26. The Mammalian Empire

Come!
There’s work to be done!
With the last dinosaur uprising quelled
We are free!
Grow!
Diversify!
Spread!
Mammals rule this world now!
They went out
Filled the habitats.
Elephants in Africa
With rhinos and monkeys.
Mammals found their way back to the sea
Becoming whales and seals and walruses.
Brontotherium.
Megatherium.
Uintatherium.
Rhinos as weird looking as their names.
Sloths roamed the forests as big as elephants
Grazing on the tops of trees.
Saber-toothed cats.
Rodents with horns.
Horses grew to their normal size.
As time went on the mammals had their extinctions as well.
Out of destruction comes creation.
New creatures replaced the old.
They have their own empire now
 But they want it to be permanent

Who will do this?
The primates.
They will bring something new to the world.
A blessing.
A curse.
They will shape things in new and powerful ways.
A revolution is coming.

23. The Cretaceous: The Great Decline

Go forth!

Diversify!

The wise one said.

The continents split

So did the many body types.

The world continued to be a great garden.

A hot paradise

Filled with lush, green forests.

Ferns grew wild and trees towered high.

New changes came to the Edenic world.

Plants flaunted their youth

For bees and buzzing insects

To polinize and reproduce

Forests and bare earth

Gave way to fields of grass

Where Ankylosaurs and Triceratops

Grazed peacefully.

As the Ceolophysis prophecy foretold.

His tyrant descendant,

King Rex,

Lorded over the land.

Threatening the weakest of animals

With saw-like teeth.

The dinosaurs thought their reign would never end.

They became greedy with their size.

They felt invincible.

They continued to grow

Until their necks reached over the forest canopy.

Rodents and smaller lizards scurried around under their feet.

Even their cousins, the birds had to live in the shadows of the great ones.

Eventually, hubris caught up with them.