Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 34 Land Bird Islands (please follow up)

"Hey--"

Seabirds howled in fear.

These creatures never imagined that there would be marine creatures jumping out of the water and dragging their kind down to the ocean.

And Yuan didn't expect that these birds could provide so little evolutionary quality!

A single bird provides less than one-tenth as much evolutionary material as an adult blood relative.

Yuan looked at the almost completely black area of ​​birds in the evolutionary catalog.

Yuan named this bird with a red beak and white feathers a land bird.

Because this is the first creature living on land that Yuan has seen, it can be regarded as a commemorative naming.

Through the evolutionary catalog, Yuan discovered that the bone structure of land birds is very light compared to his own group.

Although their bones all have a certain hollow structure, the hollow structure in the bones of land birds is larger. It can be said that they are basically hollow bones.

And within these hollow bones, there are structures supporting these bones.

It is the existence of these structures that, on the premise of ensuring that the bones are light enough, also ensures that the strength of the bones does not decrease.

It also has a crunchy texture when chewed.

The texture is not the same as the bones of blood relatives, and certainly not the same texture as the bones of marine creatures.

The bones of some marine creatures are quite hard to chew on, such as reptile fish, hard-toothed fish, and rock-eating turtles.

The bones of some marine creatures feel slightly hard when chewed on, the most typical one being the gun shark.

It seems that the gun shark, which is six to seven meters long, is a ferocious predatory creature, but in fact, the bones of the gun shark are slightly hard.

The texture of this bone gives it a raw feel, something very similar to cartilage.

Although cartilage is not as strong as hard bone, it can fully support the gun shark's body through enough intermuscular spines.

At the same time, cartilage also allows cartilaginous fish to swim faster than bony fish due to its better flexibility and lighter mass.

Of course, Yuan Ke doesn't want to replace his bones with cartilage.

He thinks it's pretty good now.

The strong bones gave him a greater sense of security.

Of course, swimmers and flippers can be replaced with cartilage to enhance their swimming speed.

This piece of land looked very big, but after Yuan circled around it, he still found that this piece of land was only limited in size.

It is still surrounded by ocean.

Behind this land, there are some small lands.

Islands.

Somehow, such a word came to Yuan's mind.

"Are these landmasses called Islands?"

Yuan wanders in this archipelago.

Viewed from a high altitude, the largest island is the center of the archipelago, and around it are dozens of small islands, large or small.

The smallest island among them is not even 100 square meters, it is just a raised hill.

Landbird Islands.

This is Yuan’s naming here.

Yuan believed that there would not be just one such archipelago in this ocean, so there still needed to be a name for these places.

The group just stayed in the Landbird Islands.

It is undeniable that although the area of ​​these landmasses on the ocean is small, the overall area of ​​​​the Landbird Islands is still quite large.

At least Yuan didn't have the idea of ​​​​walking around the entire archipelago.All he wanted to do was stay here to find some new species to try out, and then see if any of these new species could be transplanted to himself.

Of course, Yuan Geng wanted to go to land and have a look.

Because there are many new creatures on land that I have never seen before.

He wants to try it.

On this day, Yuan squatted under the sea, watching the birds flying above his head.

Beside Yuan, some flippers and swimmers were also waiting for something.

After a while, the seabirds on the sea began to fall towards the sea one after another.

A fierce spear plunged into the sea, and its sharp beak instantly penetrated a small fish.

And just when the seabird was about to leave with the trophy, a large mouth emerged from the water below it and bit its body into pieces.

At the same time, flippers and swimmers were also attacking these seabirds.

This is another bird from the Landbird Islands.

This kind of bird will rush into the ocean to hunt, swooping down from the sky like a sharp sword and thrusting straight into the sea.

They can even swim briefly in the ocean.

Yuan named them arrowhead seabirds because their downward swooping posture resembles an arrowhead.

However, the arrowhead seabird soon became the food of Yuan and the flippers.

At first, catching this kind of food falling from the sky was quite novel for Yuan.

So all that time, Yuan was learning how to catch arrowhead seabirds.

Later, after completing the collection of evolutionary catalogues, Yuan lost interest in these birds.

Of course, Yuan never expected that when he was catching arrowhead seabirds, land birds, and other seabirds, there would be secondary evolutionary blood relatives.

A newly evolved blood relative from the flipper, the hind limbs evolved into fins, and a thick film of flesh evolved between the forelimbs and the body.

Normally when moving, this layer of flesh membrane will be folded and stored on the side, but when he rushes out of the ocean, this layer of flesh membrane will unfold, using the ability like wings to drive this blood relative to glide for a long distance.

Although Yuan was pleasantly surprised by the emergence of new evolutionary types.

But Yuan really doesn't know what this new evolutionary type can be used for.

An air attack?
It doesn't seem to have any effect?

But one day, when Yuan was basking in the sun on the sea as usual, he saw this newly evolved type of blood relative rushing out of the sea and throwing a flying arrow seabird back into the sea.

He suddenly wondered whether this kind of blood relatives would reach the point where they could leave the ocean and fly directly in the air like birds in the subsequent evolution.

For this reason, Yuan named him Glider.

I just hope that one day, this life can fly in the sky like a bird.

As a result, Yuan began to let some flippers and swimmers start to hunt these birds full-time.

Hopefully some more gliders will be born from it.

Although gliders don't seem to have any combat capabilities, they have the potential to travel from the ocean to the sky.

For ethnic groups, more and richer evolutionary types are a good thing.

And there is another point that Yuan also took into consideration.

Because as gliders move from the ocean to the sky, they must change their breathing patterns.

In this way, Yuan can also use the future evolution type of the glider to compensate for his breathing method when leaving the sea water, and successfully land.

This wave is called foresight.

(End of this chapter)