Nat Hist Rules
As a carnivore, when wanting to eat from a player body that another carnivore party has claimed these steps must be followed (when hungry and within hunting allowance).
What is body contesting?
The processes of abrasion, attrition, hydraulic action and solution
What is erosion?
Earth’s land was joined, allowing for a relatively uniform, global distribution of early species. The climate was largely arid.
What is pangaea?
This animal is theorised to be the first to have evolved, from both physical fossils and chemical remains
What is a sea sponge (porifera)?
A time period in which dinosaurs first evolved.
What is the Triassic?
All fights must stop and cannot start for the final 1 minute. No attacking during this time, simply embrace your upcoming demise to the Asteroid.
What is the final countdown?
The fossil that scientists named after how much it annoyed them after it had been damaged by collectors
What is Irritator?
The deepest point of the sea, reaching depths of almost 11,000 metres
What is the Mariana Trench?
Plants would not have been able to evolve on land without this organism's help
What are fungi?
The most recent of the "Big Five" mass extinction events
What is the KT extinction event?
In a fight, attackers must focus on one target per their Hunting/Roguing Allowances (see profiles), but may switch to an easier target that arises within the party they are attacking, so long as the target is within their hunting allowance.
What is target locked?
A dip in a discordant coastline where soft rock erodes faster than hard rock
What is a headland?
The longest mountain range on land.
What are the Andes?
The theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts weren't evolved organelles, rather, small single-celled organisms engulfed by larger organisms
What is endosymbiotic theory?
A period of rivalry between two paleontologists in the 1800s.
What are the bone wars?
Do not venture closer than ~1 Apatosaurus body-length to any fights not involving you/your group. Do not stalk or interfere. If the fight moves towards you, you must move away.
What is watch distance?
A fossil of a Protoceratops locked in combat with a Velociraptor.
What is the "fighting dinosaurs" fossil?
Extensive fossilized trackways discovered in various locations of primarily limestone, including the central US, Bolivia, and England.
What are dinosaur freeways?
A term for a feature that has atrophied or become useless over the course of evolution
What is a vestigial feature?
A large theropod dinosaur known as the Asian t-Rex.
What is Tarbosaurus?
An animal that is antisocial and cannot be close to or tolerant towards other animals within ~1 Apatosaurus body length of themselves unless going in to attack. (3-call and air-attack at anyone who enters within this radius and move away if you do not intend to rogue attack them)
What is a rogue?
Rocks swallowed by animals, often found in the gastric region of sauropod skeletons, that aid in digestion by grinding food.
What are gastroliths?
The study of dinosaur geographic distribution, based on evidence in the fossil record.
What is paleobiogeography?
While some evidence suggests these types of plants evolved in the Jurassic period (around 160–174 million years ago), they became widespread and dominant only after the Early Cretaceous.
What are angiosperms (flowering plants)?
A well known paleontologist famous for starting and writing “the dinosaur renaissance” and “raptor red”.
Who is Robert T. Bakker?