The Kyran Islands
The Kyran Islands
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The Kyran Islands are a relatively small archipelago, predominately made up of tropical rainforest and grassland and approximately the size New Zealand, that is situated in Serina's southern hemisphere during the late Thermocene, roughly midway between the south pole and the equator. Situated perfectly between South Anciska and Stehvlandea to the west and Wahlteria and Karii to the east, it exists on a tectonic plate entirely its own and has been isolated for more than 150 million years, since before life was introduced to Serina. The island has moved southward through the eons since; now near the south pole, it gradually migrated from a northern location in the Hypostecene to an equatorial one in the Cryocene, sparing it from significant climate change that affected mainland ecosystems. Though it has shrunk in size over the years through the process of erosion and recently been further by rising sea levels, never since the introduction of life have the islands ever come into contact with another landmass. Like Borea in the late Thermocene, most animal groups which arose on mainland continents have never touched foot on the Kyrans. Uniquely, however, is that unlike the recently recolonized Borea, the Kyran islands have had an unsurpassed 150 million years for life to evolve in such an isolated state. Most animals on the Kyrans can be found nowhere else; though there are more recent immigrants from distant mainlands, carried by freak storms or oceanic adaptations, here numerous bird lineages still exist which have evolved in-situ, from the earliest canary colonists, for one hundred and fifty million years in brilliant isolation from the rest of the world. There are again no vivas here, nor serestriders, nor any other terrestrial megafauna so familliar on the larger continents which were at one point connected. No - here in the Kyrans, life has produced forms arguably even stranger.
Life of the Kyrans