The Megasquid is a large, omnivorous terasquid from the Northern Forest of 200 million AD in the documentary The Future is Wild. It is the biggest of the Terasquids, as well as the biggest land animal of the time. Larger and more massive than any Human-era land animal at 16.375 feet (5 meters) high and 8.8125 tons (8 tonnes) in weight, a Megasquid can be seen pushing its way through the soaking vegetation, splintering conifer trunks and pulping the branches of lichen trees as it goes. Air passin
The book is about speculative zoology, and I think that's what GMs and DMs do every weekend with creatures and encounters.
After Man: A Zoology of the Future is the first book of speculative zoology/evolution written by Dougal Dixon. Published in 1981, it exposes though different descriptions and illustrations the inhabitants of the earth 50 million years in the future after the extinction of humanity and much of the Holocene megafauna. Dixon assumes that Europe and Africa would eventually fuse, closing up the Mediterranean Sea. Asia and North America would collide and close up the Bering Strait. South America would
Cursed Bunny by Bora ChungAhoy fellow readers, fasten your seatbelts because we are about to take a deep dive into the book titled Cursed Bunny written by Bora Chung. We came across this book while surviving autumn blues and winter might be the perfect time to pick this rare gem up. Cursed Bunny is a collection of short, twisted, grotesque, and symbolic stories that expose the irony of motherhood, capitalism, greed, and revenge. Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize this book is b
The art academy in Maastricht (ABK) is famous for its focus on the crafts of art. Although concepts are essential, ABK thinks that an emphasis on crafts will make students better artists. MAMDT is a…
The lank, Herbafagus longicollum, is an giraffe-like, herbivorous, flightless pterosaur, measuring 3-4 meters (10-13 feet) tall, from Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution. It lives in African tall grass savannahs. The tropical grasslands, when they developed and spread halfway through the Miocene, were a totally novel environment for the great dinosaurs. Grass is a remarkably tough substance, and a grass-eating animal needs a number of extreme specializations to allow it to
Systematics: mollusc, cephalopod, decapod (ten arms) sepoïdae (super family of cuttlefish), family rhombosepidae. Etymology: From the Latin "rhombus" diamond (for the shape of the coat) and "sepia", cuttlefish. The name "Imperator" refers to the size and the deadly attacks of large predators. Cousin of the 21st century: Sepia officinalis, Sepia prevalent in almost every sea and ocean of the world. Size: 10 meters long (twice with the tentacles). Distribution: Distribution of Rhombosepia imperato
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Systematic: Aves (Bird), Sphenisciformes (group of Southern Hemisphere seabirds) sphéniscidé (Penguin Group and penguins), Neopygoscelis. Etymology: from the Greek "neo" new and "pygoscelis" name of the kind of penguin. The name "dentate" refers to the toothed beak of the species. Cousins of the 21st century: The penguin Adelie, Pygoscelis adeliae. Excellent diver, this is the most abundant penguins. We pushed to the "extreme" its marine lifestyle imagining a half-armed and half-body ichthyosa
Scottish geologist, illustrator, and speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon has made his career dreaming up dozens of fictional creatures shaped by evolution gone bonkers. Here are 10 of his creations who seemingly escaped from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.
Ray-finned fishes, especially the extraordinarily successful teleosts, make up the majority of the macroscopic life from ocean floors to mountain creeks. Most of Spec's fish life seems familiar, but a few examples are striking in their strangeness. (Catfish, trout, etc.) You know... normal fish! Minus a few exceptions of some species of fish that are known to Spec Earth which can not be found back on homeworld. Examples being the Holy-Mackerel, fish that feed of the anus of the Aquatitan and cou
UNDER CONSTRUCTION This is a page dedicated to showing off the older and unused concept art that never made it into the final Speculative Dinosaur Project. While some of the art has been recovered and placed back on to this website, some of it was placed in the wrong pages by accident. The goal of this page is to help clear up things and show off the amazing artwork of Spec. However, some art might be used for the restoration of Spec. I also apologize for the mistakes that I have made in the pas
Marsupials are the first of the two great groups of therian (live-bearing) mammals, distinguished by their tendency to expel the embryo from the womb at a very early stage, and then nurse the infant externally while it develops. The clade in which they are part of, the metatheres, originated in the Early Cretaceous, possibly in North America, and then spread around the globe. Today, marsupials are most numerous in Australia , where almost every mammal belong to that order. They also exist in gre
Order Paraselenodontia contains over 40 species of herbivorous eutherians that range in size from 5 to 300 kg in weight. The largest members of this group have managed carve a place for themselves amongst niches usually reserved for dinosaurs by thriving in harsh or remote environments that all but a few ornithischians find too extreme. Many aspects of their lives are as yet unknown, due in part to their living in remote locations as well as a general bias amongst specresearchers towards dinosau
Order Paraselenodontia contains over 40 species of herbivorous eutherians that range in size from 5 to 300 kg in weight. The largest members of this group have managed carve a place for themselves amongst niches usually reserved for dinosaurs by thriving in harsh or remote environments that all but a few ornithischians find too extreme. Many aspects of their lives are as yet unknown, due in part to their living in remote locations as well as a general bias amongst specresearchers towards dinosau
Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990) is a speculative book written by Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by Philip Hood. The theme of the book is the future evolution of humanity in the next millions of years. Unlike the previous books, the story is told through different periods of time and adding different individual characters in the first chapters, following many events in a timeline, that starting from the final days of modern civilization and its decline, the em
The Folio Society recently published a special edition of Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred, a time-travel narrative set between modern-day Los Angeles and a pre-Civil War US. I interviewed…
Testudinata, the turtles, form an ancient clan of amniotes far removed from any other living group. Their lineage can be traced back to the Triassic, when heavily-scaled early turtles with beaks but tooth-paved palates crawled along the banks of rivers, relying on their enlarged armor plates to protect them from predators; their closest known relatives, however, magnificent armored plant-eaters that commonly reached the size of today's biggest panzertoitles, died out at the end of the Permian. T
Penguins ply the southern seas of this timeline and ours and are known as Paleocene fossils from both worlds. This would suggest that the sphenisciformes had already appeared by the end of the Cretaceous or that presence/absence of the K-T event had little impact on the evolution of penguins, probably on small islands in the New Zealand archipelago. Penguins have, thus, evolved along more or less the same lines in both worlds. However, in addition to familiar penguins, Spec's Sphenisciformes inc
The paraso, Umbrala solitara, is a solitary, bipedal, crane-like pterodactyloid pterosaur from the mixed woodland mangrove swamps of the Indian Subcontinent, in The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution. Its fishing technique is similar to that of the black heron. Vast areas of tropical swamp and deltas are found in the Indomalayan ecozone, where great rivers, fed by the snow and glaciers of the mighty Himalayas, wander across the lowlands and empty into the Indian Ocean. Mangrove swamps devel
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South America is a continent of many oddities, from the enigmatic mergaraptors to the giant pseudosauropods, the pachamacs, but the dinoceratopsians have proven to be some of the Neotropics' most frustrating and fascinating creatures. The ancestors of the dinoceratopsians, primitive cenoceratopsians similar to the dawnhorns, crossed from Asia to North America some time during the early Neogene (or possibly as early as the Oligocene), and in the late Miocene and Pliocene, they diversified into a
A new edition of After Man by Dougal Dixon, a landmark piece of speculative biology which influenced a generation of palaeontologists, has been released
A collection of feminine speculative short stories from debut author, Emily Wyeth.From Lovecraftian horrors to reimagined mythical creatures, these short stories confront feminine identity against its perception in creative and unsettling ways.There's something in the chest; something in the cave; something wrong with the soup; something sad about the doll; and something summoned from another realm. But all of these somethings are not what you expect.Disturbing and fascinating, these stories will unravel expectations and bring new perspectives to the feminine monster. | Author: Emily Wyeth | Publisher: Sempiternal House | Publication Date: May 26, 2023 | Number of Pages: 203 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0645818917 | ISBN-13: 9780645818918
The art academy in Maastricht (ABK) is famous for its focus on the crafts of art. Although concepts are essential, ABK thinks that an emphasis on crafts will make students better artists. MAMDT is a…
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A new edition of After Man by Dougal Dixon, a landmark piece of speculative biology which influenced a generation of palaeontologists, has been released
Need some speculative fiction writing prompts to give you some ideas? Check out this post!
As most of you may know, I’m a speculative fiction writer. You’ve probably seen my tagline. It says that I write about dragons, ghosts and spaceships. Sometimes I write about the ghosts of dragons …
Systematics: mollusc, cephalopod, decapod (ten arms) sepoïdae (super family of cuttlefish), family rhombosepidae. Etymology: From the Latin "rhombus" diamond (for the shape of the coat) and "sepia", cuttlefish. The name "Imperator" refers to the size and the deadly attacks of large predators. Cousin of the 21st century: Sepia officinalis, Sepia prevalent in almost every sea and ocean of the world. Size: 10 meters long (twice with the tentacles). Distribution: Distribution of Rhombosepia imperato
Examples of Extinct Species in the Spec World: Sauropodimimus giganticus (Late Oligocene) (Chattian) Asian lambeosaurid that attained enormous sizes, growing up to lengths of 16 meters. One of the last of the lambeosaurs with the extinction of Sauropodimimus and it's kin, Asia was devoid of hadrosaurs until repopulated by stock from North America during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene. However, recent expeditions back to Spec support the existance of lambeosaur-like creatures living in the S
With 34 species, Australia possesses over half of the world's remaining alvarezsaurs (popularly called "Alvies"). This bizarre group of theropods reached its evolutionary zenith during the early Cenozoic, but subsequently vanished from many parts of the world, perhaps through competition with ground-running true birds. Most extant species are small, cryptic forest and woodland animals. Larger forms can only be found in Australia and New Guinea. The neoalvarezsaurids actually labor under a mislea
Cephalopods, as a whole, are a particularly weird group of animals. Looking into the strangely human eyes of an octopus or squid, one is struck by the weight of what might have been, had vertebrates not been so quick to grab the aquatic niches. On Spec, an entire world of might-have-beens, the weight of this question approaches that of a sledgehammer blow. Spec's land is home to giant dinosaurs, saved from destruction by happy coincidence, and the oceans are, for the same reason, home to a very
Kerine Wint is a software engineering graduate with more love for books than for computers. As an avid reader, writer, and fan of all things conten...
Welcome to the Speculative and Critical Design class !!! This is a part seminar part practice experimental course that helps students to develop critical perspective towards the “normals” they are…
What is speculative fiction? You may get a different answer depending on who you ask. Read on to explore this concept, along with examples.
Pokemuroids represent another group of Spec mammals that are almost, but not quite, the familiar mammals of Home-Earth. While these furry little tree-climbers are technically primates, they differ significantly from RL's apes and monkeys, although they are related to the lemurs (albeit distantly) as adapids. Studying the fossil record, it has become clear the the formal clade Adapidae is, in fact, paraphyletic, incorporating a range of unrelated groups. Although using the term 'adapids' (with a
We recently rounded up the most nightmare-inducing creations of speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon. Here's another one of Dixon's futuristic Homo sapiens. This being is more or less a psychic raspberry strudel.
