The ancestor of dogs is wolf. This is a relatively accepted statement in today's academic circles. The origin of wolf can be traced back to 5 million years ago. But what is the origin of wolf?
One theory is that all mammals in the world today may have evolved from the same ancestor, a small insect-eating animal that looked like a rat during the Cretaceous period. Sixty-five million years ago,
At the end of the age of dinosaurs, these animals had the opportunity to evolve and differentiate into the various mammals in the world today.
Carnivores appeared in the Paleocene about 60 million years ago. The oldest carnivore is the small ancient cat. Although it is called a cat, it is all cats, canids, bears, mustelids, and hyenas.
The common ancestor of all animals in the civet and pinniped families (seals and sea lions).
About 48 million years ago, small ancient cats divided into two categories: felines and canines.
The Canidae family originated in the late Eocene Epoch, about 40 million years ago. They are the oldest group of carnivores and were the first to differentiate from small ancient cats. There are three main lines of canine evolution, namely the three main lines of Canidae.
There are subfamilies: modern Canininae, ancient Canininae, and Porophaginae (hyena-like canids).
The ancient Canine subfamily is an ancient branch of the dog family. It originated and developed in North America 40 million years ago. They look like a cross between a fox and a weasel. About 15 million years ago, this
One branch gradually became extinct, and the genus Tomellae evolved into today's subfamily Porophaginae and survived.
The subfamily Porophaginae appeared 34 million years ago. Like the ancient canine subfamily, they only exist in North America. Their body size is much larger than that of the ancient canine subfamily, and their appearance is between that of a hyena.
Like dogs, a large and powerful mouth is their characteristic. This group also became extinct 2.5 million years ago.
The last branch, the modern Canine subfamily, evolved into all the canids today. This branch appeared almost at the same time as the other two, but it never prospered until 15 million years ago, when the other two began to decline.
Later, it began to develop and grow. This subfamily also only existed in North America. It was not until 7 million years ago, in the late Miocene, that it came to Asia through the land bridge.
Those who crossed the land bridge became the direct ancestors of today's canids, and they continued to cross the land bridge and migrated back and forth between the two continents. This is why red foxes and gray wolves are distributed in Eurasia and North America.
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However, in Miao Pu's view, the mutating mutant in front of him was obviously not a simple atavism.
As far as he knew, even the direwolf (canis direwolf) that appeared 400,000 years ago had quite different physical characteristics from the mutant species in front of him.
For example, dire wolves are famous for their powerful mouths. From fossils, it is inferred that their jaw tissue was very developed and their bite force was amazing, more powerful than modern wolves. But the one in front of you has a small mouth and a head.
The shape is more like a fox, which actually determines its prey. It cannot cover large animals such as wildebeest like wolves, but only small animals such as badgers and ferrets.
Of course, because its overall body shape is much larger than that of a fox, its proportionally enlarged mouth still looks quite impressive.
But don’t forget, it does not correspond to animals in ordinary areas, but to disaster areas, which are special zones with unique landforms and ecological environments just like Australia in the past.
Here, even at the edge of the New Forest, the oxygen content is twice or more than in other areas, which fundamentally provides a basic guarantee for the growth of animals, insects, etc. Coupled with a series of other reasons, the size of
Growth is basically a common feature of disaster areas. Although we have never seen anything as outrageous as dinosaurs, it can be concluded that animals have become stronger and more lethal, which is a typical example of disaster areas.
Although the mutant mutant in front of us is not as strong as the ancient dire wolf, it may be better to be a fox than a fox. Maybe its brain is more developed and its IQ is higher.
In addition, another special feature of this mutation is that the mutant legs are very strong. This kind of strength is beyond the ratio of all known canines, and is slightly higher than that of cats such as lions and leopards.
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After some observation, Miao Pu came to the following conclusion:
This mutation process does have a tendency to return to the ancestors, but it also obviously involves the intervention of human adjustments. Miao Pu can only attribute it to an improvement in the bone core setting procedure. In other words, the bone core he obtained, among other things,
One of the original intentions of the design is to strengthen the brain and limbs. The former directly refers to IQ, and the latter represents motor ability.
From this, it can be explained to a certain extent why those giants have such strong bodies, extraordinarily thick and powerful limbs, and a certain degree of wisdom.
In fact, Miao Pu's experiment was more to gain a deeper understanding of the role and function of the bone core. He was not even sure whether the implantation method he was trying was correct.
As for the outcome, Miao Pu had already prepared for the worst, and had no extravagant hope of being able to transform some type of biochemical weapon.
It's not that he doesn't dare to think about it, but that he has already realized the imperfection and complexity of this system. Compared with the research body, those giants may just be the result of imitating cats and tigers. The use of black energy can be said to be a different approach.
It seems that Miao Pu is far inferior to the research body's superpower system similar to that of the Awakened. This can be felt just by looking at the results of the use of the insect queen and the explosion after Mei Gang was implanted.
In fact, what surprised Miao Pu was that his core energy "Heart of Nature", which is the balance system (including silver, nourishment, and life), could successfully expel and replace the black energy in the bone core. This made him
He found it a bit unbelievable. After all, in his mind, black energy could successfully suppress such a violent force as wild energy.
What he didn't expect was that the essential level of his core energy was superior to black energy. Black energy can suppress wild energy, and the reason why it can be suppressed is for another reason, not that its essential level is superior.
Even though Miao Pu's balance system has not yet been activated, and the power of the heart of nature has not shown its full power, he can fuse the yin body of the insect queen with his yang body, which is equivalent to completing the research project of the Fencheng Pharmaceutical Factory's secret research institute
, even if it is still slightly different from the research body, it is still based on the perfect body.
Miao Pu's level is naturally much more powerful than the derivative project, the Black Energy series, which is based on the research of this project and even takes a back seat.
Miao Pu, who was pondering blindly while studying and observing the mutations of wild dogs, suddenly changed his face slightly, and his eyes showed a look of surprise.