When the north pole began to melt, a forest emerged as did its inhabitants who thawed much faster than we could have predicted. The more they were uncovered, the more we realised that the previous ice age wasn't a gradual occurrence. It couldn't have been - not with the way that everything seemed to be trying to climb up.
It wasn't just animals either, humans wrapped in the thick furs of long extinct beasts were just as frozen in their terror. They didn't go quietly, their hands were bloodied and broken, nails lodged deep into bark in their desperation to survive.
While the ice around the forest broke and all manner of bacterium and bio-organisms found themselves released into a world 11,000 years past their time yet the humans (neanderthal and sapient alike) remained unchanged. It was one less problem to deal with however the sudden reintroduction of prehistoric birds (among all else) was a little harder to restrict.
Within a week the world was in turmoil as ancient predators and prey forced their way into already precarious ecosystems and fractured them beyond any hope of repair. Landscapes were irreparably altered and a mass extinction took place, the likes of which had never been witnessed in recorded memory.
Blessedly nature settled itself and formed a new order of coexistence between ancient and present creatures, ecosystems began the slow process of recovery and only a few dozen new diseases found their way into human bloodstreams. It was the best we could have hoped for.
Just when we thought the chaos was ending, the neanderthals disappeared.
It wasn't just animals either, humans wrapped in the thick furs of long extinct beasts were just as frozen in their terror. They didn't go quietly, their hands were bloodied and broken, nails lodged deep into bark in their desperation to survive.
While the ice around the forest broke and all manner of bacterium and bio-organisms found themselves released into a world 11,000 years past their time yet the humans (neanderthal and sapient alike) remained unchanged. It was one less problem to deal with however the sudden reintroduction of prehistoric birds (among all else) was a little harder to restrict.
Within a week the world was in turmoil as ancient predators and prey forced their way into already precarious ecosystems and fractured them beyond any hope of repair. Landscapes were irreparably altered and a mass extinction took place, the likes of which had never been witnessed in recorded memory.
Blessedly nature settled itself and formed a new order of coexistence between ancient and present creatures, ecosystems began the slow process of recovery and only a few dozen new diseases found their way into human bloodstreams. It was the best we could have hoped for.
Just when we thought the chaos was ending, the neanderthals disappeared.
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