If a Pokémon-type game was based on this, would you play?

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to give you an idea of what they look like

sure

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>>25904266
>>25904294
>>25904308
>>25904315

What was this author smoking?

Yeeeeesss

>>25904315
>>25904308
Not "Man After Man" just "After Man"

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What about All Tomorrows?

>>25904294
would be better if i could read that shit

>>25904557
Manémon

>>25904561
Would send a link, but the site thinks I'm spam.
Just search 'After Man Sivatherium' and you should be fine

>>25904266
Great thread idea, OP.

Read Dougal Dixon's Man After Man. Great fucking read. It's a fictional "story" about a hypothetical future of Earth, but perfectly depicts how adaptations and evolution occur. It explores morality and other cool shit like that too. I think you can find the whole book online. Google it.

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After Man is great.

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>>25904308
>>25904315
Are these from the man responsible for this?

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>>25904602
>>25904617
>>25904629

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>>25904629
Don't forget this!

>>25904641
It was these memes that led me to reading Man After Man. Too funny.

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Diximon, gotta make 'em all!

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>>25904699
pure gold

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>>25904587
Why thank you, anon.

Wouldn't it be cool if star nosed moles evolved to even further rely on their nose and it became an even more complex organ? Like, moles that don't move much and instead send their flesh whiskers out to sense worms. Maybe even have them be sticky and catch worms like that. Or a mole that basically has a pair of hands on its face.

>>25904753
Okay Dougal Dixon, we get it.

>>25904753
If, for example, complex life was found on another planet, it is really likely biologically that some of the creatures would have limbs on their face as it is very efficient in gathering and consuming food quickly.

>>25904324
What this author/illustrator was going to make UNTIL DIXON FUCKING PLAGIARIZED IT, the fucker.

>>25904777
But, like, raccoons man. They have unbelievably sensitive and deft hands. Imagine a giant, man eating raccoon. Those things can pick locks, you know? Man sized raccoons that can break into your home and eat you.

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>>25904753
There's a japanese book about an island of rodents that adapted to use their noses like limbs. It's pretty goofy but a nice read.

>>25904783
You mean like this?

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>>25904783
>another planet

But we already have that on earth.
Squid and octopodes also have their tentacles around their mouth.

>>25904831
I know. That's how scientists theorized this. I was just stating it for the layman who thinks of animals as just dogs and shit.

>>25904831
Too bad we don't explore the deepest oceans..

>>25904783
>it is really likely biologically that some of the creatures would have limbs on their face
One: There is no certainty that limbs on face would happen, it's only speculation.
Two: Would they even have what we know as a face?

>>25904850
>There is no certainty that limbs on face would happen
Yeah, that's why I said it's LIKELY, not for certain.

>would they even have what we know as a face
It's equally likely that life forms would not be dissimilar to what we have on Earth. Eyes, limbs, mouth, etc.

>>25904266
>>25904294

Holy shit I remember reading this as a child. I'd forgotten it even existed until now.

>>25904883
It's so unsettling for some reason.

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>>25904888
It gets better/worse. Just google speculative biology or evolution.

>>25904906
Those things were on that discovery channel special. Probably the last time Discovery Channel was good and not 99% reality shows revolving around finding gold or alligators or whatever meme shit they churn out now.

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Speaking of this shit, do any of you remember that weird ass speculative evolution show, The Future is Wild?
That was fucking the sickest shit

>>25904934
"The Future is Wild" was my fucking jam when that was on.

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>>25904934
Here here!

>yfw a future gen has four or more pokemon based on After Man creatures because Japan loves it

>>25904934
Yeah and IIRC, Dougal Dixon was (one of) the creature consultants.

>>25904958
fuck off
>filtered

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>>25904934
Shit was awesome. I bet it inspired a lot of artists.

>>25904308
All these niggos leaching of off a prosperous whiteman

disgusting

>>25904934

Inferior to After Man, New Dinos and Man After Man in every single way (though a MegaMalamar inspired a Megasquid would be cool)

I think Primeval was about that too.

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>>25904793
Dixon didn't plagiarize it. The artist who worked on it did. He was planning to use that title for a sequel to After Man, where people travel 50 mil years into the future and screw everything up. That idea eventually became Greenworld

>>25904990
>new dinos superior to anything
HURRRR LET'S TURN DINOSAURS INTO MODERN ANIMALS BECAUSE THAT'S HOW BIOLOGICAL NICHES WORK.

>>25905018
I hope some day I could get a copy of greenworld.

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>>25904934
>The most intelligent creatures are squid
>Spiders raise small mammals as Livestock
>Fish now fly and take the place of birds

That was a good show

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>>25905031
You can. You just need an Amazon Japan account.

>>25904906
>>25904921

I remember that documentary. Pretty enjoyable. It was also the first time I was introduced to Michio Kaku. The guy is eloquent, and loves to think big, but he's a little out-there.

>>25905070
You forgot
>a species of slimemold disguises itself as fruit so that a Megasquid can eat it and then it takes control of the creature in order for it to travel

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>>25905121
>Hopping snail

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>>25905018

>>25905167
>nope

>>25905190
theyre fake idiot

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>>25905186

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>>25904934
>tfw no ocean phantom pokemon

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Who /sharkopath/ here?

>>25905186
>>25905196
The artist was Philip Hood. Also, Dixon himself called the project a "disaster."

>>25905217
Why? Sauce?

>>25905217
Darren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology had an interview with him. The whole thing's on Scientific American. Also, there are a few images done by Dixon himself, a rare find.

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>>25904982
Then the space-aryans eat the whitemen.
Checkmate

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>>25905215
I do.

More of a Spink man myself.

The documentary some of you are talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzPEpHYtXQ

>mfw no balloon robot waifu

>>25905341
I always thought they were calls Sfinks. Huh. But I have to concede.

>>25905343
And the one you aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMxIFZNx1YY [Embed]

>>25904722
I love this idea

>>25905368
>no balloon waifus

One job.

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>>25905343

>wasting this time trying to find alien life

>we have all the tools necessary to engineer life on other planets and be the genesis of a living universe

Why search for friends when you can CREATE them?

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>>25905401
That's kind of creepy..

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>>25905401

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>>25905401
>that art style

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>>25904266
Totally Pokemon material right here, guys.

>>25905401
>this exists

>>25905440
>Machamp IRL

>>25905401
DELETE THIS

>>25905441
>deviantart
Be glad I didn't use the other one.

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>>25905401
Well, we're done. That's why we can't have nice things in here.

>>25905471
post it

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>>25905488
>THIS
>EXISTS

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>>25905488
Heh. That's actually better than the other one since I burst into laughter the moment I enlarged the picture.

That's not saying much though.

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>>25905488
AAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

NIGGA WHYYYYYYY

>>25905488
why am i surprised, of course this exists

OP here.
Have I gone from Helix to Dome?
(Posted both pics, btw)
Also
>>25905541
Godammit Carlos

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>>25905578
>Have I gone from Helix to Dome?

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>>25905587
Gonna haf'ta edumacate ya

"In the beginning' there were two gods, Lord Helix and the Domed One. One wished to rule all with a democracy, while the other with sweet anarchy."
Tl;dr
Have I gone from God to Devil

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>>25905619
Uuuuhhh

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>>25905619
Oh, cancerous fucking tumblr memes. Gotcha. Please leave.

>>25905619
honey you really shouldn't've done that

>Go to the pokemon board
>Asks if they would play a pokemon game

mom, my thread will be so popular !

>>25905674
>>25905670
>>25905678
Sorry, new here.

>>25905683
we know. and since you are clearly either underage or autistic it's in everyone's best interest that you shush and let the thread happen

>>25905703
I knew something like this would probably happen sooner or later. Just turned out to be sooner.

>>25905488
>"Probe" Balboa
Dare I ask what makes Balboa special?

>>25905730
Don't really know. It did crash during the initial landing and they did investigate.

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>>25904266
Dougal Dixon is GOAT

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>>25905766
Whoa, that is aesthetic as fuck. Pretty hard right now.

>>25905765
wait you mean the hypothetical landing right or am i missing the whole idea of the project

>>25905766
yeah that's pretty much a pokemon already. what type would it be?

i say normal/rock, cuz of the "bone" theme

>>25905802
>normal/rock
I say "fuck you"

>>25905766
What is this thing? A dinosaur? A weird future mammal?

>>25905792
Yes, the hypothetical landing. Had to make it realistic in some sense.

>>25905810
It is the Monocorn, a Quarternary ceratopsid from The New Dinosaurs

>>25905810
someone's grumpy. what's wrong with normal/rock aside from the archaic taboo? and no, the 4x fighting weakness is not a bad thing.

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>>25905833
>no, the 4x fighting weakness is not a bad thing

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>>25905766
he's pretty hit and miss. He comes up with some rad concepts and artwork, but he doesn't seem to have avery good grasp on how evolution works. He's convinced birds evolved from longisquama instead of dinosaurs.
his work in the future is wild was pretty weird, too. Gannetwhales were the worst part. in just 5 million years gannets evolved to be
>completely flightless
>fuckhuge
>aquatic and seal-like
with no explenation to how or why.

and also this thing

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>>25905857
>no explanation to how or why
Copyright issues. Would've been penguins otherwise

>>25905721
hey man don't worry about it
4chan tough dudes just want to be assholes because they don't feel like they fit in otherwise
post whatever you want, that's what 4chan is about
not some compulsive need to fit in because of the anonymous hivemind

>>25905882
that was his fucking book

I could buy gannets becoming more penguin like and eventually more seal-like, but give it more than 5 million years at least.

>>25905915
that's pretty bad advice

here's some: just don't be a faggot

>>25905802
Bone attacks are ground type.

>>25905766
Pure dinosaurian Steel-type.

>>25905923
Yeah this. For the most part what you do doesn't matter but "lord helix" stuff is pretty faggy.

>>25905919
His book, but Dreamworks had the rights to it, but never used it. Was later given to Paramount and isn't being used. Though a Future is Wild movie produced by Warner Bros may be in the works

BBC DOCUMENTARY HELMED BY DOUGAL DIXON ABOUT A WORLD WHERE DINOSAURS DIDN'T GET WIPED OUT BY A METEOR WHEN?

>>25905923
>>25905940

translation: please don't post what I don't like

>>25905981
No. There are objectively stupid and awful things that are gay and bad, like your existence.

>>25905882
damn these are really neat

>>25905957
>not a world where the permian extinction never occurred
He's already done dinosaurs, I want to see synapsids.

>>25905994
No there aren't. What's your problem?

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The French have recently released a book on this matter

sivatherium dot narod dot ru slash library slash Dixon underscore 2 slash 00 underscore en dot htm

"The New Dinosaurs" by Dougal Dixon, you're welcome

>>25905999
Imagine going further back.
What if placoderms took over instead of tetrapodomorphic fish

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>>25906070
>Hey baby, nice armor!

I remember four years ago there were people here that insisted Garchomp was actually based on the sandshark in this book

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>>25906107
How does one come to such an odd conclusion

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>>25906137
Sorry, wrong section.

>>25906137
>>25906149
Dunno
But it was even on bulbapedia
that's what got me to get the book, and then i found the sandshark and got kind'a disappointed other than that, the book is great

>>25904934
>Future Is Wild and After Man in the same thread
Tonight's a great fucking night

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>>25906267
Currently listening to this and reading "The New Dinosaurs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1_wnREGllg&nohtml5=False

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>>25906291
I didn't even know there was an official soundtrack holy shit. Thank you based anon

http://speculativeevolution.wikia.com/wiki/Speculative_Dinosaur_Project

New Dinosaurs, only much more detailed (now out-dated though)

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>>25906302
>18:00

>>25905994
>>25906009
There aren't any "objective opinions"
but there are memes that will only cause shit here, they are for the most part agreed to be crappy, and there's no point in using them anyways, so there's still no point in bringing up helix stuff like that

>>25907006
>There aren't any "objective opinions"
I agree. It's simply a fact that you're a faggot.

>>25904324
Science.

>real life deserts will never be infested with sand sharks

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>>25907101
>dinosaurs will never EVER be real again
Probably an even bigger feel than my failure of a life.

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>>25905857

>>25907117
>>dinosaurs will never EVER be real again
Dinosaurs are real, were real, and will never not be real.
There are literally thousands of living dinosaur species.

>>25907148
birds =/= dinosaurs

That's like saying reptiles are mammals. Maybe to not that great of an extent, but birds are far removed from dinosaurs.

>>25907162
>birds are far removed from dinosaurs.
They are nestled firmly within them.

>>25904824
damn I wish I could find a pdf of this

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>>25905389

We should just transplant forms of life found on Earth onto other planets capable of supporting them and see what happens. Like molds, and cockroaches. What could go wrong?

>>25907162
From a biological standpoints, birds are literally dinosaurs.
To pretend they aren't is like saying humans aren't mammals.

>>25905619

>Twitch Plays Pokemon is already two years old.

>>25907204
taxonomically, aren't they a sprout of ornithischians? putting them in the same family? similar to the relationship genetically between dolphins/whales?

>>25907162
It's more like saying humans are primates. Which we are.

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>>25907217
>aren't they a sprout of ornithischians?

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>>25907221
>stopman
you know where that comes from dont you anon?

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>>25907231

>>25907217
To a modern scientist, an animal is a dinosaur if it is a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. The size or era or shape of the animal doesn't matter. So by that definition, birds are literally dinosaurs.
It's like how elephants and whales are mammals, despite being so different from the first little rat-like mammals.

>>25907217
Yes.

>>25907280
>Yes.
See >>25907221

>>25907289
Elaborate.

>>25907293
>ornithischians

>>25904934
Got the full box set, shit's cash even if it's not very accurate.
Honestly most of the creatures are so goofy and out there that they remind me of Pikmin enemies more than anything. Could totally see something like >>25904957 in a Pikmin game.

Anyone here read All Yesterdays or Cryptozoologicon?

>>25905721
Dude Fuck 'em. Still save god Helix Memes myself, and they're posted fairly regularly on here. If you're gonna be on 4chan just be prepared to here a lot of hot button words like 'autistic', 'edgy', and 'newfag'. They're just trying to be badasses because they're are bitches IRL

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>>25905766
Im thinking Steel/Rock?

>>25905802
>>25907751
Oops, replied to the wrong guy

>>25905857
this guy gets it

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>>25905957
Trust me, there's a better project.

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>>25905401

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>>25907199
Its fool-proof

>>25906024
There's no need to encode links like that, asshole. Literally just add some space or parentheses around one or two of the dots.

>>25908162
d-does she get blacked?

>>25905766
Normal/Electric or Rock/Electric

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>>25905419
>>25905424
>>25905438
was it bad

>>25908982
no just poorly drawn personified versions of the alien planet robots

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>>25907297
>ornithischians
>ornithology

Come on Anon dont play with the words, we already know that birds are saurischians.

>>25904906
>you will never evolve your Water starter into an Emperor Sea Strider
>you will never evolve your Grass starter into a Grass/Ground Groveback
>you will never fly on your Flying/Dark Skewer

>>25904934
That show was the shit when I was a kid. Always felt bad that mammals and birds were wiped out by the far future, but in turn the flish were my favorite things ever.

>>25905196
I really hate this image, the eyes ffs

>>25904934
Anyone have a good magnet link for this?

Bumping this thread