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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1965162" data-attributes="member: 571">The Dragons in PerilEven with disaster averted the dragons had a hard time. The world was changing, and old species died out under the new pressures. By 60 million years ago there were only three dinosaur groups left, the dromaesaurids  the hadrodaurids, and the sauropods. All other niches once occupied by dinosaurs were no inhabited by mammals.The dragons themselves changed with the new conditions. They grew yet smaller, most species coming in at less than a ton in weight. Their numbers declined as well, both in individuals, and in species and genera. It soon became apparent to the survivors that something had to be done, or the order faced extinction.A few experiments at keeping things as they were soon showed the dragons that that was not a viable plan. After a mere millennium or two they came to the conclusion that their order was doomed, and their was nothing to be done about it. So they set about tidying up after themselves, and preparing for the end.Which never came. The old dinosaur era dragons died out, to be replaced by species adapted to life hunting a much cannier prey.These new dragons saw the end of the multitubuculates with the rising of the rodents. They watched the hadrosaurs lose their great banks of teeth in favor of a single constantly growing row adapted to the new grasses, their crests becoming shields and sporting horns. looking very much like the ceratopsians of old. And they observed other mammalian groups arise. First the rhinos and the first, primitive pigs. Then other groups They saw the creodonts drive the andrewsarchids into extinction, only to fall before the true carnivores. And all through this the dragons grew in number and in size. Again multi-tonned predators ruled Dragon Earth.And the world went on. Continents changed position, mountains arose and old ocean currents were blocked or diverted. Dragon Earth's orbit and axial inclination changed. As did the output of the Sun.3 million years ago it all came crashing down up themNext: Forged in a Frozen Crucible.</blockquote>

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