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This article details the events of the East Continent Evolution stage in the Primordial Evolution Game.

Progenitors

Boomer: A derivative of the Hopping Flouz. Boomers are blind, pig-sized herbivores. Their large abdomens are filled with methane, which they ignite upon serious injury or death as a deterrent to predators.

Higitain: An offshoot of early Land Slizers. Due to isolation and a small population, they've lost a small bit of their agression and their adhesive acid-spray.

Govnik: Ambush predators which are descended from Stalcks.

Joord: Descendants of Bords which landed in the far east. They've become tall and slender with a long beak for wading into shallow waters in order to catch fish.

Ngung: A fluzpuff derivative. They live off of a varied diet of carrion, detris, dung, and sap.

Ribboner: This speedy flier is an offshoot of Flatworems. It feeds on small insects.

Dahon: Colonies of microscopic jellyfish acting as if they were a single organism. They feed on algae and small organisms.

Keerb: Relative of Krubs, Keerbs are amphibious arthropods which feed on riverside plants and detritus.

Glowing Ramel: A descendant of Ramel Magnificus. It has luminescent compounds in its exoskeleton.

Ramel Stalker: The Ramel Stalker is a bipedal glundiform with an internalized skeleton. It hunts using its bladed snout.

Azrach: A leafless tree descended from Yantars with photosynthetic bark. They asexually produce fruit which are eaten by many herbivores.

Tapascu: This Yantar derived plant protects itself from herbivores with large spikes around its base. It releases spores to reproduce.

Vindra: This blue plant is a species of Hrass which has broad leaves and tuberous roots.

Boomer Evolution

Eyespot Boomer

Eyespot Boomer
Status: Extinct
progenitor: Boomer
-> Crawling Boomer
-> Coastal Boomer
-> Walking Boomer

Boomers developed two large light-sensitive patches on their faces. Like their ancestors, these Boomers secrete a thick slime which aids in dragging their large, yet light abdomen. The red patches on the head of this creature are luminescent organs, which it flashes as a warning to predators to leave it alone.

Crawling Boomer

Crawling Boomer
Status: Extinct
progenitor: Boomer
-> Climbing Boomer

The crawling boomers developed stronger feet, with their fingers developing into almost claw-like digits. This allowed them to dig in deeper to the ground and gain purchase on a larger variety of terrain, as well as cling to surfaces better.

Climbing Boomer

Climbing Boomer
Status: Extant
progenitor: Crawling Boomer

The Climbing Boomers have specialized in living in the vast canopies of the azrach forests that cover the eastern coastline and swamps. Their tentacles are longer and stronger, and they move through the canopy by swinging themselves from one branch to another. Over time, they gained elaborate luminescent displays and sticky surfaces on their palms. They mostly eat the fruits and bark of the azrach trees.

Coastal Boomer

Coastal Boomer
Status: Extant
progenitor: Boomer

The front legs of boomers living on the southern coast became webbed in order to swim back to shore whenever they were swept out to sea. They also developed transparent eyelids.

Walking Boomer

Over time, the boomers living near the plains developed stronger tentacles, which allow them to walk, instead of simply crawling on the ground. These boomers live in small herds, using the noxious gases their former slime glands adapted to excrete for common protection.

Mountain Boomer

Due to flooding for parts of the year, some boomers began to seek higher ground. Eventually they became the mountain boomers, who have hard clawed hoof like feet which help them to move in the rockier environment.

Volcanic activity caused a split in the mountain boomer species. Their population suffered heavily from the eruptions, and most of the survivors had to migrate to south, away from the most active volcanoes. These mountain hoppas were few and far between, they live in small herds that wandered the southern mountains in search of food.

Cave Boomer

The Mountain Boomers which stayed in the northern mountains sought safety in caves and nooks that shielded them against the volcanic activity. Over time, these cave boomers became reclusive species, usually only living by themselves or in small family groups. Their skin became thicker and developed hard scale like plates that protected the creatures against the irritating ash that was everywhere. The plant life in the mountains was too scarce to get rid of the nutrient rich material very fast. Without their now thicker skin, the ash would smear and cause infections in the sensitive skin of the boomers.

Green Boomer

Green Boomers are an herbivore found in the rainforests extending from the southern end of the mountains onto the archipelago. They live in small groups of between 4-15 members. Their diet consists of underbrush and fallen or low-growing fruit. The tips of their tentacles are covered with numerous section cups, making then effective manipulators.

Crag Boomer

Just like the mountain Boomers, these too migrated to the mountains to escape the floods. Rather than hoofed feet, they developed stronger digits to grip and climb the uneasy surfaces.

Red Boomer

Red Boomers a carnivorous species. They lost their beak in favor of a fanged maw. Their skin is covered in armored plates, which most likely formed as protection from falling rock in the geologically active region in which they live.

Bagr

Bagrs are social predators living in the northern mountains. They form large packs ruled by the strongest male. This male doesn't necessarily get all of the mates. He is simply at the top of the pecking order for feeding and mating. From their diet, their armor contains numerous metal-based compounds, making it strong and good at resisting heat. As part of both hunting and defense, they spray a highly reactive mix of chemicals from their mouths which burn intensely when mixed.

Willo Boomer

The Willo Boomer is a nocturnal animal that lives in the caves of the southern mountains. It only leaves its home in the caves at night after the sun has set. The blood of the Willo Boomers contains a luninescent chemical. The bluish glow can be seen in the night when it is looking for something to eat. Normally it eats the moss growing inside of the caves. When it is time to mate, however, it tends to seek out more nutritious food. The Boomer is able to spray a foul smelling, and luminescent fluid from its mouth as surprisingly high pressure in defense.

Running Boomer

Wild fires were devastating for boomers, which are incredibly vulnerable to fire, as the gases their bodies contain are quite flammable. The only ones who survived these fires were the ones with longest and the fastest legs. Over time, these fast boomers became the dominant boomer variety on the plains.

Gotta go fast!

Long-Legged Boomer

This species of boomer has long legs which allow it to keep it's gas filled body far away from the flames of frequent grass fires. They can skitter over avarage wildfires, due to their thicker skin on their legs. They have also adapted to feed on charred plants, which other herbivores tend to ignore.

>implying fires can touch me.

Stilt Boomer

Stilt Boomers are predatory ambushers which hunt during the night. They use the bioluminiscent tips at the ends of their sensory tentacles to emulate the movements of Lightbutt Ngung, which attracts smaller creatures such as Joords to them. Their dark coloration and tall posture allow them to stay unnoticed by the approaching creature fixated on the pretty dancing lights indicating potential snack. When the prey is close enough, the stilt boomer activates it's head lamps, which can easily blind and shock the prey for a moment. The boomers use this moment to lunge at their prey, ripping them apart with their long and sharp fangs. In case the prey tries to flee or fight back, the muscular legs of the stilt boomers allow it to easily catch and pummel the prey to death.

The stilt boomers less social than their ancestors, though they often stay within the seeing distance of each other, using their bioluminiscence to communicate. They inhabit a number of biomes. The coast, southern marshes, ashlands and frilla forests are all quite suitable habitats for them.

>implying fires can touch me either.

Jungle Boomers

Smaller than Green Boomers, Jungle Boomers live in the canopy of the forest canopy. Their diet consists of fruit and Tapascu leaves. Their long, dextrous legs make it easy for them to jump and run swiftly along the tops of the trees.

Frilla Boomer

In order to escape seasonal floods, these Boomers began to climb up the surfaces of the massive Frilla trees. They developed gecko like paws which allowed them to do so with ease. They also became much smaller.

Sap Boomer

The sap boomer has a strong, chisel-like beak. They use it to break off layers of Frilla bark and reach the layer of phloem so that they may drink the sap carried within. Their skin has taken on a pigment similar to that of the bark, so they may feed uninterrupted by predators.

Gliding Boomer

Gliding boomers are omnivorous animals which live in the Frilla forest. Their diet mainly consists of bugs and vegetation. Their namesake comes from their ability to glide from tree to tree. While gliding, they often leave their beakless mouths open in order to catch swarms of Ngungs. While gliding, they can release a stream of volatile chemicals which ignite and provide a speed boost.

Swamp Boomer

The legs of Walking Boomers which moved into the swamps became longer to traverse the watery terrain. Their skin also became darker to blend in with the environment.

As the the terrain of the swamps became more difficult from the dense Azrach growth, the boomers developed claws on their toes in order to better grip to the roots and trunks of the trees which they walked along.

Predatory Boomer

In the harsh struggle of survival in the dark and damp central marshes, a new predatory splinter species of the swamp boomers emerges. These boomers have adapted to the low light conditions of the central marshes, by developing Infrared sensitive eyes, which allow them to better track suitable prey. Unfortunately, these new eyes are vulnerable to direct sunlight, which confines these species to the perpertual darkness of the central marsh, and forces them to move in the other parts of the great azrach forest during the night.

These carnivorous boomers hunt smaller critters, their swamp boomer bretheren, govinks and keerbs. Their strong and shear-like beak allow them to make short work out of their prey. The predatory boomers hunt by outmanouvering their prey, using the speed and agility that all the swamp boomers posses to get the kill.

Tundra Boomer

The tundra boomers are bigger and stockier than their cousins, and they move in great herds for mutual protection. They have lost their gas discharge defense, as their bodies need to focus on keeping the creature warm. They've begun to develop an organ attached to their lungs and float sacs which burns small amounts of their internal methane supply for heat. The sensory hairs of their toes have also started to spread to the rest of their legs, as they help in retaining heat.

The tundra boomers mostly feed on tubers and other plant material found in the north during the summer. They migrate south during the winter, as even they can't stand the cold arctic winter, despite their adaptations.

They spend the winter on the southern side of the riverside plains of this continent. When summer comes, the swim across the river and return to the north and begin once again to feast on the vindra tubers of the tundra. The walking boomers give birth to more developed young, who don't float away from the herd, like they do in most hoppa an boomer species. They usually breed during spring, and give birth during summer, so that the young can quickly get fat on the abundant plant life of the tundra.

Arctic Boomer

Volcanic eruptions resulted in disrupting the migration cycle of the tundra boomers. They could not cross the muddy river, and thus they were forced to endure the cold winter of the north. Many of them died, and the ones who survived were hairiest of them all. Within relatively few generations, the boomers became extremely hairy. These hairs grow before winter, and they trap the internal heat of the boomer very efficiently, allowing these creatures to survive the harsh arctic winter. They no longer migrate back to the south. They do come closer to the river during the winter, but they do not cross it anymore.

Wooly Boomer

Wooly Boomers are massive creatures which live in the cold north year-round, traveling in small herds. Their thick, shaggy fur is very effective in holding in the heat which the creatures produce from their methane burning. The diet of these boomers is made up of grasses and roots which they dig up using the tusks to either side of their beak. One major distinction between Wooly Boomers and all other species is that these have skeleton make entirely of actual bone rather than mostly cartilage.

Higitain Evolution

Frilla Higitain

Frilla Higitain
Status:
Progenitor: Higitain
->Flying Higitain
->Jungle Higitain

These Higitains are vicious predators which grab onto prey with their large fangs and mandibles and rip it apart with the tiny clawed mouthparts. Due to a long period of frequent floods, they gained clawed feet in order to scale the massive Frilla trees. They hunt mainly on the ground and lower limbs of the Frillas.

Flying Higitain

Flying Higitain
Status:
Progenitor: Frilla Higitain

A small population of the Forest Higitain have sprouted insect-like wings. They don't use them to fly a lot. Mostly for regulating body temperature. When they do fly, it's in small bursts from tree to tree, or in order to catch a Noord. They build small lairs of bark on the large saucer shaped limbs along the frilla's trunk.

Just to make something clear, wingless hunt near the ground, while these occupy the canopy.

Plains Higitain

Frilla Higitain
Status:
Progenitor: Higitain
->Swamp Higitain

Plains Higitains have shear-like mandibles which they slice their victims up with. On theri front, they have two scythe-like limbs which are actually used to crack open the shells of other creatures.

Jungle Higitain

Jungle Higitain
Status:
Progenitor: Frilla Higitain

Northern Hitigain

Northern Higitain
Status:
Progenitor:Higitain

Swamp Higitain

Frilla Higitain
Status:
Progenitor: Plains Higitain

The apex predator of the swamps, these Higitains ar smaller than other species of the genus. Their reduced size allows them to pursue prey through the tangled tree maze. The claws on their feet are more suited for climbing and gripping, and they possess barbed graspers on their backside, which allow them to anchor themselves on a tree trunk. They way in which their eyes are aligned give the Swamp Higitains a very wide field of vision. When one picks up movement, it will give chase through the tangle.

Govnik Evolution

Joord Evolution

Smart Joord

Smart Joord
Status:
progenitor: Joord
->Aggrod
->Joorod

Aggrod

Aggrod
Status:
progenitor: Smart Joord

Joorod

Joorod
Status:
progenitor: Smart Joord

Plainsrunner

Plainsrunner
Status:
progenitor: Joord
-> Fisher

Fisher

Joord
Status:
progenitor: Plainsrunner

Noord

Noord
Status:
progenitor: Joord
-> Stalker/Yeti?/ Noord
-> Flying Noord

Stalker/Yeti/? Noord

? Noord
Status: Unknown
progenitor: Noord
-> Unknown

Flying Noord

Flying Noord
Status:
progenitor: Noord
->Southern Noord

Hill Joord

Mountain Joord

Crusher Joord

Hydra Joord

Ngung Evolution

Ribboner Evolution

Dahon Evolution

Balloon Dahon

Frilla Dahon

Ocean Dahon

Bladdered Dahon

Upright Dahon

Keerb Evolution

Azrach Evolution

Swamp Azrach

Tapascu Evolution

Vindra Evolution

Miscellaneous

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 These Higitains are vicious predators which grab onto prey with their large fangs and mandibles and rip it apart with the tiny clawed mouthparts. Due to a long period of frequent floods, they gained clawed feet in order to scale the massive Frilla trees.
+They hunt mainly on the ground and lower limbs of the Frillas.
+====Flying Higitain====
+[[Image:Null.png|thumb|100px|upright|right|
+<br />'''Flying Higitain'''
+<br />Status:
+<br />Progenitor: Frilla Higitain]]
+A small population of the Forest Higitain have sprouted insect-like wings. They don't use them to fly a lot. Mostly for regulating body temperature. When they do fly, it's in small bursts from tree to tree, or in order to catch a Noord.
+They build small lairs of bark on the large saucer shaped limbs along the frilla's trunk.
+Just to make something clear, wingless hunt near the ground, while these occupy the canopy.
 ====Plains Higitain====
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+[[Image:Null.png|thumb|100px|upright|left|
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 Plains Higitains have shear-like mandibles which they slice their victims up with. On theri front, they have two scythe-like limbs which are actually used to crack open the shells of other creatures.
-====Flying Higitain====
-[[Image:Null.png|thumb|100px|upright|left|
-<br />'''Flying Higitain'''
-<br />Status:
-<br />Progenitor: Frilla Higitain]]
 ====Jungle Higitain====
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 <br />Status:
 <br />Progenitor: Plains Higitain]]
+The apex predator of the swamps, these Higitains ar smaller than other species of the genus. Their reduced size allows them to pursue prey through the tangled tree maze. The claws on their feet are more suited for climbing and gripping, and they possess barbed graspers on their backside, which allow them to anchor themselves on a tree trunk. They way in which their eyes are aligned give the Swamp Higitains a very wide field of vision. When one picks up movement, it will give chase through the tangle.
 ==Govnik Evolution==