The Epic of Serina Returns

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This video is a new chapter in my long-running series exploring the incredible speculative evolution saga of Serina, the world of birds. We’ve been following this saga for several videos, watching as, over the past two hundred and eighty million years, an initial group of finches and other creatures left on a distant moon have evolved into a dizzying variety of forms.

When we last checked in, this world had been flung into cataclysm, and the intelligent Sea Stewards had been transported away to another realm. Now, Serina is beginning to recover from the loss of its top species — although the greatest dangers and most extortionary lifeforms still lie ahead.

So, let’s return to this world of birds, and remember to support creator Dylan Bajda on Patreon.

0:00 Serina: Wildest Era Yet
1:09 The Hothouse Age
6:21 New Titans
10:25 The Endless Night
14:28 New Dominion
17:09 Clash of Giants
20:55 Return of Intelligence
23:59 Life's Last Chapter?

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I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.

♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian

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#CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Serina

[christosgiannopoulos]

Serina's ecosystem has gone from something you might encounter at an isolated island in the Pacific, to something Dr. Seuss would come up with. And I love every second of it

[konradlorek]

I really thought he abandoned this series and it's nice to see he comes back to it, and how Dylan keeps up the work 💪

[chadgorosaurus]

This project is one of the most interesting speculative evolution projects out there. Truly shows how resilient and adaptive birds are.

[jvlo]

I love how no matter what in any speculative evolution project everything returns to dinosaurs.

[CardamineLyrata]

Amazing what otherworldly universes the human mind can create. We need more speculative zoology media!

[thekingzhaul]

Now this is a good way to celebrate the coming end of the year. I like how so many species were starting to look as Dinosaur-like, making it like a pararel to our world's dinosaurs.
Also here's a fun fact: In the DeviantArt of the author of Serina, Sheather888, there's a little art of all the main characters that lived in Serina celebrating Christmas, or a "Secular Holiday" as he likes to call it.

[jonaw.]

Man, I love Serina. I just can't help but laugh at some of the new names Dylan's coming up with. Every second new species is called something like "flim-flamwalker" or "hot-pocketgobbler" or "Sheogorath". I know it's a pain in the ass to name so many new species so often, and this is definitely one of the more biodiverse eras so I totally get what happened here.

[dracodracarys]

imagine a seed world that's filled with something absurdly specialized, like say, an echidna, as its only vertebrate

[TheGreatUnwashedThing]

I have some mixed feelings about the overall arc of Serina since the start of the Ultimoceme but I can't deny that the creatures of the Hothouse Age are oustandingly imaginative.

[Skimhalf]

Serina is such an inspiring spec evo project and definitely my favorite. I myself, am working on a spec evo/ worldbuilding project and it is hard. it’s amazing how well done Serina is.

[Dystopian-toast]

I find it fascinating that the birds were reverting back into thr non avian dinosaur's

[yondaimesin]

FINALLY WE ARE BACK TO THE SPEC XENOBIOLOGY. I love these projects

[JMthetiefling]

Serina is one of the biggest sci fi evolution stories I've ever seen

[VillainousEater]

I love Serina, but I got disappointed in the creator when Dylan wrote a post on Reddit saying how other seeded worlds are uncreative and are just recycling his idea, and that he is tired of seeing those "rip-offs" all the time. Quite a few people spoke up about him being toxic like this and their posts got flamed and deleted. It was a few months ago so maybe he changed... He should be complimented that people are inspired by his idea, not gatekeep an entire concept of worldbuilding :\

[complexi]

Molluscs are such amazing and fascinating creatures. I absolutely love that gastropods have risen as a third major lineage along side the birds and tribbets.

Back on Earth it is from the cephalopods branch of phylum mollusca that one of my all time favorite speculative life forms evolves: the Squibbon.

Now it is the gastropods turn on Serina, and I am beyond excited.

[AmIDusty]

I would just like to say quickly, the trunk birds are by far my favourite thing to come out of this series lol, they're so cute and so amusing to look at

[tec-jones]

What a way to end of the year with a classic archive entry. Your exploration of Serina is the best I've seen! Dylan Bajda's work is so incredible, and your narration really helps bring this world to life.

[Skimhalf]

We NEED an animation of how the tribbets move/walk and run, also the skeletal structure of them. Like how does a tail become a leg.

[Littlekoji-dfcf]

This series is Truly your magnum opus in my eyes. Altho in primary school times I used to watch the future is wild kid series and talked to my teacher about Snowstalkers, in 9th grade I truly became a fan of this genre of scifi, world building and biology works all thanks to you.
I hope u know how much u have influenced so many people and helped both learners and the project makers to rise into new heights.
All love from Finland

[takenname]

I can't imagine how this series could even end?!
Am I going to cry again over the death of these birds? (and fish)