Site Updates
10 January '22: Site Launches
16 January '22: Early Muricene Begins
18 January '22: First Update to the Early Muricene
21 January '22: Second Update to the Early Muricene
*Improved some site formatting*
A Nearly-Comprehensive Guide to Early Muricene Bloodsuckers
Rats of Panapterra, Part 1: The Tropics
Gambusia of the High Seas, Part 3: Beneath the Biofilm
*Partial rewrite of The Inhabitants*
*Archived Intermission: Some Notes on Names*
28 January '22: Third Update to the Early Muricene
Endemic Flora of the Gecko Isles
Rats of Panapterra, Part 2: The Swamps
*Made small revisions to all previous pages*
4 February '22: Fourth Update to the Early Muricene
Rats of Panapterra, Part 3: The Prairies
*Slight fixes to formatting and certain scientific names*
Scenes from the Early Muricene, Part 1
19 February '22: Final Update to the Early Muricene
*minor edits to old pages for scientific accuracy and consistency*
Scenes from the Early Muricene, Part 2
25 Februry '22: Middle Muricene Begins
4 March '22: First Update to the Middle Muricene
*small edit to Scenes From the Early Murice, Part 2 for consistency*
Seawis and Monitor Geckos: Life on the Shoreline
*minor revisions to older articles*
*updated Every Single Kiwi Species on Apterra*
11 March '22: Second Update to the Middle Muricene
24 March '22: Final update to the Middle Muricene
8 April '22: Late Muricene Begins
*small edit to Seawis and Monitor Geckos: Life on the shoreline*
Seagrass Forests of the Medithalassic Ocean
*small edit to Quartzkarst, Part 2: The Pit of Hell*
*small edit to Flora of the Middle Muricene, Part 2*
Fly-Catchers of the Late Muricene
Diversity of Neotenic Mosquitoes
*small edit to this page and The Planet Apterra*
*updated homepage banner image to the Late Muricene map*
*small edit to Whiplashers and Harpoonjaws: Microraptorial Mosquitoes*
*added three illustrations to Flora of the Middle Muricene, Part 1*
15 April '22: First Update to the Late Muricene
Tree Mycads and the Barrier Bayou
*small edit to The Mycad War*
*small edit to Flora of the Middle Muricene, Part 1*
*small edit to Peragrattus: Rise of the Muridiungulates*
*added illustration to Bouteloua Swamps of the Ailuropian Coast*
Kiwizelles and Raspbirds: Herd-Birds of the Woodlouse-Grassland
Dodecapedes and the Plague: Partners in Pestilence
*small edit to A Guide to Solitary Woodlice*
25 April '22: Second Update to the Late Muricene
28 April '22: Final Update to the Late Muricene
Shadeblades and the Struggle for Sunshine
*small edit to Flora of the Middle Muricene, Part 2*
Lichens, Liverworts, Mosses, and More: Apterra's other Photosynthesizers
*small edit to The Wine-Dark Sea and several other old pages for scientific accuracy*
6 May '22: The Ice Age Intermission
*fixed the Late Muricene map image seen in Where has All the Carbon Gone*
*small edit to Where has All the Carbon Gone*
Biome: the Great Northern Taiga
Quartzkarst, Part 3: Avalanche
*updated homepage banner image to the Ice Age map*
*added illustration to A Guide to Solitary Woodlice*
*added illustration to Diversity of Neotenic Mosquitoes*
13 May '22: Post-Muricene Cleanup, Part 1
*this update was mostly a round of edits to earlier pages, with all time-periods up to and including the Middle Muricene getting some level of minor revision*
*major edits, rewrites, and retcons include:
Rattalopes and other Muridiungulates
Flora of the Middle Muricene, Part 1*
*made some small fixes and changes to site formatting*
*added illustration to Tree Mycads and the Barrier Bayou*
*added illustration to Grumblefish*
30 May '22: Post-Muricene Cleanup, Part 2
*finished editing all remaining pages in the Late Muricene and Ice Age*
*major edits, rewrites, and retcons include:
*updated homepage banner image to the Early Arthrocene map*
*added two illustrations to Whiplashers and Harpoonjaws: Microraptorial Mosquitoes*
*added illustration to The Well-Witch*
*added four illustrations and minor edit to Pillbirds*
*added illustration and minor edit to Quartzkarst, Part 1: Tepui Mons*
7 August '2022: First Update to the Early Arthrocene
A Tour of Littoral Biomes, Part 1: The Tideslopes
Taxa in Recovery, Part 1: The Rat-Grasses
*made some small changes to site formatting*
*small edit to Lives of the Seawis*
14 October '22: Second Update to the Early Arthrocene
*small edit to Downlings*
*retconned the age of the planet pre-terraforming; small edit to In the Beginning*
*retconned the tidal flow to be more accurate; small edits to Moons and Star: an Exploration of the Apterra Solar System and A Tour of Littoral Biomes, Part 1: The Tideslopes*
A Tour of Littoral Biomes, Part 2: Cliffs of Slime
*small edit to Ailoxichthyids of Abeli*
Geckos of the World, Part 1: Monitor and Vampire Geckos
Geckos of the World, Part 2: The Thalassaurs
Geckos of the World, Part 3: Lentodactylidae
23 October '23: Middle Arthrocene Begins
*updated homepage banner image to the Middle Arthrocene map*
A Tour of Littoral Biomes, Part 3: The Matkelp Coast
*small edit to Groundgeese*
*small edit to Ailoxichthyids of Abeli*
*small edit to Geckos of the World, Part 1: Monitor and Vampire Geckos*
*small edit to Pugilopsidae*
20 April '24: First Update to the Middle Arthrocene
*stopped keeping track of small edits to older entries*
The Grab-Basket and the Pitcher Palm: Killer plants of East Ailuropia
The Paraglire and the Ailurat: Unintentional Mutualism in the Glirrel Genus
*another big rewrite of the early ages*
-completely rewrote origin story
-changes to various clades for improved scientific accuracy (especially insect groups)
-fixed instances where the same name was given to multiple groups, or two different spellings were used for one group
*created placeholder for the Late Arthrocene*
*changed some site formatting*
*added new illustrations to lots of older articles*