Chapter 3 Ancient Species
The temperature outside the vehicle was too high, and some of the bushes with red fruits, and the leaves that should have been dark green were sunburned and yellowed.
Some strange looking horse-like herbivores, but with two tails, were gnawing on the fruit of the bushes, trying to moisten their smoking mouths with the pitiful moisture.
They are tall, muscular, and hilarious with long ears on their heads, and a large herd of thousands of horses, running very fast on all fours, and they can be seen as free and social animals.
Adult "horses" can grow to about two meters tall, thousands of years ago before the development of technology, was tamed by people, become an indispensable good companion for long-distance travel, until the rapid development of science and technology in modern times, slowly faded out of people's sight.
As mentioned before, the world has embarked on a fork in the road in terms of species evolution due to different ecological environments, but the general direction is the same, with strange plants, animals of different shapes, birds, insects, and snakes crawling on the sand also slowly evolved from ancient times.
As for the birth of strange beings that are unknown for the time being, such as a girl with a tail, such as an evil young man, etc., it starts with an incident more than 2,000 years ago......
The SUV drove along the straight road to a wilderness with sparse bushes, the engine roaring and the exhaust pipe at the rear of the car emitting black smoke.
After driving a little further, the surrounding scenery was different from the desert just now, the vegetation began to increase, and even a lake could be seen, which was originally the central area of the lake, the water level dropped a lot, and the edge was exposed with white salt blocks.
A sturdy bison with three horns was rolling in the mud by the lake to lower its body temperature and get rid of dead skin and parasites, and its companions were not far away, and many of them were covered with dirty mud that had not yet been dried in the sun, and they had stepped on dense hoof footprints on the soft ground.
The area is sparsely populated, so it's a haven for wildlife, and along the way, the little girl in the passenger seat meets a lot of strange creatures that she has never seen in the East City.
She was staring at the bison wallowing in the mud, when suddenly a very large animal with an extraordinarily long neck stretched its head out of the water!
The other triangular bison on the shore hurriedly fled from the lake, if someone is in mid-air at the moment, can see a long neck, long tail of the black shadow, bite the bison in the mouth and swim away, a nearly ton of cattle was easily dragged into the water by it, it can be seen that the strength is very strong, from the beginning to the tail of the length, about 16 meters.
The little girl was frightened, and her face was full of consternation, and her father also saw the thing, and smiled and said, "Have you seen this thing in the documentary?"
It is a terrestrial plesiosaur, the number of wild groups is already very small, and they are all strictly protected by the government, no wonder there is a water source nearby, but no one lives there, and it is estimated that it has been set up as a protected area.
In the past, there were more ancient dragons, but over the years they have become fewer and fewer, and the dragons tens of meters tall live in zoos, and if they are not protected, they may disappear from our planet in a few hundred years. ”
"Well, there are textbook patterns for it, and there is also a marine plesiosaur that now lives in the ocean, and is about twice as large as them, the largest can grow up to forty meters.
The teacher told us that the climate was no longer suitable for them, and that many people were secretly hunting and selling the meat and bones of these dinosaurs, and that they must be protected. ”
The little girl nodded and said seriously, at her age when she had just begun to know the world, the image and status of the teacher were still very high.
In this world, as early as billions of years ago, there were organisms in the Archean period, and the evolution and development process was basically the same as that of the earth, about 500 million years ago, marine invertebrates and various primitive algae appeared, and after another two or three hundred million years, various terrestrial plants and terrestrial animals began to develop.
After a long evolution, huge dinosaurs and birds appeared to dominate the planet during that period, but the difference is that the planet was not hit by a giant asteroid tens of millions of years ago, so they still exist today, and various mammals, including human ancestors, have been their food for a long time.
It wasn't until tens of thousands of years ago that humans learned to use tools and fight them with the help of various weapons, traps, etc., that the good days of those ancient giant beasts came to an end.
Also 10,000 years ago, in order to survive, the ancestors of human beings mobilized groups to exterminate these terrible creatures, so they tirelessly launched a "egg stealing operation" for hundreds of years, this poisonous plan to cut off children and grandchildren, almost wiped out all the dinosaurs on land, according to historians' estimates, the number of dinosaurs at that time dropped by at least 90 percent!
In modern times, they have become an endangered species, more than 80% of dinosaur species, have been extinct in 10,000 years, especially in the past 4,000 years, only more than 1,000 remaining, with the evolution of species, some have been captive by humans into food, such as the ubiquitous dinosaur in restaurants, they grow fast, and the meat tastes good, is the main poultry species on this planet.
Some herbivorous dinosaurs, such as the shield-like Triceratops and the docile avianthosaurus, have been tamed for tens of thousands of years and are widely found in various pastures, and there are some cute evolutionary species that are kept as pets, such as a furry, hairball-like Bobo bird, which is not cheap.
It's a very spectacular and strange planet, people have become accustomed to their presence, and now that countries are protecting them, poaching still happens.
The off-road vehicle passed by the lake, there were no roads, and the speed was not too fast, and after a few hours it approached the towering mountains, at the foot of which was a green meadow and meltwater from the mountains that merged into a small stream.
A large number of animals are distributed on it, even including a five-story tall behemoth, and other animals are far away from it, for fear of being accidentally trampled to death, this is a fat dragon, the name is fat dragon, because it is really fat, and its face is full of meat.
The bangs who were driving, looking at the mountain at the moment, looked obviously a little melancholy, and said to his daughter: "Get out of the car, let's walk over."
Don't look at the grass growing in front of you, in fact, there is a piece of quicksand underneath, Dad is carrying you on his back, and if you are not careful, you will be buried, you look at those animals, they don't dare to come here......"