Beneath the desolate canyon, the dried-up riverbed swells with heat waves. At 80 degrees Celsius, the earth has lost all moisture, and the distorted heat rising from the ground is clearly visible.
The elephant herd was slowly walking along the riverbank. Unlike other animals that wished they could shed their fur, these elephants were covered in a layer of hair.
Long and huge tusks, thick hair.
The mammoth, a name from a distant past, has reappeared on a new evolutionary path.
During the Ice Age, in order to cope with the harsh environment and year-round cold temperatures, mammoths evolved two layers of fur of different lengths, as well as a thick layer of fat. This armor protected them from frostbite, allowing them to survive and reproduce safely in the icy wilderness.
The woolly mammoth (mammuthus primigenius), also known as the long-haired mammoth, is an animal adapted to cold climates, belonging to the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, subclass Eutheria, order Proboscidea, suborder Euproboscidea, family Elephantidae, and genus Mammuthus.
Once one of the largest elephants in the world, and one of the largest land mammals to ever live, the steppe mammoth could weigh up to 12 tons. It was a behemoth of the Ice Age.
These elephants are tall and strong, with thick legs, four toes on each foot, and exceptionally large heads. They have no lower incisors, but their upper incisors are very long and curl upwards and outwards.
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The molars are composed of many closely spaced tooth plates, with a well-developed layer of chalk between them, which are characteristics of the mammoth.
Of course, they are not exactly alike.
A mature mammoth can reach 5 meters in length and 3 meters in height. Its tusks are about 1.5 meters long. It is covered with dense, long, brownish-black hair and has very thick skin with an extremely thick layer of fat, which can be up to 9 centimeters thick. It is an animal adapted to cold climates.
Although the elephants in front of us also have tusks that are 1.5 meters long, their fur is not very thick; it can only be described as short fur, and the color is light gray.
During the distant Ice Age, as the climate warmed, mammoths were forced to migrate north, their habitat shrank, and grassland vegetation decreased, leaving them without enough food and facing the threat of starvation.
This is the natural selection process, and it is not unfair to the mammoths.
When the woolly mammoth began to go extinct, the last Ice Age was already coming to an end.
The end of the Ice Age was marked by global warming, which caused glaciers that once covered most of the Northern Hemisphere to melt rapidly.
Today, this race, which was eliminated by the changes in nature, has reappeared through evolution in the new world.
This group of woolly mammoths was not the woolly mammoth recorded in human history; they were originally a herd of Asian elephants. (Also known as elephants or Asian elephants, belonging to the order Proboscidea and family Elephantidae.)
Asian elephants have small eyes and large ears, which can cover the sides of their necks when they are turned back. They have thick and strong limbs, with 5 toes on their forelimbs and 4 toes on their hindlimbs.
It has a short, thin tail, thick, wrinkled skin, sparse short hair all over its body, and tusks that are more than 1 meter long, which are the incisors that protrude from the upper jaw of the male elephant.
Asian elephants and mammoths differ greatly in size, ivory, and hair.
However, in an environment where spiritual energy was reviving, they gradually evolved into the shape of mammoths.
Unlike ordinary herbivores, Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia, and their food requirements are undoubtedly enormous.
During the snow disaster, their food crisis almost led to the extinction of the entire species, and the spring that followed did not last long before an even more terrible drought arrived.
The heat caused rivers to dry up and vegetation to wither, forcing them to constantly search for new water sources and new valleys where food might still be found.
But hope is always slim. The elephant herd, relying on their powerful bodies evolved from the first tide of spiritual energy, can barely maintain their dominance among most of the beasts. The animals do not pose much of a threat to their lives.
But the decline of nature will cause them to die in their struggle.
The original herd of more than sixty elephants was mostly destroyed by the natural disaster. The remaining members of the herd are those who survived the baptism of the heavy rain energy.
Having survived the baptism of the energy rain, they absorbed a lot of mottled and restless energy. The fact that the remaining twenty or so members of the herd were able to evolve fur adapted to the heat is thanks to the rain.
This is a survival evolution driven by biological instincts; they seek survival in harsh environments, attempting to change their predicament through evolution.
Clearly, those who survived were the winners.
Those who failed have long since turned to dust.
Although the elephant herd moved slowly, they were very stable and did not seem to be afraid of the scorching heat.
Lin Qian scanned his spiritual sense, and the special features of the elephant herd were revealed in his spiritual perception. It turned out that the hair on these new mammoths did not evolve out of nowhere. Their hair had the same function as the previous plants: absorbing heat and converting it into energy.
With the heat from the scorching sun being converted and consumed by the hair, less than half of the heat is transferred to their skin.
With such powerful sun protection and cooling properties, these mammoths were naturally able to move freely in the sun.
Lin Qian was already used to the diversity of biological evolution. He had seen a great deal of evolution in plants and animals, and he could easily accept any direction of evolution.
Of course, humans are far less adept at this.
At first, Lin Qian also had doubts, especially after contacting the survivor team in Linhai City and analyzing thousands of superhumans. He even wondered if this was a shackle and limitation imposed on humanity by nature.
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