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This is an important question. - Featured Artists: Wayne Barlowe's Website: 🤍 Wayne Barlowe's Instagram: 🤍 Alex Ries Website: 🤍 Alex Ries Patreon: 🤍 Exobiotica Instagram: 🤍 Exobiotica DeviantArt: 🤍 Have you ever wondered, ‘what is the best number of legs?’ I mean, probably not. But how many legs a species has is vital to a lifeform’s success, and it’s time someone figured out which number reigns supreme. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore every option for leg-count that nature makes available, excluding cases of genetic mutation or limb-loss. Whether you’re reincarnating soon or a worldbuilder looking to improve the realism of an alien lifeform, this is a question you need answered… 0:00 The Best Number of Legs? 0:36 One Leg 1:58 Two Legs 4:37 Three Legs 5:45 Four Legs 7:21 Five Legs 8:07 No Legs 9:28 Six Legs 10:42 Seven Legs 11:45 Eight Legs 12:50 Nine & Ten Legs 14:02 Beyond 14:58 What’s The Answer? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Media Shown: Arrival, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Floating Cities, Majestic Hills, Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding #SpeculativeBiology
Discover the secrets of a nightmarish realm of biomechanical terrors. An exploration of the dark, haunting worldbuilding in Ebb Software’s 2022 horror game Scorn. - Scorn depicts a biomechanical nightmare. Yet under the foreboding surface, the world of Scorn is a masterpiece of haunting and poignant worldbuilding, bringing to life a fascinating ecosystem of decay. While the game is ambiguous by design, in this video we’ll explain the story and explore the hidden themes. So, for this entry into the Archive, we’ll embark on an expedition across this disturbing realm, comparing environmental details with clues from the artbook to uncover the shocking secrets behind the terrors on screen. Now, let’s awaken to the nightmare of Scorn… 0:00 The World of Scorn 1:02 The Genesis Wall 2:34 The Graveyard 4:16 The Assembly 7:53 The Dark Garden 9:29 The Heart 12:36 The Crater 14:20 The City of Polis 18:44 The Meaning of the Madness Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Karl Casey 🤍 White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Scorn #Worldbuilding
Imagine a version of Earth 80 million years in the future — where humanity has vanished, and extraordinary new creatures have evolved. Welcome to Terry Maranda’s incredible speculative biology project the Sol’Kesh Bestiary. - Sol’Kesh Patreon: 🤍 Sol’Kesh Instagram: 🤍 Sol’Kesh 3D Models: 🤍 Set eighty million years from now, the Sol’Kesh Bestiary is a speculative biology project similar to After Man or The Future is Wild by the brilliant artist and worldbuilder Terry Maranda. Through naturalist-style illustrations, it explores a world where humanity has long disappeared, and evolution has drastically transformed the animals we know today. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore this reborn Earth. And as always, you can support the artist on Patreon to see more of the project using the links in the description. Now, let’s travel to the far future, and discover the creatures of the Sol’Kesh Bestiary… 0:00 Sol’Kesh Bestiary 1:07 The Teeming Reefs 4:40 The Mysterious Swamps 7:21 The Untamed Forests 10:03 The Forgotten Caves 13:08 The Colossal Plains 16:33 The Infinite Deep 18:44 Support the Project Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Majestic Hills, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Worldbuilding
What would happen if you left canaries alone on a world to evolve for hundreds of millions of years? This is a breakdown of Dylan Bajda’s speculative evolution epic ‘Serina.’ - Part II: 🤍 Part III: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Website: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Deviantart: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Patreon: 🤍 Imagine what could happen if you left a type of bird — for example… finches — alone on a lush planet without predators for hundreds of millions of years. What kinds of incredible forms might evolve? If you consider that mammals grew from a few rodent-like species into elephants, whales, horses, bats, and primates in a much shorter period after the extinction of dinosaurs — you’ll start to realize just how incredible things might get. This concept is the idea behind one of the most detailed speculative biology projects ever created; Serina, the World of Birds. This epic multi-million year journey was created by Dylan Bajda, an incredible artist and writer. So, let’s get started at the very beginning of the saga, with the introduction of life on the moon of Serina. The World of Serina 0:00 The Hypostecene: 0 - 10 mil yrs 1:02 The Tempuscene: 11 - 50 mil yrs 2:56 The Cryocene: 50 - 75 mil yrs 7:23 Outro 11:18 Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Serina
Discover the most complex virtual ecosystem I’ve ever seen in a video game. An exploration of the unexpectedly brilliant worldbuilding of the indie game Rain World. (Part 2: 🤍 - If I were to tell you ‘Rain World has the most complex ecosystem of any game,’ you might go… ‘What?’ Because Rain World doesn’t seem particularly advanced — it’s a 2D pixel art game where you play as a weird slug, how complicated could its world really be? While there are other games with fancier graphics and denser lore, Rain World’s unique system of procedurally generated animation and complex AI come together to simulate the feeling of a living ecosystem better than (almost) any other game I’ve played. From the lizards, to the scavengers, to the daddy long legs, it’s an incredible feat of worldbuilding. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll uncover the fascinating intricacies of Rain World’s pixeled biosphere. Now, let’s become part of this virtual food chain… 0:00 Welcome to Rain World 0:54 Animation and AI 2:04 The Outskirts 3:56 Industrial Wastes 5:11 Drainage System 6:24 Garbage Wastes 8:03 The Shoreline 10:20 The Scavengers 12:36 Shaded Citadel 14:14 Five Pebbles 16:06 The Wall 18:16 Farm Arrays 19:57 Void Sea 21:58 Beyond the Light? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Karl Casey 🤍 White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Rainworld #Worldbuilding
Ever wondered how the machines of Horizon: Zero Dawn function? Join us on our nature-documentary style deep-dive into an artificial ecosystem. - Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Imagine an ecosystem made entirely of autonomous machines. Where every ecological niche is filled by an artificial organism. In the video game ‘Horizon: Zero Dawn’ and it’s sequel ‘Horizon: Forbbiden West’ a global calamity has led to a version of planet Earth inhabited by animal-mimicking machines — from mighty herbivores to deadly predators. While these synthetic creatures might not be ‘biological,’ their fascinating interactions, unique behavioral patterns, and hidden intricacies make them worthy of study. The story takes place thousands of years in the future, but a little thing like the flow of time isn’t going to stop this archivist from doing his fieldwork. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll lead us on another documentary style expedition, investigating the artificial ‘biology’ of these intriguing machines and revealing what animal roles they fill. We’ll need, though, to stay alert—there are constant dangers in this environment. Now, let’s leap forward in time, and discover an ecosystem of metal and wire... 0:00 Machines of Horizon: Zero Dawn 1:14 Strider 3:45 Watcher 5:20 Grazer 6:53 Sawtooth 8:28 Longleg 9:43 Scrapper 11:13 Shell-Walker 12:56 Glinthawk 14:54 Snapmaw 16:24 Bellowback 17:36 Behemoth 19:04 Thunderjaw 20:28 Tallneck 22:00 The Next Horizon… Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #Horizon #SpeculativeBiology
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. An exploration of the leviathans that swim in the deep sea, and why the human mind fears the uncharted depths. - Thumbnail Art Credit: Matt Millard - 🤍 Miller's art based on a concept by Denis Loebner - 🤍 SCP-3000 Short Film Credit: ForlornFoundry - 🤍 The Colossal Eel Credit: 3D Print Guy - 🤍 The term ‘Thalassophobia’ means ‘An intense fear of deep water.’ It is one of the most primal and understandable phobias — for the dark abyss has always been a birthplace of monsters. Lurking below the waves are not only bizarre species known to science — but a vast multitude of imagined leviathans. Something about the fathomless void floods the human mind with visions of nightmarish creatures, which have scared and fascinated us since we first gazed into the deep. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll dive into depths both real and imagined, and discover what terrors lurk within the heart of the sea... 0:00 The Fathomless Deep 0:50 Iron Lung 3:53 Abyssus Theory 5:41 Realm of Monsters 7:44 Teeming Seas 11:31 Megalodons and Mermaids 14:04 Uncharted Waters 16:58 The Unending Serpent 18:55 One Last Breath Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Media Shown: Iron Lung, Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, The Meg, Underwater, Mermaids: The Body Found, Abzû, Beyond Blue, In Other Waters, Water Womb World, The Abyss, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, SCP-3000 The Unending Serpent (ForlornFoundry), SCP-3000: The Colossal Eel (3D Print Guy) ♫ Music by Karl Casey 🤍 White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witching Hour, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding
What would alien life look like on a planet far larger than Earth? A voyage to Phtanum B, an alien world envisioned by creator SteveMobCannon. - SteveMobCannon Instagram: 🤍 SteveMobCannon Twitter: 🤍 SteveMobCannon YouTube: 🤍 Imagine an earth-like planet far larger than our own. NASA has actually discovered numerous exoplanets, dubbed ‘super-earths,’ which are over twice the size of our tiny home-world. Most of these super-earths can’t support life, but it’s interesting to imagine what sorts of organisms we’d discover on a super-sized version of a habitable world... Phtanum B is a speculative biology project created by the brilliant Stevemobcannon, who imagines just such a planet, and the incredible alien life that might evolve on it. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll be voyaging to the extraordinary alien world of Phtanum B… 0:00 Voyage to Phtanum B 1:59 A World of Giants 10:11 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #AlienBiology #SpeculativeBiology
Biology of Subnautica Full Movie. This is the full version of my 4-episode miniseries on Subnautica and Below Zero. A nature-documentary exploration of Planet 4546B. - Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 The vast oceans of the video game Subnautica and its sequel Below Zero teem with incredible life — some friendly, and some deadly. While the series is focused on survival, the lifeforms of Subnautica are amazing even when they’re trying to eat you: possessing fascinating biology, bizarre behavioral patterns, and hidden mysteries. I’ve explored the various creatures of the series before on my channel, and in this special compilation episode — you can get the full, documentary-style experience in one video. From the sunlit shallows to the deepest abyss, we’ll explore the biology behind these puzzling aliens, and discover the role they play in their larger ecosystems. So, let’s take the plunge together, and see what awaits us under the surface… 0:00 Introduction to Biology of Subnautica 1:00 1.1 Safe Shallows 4:38 1.2 Kelp Forest 8:07 1.3 Grassy Plateaus 11:05 1.4 Dunes 14:01 1.5 Mushroom Forest and Bulbzone 17:10 1.6 Jellyshroom Caves 18:53 1.7 Mountain Island 20:54 1.8 Grand reef 23:00 1.9 Lost River 25:54 1.10 Engineered Fauna 27:37 1.11 Lava Zone 30:45 1.12 Sea Emperor Facility 32:29 2.1 Sector Zero 35:33 2.2 Sparse Arctic 38:05 2.3 Arctic Kelp Forest 40:05 2.4 Arctic Storm 41:39 2.5 Lilypad Islands 45:08 2.6 Frozen Interior 48:51 2.7 Mysterious Signal 49:56 2.8 Deep Twisty Bridges 52:47 2.9 The Last Architect 54:57 2.10 West Arctic 56:59 2.11 Curious Hatchling 58:01 2.12 Thermal Spires 1:01:03 2.13 Deep Thermal Zone 1:03:48 2.14 Frozen Leviathan 1:05:19 2.15 Crystal Caves 1:08:53 2.17 Al-An Reborn 1:10:24 2.18 Saying Goodbye Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #Subnautica #SpeculativeBiology
Discover how Rain World: Downpour turns a complex virtual ecosystem on its head. New Slugcats, creatures, and environments await in this new expansion. - Rain World: Downpour is a game about reinventing an ecosystem. About how precise changes to an environment and the creatures within it can have an incredible effect on a simulated biosphere. In the expansion, there are five new Slugcats — The Gourmand, The Artificer, The Rivulet, The Spearmaster, and The Saint — to play as, all of which feature not just new, game-redefining abilities — but new regions suited for those abilities, and new creatures to test their limits. And like in the original base game, everything runs on a unique system of procedural animation and AI that makes this pixelated ecosystem feel truly alive. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll discover the hidden depths of Rain World: Downpour, and get some insight from the developers as to how the game came together. Now, let’s reshuffle the roles of this virtual food chain... 0:00 Rain World Downpour’s Ecosystem 0:54 Making Something New 5:14 A Hunter’s Fury 9:18 Under the Waves 12:05 The Darkest Path 14:55 At the End of Time 18:40 A Final Surprise Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Karl Casey 🤍 White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Rainworld #Worldbuilding
A journey through star systems teeming with alien life. An exploration of Charlotte Veldhuizen’s incredible speculative biology project ‘The Cluster.’ Artist's Donations: 🤍 Artist's Prints: 🤍 Artist's Instagram: 🤍 Artist's ArtStation: 🤍 Artist's DeviantArt: 🤍 On what planets are we most likely to find life? Our instinct might be to search for Earth-like worlds when sifting through the vastness of the cosmos. But what if that instinct is mistaken? Perhaps life, in its unrelenting stubbornness, can also be found in the churning atmosphere above gas giants, or the oven-like temperatures of a sun-scorched world. Such incredible forms of life are explored in Project C, a speculative biology epic by the incredible artist Charlotte Veldhuizen.The project is set within a vast congregation of stars known as The Cluster, where life has emerged upon numerous extreme worlds. So, for this entry into the archive, we can embark together on a journey across the cosmos — and explore just some of the worlds that wait within The Cluster… 0:00 The Cluster 1:05 Ondriel 5:13 Terminus 8:41 Falora 12:20 Whiterain 14:35 Scattered Worlds 16:25 Holos 18:12 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #AlienBiology
What kinds of alien life might evolve on a planet with weaker gravity than Earth's? An exploration of Sam Vilasboas’s speculative alien world "Anu." - Curious Archive Twitter: 🤍 Sam Vilasboas Deviantart: 🤍 Sam Vilasboas Artstation: 🤍 Sam Vilasboas Twitter: 🤍 Nearly every form of life on our planet is, in some way or another, determined by the same, invisible force: gravity. Earth’s gravitational pull influences the parameters of animals’ body plans, maximum size, and behavior — often limiting the ways in which life can evolve. But an earth-like level of gravity isn’t a constant through the universe. Imagine a planet where gravity is much, much weaker than it is on earth. This speculative hypothetical is the inspiration behind the fictional alien world of Anu, a creation of the talented artist Sam Vilasboas. The organisms on Anu have evolved into very different forms than what could feasibly exist on our own planet. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll be taking a documentary-style deep-dive into this incredibly detailed low-gravity world… 0:00 Life in Low Gravity 0:44 Planet Anu 1:29 The Water 2:51 The Land 5:20 The Skies 9:00 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #AlienBiology
Explore a universe from the cosmic dawn to life at the end of time. A breakdown of Lucas Roussel’s surreal worldbuilding epic ‘Rust and Humus.’ - Read 'Rust and Humus': 🤍 Lucas Roussel’s Artstation: 🤍 Lucas Roussel’s Instagram: 🤍 If you could witness time from the Big Bang to the last star going out, what moments would stay with you the most? What would you still remember, even as space grew dark and empty? What meaning — if any — would you glean from all of cosmic history? ‘Rust and Humus’ is a worldbuilding project that explores a dreamlike universe from the cosmic dawn to life at the end of time. Created by the visionary artist and writer Lucas Roussel and translated by Laura Remy, it is perhaps the most surreal exercise in worldbuilding I’ve ever encountered. Over the course of the project’s one-hundred and twenty-three pages, long forgotten gods create life on barren worlds, mortals build cosmic horrors beyond comprehension, and whales born from dreams visit magician butterflies on the moon. Yet in exploring this strange narrative, a profound meditation on the weight of time and the cyclical nature of history emerges. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll present ‘Rust and Humus’ from start to end. And since nothing can prepare you for what lies within, I feel we should just get started… 0:00 Of Rust and Humus 1:19 The Cosmic Tree 2:47 The Green Moon 4:09 The White Moon 5:50 The Titan’s Era 7:20 The Giant’s Era 9:29 The Ancient’s Era 11:40 The Modern Epoch 14:30 The Age of Rust 16:36 The Humus Era 17:51 Time’s End 19:13 What Comes After? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding #Rustandhumus
Discover the unique life of the desert planet of Tatooine, from Banthas to Sarlaccs. Star Wars belongs to Disney/Lucasfilm. - The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide by Terryl Whitlatch: 🤍 Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Imagine a planet of endless sand and scorching sun. A world where every day is a race for survival, and every night a fearsome competition for resources. The infamous desert planet of Tatooine — located in a galaxy far, far away — is known for being an inhospitable wasteland. Yet the creatures that brave this unforgiving environment are among the most fascinating, and possess hidden intricacies that deserve to be studied further. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll be documenting this arid biosphere firsthand — analyzing the biology of these extreme lifeforms, and seeing how their survival strategies compare to those present in Earth’s deserts. So, join me in a landspeeder on this voyage across the desert, as we uncover the mysteries of Tatooine… 0:00 Biology of Tatooine 1:27 Bantha 2:57 Tusken 3:35 Massiff 4:39 Tatooine Desertification 5:30 Worrt 6:24 Tatooine Sand Ape 7:21 Dewback 8:10 Rancor 9:43 Sarlacc 11:54 Krayt Dragon 13:56 Krayt Dragon Pearl 14:53 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Star Wars belongs to Disney/Lucasfilm. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #StarWars #SpeculativeBiology
Do you know how to survive a dragon attack? A journey through the burned pages of the ‘Dragonslayer Codex,’ a worldbuilding project by Sawyer Lee Support on Patreon: 🤍 Follow on Twitter: 🤍 - Have you heard of a dragon whose tail releases a spray of explosive slime? Or a dragon that hunts with noxious fumes? Or one that vomits spires of super-heated glass? Across various myths and cultures, dragons have taken on many forms. But few are more fearsome than the terrors that lurk within the pages of the Dragonslayer Codex — a worldbuilding project from the brilliant imagination of artist Sawyer Lee. The volume is written as a survival guide to the world’s most dangerous dragons, explaining their abilities, behavior, and how to slay them if necessary. But be warned: many of these scaly tyrants will not go down without a fight. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll learn critical things about each species that can mean the difference between survival and searing flames. Now, let’s dive into the burned pages, and discover the secrets of the Dragonslayer Codex… 0:00 Dragonslayer Codex 1:18 Scarlet Lasher 3:07 Sicklemouth 4:26 Wailing Bishop 6:01 Tasseled Thundermaw 7:38 Gaping Kilnneck 9:26 Black Blisterwhip 10:52 Hellbasker 12:26 Rattle Dread 13:48 Emerald Bombardier 14:58 Veilwright 16:42 Hullbreaker 18:19 Great Kinsbane 19:37 Support the Project Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Danger Approaches, Beauty Flow, Majestic Hills, Firesong, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Dragons #Worldbuilding
Have you ever wanted to learn how an alien bird-bug plays the horn? An exploration of Ripley’s incredible speculative biology project ‘Birgworld.’ - Artist’s Tumblr: 🤍 Artist’s Twitter: 🤍 The Birg Project is a worldbuilding series that brings to life an expansive alien ecosystem, but also delves into the most minute cultural details of its central intelligent species. Created by the brilliant artist Ripley, The Birg Project doesn’t just explore the biology of its titular aliens, but also imagines how they put on clothes, how they play the horn, even how they sneeze. Also called ‘Birdbugs,’ these extraterrestrials superficially resemble a cross between Earth birds and Earth bugs — and have developed a level of intelligence similar to our own. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore the incredible world of the Birgs. Now, let’s explore this alien planet on both a macro and micro scale… 0:00 The Birg Project 1:13 Birg Biology 3:33 Domesticated Species 6:12 Wild Creatures 10:24 Defiance of Nature 13:40 Birg Culture 17:38 Allure of Freedom 20:36 Support the Artist Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Majestic Hills, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Worldbuilding
Have you ever wondered about the biology of monsters in Monster Hunter: World? A nature documentary style deep dive into an ecosystem of giants… (Part II: 🤍 - Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 The vast environments of the video game ‘Monster Hunter: World’ are home to incredible forms of life — from thundering behemoths to ravenous hunters. While the game focuses on battling monsters, every creature on this continent has a life of their own, with unique day-to-day patterns, biological intricacies, and roles within the larger ecosystems. For this entry into the Archive, we’ll show the life of this continent in entirely new ways, and bring you closer to these creatures than ever before. This series will reveal the biology behind these so-called monsters, and investigate how they compare to wildlife on our planet. And although doing fieldwork in this region represents a significant risk, I’m determined to document these extreme lifeforms firsthand. So, let’s embark on this expedition together, and discover what awaits in this land of giants… 0:00 A World of Monsters 1:43 Aptonoth 3:03 Jagras 4:23 Great Jagras 6:49 Kulu-Ya-Ku 8:44 Anjanath 10:43 Kestodon 11:52 Pukei-Pukei 13:36 Mosswine 14:47 Deviljho 16:01 Tobi-Kadachi 17:41 Rathalos 19:02 What Next? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own all the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Hero, Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #MonsterHunter #SpeculativeBiology
Imagine a future where humanity is the most dangerous species in the universe. An exploration of Callum Stephen Diggle’s incredible speculative biology project ‘Humanity Lost.’ - Humanity Lost/Callum Stephen Diggle: Patreon: 🤍 Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Curious Archive: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 ‘Humanity Lost,’ a worldbuilding project and graphic novel series by artist Callum Diggle, imagines a future where humans have merged with a god-like artificial intelligence, and are now the most dangerous lifeforms in a galaxy full of aliens. It’s an exciting twist on the genre, and a story that features some particularly inventive speculative lifeforms. At the start of the 26th century, humanity has yet to give itself over to the AI. Under the oversight of the United Earth government, humans populate every major celestial body in our solar system. On Earth’s moon, giant lava-tubes are terraformed and become home to great cities larger than any on Earth. Yet as humans seek out more and more distant planets, they soon encounter another sentient species, one which will set them on a path towards a dark future… 0:00 Humanity Lost 1:16 The U.E. 1:44 First Contact 2:51 The Chantauri 3:46 Rise of the Imperium 4:55 The Soeus 5:21 The Pekt 5:50 The Breimheinians 6:22 The Velousians 6:55 The Vureii 7:25 The Gord 8:39 The Tandrax 9:18 The Last Human 9:55 What Comes Next? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Alienbiology
Imagine carbon-based alien life which is truly ‘alien.’ This is a breakdown of Alex Ries’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘The World of the Birrin.’ Part II: 🤍 - Alex Ries Social Media: Website: 🤍 Deviantart: 🤍 Twitter: 🤍 Patreon: 🤍 Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Facebook: 🤍 Somewhere in the vast unknown of space, alien life may be waiting for us. But these beings, even if they’re carbon-based like we are, probably won’t be the familiar humanoids present in many stories — but organisms which are truly, well, alien. Alex Ries is an artist who strives to imagine speculative aliens with genuinely unique appearances. He also worked behind the scenes on the various aliens of the video game Subnautica. And Alex Ries’s magnum opus of speculative biology is his ‘Birrin Project’ — a saga exploring the world of an intelligent species called the Birrin. So much of this world has been fleshed out — from the geography, to the history, to biology, to the culture — and it’s all so inventive and so detailed, that it’s going to be a challenge to explore everything in just one video. So, this is part one of two on the Birrin civilization. So, let’s begin our deep dive into this incredible alien world… 0:00 World of the Birrin 1:10 Planet Chriirah 2:43 Birrin Biology 5:07 Other Species 7:20 Birrin History: Pre-Fall 9:39 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #AlienBiology #Birrin
Explore a dreamlike realm where flora and fauna have evolved to use spells. A breakdown of Luca Vanzella’s surreal worldbuilding project ‘Codex Inversus.’ - Codex Inversus Instagram: 🤍 Codex Inversus Subreddit: 🤍 Codex Inversus Stories: 🤍 Have you ever heard of dragonflies that snipe their prey with bolts of energy? Or octopuses that serve as guard dogs? Or Necromancer Bees that live in reanimated carcass-hives? These are from the Codex Inversus — a modern worldbuilding project like Codex Serephinianus from the imagination of the brilliant artist and writer Luca Vanzella. Brought to life through collages of classical art, the world of Codex Inversus is full of flora and fauna that have evolved to use magical energy, visitors from parallel dimensions, and fractures in space and time. At a glance, the surreal, scrambled visuals are difficult to make sense of. Yet like a medieval bestiary, the project does follow a unique system of internal logic. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll investigate the creatures, people, and locations of this scrambled world — and reveal the hidden order to the chaos of Codex Inversus… 0:00 Codex Inversus 1:17 Strange Creatures 3:46 A Shifting Realm 7:07 Ethereal Ocean 9:42 Nation of Beasts 13:22 Tale of Two Moons 15:06 Elsewhere Woods 18:44 Edge of Reality Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding #CodexInversus
How do lifeforms like the Sandworms actually function? Discover the biology of 'Dune' on this expedition across planet Arrakis… - Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Facebook: 🤍 Imagine a world composed solely of a single, endless desert. What extreme forms of life might we find here? Would this be a world of microscopic organisms… or of unfathomable giants? Arrakis, also called ‘Dune’ is the titular planet at the center of the world-famous science fiction book and recent film of the same name. And although the planet is a desert of intense heat and extreme scarcity, it is also abundant with unexpected life. So, join me in this tour of the ecosystems of Arrakis, which will dive deep into the extended material from the books and other sources. We’ll uncover how such fantastical forms of life might function, and find biological analogues in the most unexpected places on our own planet. So, let’s begin our expedition across Arrakis. And be sure to walk without rhythm… 0:00 Biology of Dune 0:58 Planet Arrakis 1:38 Muad’Dib Rodent 3:01 Other Species 3:39 Sandworm Biology 5:04 Sandworm Movement 5:58 Sandworm Vibration Sensing 7:23 Sandplankton Biology 8:35 The Spice 9:32 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit go to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Long Road Ahead, Firesong, Impact Lento, Dangerous, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Dune #SpeculativeBiology
Imagine alien life that's truly 'alien.' A tour of “Snaiad” — a speculative biology project from the “All Tomorrows” author C. M. Kosemen. Part II: 🤍 - Follow and Support C. M. Kosemen: C. M. Kosemen Patreon: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen Twitter: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen Website: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen YouTube: 🤍 If we were ever to discover alien life, it’s highly likely we’d find it mind-blowing, and maybe even a little disturbing. One science fiction project which truly excels at depicting this is ‘Snaiad:’ which is one of the most detailed speculative biology projects of all time. The famous fictional world of Snaiad is the creation of the one and only C. M. Koseman, author of All Tomorrows and expert in all things alien. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll be taking you on a documentary-style tour across this truly alien planet, and exploring just some of the life that dwells on its surface… 0:00 Planet Snaiad 1:15 Snaiad Anatomy 3:27 Kahydroniformes 4:45 Turtiforms 5:52 Polydactyls 7:02 Haplobrachids 8:34 Picozoans 9:43 Monoanticherans 10:45 Spinostomes 11:13 Tromobrachids 12:08 Titaniformes 13:09 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Snaiad #SpeculativeBiology
Imagine a world of aquatic organisms. What species might emerge? A breakdown of J. J. Aniorte’s excellent speculative biology project ‘Polinices.’ - Follow the Artist: J. J. Aniorte Twitter: 🤍 J. J. Aniorte Instagram: 🤍 J. J. Aniorte Deviantart: 🤍 At this very moment, in the depths of Earth’s oceans, alien lifeforms are waiting. Not alien in the sense they come from another planet, but alien in the sense that they’re so different from what we think of as life, they seem not of this Earth. If our oceans harbor organisms that appear extraterrestrial, imagine what we’d find in a literal alien sea? Polinices is a speculative biology project by the brilliant artist and worldbuilder J. J. Aniorte, which explores life on a planet ruled by aquatic organisms. The infinite forms of this tropical paradise are among the most creative I’ve ever featured on this channel — pushing the boundaries of life as we know it. There’s a tremendous amount to discover. So, let’s dive in to these teeming waters, and see what awaits us upon planet Polinices. 0:00 Seas of Polinices 1:01 Meet the Stegocaudate 2:09 Cycles of Life 4:00 Onirocolia 4:45 Amphinatans 5:35 Sponge Eaters 6:23 Greatest Reef 7:12 Hive Drones 7:55 Signal Repeaters 8:52 Chain Fish 9:57 Biological Internet 10:44 Dipterognathe 11:55 Sea Belt 12:33 Sea Wheel 13:20 Intertidal Hunter 14:24 The Last Giant 15:28 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Polinices
Imagine a future where humanity must survive alongside mutated horrors. An exploration of Keegan Francis’s dark post-apocalyptic worldbuilding project ‘Barren.’ - Support Barren on Patreon: 🤍 Artist Social Media: 🤍 ‘Barren,’ a post-apocalyptic worldbuilding project by Keegan Francis, imagines an alternate history where civilization ended in nuclear conflict, and mutated animal life rapidly evolves to rule over the irradiated wastes left behind. A retro-future that calls to mind the worldbuilding of the Fallout series, the project reveals a world where human survivors must contend with biological horrors created by their own folly. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll travel across the wastes, creating a ‘survival guide’ of sorts to the creatures that roam this desolate world. Now, let’s cross into an alternate timeline, and witness the broken world of Barren… 0:00 World of Barren 1:47 Mutant Biology 3:32 The Bulwark 4:43 The Bonehen 5:55 The Zadger 7:12 The Nukula 8:58 The Dillo-Pig 10:09 The Goldwing 11:13 The Rotfowl 12:28 Biophage 13:31 “Ankle Biters” 14:22 The Vespore 15:28 Not All is Lost… Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Unseen Horrors, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding #Barren
Imagine the far future of an alien civilization. This is a breakdown of Alex Ries’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘The World of the Birrin.’ Part I: 🤍 - Alex Ries Social Media: Website: 🤍 Deviantart: 🤍 Twitter: 🤍 Patreon: 🤍 Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Facebook: 🤍 This video is the second part of a two-part series exploring the incredible speculative alien world of the Birrin. The world of the Birrin was realized by Alex Ries — an exceptional designer and worldbuilder who worked on the video game Subnautica. In the last video, we broke down the biology and early history of the Birrin, a six-limbed sentient alien race at the center of this fictional world. But there’s still a lot to cover. Which is why, in this entry into the archive, we’ll be chronicling the next several eons of Birrin history, following their incredible arc into the far future… 0:00 The Birrin: Part II 0:47 The Fall 1:23 Bluestick Farming 4:03 Birrin History: Post-Fall 6:32 Far Future 8:34 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #AlienBiology #Birrin
What would our world look like if the dinosaurs still ruled over it? ‘The New Dinosaurs’ by Dougal Dixon asks this very question. - Subscribe to stay up to date with The Archive: 🤍 Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck our planet and triggered a mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But, what if it hadn’t? This theoretical timeline is the subject of the speculative zoology book ‘The New Dinosaurs’ — written by Dougal Dixon, who popularized speculative zoology with a trilogy which also includes ‘After Man’ and ‘Man After Man. Dixon’s work influenced other series you might know like the Future is Wild, and C. M. Kosemen's ambitious ‘All Tomorrows.’ But ‘The New Dinosaurs’ is unique in how imagines not the future — but an alternate form of the present. So, for this entry into the archive, we’re going to catalog this other world Dixon conceptualized — bearing in mind some of the science is a bit outdated, and it’s of course impossible to know exactly what such a timeline would look like. Think of this book — and by extension, this video — as just an interesting guess. A thought experiment where we imagine the great asteroid was just another flash of light in the sky, and over the next several million years, a dawn rose on a new order of dinosaurs. 0:00 The New Dinosaurs 1:22 Africa 3:00 Europe 4:02 North America 4:59 South America 5:52 Asia 7:13 Australia 8:21 Oceans 9:36 Outro All book credit goes to the brilliant Dougal Dixon, please support his amazing work! Website: 🤍 Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary and social satire. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Music: ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #TheNewDinosaurs #SpeculativeZoology
What might legendary creatures look like if they were more realistic? Discover the bizarre creatures of ‘Cryptozoologicon,’ featuring the legendary author Darren Naish. (Links Below) - Buy ‘Cryptozoologicon: 🤍 Darren Naish Website: 🤍 Darren Naish Twitter: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen Patreon: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen YouTube: 🤍 John Conway Patreon: 🤍 John Conway Twitter: 🤍 For the past century, stories of cryptids — like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster — have continued to fascinate. And while these creatures likely don’t exist, that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to speculate on their biology. Enter Cryptozoologicon, a book that imagines evolutionary backstories for legendary creatures. Created by renowned paleontologist Darren Naish, alongside channel mainstays C.M. Koseman (author of All Tomorrows) and John Conway — the volume is so detailed that it’s worth exploring further. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll investigate the speculative biology of the world’s most famous cryptids. You can purchase the book and follow and support the creators using the links in the description below. Now, let’s explore the creatures of Cryptozoologicon… 0:00 Creatures of Cryptozoologicon 2:04 Bigfoot & Yeti 3:36 Chupacabra 4:41 Loch Ness Monster? 6:26 Bunyip 7:44 Beast of Gevaudan 9:18 Megalodon 10:42 Ahool 11:40 Kelpie 12:56 Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu 14:29 Goatman 15:31 Lost Dinosaur 16:29 De Loys’s Ape 17:41 Long Necked Seal 18:31 Tizheruk 19:30 Hoop Snake 21:03 Support the Creators Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Unseen Horrors, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding #SpeculativeBiology
What can Spore teach us about alien civilizations? A journey from hunter-gatherers to a galaxy-spanning empire (Part I: 🤍 - How much of civilization is shaped by our biology? How might our cities, transportation, and technology look different if we weren’t a group of nearly hairless primates? The video game Spore has the answers. Okay, well, maybe not the answers — but Spore does offer an interesting case study into the fundamentals of how a speculative lifeform might build a society. In our first Spore episode, we followed a lifeform from a microscopic organism to the intelligent Curiousus Sapiens. In this episode, we’ll witness the ascent of their civilization, and explore how the unique biology of an alien like Curiousus Sapiens would affect things like the design of clothing, the schematics of vehicles, and shapes of buildings in unexpected ways. We’ll begin with Tribal Stage and go all the way to Space, completing the multi-billion-year-tale of Curiousus Sapiens So, let’s return to Planet Curious, and discover the finale of the story of life... 0:00 Aliens and Intelligence 1:09 Early Tools 2:38 Alien Clothing 4:38 War and Peace 7:31 Animal Domestication 9:27 Fires of Industry 11:40 A United World 13:53 Indistinguishable from Magic 16:57 Onward Towards Infinity Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Spore
Sauropods – or long necks – were the largest things to ever walk the face of the earth. Nothing else has come close. Whether that’s because something evolves to curb them before they reach the same size as the long-necked dinosaurs or that the sauropods were just built different the fact remains that nothing existed before or after them that could compete. The only critters to beat out the land titans are the oceanic leviathans, but that’s water – they’re cheating. Each new sauropod dinosaur discovered helps to understand the group as a whole as every single one is fragmentary with very few considered relatively complete. One of these well-preserved behemoths was yet another South American beast from the Late Cretaceous. Come and join me in learning about one of the most complete of the titanosaurs – Dreadnoughtus, the living citadel. Art in Thumbnail belongs to - Pablo Quintieri ✅Curious Archive✅ 🤍 ✅Tyler Addison ✅ 🤍 ✅Adam Midzuk ✅ 🤍 ✅ PATREON ✅ 🤍 ✅ STICKERS & SHIRTS ✅ 🤍 ✅Facebook: facebook.com/ExpeditionDG/ ✅Twitter: twitter.com/EDGEinthewild ✅Instagram: 🤍edgeonthetrail ✅ MUSIC ✅ If I've used something on my video that you don't want me to use, PLEASE EMAIL ME first before flagging a video, I'm very reasonable and will take the video down to replace whatever image or video belongs to you. Email: expeditiondiscoveryguild🤍gmail.com
Larger machines lurk in the lost reaches of Horizon: Zero Dawn. Part two of our documentary style deep dive into an artificial ecosystem (Part I: 🤍 - Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 Welcome back to the world of Horizon. In the most extreme biomes of this planet of machines, ill-tempered titans, skilled survivalists, and genuine terrors still await discovery. Like the animals braving the harshest regions of our current age, these machines have had to get creative to endure the hazards of the elements. The environments are perilous, and the machines that live here even more so, but sometimes discovery requires certain risks. And with mysterious robots that aren’t part of the ecosystem awakening in the darkest corners of the land, who knows what final secrets are buried beneath the ground. So, join me on the last section of our documentary-style journey, as we conclude our expedition across the uncharted regions… 0:00 Unseen Machines 1:04 Stormbird 2:38 Stalker 4:59 Rockbreaker 7:03 Corruptor 9:10 Charger 10:38 Trampler 12:37 Control Tower 14:12 Scorcher 16:10 Frostclaw and Fireclaw 17:43 Deathbringer 19:21 Beyond the Horizon… Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #Horizon #SpeculativeBiology
What strange creatures might emerge after a mass extinction on an alien moon? Part II a series on of Dylan Bajda’s speculative evolutionary epic ‘Serina.’ - Part I: 🤍 Part III: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Website: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Deviantart: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Patreon: 🤍 This video is the second part of a series exploring the incredible speculative evolution project of Serina, the world of birds. Serina was created by Dylan Bajda — an exceptional artist and worldbuilder. When we left off, Serina was just beginning to warm at the end of the Cryocene Era. Now, it is the Thermocene, a hothouse world of rising sea levels and increasing volcanic activity that has led to some extinctions — especially in the warming oceans, where large animals like the bloons have sadly died out. In much of the world, however, newly evolved species are enjoying this new climate. 100 million years into this grand experiment, birds have evolved to fill virtually every niche this moon has to offer… Return to Serina 0:00 The Thermocene: 75 – 175 mil yrs 0:44 The Thermocene-Pangeacene Extinction 6:20 The Pangeacene: 178 - 250 mil yrs 6:57 Outro 12:44 Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Serina
Imagine if dinosaurs evolved human intelligence. This is an exploration of C.M. Kosemen’s and Simon Roy’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘Dinosauroids.’ - C. M. Kosemen Patreon: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen Website: 🤍 C. M. Kosemen YouTube: 🤍 Simon Roy Patreon: 🤍 Simon Roy Twitter: 🤍 Simon Roy Instagram: 🤍 Imagine an alternate world where dinosaurs evolved intelligence comparable to humans. What might these intelligent dinosaurs look like? What kind of technology, culture, and art might they produce? This speculative timeline is the subject of “Dinosauroids,” a worldbuilding project conceptualized in part by C.M. Kosemen — whose work you may know from his sci-fi book “All Tomorrows,” or his speculative paleontology book “All Yesterdays” — the latter of which I’ve got a video on elsewhere in the archive. “Dinosauroids” also comes from Simon Roy, an accomplished comic book artist and writer who created much of the art featured in this video. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore the incredibly detailed speculative world and history Roy and Koseman created to go alongside these new dinosaurs. 0:00 An Alternate Earth 1:47 Dinosauroids Biology 3:44 Other Species 6:05 Dinosauroids History 8:08 Dinosauroids Culture 9:41 The Future 10:13 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Crow Footage (Creative Commons Attribution): 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Dinosauroids
If we ever discover Alien life, what will it look like? Convergent evolution and physics can tell us a surprising amount about extraterrestrials… - Carlo Balassu Website: 🤍 Carlo Balassu Artstation: 🤍 Teeming Universe Patreon: 🤍 Teeming Universe Book: 🤍 Teeming Universe Instagram: 🤍 Alex Ries Twitter: 🤍 Alex Ries Patreon: 🤍 A Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: 🤍 In the original series of Star Trek, the show tries to pass off what is clearly someone’s dog with a horn taped to its head as an ‘alien lifeform.’ It’s pretty hilarious to revisit — not just to see the actors make a heroic attempt to stay in-character while carrying this thing around — but also because this unicorn dog doesn’t seem distinct enough from life on earth to make a believable alien. But this raises an interesting question: if there is life elsewhere in the universe, just how ‘alien’ will aliens look? It’s a question many scientists and sci-fi authors have speculated on, and is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore relevant phenomena in evolution and physics to determine if extraterrestrials are more likely to look like Earth animals, or something far stranger... 0:00 How ‘Alien’ Should Aliens Look? 0:57 Convergent Evolution 3:34 Evolve to Crab 4:56 Alien Convergence 8:43 Intelligent Aliens 10:52 The Question of Gravity 14:01 Beyond Mortal Comprehension 16:11 The Answer? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #ConvergentEvolution
Could the game 'Spore' teach us about life on alien worlds? An epic journey from a tiny cell to a complex organism (Part II: 🤍 - I don’t think there’s ever been a video game quite like Spore. Released in the late 2000s, the game lets you create and then guide a lifeform from a microorganism in a tidepool to an advanced creature in a galaxy-spanning civilization. Being able to, essentially, design and play as your own speculative creature really blew my mind when I was younger. I remember spending hours trying to make my creations as detailed as possible, and coming up with fake scientific attributes about how they functioned in the ecosystems around them. Of course, you could also use Spore to create bizarre creatures, and throw the rulebook of biology out the window. I also know a lot of content was cut during its development. Yet Spore remains an evolution simulator that’s quite nostalgic to many. And the game does explore a number of the principles of evolution and biology, albeit in a simplified manner. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll make a creature and play through the game ourselves to gain an understanding of how this virtual race for survival relates to real scientific laws. And as an added challenge, we’ll try to keep our creature within the parameters of plausibility — as much as such a thing is possible in Spore. So, let’s begin our multi-billion-year voyage through this simulated universe… 0:00 The Biology of Spore 1:38 Dawn of Life 4:15 Early Adaptations 6:26 Changing Tides 7:59 Ocean to Land 10:39 Conflict and Evolution 13:14 Rise of the Pack 15:04 A Changing Mind 17:56 What Comes Next… Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Spore
A breakdown of the biology of ‘The Future is Wild,’ an incredible and nostalgic series that detailed speculative lifeforms which might evolve millions of years in the future. - Imagine a world where evolution has written a new chapter in the story of life. That was the tagline of ‘The Future is Wild,’ a miniseries that aired in the early 2000s exploring the speculative lifeforms of the far future. And it was… amazing. The fictional world is fantastically detailed, and an impressive team of real scientists came up with the creatures that inhabit it. And I think these creatures definitely deserve a second look, even if you’ve never heard of them before. For this extra-long entry into the archive, we’ll be exploring this hypothetical future — having fun incorporating contemporary scientific discoveries that might provide new insight into these speculative lifeforms, and just appreciating the richness of the world the series created. Prepare to jump forwards several million years — to the first era of The Future is Wild… 0:00 The Future is Wild 1:30 Snowstalker 2:38 Gannet Whale 3:41 Shagrat 4:43 Cryptile 5:51 Gryken 6:44 Scrofa 7:32 Babookari 8:37 Carakiller 9:13 Southern Rattleback 9:55 Northern Rattleback 10:43 Spink 11:20 Deathgleaner 12:02 Toraton 13:09 Swampus 13:50 Lurkfish 14:39 Ocean Phantom 15:41 Reef glider 16:39 Spindle Troopers 17:38 Spitfire Bird 18:40 Great Blue Windrunner 19:58 Poggle 21:04 Flish 22:03 Sharkopath 22:37 Rainbow Squid 23:26 Megasquid 24:39 Squibbon 25:25 The Future is Wilder? Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #TheFutureisWild #SpeculativeBiology
Discover the monsters of Wildspire Waste, where only the strongest survive. The second episode of a series exploring the biology of Monster Hunter: World (Part I: 🤍 - Astrovitae Magazine: 🤍 Curious Archive Social Media: Twitter: 🤍 Instagram: 🤍 The sun-scorched world of the Wildspire Waste. A land of the truly fearsome… and truly bizarre. A place where the extremes of climate, and the extremes of survival meet. This second episode on the biology of ‘Monster Hunter: World’ will show you an environment where resources are scarce, and competition is a way of life. And as usual, it’s a battleground I’ll be braving firsthand. So, join me on my mission to chart the extreme reaches of this world, and better understand the titans that live here... 0:00 A Land of Extremes 1:12 Barroth 3:29 Jyuratodus 5:07 Apceros 6:13 Wildspire Dung Beetle 7:23 Nightshade Paolumu 9:17 Rathian 10:15 Glavenus 12:39 Tigrex 13:54 Mysterious Spires 15:04 Diablos 16:43 Bazelguese 18:06 The End? + Special Announcement Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Hero, Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #CuriousArchive #MonsterHunter #SpeculativeBiology
Welcome to Darwin IV, an alien world unlike any other. An analysis of the speculative biology of Wayne Barlowe’s incredible book ‘Expedition.’ Part II: 🤍 - Expedition Book: 🤍 Barlowe's Instagram: 🤍 Barlowe's Website: 🤍 Perhaps no single artist has had a greater impact on how we imagine alien life than Wayne Barlowe. Widely considered the father of modern Speculative Biology, Barlowe has worked for decades as a creature designer for everything from Avatar to Pacific Rim. Yet perhaps Barlow’s most monumental alien world comes from his book ‘Expedition’ — which depicts an extraterrestrial ecosystem with so much detail that reading it feels like getting lost on another planet. The book was even made into a TV special for the Discovery Channel called ‘Alien Planet,’ which was honestly one of my favorite things to watch as a kid. The world at the center of the book and documentary — called ‘Darwin IV’ — is one I’ve wanted to document myself for a long time. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll take a dive-deep into the biology and ecosystems of Barlowe’s one-of-a-kind planet… 0:00 Voyage to Darwin IV 1:18 The Discovery 2:09 Arrowtongue 3:13 Gyrosprinter 3:54 Rayback 4:36 Prarie-Ram 5:15 Butchertree 5:50 Pronghead 6:32 Groveback 7:40 Daggerwrist 8:47 Beachquills 9:55 Amoebic Sea 10:46 Emperor Sea-Strider 11:44 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Dangerous, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #DarwinIV #SpeculativeBiology
What would a responsibly run park of resurrected dinosaurs look like? A tour of Joshua Dunlop’s fictional project ‘Prehistorica.’ - Joshua Dunlop Patreon: 🤍 Joshua Dunlop DeviantArt: 🤍 Joshua Dunlop Artstation: 🤍 Bringing back dinosaurs would probably end in an… unfortunate outcome, as the Jurassic Park franchise has shown us countless times. But I can’t deny, I’ve still always been interested in the concept of a responsibly-run prehistoric reserve where nothing goes wrong and the dinosaurs don’t eat you. That’s the basic concept behind the fictional park of Prehistorica, a biological nature preserve where resurrected dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are treated with care and the fences actually work. 0:00 Project Prehistorica 1:02 Welcome to Pangea 1:33 Torosaurus Trail 2:24 Majungasaurus Mountain 3:20 Kentrosaurus Woodland 4:01 Diabloceratops River 4:38 Suchomimus Stream 5:29 Coastal Skybox 6:27 Archelon Harbour 7:23 Plesiosaur Pond 8:07 Brachylophosaurus Badlands 9:01 Brachiosaur Redwoods 9:48 Outro And since we sadly can’t truly visit Prehistorica, for this entry into the archive, I’ll be taking on the role of tour guide and giving you a glimpse of the well-managed prehistoric reserve that I think we’ve all wanted to vacation at… Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #Dinosaurs #SpeculativeBiology
A new chapter in the epic story of Serina, which will change the moon forever. A breakdown of Dylan Bajda’s speculative biology project ‘Serina.’ - Dylan Bajda/Sheather Patreon: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Deviantart: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Website: 🤍 This video is a new chapter in my long-running series exploring the incredible speculative evolution project of Serina, the world of birds. Serina was created by Dylan Bajda — a terrific artist and worldbuilder — and many exciting developments have occurred since we last explored his creation. You may remember the fascinating premise of the Serina project: an unknown force leaves a colony of finches on the moon of Serina, along with a few other plant and animal species to serve as their food supply. The project imagines the amazing lifeforms that evolve from these humble beginnings over millions of years — creatures that I’ve explored in past videos. For this entry into the archive, we’ll chronicle the next era in this evolutionary epic, and witness the rise and fall of countless species as the world of Serina continues to change… 0:00 Serina: Endings and Beginnings 2:46 The Last Woodcrafter 6:02 The Early Ocean Age 9:41 The Daydreamers Divided 13:28 Rise of the Warmongers 16:40 A New Age Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Serina
Everything changes in the latest chapter of Serina — when parts become whole. Experience the story from the beginning here: 🤍 - Dylan Bajda/Sheather Website: 🤍 Dylan Bajda/Sheather Deviantart: 🤍 This video is a new chapter in my long-running series exploring the incredible speculative evolution saga of Serina, the world of birds. Serina was created by the talented artist and worldbuilder Dylan Bajda — and many extraordinary developments have occurred since we last explored this distant moon. The triumphs and tragedies, the joys and the sorrows of this era are perhaps greater than any that have come before. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll chronicle the rise and fall of fascinating species, and discover astonishing revelations as the world of Serina creeps ever closer to its end… 0:00 Serina: A New Era 1:07 Stewards of the Sea 5:22 A Cold Wind 9:29 Born Different 11:55 The Third Essence 15:12 When All Falls Apart 18:36 The Dark Before The Dawn 21:25 The Visitor 25:48 Always Forwards Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music: Infinite SergePavkinMusic Music Link: 🤍 ♫ Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 🤍 #CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Serina
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