Spec-Evo: The Age of Nautilus Has Begun!

More Land Cephalopods!

It's earth, about 150 Million years into the future. After a series of extinction events in ages past, most terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Rising out from swamps and marshes, a kind of convergent evolution has taken place, calling back to the days of tiktaalik and protostega. But these were not lobe finned fish, nor were they amphibians. They were octopuses, cuttlefish and squid, mimicking the course of evolution taken by vertebrates eons ago. They waded about in the shallows, slowly creeping onto land. Their shells developed inside of their bodies, even becoming like limbs to support their weight on the earth. 

It is here on a floodplain in the heart of a shallow valley, a pair of scavenging stalkers have stumbled upon the carcass of a large, elephantine land squid about the size of a rhino, who succumbed to old age. The two stalkers flash their threat displays, fanning out their grasping tentacles and flashing their poisonous beaks to intimidate each other. 

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