snails can evolve into something like that in 80 million years.
Shutup.
Yeah, mollusks have never evolved like that is the past millions of years ...
@@helmaschine1885 Yeah seems like a bit of a stretch. (Btw the shutup comment above you was from when I replied to a bot)
can´t Wait when Future Wildlife is featured here, if it will be featured here,
Awesome job pal, hopeing to Release Future Wildlife next year,
EDIT:
Future Wildlife on RUclips is still a bit far away however started to make the family trees and i made a website.
This dimension is truly bizarre, but it's beautiful in the same sense.
Attempt #6
*Pretty please do a video for the creatures from "Made in Abyss".*
In addition to eyes, what other photoreceptor organs could develop species from other planets?
Heat sensors detect infrared light and are present on some snakes.
Honestly, this is one of my favorite channels to watch
he sounds like the burger king foot lettuce guy if he was a nerd
This is easily my favorite art showcase on this channel
I'd really like to know how the mammal descendants got past the "no green mammals" phenomenon. Symbiosis with algae? Specialized green light reflecting hairs?
Do sloths count?
@@fionagibson7529 it's not symbiosis. They're just a solid surface for algae.
@@JudgeNicodemus The algae is in fact beneficial to the sloths, since it provides camouflage with the jungle and recent research suggests that the sloths will supplement their diet with the nutrients from the algae. There is an entire ecosystem based around the algae.
Also symbiotic relationships do not have to benefit both parties. Parasitism is still a form of symbiosis.
@@fionagibson7529 huh, never really thought of it that way. Nice, thanks for the lesson. :)
Humans can get green hair if they shower in an area where the water supply has copper contamination, though maybe I should have mentioned the more obvious green eyes.
I wish an artist recreated the flora of the book Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (in a distant future, plants have replaced all animals on Earth. Plants can fly, swim, and prey). A fascinating premise, and a great novel in my opinion.
This is basically making your own pokemon region with fakemon nd a complete pokedex lol
The whole time I was thinking these designs looked too fantastical to be an honest spec. evo. project, but then at the end when I saw these are DnD compatible it all made sense. 😬
It's cute, but not very scientifically plausible, from the outdated notions arthropods are limited by oxygen intake (studies on Arthropleura show that was not the case) to hippos somehow surviving when most other mammals died out.
Sick vid!gonna watch it!keep up the good work!
What would a world be like where humanity was extinguished by using nuclear weapons and the animals that survived evolved by radiation into new species?
Idk prolly non existent since radiation just kills animals, but it’s a good idea.
Radiation does not cause evolution, it's usually straight up harmful and whatever mutations it causes would just make the organism ill and weak. A nuclear war with current arsenals wouldn't even make humanity extinct, much less influence evolution different than other mass extinctions.
I have a question, do you think we need to study in biology to be good at making our own speculative zoology?
You need to know the rules to be able to bend them. If you're going to create a fictional ecosystem with made up geography and geology you need to be able to get a feel for how life could sustain itself there and create a food chain from the bottom up. All of this under a consistent logic so it'll hold up under scrutiny and narratives can be built on it.
You know, through most of the video I kept thinking about how the creatures reminded me of the ones from DnD and I imagined them being the primitive ancestors of the rpg bestiary (for example, the flightless arboreal owl is reminiscent of the arboreal ancestors of bears, and the stalagmite snail could easily evolve to mimic the chests and containers found in dungeons, etc)
I'm pleasantly surprised that I was on a similar wavelength to the author's
Kind of strange, that so many Arthropods independently eveolve a improved breathing system. XD other than that pretty nice
I'm not a huge fan of this one, the depictions of the animals are 'monsterified' and some of the mechanisms and evolutionary trajectories seem a little unbelievable but it's still cool 😎 🤷♂️.
I'm a stickler for the ultra realistic spec projects 😅.
5:20 That is not a lungless salamander, that is a fire salamander.
I love how 80 million years have passed and pangolins still kinda look like someone who's just looking for their glasses
I really enjoy and admire the way you narrate your contents. The way you use words is just as engaging as the different worlds and creatures you feature on this channel. I'm such a huge fan of yours. Here's hoping for more great videos coming from you.
I absolutely LOVE your channel. This is honestly the channel I look forward to the most when you post new content.
Who ever sees this will have a good life😀
Other animals: I fight back by slashing, biting or using my claws
Gharril: I CAST GUN
PLEASE have a look at Bibliarions Tira project!
I don't really have a fear of spiders, but the Taurachni is just a big ol' nope.
Speculative evolution is fully a treat
This did not really feel like speculative evolution and I like it but it felt way more like a "I'm making magical creatures" rather than an evolutional thing. I say this after seeing the bestiary without video as well.
Since the bestiary is ever expanding, will you do a part 2 in the future?
Sea slug turning into something so fearsome from something so cute is super unexpected but totally something that happens alot
Chickens are a reverse example
Taurachni is basically spidercrab from "The Witcher", which is reasonable, considering the fact that in the books some of the monsters are animals from alternate realities and Elves and Humans are aliens to Dwarves and Gnomes.
I would be really cool if you were to make a video covering the spiders for Children of time
Would love to see you cover Keenan Taylor's world of Kaimere.
Keep up the great work
I think an archive on Runaway To The Stars would be incredible. The thought the creator has put into the biology of the universe is amazing
Too many of these projects are artistic in origin instead of being made by evolutionary biologists. Most of these folks would be better suited to making game supplements rather than trying to imagine realistic animals. This one in particular looks like a bunch of D&D monsters with weak evolutionary justifications.
Edit: I spoke too soon. Maybe instead of trying to play scientist they should stick to D&D - they're _good_ at monster art.
No need for gatekeeping. Spec evo should be open for both artistic and scientific interpretations -- *you* just happen to prefer the latters, but they're always bound to be rarer since actual scientists tend to prefer, you know, actual scientific studies instead of speculative ones.
@@betulla96But the speculation makes no sense. The deer with camouflage chooses to run rather than freeze, and a freaking mollusk evolves limbs but decides to lose an eye, despite supposedly defending themselves by shooting pearls. How tf do they AIM With ONE EYE?
According to this work, given enough time everything turns into dragons…
As it fucking should.
I am pretty sure alligators are still thriving in this future world. These things were living with dinosaurs and survived through today without significant change.
Amigo no se si tan solo leas esto pero me encantaria q doblaran tus videos al español seria bacan para la gente como yo q disfruta tu contenido pero no ablamos ingles 😢.Sigue asi crak
I love the design and story of speculative evolution,the possibility seem endless and the creatures looks really cool.Wish I had the talent for something like this.Great work to the artist for this and thank you for covering this.
Great comment😊
For some reason I think there is a possibility that bats will rule the sky replace birds in the future
Loved this one! Thanks for keeping up the good job! :)
is an alien species more likely to develop scales or to develop fur?
Depends on what planet your alien race is native to.
Fur tends to be associated with thermoregulation, so if a creature dwells within temperate latitudes then fur or some other insulating spur might be selected for.
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Dear God, it's Jocat
i want to hear this guy read "#15 burger king foot lettuce. The last thing you want in your burger king burger is someone else's foot fungus"
I NEED THAT
When will you continue doing videos about *SERINA: WORLD OF BIRDS* ??
There aren't many channels like Yours. As an artist, I get inspired in new ways with every new archive episode, and as a fan of the creepy and wonderful, I couldn't be more excited to see your takes on all these amazing topics. Great work as always! Much love
From one artist to another: be inspired to put actual science into your designs if you do a speculative biology series. There's no excuse, other people have done the work for you. Set a date, then ask: How far has the moon pulled away from earth? What are the continents doing? What is the suns luminosity? What catastrophic events have occurred between now and the date? Factor in the current extinction event and how that might affect life, just...do more work than dreaming up some bodies, attaching current animals to them, and giving them pokemon names.
@@kilderok or maybe, and hear me out... just have fun with it? what a concept, really
i wouldnt say its a cosmic blink, the mesozoic lasted a substantial amount of time even from the pov of deep time.
So many predators. What do they all eat?
I feel like every speculative biology project based on a future earth should just have crocodiles exactly as they are, don’t even draw a crocodile, just everyone who does it has to use the same stock image of a crocodile
hmm, the animal illustrations looks a bit overdesigned, even 'angry'...are these some kind of dungeon and dragon monsters?
*goes through video's final part*
oh it is
I also managed to turn calcium phosphate I obtained from my diet into some sort of teeth that I use to chew on my prey (the large land mollusc called pizza, preferably)
This is so fantasy-like. Love it!
Wait a minute, Lancelets are already a thing. They're a clade of chordate closely related to Vertebrates, a lot like a modern day Pikaia.
Tales of kaimere should be covered on this channel
I wonder if the Murrow are named after the gaelic ''Merrow', an arcane mer-like person or spirit.
Nothing beats a classic Curious Archive Spec Evo video
This is so cool! Funnily enough, Lancelets are real creatures too, they're just small, fish-like, primitive vertebrates.
You should definitely do a series on Pandora the world of Avatar. Especially now everyone will like it!
I love to see you cover Trevor Henderson Wildlife too or even Cloverfield
The game The Eternal Cylinder seems right up your alley.
I think what the artist forgot about when making this was that invertebrates often take on crab-like forms when evolving too much, so there should be a lot of crab lookalikes after 80 million years
Actually no, firstly because a lineage can’t “evolve too much”. And secondly Carcinization only occurs in crustaceans. (Any arthropod with biramous limbs, antennae modified for feeding or locomotion, and a cephalothorax with a carapace.)
Hey Curious Archive !
It's woulb be great to have a serie of video about the video games univers Pikmin !
Because Pikmin games are set in a planet who is easily and obviousely revealed, even whithout any real line of dialogue, to be the Earth in the futur !
And all of the creatures in this franchise, like the eponys creatures, the Pikmins, woulb be a great topic and subjects to analysed and explained !
In any case, It woulb be fun and it's something I will be very exciting to see !
It's more like fantasy that a speculative evolution
Imagine a world where everything is some sort of hermit crab, nothing makes the shells they're just there
I would just like to point out the fact that if a hermit crab finds a shell that doesn't quite fit then it will sit and wait for another crab to ditch its old shell. This can result in massive conga lines of patient hermit crabs that play musical shells
so there's a big spider that needs lots of oxygen in the deepest depths of caves...
hun....
Hello sir I have been asking about this for a while, but I was hoping you could check a game called Rain World. It is set in a world where a super advanced race of ancients have all died out, leaving behind all their structures to be reclaimed by nature. Much time has passed, and the ancients were masters of genetic tech. The purposed animals they created to perform various tasks roam the world and have evolved to the new environment, but the are also many bio-mechanical creatures still around from the time of the ancients, leading to many unique animals. I think you would find it quite interesting
Animals 80 Million years in the future:
Pokemon: Allow us to introduce ourselves
I like how much these creatures would in place fantasy or video game esthetic, reality is alway either underwhelming or even more curious as most creatures would look more tamer or using beauty Or in adolescent a more adorable natural as most creatures tend to survive with a more likebale appearance
I. Want. More. Sol. Kesh