Life of The Ice Age Grassland's

225 MYH  the Glaciers spread further from the poles has caused havoc on the planet's weather systems and environments. 

Glaciers cut off the northern part of the ocean cutting off warm ocean currents and stopping the Hypercanes that water ecosystems further inland. 

All of this has resulted in cooler dryer conditions the Central Desert covers most of the continent from as far east as Kazakhstan to as far west as Brazil. 

Were temperate rainforests of evergreens once stood now there are sweeping fields of cold grassland. 

With the glaciers to the north and the desert to the south, the grasslands get the weather from both warm winds from the south providing hot and dry summers with temperatures regularly reaching the high 20's well northern gales bring cold winters in the -30s with heavy snowfall. 

For animals to survive here they must work around these extreme weather swings and the conditions that they bring.  

Pictured here is an area around modern-day Sarajevo at the start of autumn well the ground is snow clear the grass is turning from dull yellow to brown and as the days grow shorter the animals know that the winter snow will soon be upon them.  

For herbivores, it means the start of the lean period when food must be dug out from the snow, and predators and starvation separate the strong from the weak. For the yearling calves born during the spring, this will be their first real test as many start to become independent of their mothers this first winter will be the hardest for them many will not see their second spring. 

For carnivores, the winter is a double-edged sword well prey also becomes scarcer winter weeds out the weak giving them easy pickings of what prey remains. 

Much like the early Îledescene, the grasslands are dominated by Terra Squid.

 Though the Squibbions are gone their lasting legacy lives on in the descendants of the Cephalope the Squibbion's domesticated Tentacle Horns where the largest land animal to survive into the ice age leaving them to diversify into a range of new herbivores forms left vacant since the extinction. 

Among the most common forms found on the grasslands is the Squeezebra the largest living Dromaeteuthis the size of a horse like Zebras they are colored with black stripes. Although highly reduced through Terra Squid Evolution Squeezebra still have their chromatophores that flash along their black stripes creating a dazzling blur of striking black against cream and brown when they're running confusing the sight-based Tera Squid predators that hunt them. 

But Cephalopes aren't the only herbivores found in the grassland one of the Cephalope's relatives the Tusk Grazer also made it through the 8th mass extinction and have also spread into many new forms. 

The species seen here is the Grassland CurlTusk which has specialized in being far burlier and bulker to beat predators with sheer muscle, unlike the fast-running Cephalope uprooting roots with their tusks to feed on the garden of grass's sedges and herbs that grow in the Grassland. 

These herbivores must have ways to defend themselves as predators stalk the vast fields of grass Vicemouth descendants like the green-backed Scissor mouth seen here. Scissor mouths are notable for the fusion of the four mouth tentacles into a single mouth-like structure lined with sharp teeth.    

Neck snares are found here too. In the distance, one can see a twizzle tooth a Neck Snare whose most striking feature is the elongated lower beak used to stab into the thick éclair-shaped bodies of its pray severing vital artery's around the head and causing the prey to bleed to death.

 Many Blish can be found in the Grassland numerous Songbird Blish flock in summer and autumn to feed on the bountiful seeds of the grasses. Many species of flightless fowl Blish live year-round hiding among the grass, avoiding predators' eyes. The largest Blish here and among the largest members of the class Icthyopteryx in general the Condor Blish can be found year-round following predators to scavenge their kills.