Animals Extinct in Last 1000 years

[A'koss]

Originally posted by die_kluge:
The forest outside of town was filled with Shadows that he had created. And, as you can imagine, shadows beget more shadows. So, everything that the shadows killed - squirrels, rabbits, birds - everything, became shadows. So, in that sense, I can see that something like Shadows could easily take over a planet if not controlled in some way.

At least in 3e they can only create spawn from humanoids... imagine if every animal, every insect became a shadow when it died...

I mean, the things don't eat, so they never die, and they reproduce in a day, and they eat anything living, except plants. Pretty brutal.

Not to mention one of their biggest advantages - incorporeality.

Cheers,

A'koss.

 

[William Ronald]

I think that aurochs have been bred back from modern cattle. I think there are a few in various zoos.

In the early part of the Roman era, I understand there were elephants in the Atlas mountains of North Africa. They were sometimes captured for gladiatorial combat.

There are also reports of a type of spotted lion in parts of Africa.

A species of auk, a bird similar to penguins, also became extinct in the last millenia.

 

[CCamfield]

I think that aurochs have been bred back from modern cattle. I think there are a few in various zoos.

In the early part of the Roman era, I understand there were elephants in the Atlas mountains of North Africa. They were sometimes captured for gladiatorial combat.

I believe these were the type of (smallish) elephants that Hannibal tried to cross the Alps with.

Regarding the Beast of Gevaudan, I ran across a reference to it as a "hyena" in a book on the French Revolution that I'm reading. But the first time I heard of it was when I saw the BotWolf movie.

 

[Slovak DM]

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