New Australian Species

I've got more Australian species, these should go into the main index bestiary, Paul, if you need translation help, contact me on the forum.

Forest giant false-mihirung (Neodromornis titan)
This beastly bird, with powerfull, long legs, shaggy auburn feathers, and standing three and a half metres tall. It is descended from the equally impressive cassowaries, but looks more like the near-mythical prehistoric dromomornithids, these neocene giant-birds are called false-mihirungs. It has a powerfull, deep beak, that turns into the casque on the head, it destroys both soft and hard vegetation of Australia's tropical forests, as it feeds. A single bird will leave a visible path of destruction in the rainforest and floodplain scrub. The bill and casque are bright red in males and yellow-orange in females, the wattles around it's face and neck are blue and yellow, with red blotches. When startled or angry, they charge headlong through the forest, at speeds of up to sixty kilometres per hour, leaving undergrowth trampled. As well as vegetation, mainly leaves, bark and branches, they greedily eat fruit and tubers, and will scavenge or tear apart small animals. The males weigh seven hundred kilograms, five hundred with females, with rounded calloused bellies. The once lethal toe claws are now blunt hooves, though they can still kick fiercely.
Short faced false-mihirung (Nanoneodromornis velocipes)
Only fifty kilograms heavy, this bird has a fairly long, thick neck but a height of only one point seven metres. It's beak is rounded and short with a square biting arc, being bright blue, with a knob like casque. It's wattles are thick and tough, being milk-coloured with black speckles. It's legs are long, allowing it to run at speeds of up to sixty kilometres per hour. It feeds entirely on grass, herbage, and other vegetation. Like it's larger relative, it has a calloused belly. When confronted, they turn tail and run away at great speed. It is found in most lowland habitats throghout northern Australia, including swampy savannah, various forests, and swamps.

Plains false Moa (Neodromauis velocipes)
The neocene's sucessor to the emu in almost every sense, it is found on the savannah and on the forest periphery. It can run at seventy kilometres per hour at it's fastest, is naturally alert and has keen vision and hearing, it can't defend itself as well as the massive false moas (Pseudodinornis) can, but can still give a painfull kick. It's feathers are shaggy and grey-brown, it's face has blue and yellow wattles, and it's legs are long and powerfull for fast running, the lower leg has thick brown scales.

Marsuipial Puma (Diablowallabia camelophoneus)
Another descendant of rock wallabies, this is a fierce macropod, five hundred kilograms with a flexible torso and long, bushy, balancing tail. A carnivore, it feeds on birds, herbivorous macropods and mountain camel-gazelles. It terrorizes the rocky mountainous uplands, as well as scrubby and forested mountain ranges over most of Australia. They have a huge advatage in the rugged terrain, being far more agile than marsuipial jaguars or marsuipial panthers. With long, strong limbs and feet, and strong, curved claws, they can easily pursue and subdue even goat sized prey. They pounce on their prey and pin them down with their powerfull forearms, then rip out their throats with long, sharp incisors. The long jaw hides slicing premolars, and sharp cusped molars, the snout contains masses of turbinals, their sense of smell is very keen. They can run very fast over short or long distances, but in open or lowland terrain, they often conflict with other marsuipial predators.
Fox wallaby (Diablowallabia omnivorodentus)
A smaller, more agile relative of the marsuipial puma, it lives on the central australian plains, chasing down or ambushing small vertebrates, insects and digging up grubs, nutritious stems and tubers. It can run very fast, almost as fast as the it's larger relative.

Orcine sea-polecat (Orcinomustela mordax)
In the holocene's pacific, indian, and atlantic oceans, the terror of the seas were orcas. The Neocene is bereft of any whales or dolphins, but the two oceans other than the atlantic have a fierce marine mammal. Orcine sea-polecat (Orcinomustela mordax), is a one ton descendant of asia and europe's adaptable polecat, and it terrorises fellow marine mammals, fish and squid from the arctic down to the antarctic. Though it is most prevalent in cooler or cold waters, it is found throughout the indian and pacific oceans. Roaming the seas in packs of up to ten, their arms are powerfull, the paws webbed, and large-clawed for grabbing prey, the back legs are short, with wide, webbed backfeet. The head is streamlined, with huge jaws and teeth, it is the beast's main killing organ. Though it's tail is shortened, it swims with vertical undulations, pushing the water with it's lower torso and backfeet. Once their large eyes fix on prey, the pack will chase down the other animal, grab it with their clawed flippers, and rip it apart. They birth on land, the whole pack mate and bear young at the same time each year, protecting the cubs as a group. Woe-betide the foolish land predator that stumbles on calving Orcine sea-polecats.

Seal rats (Phocorattus sp)
Found in numerous similar, yet differing species across the pacific and indian oceans. They swim acrobatically after squid and fish through seas of many differnt climates, from the cold antarctic waters to the bay of bengal. Descended from the fierce and adaptable Australian water rat, the beasts are now similar to alsatians in size, with broad, powerfull, webbed back feet, and paddle like tails. It swims somewhat like a seal, with powefull strokes of it's feet and tail, also using them to steer. Like seals, they mate and raise their young on island or beach colonies, where they congregate in numbers. They eat mainly fish and squid, but their powerfull, sharp, rodent dentition can process shelled animals as well.

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Tim