Paleontology The Squibbion's Discover Their Past

In the new industrial age, many long-held beliefs began to fall out of vogue and be replaced with new ideas. The belief that religion was the force that shaped the world began to be questioned with the discovery of scientific ideas. 

As miners tore up the soil in search of coal, strange creatures began to be excavated and brought to light strange creatures that looked nothing like anything they had ever seen.  

Well, the Squibbion had likely known about these fossils for century's they would have been attributed to mythological creatures it was only now that they began to look at them as creatures that once lived in the past. 

Many tried to imagine what these creatures looked like many skeletons of bizarre-looking animals with four legs and long sturdy backbones like Blish but nothing like any Blish they had ever seen. 

Many speculated on what these "Tetrapods" looked like ranging from fairly close to CM Kosemen levels of bizarre with many early paleontologists assuming they were some kind of long-extinct bizarre Blish. 

However, as coal miners dug deeper more bizarre fossils of Tetrapod it became clear how old the earth truly was stretching back to 4 billion years. But the age of the earth complied with all the new creatures being found new ideas began to be formed. 

With the idea of deep time and extinction beginning to become more accepted the theory of evolution began to be formed.

 As some began to take note of the similarities between the beaks of various Blish ideas of survival of the fittest and natural selection systems of classification began to be formed tetrapods were finally figured out to be an extinct class of Chordate only distantly related to Blish who belong to their class and had made the jump from water to land separately. 

But soon the inevitable question was asked "Did we evolve from something" Squibbions had always attributed their uniqueness among other animals to some sort of creation deity and many thought that "Us who god made in his image coming from a bunch of those tree Squids at the zoo preposterous" 

But scientists began to see the many similarities shared between them and other Terra Squid and for the first time the Squibbion's were able to place themselves on the tree of life