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Surfscooters, the only surviving dolfinch, inherited the waters of their world after the end of the Mid-Ultimocene ice age. They colonized inland waters as well as the ocean, and some species even evolved some capacity to walk over land. Some are omnivores; a few mostly eat animal food. Yet the dolfinches have not retaken old roles as top predators in any of their environs; there are new hunters at the tops of the food chain now, highly formidable and threatening to all life beneath them: huge snarks now haunt the seas, and vertebrate life no longer rules the waters uncontested.
So the surfscooters, even as they grow, remain primarily plant-eating; but as the seas are now much deeper than they were, vegetation clusters sporadically along the edges of continental shelves. Aquatic puffgrass forms meadows blanketing sandy sediments, while large kelp-like algae forms colonies on rock sea coasts. In between these grazing grounds are wide stretches of barren - and dangerously exposed - open ocean.

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Description

Surfscooters, the only surviving dolfinch, inherited the waters of their world after the end of the Mid-Ultimocene ice age. They colonized inland waters as well as the ocean, and some species even evolved some capacity to walk over land. Some are omnivores; a few mostly eat animal food. Yet the dolfinches have not retaken old roles as top predators in any of their environs; there are new hunters at the tops of the food chain now, highly formidable and threatening to all life beneath them: huge snarks now haunt the seas, and vertebrate life no longer rules the waters uncontested.
So the surfscooters, even as they grow, remain primarily plant-eating; but as the seas are now much deeper than they were, vegetation clusters sporadically along the edges of continental shelves. Aquatic puffgrass forms meadows blanketing sandy sediments, while large kelp-like algae forms colonies on rock sea coasts. In between these grazing grounds are wide stretches of barren - and dangerously exposed - open ocean.

Full entry: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…