I would LOVE to see a Curious Archive covering Nausicaä of the valley of the wind, (Preferably the manga since it has much more) it has such amazing and interesting creatures and landscape to be explored. I love your channel and watch all your videos, Thank you for all that you do dude ❤️.

@anytorp

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@reipolhopolar

Жыл бұрын

y e e e e e e e e e e e e e e s

@EsfingeCinza

Жыл бұрын

This movie is so precious TuT)

@meismonke5543

Жыл бұрын

Slime rancher

@sleepingninjaquiettime

Жыл бұрын

Movie looks cool, thanks.

I spent the whole ep thinking how cool this setting is for dnd, really excited to see that the creator thought of that

@PancakePakadin

Жыл бұрын

Omg you're right!

@ImThylacine

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing hah

@weldonwin

Жыл бұрын

The Mollucite is already practically a Roper from the basic Monster Manual

@yanderebeef5450

Жыл бұрын

Same Lol.

@matthewbennett1972

Жыл бұрын

I mean one of them is practically a roper

I really like the kind of mix between a naturalistic element, and one of an air of whimsy and fantasy, really cool project! :D

@PancakePakadin

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought

@hedgehog3180

10 ай бұрын

"What if Earth animals evolved into fantasy monsters?" turns out that would be really cool.

This feels way more like wildly whimsical creature design than strait speculative evolution

@HannibalKantter

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. It was very hard for me to see how most of these creatures evolved from current ones. I think this project would had make more sense taking place in some other planet

@Diloparker

Жыл бұрын

Weirdly the species that bothers me the most is the “Frondilli”. Apparently they are a descendant, or relative of deer; and they use their modified mandible to feed on sap from trees. Weather sap is a good source of energy at all aside, why didn’t they evolve to repurpose their antlers to help feed on sap? Even if the ancestors of the Frondilli didn’t have, or lost their antlers, wouldn’t they evolve antlers anyways as a result of parallel evolution?

@kilderok

Жыл бұрын

@@Diloparker Pretty sure she was just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. I hope that huge mammal dwarfing trees had hollow bones, it's like she doesn't even know size/gravity variables. No mention of atmospheric changes and the effects that would have on the morphology of organisms. Also, even with low gravity which the planet absolutely would not have by that point, that squid evolution would topple easily with that build. She's also making the mistake of making all her creations "look alien" by leaning into reptilian/amphibian or insectoid/molluscoid designs too heavily.

@Diloparker

Жыл бұрын

@@kilderok Yea, I guess the issue is that speculative evolution to most people isn’t about “what if?”, but rather “wouldn’t it be cool if.” As pointed out by the Unnatural history channel on KZread. I think that’s what the channels name is called. (Edit: yeah just looked it up, that’s what the channels name is called.)

@JamareeDGIT

Жыл бұрын

I can believe th3se anima1 can exist on earth mamals evolued from reptile like creatures.

I don't know how the artist behind this managed to make a world so connected to our own still feel like it's from another planet, but I'm really digging it.

@teslashark

Жыл бұрын

4:37 It's Australia!

@paulkanja

Жыл бұрын

Well dinosaurs feel like they are from another planet :)

@Lucien_75

Жыл бұрын

If you like this check out "all future tomorrows"

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

Жыл бұрын

Doing your home work on existence will do that

I do like how everything has a unique name. Far too often with these spec projects the names are just taking common names and jumbling them together like The Future Is Wild (Snow Stalker, Reef Glider, Garden Worm, ect.)

@betulla96

Жыл бұрын

The Future is Wild was made for a wide TV audience, I think there's value in making the names easily understandable to everyone as well.

@Aethuviel

Жыл бұрын

Snagrio just means that many spec evo projects use this kind of naming, with TFIW as an example.

@fionagibson7529

Жыл бұрын

We do that in real life too, though. Woodpecker, stingray, clouded leopard, etc.

@The_WhitePencil

Жыл бұрын

Naming things in speculative evolution projects is quite an interesting challenge. Realistically, especially for these kinds where humans are long-gone, none of these creatures have a name. Most speculative biology rather features names of what humans would tend to call these creatures upon first sight and study of their behavior, this one, maybe in part due to the adaptation into a DnD setting as well, goes more for names you'd expect to be given if there was an indigenous civilization who has entire myths or cultures based around these creatures.

@kilderok

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately those names have more of a discernable naming pattern than these pokemon names. Solmundis? That just means sun-world or sun-earth. I think this chick was just throwing shit at a wall creatively.

These are some delightful speculative species. Something about the style of the illustrations makes me think of -D&D, I could easily see any of these creatures being in a Monster Manual or a Fiend Folio- Nevermind, I hadn't reached that bit of the video yet :p That's so rad!

@KageKobushi

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same during the video... And then, BAM, ending.

I personally love you videos, it's just calm. No catchy thumbnails, no puns, no hyperactive voice.

I love these videos. They’re perfect for me. They talk about fantasy AND animals. I love them, thanks CA!

@gtechnosinc2518

Жыл бұрын

Yes, only fantasy,wake up, all this is a fantasy,so you can be sleep and not know the truth, dinosaurs and humans where living at the same time, there is proof, search for the truth,just don't believe what ever in school teaches,because is just theories, there are human prints and dinosaurs prints at the same time,paintings about people riding dinosaurs and the creator of the paintings never heard of dinosaurs before,why is that, because the earth is not that super old that those indoctrinated people teach,no proof at all for what they are talking about.

@RanEdgar-ok3wk

5 ай бұрын

It’s speculative biology but I’ll admit it seems rather unrealistic and more like fantasy as this seems like something that would take place on a different planet

I do love speculative biology, but I always feel like many of these projects suffer from over-fantasization. Like why does the snail relative on the thumbnail have one eye?

@_Venvel

Жыл бұрын

That's a good point. The speculative aquatic animals here are very non-hydrodynamic. I can't think of any good reasons for streamlined swimming animals to evolve in a way that would actively hinder their movement through water.

@littlewolfyzapling8810

Жыл бұрын

Because it’s fun and looks cool

@MegaTheftV

9 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. I enjoy it but I can't help but wonder why snails would evolve arms and legs

@firefancy9928

9 ай бұрын

Barrel eye fish exist and I thought it was fake when I heard about it back in my high school days. A species of creature with toes over time and many generations, evolved to have singular hooves on basically one finger for each foot. I wouldn't be so closed minded, although I can't think of any reason why there would be such a specific environmental pressure that would break the bilateral symmetry of eyes for snails.

@RanEdgar-ok3wk

5 ай бұрын

@@littlewolfyzapling8810that’s not the point of speculative biology;-;

I don’t know if you’d ever be interested, but a video/series on The Elder Scrolls could be super interesting. Creatures like Guar, Netches, Ice Wraiths, and Grummites (if you count Daedra) would be super cool to see looked at in your style!

@sonorasgirl

Жыл бұрын

Yeah - I know Morrowind doesn’t look good compared to modern graphics, but it had interesting animals

@Patch2112

Жыл бұрын

@@sonorasgirl The entire series has such interesting creatures, sadly a lot of them get little mention outside of obscure texts, in-game and out. If you’re interested, Camelworks, Fudgemuppet, and Drewmora are three great channels for Elder Scrolls lore. Camelworks actually made a video a while back about 10 obscure creatures and wow, even as a fan for over a decade I only knew about half of them lmao.

@sonorasgirl

Жыл бұрын

@@Patch2112 ooooh thank you! I’ll check it out

@hedgehog3180

10 ай бұрын

The Elder Scrolls is a great universe because the premise is basically "what if all the crazy shit people talk about in various historical documents actually happened?"

I AM HERE TO WATCH ANOTHER MASTERPIECE OF YOURS!!!

I love your channel. I wish someone did this same thing as a David Attenborough sleep podcast, it'd be amazing.

@kinoko5566

Жыл бұрын

@@Prime501 will definitely check it out thank you

@JamareeDGIT

Жыл бұрын

I love this channel to

Honestly, this is one of my favorite channels to watch

Speculative future animals are so fun to read about

Damn, the creatures of Sol'Kesh all sound incredible! I especially like the looks of the Calitross and the Gharril too.

Its not that I dislike these designs, but they feel too fantasy for me to fully immerse myself into envisioning these as future earth creatures.

@bogosbinted6475

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they feel a bit to fantasy like

@helmaschine1885

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, they look very fantasy. Would've been better if the artist were I spired by prehistoric mammals a bit more. Alien, but still evolutionary probable.

I know they're supposed to be seen as huge creatures but I like imagining them as the same size as their ancestors

@magnarcreed3801

Жыл бұрын

It didn’t say more most i think. Could be small.

What an amazing birthday present - Curious Archive uploading yet another awesome speculative biology summary. I really enjoyed your video on Simon stålenhag's ''Loop'' series. So much, in fact, that I've asked for both "Tales From The Loop" and "The Labyrinth" for Christmas. Seriously love the stiff that you put out here and thank you for unintentionally making my 19th just that bit sweeter :)

@343-penitentnarrator8

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday, mate! 19 is a great age, lots of fond memories.

@mysterioussoup3393

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday! Getting closer and closer to death! How exciting! Seriously though, happy b-day.

@fly7045

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!!

As much as I enjoy speculative evolution, I’m a bit confused as to how some of the most endangered creatures today, like pangolins and coral species, survived the Anthropocene when people clearly didn’t.

@magnarcreed3801

Жыл бұрын

Might have been something that was disease like? That would do it.

@betulla96

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, coral is especially unbelievable given how sensitive it is to the slightest environmental changes. However I think this is still a fantastic project overall.

@SashedPotato

Жыл бұрын

I love this project but I do agree. I also think it's unlikely for other phyla to dominate if this amount of mammals survived as mammals are already land adapted

@cerberaodollam

Жыл бұрын

maybe humans came onto their senses and committed (redacted) before it was too late? who knows

@omo568

Жыл бұрын

​@@cerberaodollam lmaoo, they all joined the VHEMT movement

You should definitely do a series on Pandora the world of Avatar. Especially now everyone will like it!

All these creatures look like something you’d see in The Last Kids On Earth! I love ALL of them!

@laurensidneyborjesson9890

Жыл бұрын

Wow I thought I was the only one who likes that show

@amazingallosaur6196

Жыл бұрын

@@laurensidneyborjesson9890 Me three!

@spikeweed420

Жыл бұрын

@@laurensidneyborjesson9890 I actually thought I was one of the only people, too! I watched the movie, and then a few months later watched book two and three.

@JamareeDGIT

Жыл бұрын

I love that show

@hollowknightfan2379

10 ай бұрын

I love those books.

I think an archive on Runaway To The Stars would be incredible. The thought the creator has put into the biology of the universe is amazing

What a beautiful art-style and interesting creatures. You should probably check out the highly- detailed and fairly new imaginative biology project of Bennta by the Hybrid Fox.

The fact that they involved them selfs with dnd is amazing.

I absolutely LOVE your channel. This is honestly the channel I look forward to the most when you post new content.

I really enjoy and admire the way you narrate your contents. The way you use words is just as engaging as the different worlds and creatures you feature on this channel. I'm such a huge fan of yours. Here's hoping for more great videos coming from you.

There aren't many channels like Yours. As an artist, I get inspired in new ways with every new archive episode, and as a fan of the creepy and wonderful, I couldn't be more excited to see your takes on all these amazing topics. Great work as always! Much love

@kilderok

Жыл бұрын

From one artist to another: be inspired to put actual science into your designs if you do a speculative biology series. There's no excuse, other people have done the work for you. Set a date, then ask: How far has the moon pulled away from earth? What are the continents doing? What is the suns luminosity? What catastrophic events have occurred between now and the date? Factor in the current extinction event and how that might affect life, just...do more work than dreaming up some bodies, attaching current animals to them, and giving them pokemon names.

@cescimes

8 ай бұрын

@@kilderok or maybe, and hear me out... just have fun with it? what a concept, really

can´t Wait when Future Wildlife is featured here, if it will be featured here, Awesome job pal, hopeing to Release Future Wildlife next year, EDIT: Future Wildlife on KZread is still a bit far away however started to make the family trees and i made a website.

I get the impression the artist likes rocky aesthetics.

It's 3 am here and his voice is soothing me.

I would adore a deep dive into the species of Pikmin! (Probably Pikmin 3 because it looks the most natural)

Keep up the great work

I love the design and story of speculative evolution,the possibility seem endless and the creatures looks really cool.Wish I had the talent for something like this.Great work to the artist for this and thank you for covering this.

@JamareeDGIT

Жыл бұрын

Great comment😊

This is probably the most interesting speculative evolution project I’ve seen in a wile

Nothing beats a classic Curious Archive Spec Evo video

I love how the artist listed the ecological niche of each creature as if they were Pokemon types

5:20 That is not a lungless salamander, that is a fire salamander.

The game The Eternal Cylinder seems right up your alley.

Love this--cool art & project, and as always, CA, amazing video! You are the best.

Is it just me, is anyone else kinda bothered by the fact that almost the entire bestiary is exclusively about big scary killer monsters? I mean, it's a bit unrealistic that an ecosystem can be comprised entirely out of big huge monsters. What, no prey animals? No decomposers?

@haunbeuii1635

Жыл бұрын

@@smeggiamagarwine well who tf drew them then

Attempt #6 *Pretty please do a video for the creatures from "Made in Abyss".*

It's truly a talent to be able to design creatures like that and I'm trying to cultivate that ability

I absolutely love Terry Maranda's art style - it just breathes life into these creatures

Loved this one! Thanks for keeping up the good job! :)

This is easily my favorite art showcase on this channel

ngl that calitross could be a good dnd creature

WE NEED MOREEE! THIS IS AMAZING !(but please do make another video on this)

i love this channel, i cant explain it but the voice over sounds like he's smiling the whole time.

Imagine a world where everything is some sort of hermit crab, nothing makes the shells they're just there

@schlongdong3875

Жыл бұрын

I would just like to point out the fact that if a hermit crab finds a shell that doesn't quite fit then it will sit and wait for another crab to ditch its old shell. This can result in massive conga lines of patient hermit crabs that play musical shells

Taurachni is basically spidercrab from "The Witcher", which is reasonable, considering the fact that in the books some of the monsters are animals from alternate realities and Elves and Humans are aliens to Dwarves and Gnomes.

I'd really like to know how the mammal descendants got past the "no green mammals" phenomenon. Symbiosis with algae? Specialized green light reflecting hairs?

@fionagibson7529

Жыл бұрын

Do sloths count?

@JudgeNicodemus

Жыл бұрын

@@fionagibson7529 it's not symbiosis. They're just a solid surface for algae.

@fionagibson7529

Жыл бұрын

@@JudgeNicodemus The algae is in fact beneficial to the sloths, since it provides camouflage with the jungle and recent research suggests that the sloths will supplement their diet with the nutrients from the algae. There is an entire ecosystem based around the algae. Also symbiotic relationships do not have to benefit both parties. Parasitism is still a form of symbiosis.

@JudgeNicodemus

Жыл бұрын

@@fionagibson7529 huh, never really thought of it that way. Nice, thanks for the lesson. :)

@hedgehog3180

10 ай бұрын

Humans can get green hair if they shower in an area where the water supply has copper contamination, though maybe I should have mentioned the more obvious green eyes.

Always love watching your videos discuss on speculative biology! I rarely comment on YT videos and here I am. I gotta ask though, have you ever considered doing a video about the animals and flora of the world of James Cameron's Avatar? I feel like you and the rest of us got tons of things to explore and learn about in that biodiverse world.

Finally, i am a fan of Terry Maranda's art, so i was waiting for you to make a video about it

In addition to eyes, what other photoreceptor organs could develop species from other planets?

@FleshWizard69420

Жыл бұрын

Heat sensors detect infrared light and are present on some snakes.

It would be fantastic for Curious Archive to cover my favourite book series, Stormlight Archive, the flora and fauna are so cool.

I absolutely love this concept and I am currently (trying) to make a game. These fantastical creatures are giving me so much inspiration.

Man I love your video!I have been watching you since less than 50k!Hope you will get 1 mill!!!

Sol’kesh is amazing. I love the creatures . There all so amazing

I followed this on instagram and I gotta say so happy this was showcased

You should cover Southbound. It's a mechanical evolution project run by a guy on the speculative evolution subreddit. It started a few months ago but it is already pretty advanced. Probably one of the most interesting things I've seen come out there in a while! Beside that, I'm so happy that you made a video on the Sol'kesh Bestiary finally! I remember seeing the project owner talking about it on the subreddit and have been excited since. I have been wanting to start my own project but haven't found time in. My life yet. 😅

they are gorgeous, I'd love to borrow some of these for my world

This is beautiful... I just found ur channel I love every bit of it...

Would love to see you cover Keenan Taylor's world of Kaimere.

I wish an artist recreated the flora of the book Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (in a distant future, plants have replaced all animals on Earth. Plants can fly, swim, and prey). A fascinating premise, and a great novel in my opinion.

These videos scratches the part of my brain that makes me sleepy and curious at the same time

Everytime i watch videos on future earth evolution i just imagine a regular alligator or croc just chillin there 80 million years later

I want a video game where you can explore Sol’kesh as a small animal in each of these, you explore through all of Sol’kesh, seeing these animals and more in each biome

I love to see curios archive cover the Antarctic Chronicles. All your videos are amazing.

I was thinking about you all morning 😳. loving the creatures

Sick vid!gonna watch it!keep up the good work!

Nice, I've been waiting for another vid. Great content btw

Love that this carries on the tradition of giant, flightless bats.

I would be really cool if you were to make a video covering the spiders for Children of time

Every time a watch one of these speculative evolution world building video I always think how cool it would be as a setting for DnD, so it's so cool to see one thats already fleshed out for that

I’m glad to see the Dougon is following in my footsteps

This is so fantasy-like. Love it!

Up until the end, i was wondering why the creatures all looked like 'this animal but fantasy'.

This is like the show The Future is Wild with how animals will evolve in the far future. Interesting.

Wait a minute, Lancelets are already a thing. They're a clade of chordate closely related to Vertebrates, a lot like a modern day Pikaia.

Have you done a video on Rain World? It's a game about a creature called the "slugcat" exploring the strange Rain world after getting lost in a big rainstorm. There are a lot of different interesting flora and fauna, and i love how life-like everything is.

@berdyking7967

Жыл бұрын

@@wons241 bot

@berdyking7967

Жыл бұрын

He actually made one

@pokegirl1799

Жыл бұрын

@@berdyking7967 I reported him, that should hopefully help edit: not sure why I put "him" when it's a bot, but whatever

Yes return of the king. Love the vids guy 😊

I was not ready for this to also be Dungeons and Dragons.

bro the author is such an amazing fellow I gotta say.

This feels like a dnd

I really don't think snails can evolve into something like that in 80 million years.

@BigFroggo

Жыл бұрын

Shutup.

@helmaschine1885

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, mollusks have never evolved like that is the past millions of years ...

@BigFroggo

10 ай бұрын

@@helmaschine1885 Yeah seems like a bit of a stretch. (Btw the shutup comment above you was from when I replied to a bot)

Everything looks like it’s half living and half solid rock

_years?_ I can't see life on Earth lasting 80 million _weeks!_

This author really loves the idea of organic blades.

I kept thinking so many of these both remind me of and would make such great d&d/fantasy creatures, and then came the end of the video 😂 Pretty cool idea overall

I got here within the first 1k views, I think that's a record for me on a channel this big. And I love your content, keep it up man.

Hell yeah! For half of the video I was thinking that those creatrures would be spectacular for dnd and then at the end it drops that they have monster sheets, amazing, and an amazing video just as alwayls.

someone needs to turn this in to an open world survival video game

I like how the Mollucites are just straight ripped from D&D.

Sol'Kesh getting some action!

wow these look amazing🤯

I like the projects and I like the creators that make it

super cool!!!

Author is kinda fixated on "spearing", despite it rarely appears in nature...

This is so cool! Funnily enough, Lancelets are real creatures too, they're just small, fish-like, primitive vertebrates.