Realms Beyond the Known World: The Jurassic Islands 

Welcome to Jurassic Island!

Con: no known remaining stegosaurs 😔 Pro: the sauropod herds sound like an episode of Johnny Test

First I felt disappointed that there are so little creature on this island, and then I was like “Hey, the Assembly hasn’t explore all of the island yet so it is logical that so little creatures has been found” You made my day Keenan, I was convinced that you are from the Assembly trying to teach the natural history of Kaimere but pretend that it was just a fictional world by a passionate man.🎉

I see what you did there with the sauropods. The three (and a half?) species each resemble the three quintessential Jurassic sauropods, despite them all being in the same family. One's a diplodocid, the other's a camarasaurid, and the third's a brachiosaurid.

Somewhere beneath mount Sulamontis: "What a fool you are! I'm a God, how can you kill a God? How could you be so naive? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!"

Drones in Kaimere, Exploration to other lands beyond the known world and species from the Jurassic Period!? The evolution of the inhabitants of your world Is getting Wacky, extravagant and incredible every day ! I love it!! A Trinity Land Worthy of Jurassic Park! But much more natural, endemic and mystical exotic!

Not gonna lie, nothing screams Jurassic more vividly to me personaly then stegosaurs. I understand why you took them out, but, you know, it's still sad that they are all gone. Nevertheless this was yet another great introduction to a new place in Kaimere and I dig all the animals covered. Very intrigued by this mountain god of sorts that you're teasing. You always manage to add the perfect amount of terror and mystery to each new corner of Kaimere as you gradually expand the lore beyond the Known World.

That enormous mountain and the creatures of this island makes me curious about kaimere's geography and the Mesozoic dynasties. Well done!

It’s nice to see the Jurassic titans are still around.

Excellent episode. Really loved all the Dinosaurs here but I am a big fan of Carnosuchus. Wish to see something on him soon. As he is a really interesting fellow

Dude you an inspiration for me specially your drawing for my project wild future

The music was so good this time I was almost too distracted jamming out to notice all the cool new sauropod designs!!!!!

Dr. Adams, my dear Agt. Hartsfield. Welcome to Jurassic Island. *Cue the theme*

I can definitely see Neocamptosaurus being potentially tamed and used as mounts, if they could be trained or domesticated

Now that i think about it, we don't really have anything on the spectacular geological place of kaimere. They can have giant megalake Mountain that dwarf the mount Everest in comparison, super big giant canyon or cliff, forest of giant 150-300meter tall trees. Giant glacier and mark of past disaster like flood that could cover entire continent and create the landscape of today (we had this in the US thousands of years ago) Massive mark made by forgotten glacier and volcanoes etc.

I like how Ceratosaurs/Ceratosauria, as a whole, manage to stand up in Kaimere in modern times ! By the Abelisauridae and Noasauridae families ! Because something not many people know, is that Ceratosauria is composed by three families : - the Ceratosauridae = which contain the famous Ceratosaurus itself, and still one of the only members of this family (and being the only one being very well-known from so numerous fossils materials, while the others few members are poorly known). - the Abelisauridae = which contain the cursorial famous short-faced and small arms carnivores that dominate the Gondwana, southern hemisphere, during the Cretaceous, with Abelisaurus, Rajasaurus, Majungasaurus and, of course, Carnotaurus. - And the Noasauridae, the most basal members of the family but who stand up along the Abelisauridae during the Cretaceous until the KT Extinction there 66-65 mya. Smaller animals with long neck and small head, mostly omnivorous, with Masiakasaurus, Elaphrosaurus and Limusaurus as most famous members. Bu still a very obscure animals toward the public overall. If the nameshake family of the order, the Ceratosauridae, have become extinct a long time ago on Kaimere, it's still very good to know that the two others families still stand up and continue to thrives on this world that Kaimere is !

I am very interested in this "sleeping god" of Jurassic Island. I hope you will do a follow up on this island soon, and perhaps a deeper dive into the origin, biology and morphology of the Silent Ones.

Pretty cool, and pretty fast upload too. It makes me even more excited to add Jurassic life to my own fantasy world. Amazing Keenan, just amazing!

Huh... you've really got me suspicious of the possible inspiration for Solamontis. Calling it 'a lonely mountain,' a mountain in which evidence seems to point to some sort of powerful entity sleeping within it, and its foothills being inhabited by people who seem to trace their ancestry to the Permian Islands, the only place in Kaimere known to have dragons... very sus, Keenan. Very sus... Loved this episode, btw!

Of all the creatures shown, the Pardosuchus is my favorite. It's just unusual enough to scratch that itch. Speaking of.... 1. Is it inspired by medieval dragon/wyvern depictions? It gives me that vibe. 2. Are Permian dragons ever sighted here? I could imagine them being a cryptid.

I was waiting for this and the permian episode since you first mentioned the existance of this islands on instragram. Now after this one I need an entire video about the mountain, glad to know it will be mentioned int he new anthology.

Man this is some good stuff! I'll definitely be making these beasts into figurines in the future, and the fact that the sabertooth jackles of the permian islands made it there is so fascinating!

This episode is just... So perfect. Thank you for this amazing Surprise, and hope to see you soon my friend. You made our days.

This was one of the best episodes yet! I absolutely love it! Some smart sauropods, that's something I can absolutely stan. I also love the dead skin whip tails, love that idea. I also enjoy seeing some weird basal yet derived animals like the Pardosuchus and Carnosuchus. The lazarus taxon Nodosaurid is also very fun, a good idea imo, I don't think I've ever seen any similar ideas. Also love the people lore, the fact that there are people this far outside of the known world is fascinating and I can't wait to read more in the next anthology. It was something I really wished to learn more about while reading the first two books and I can't wait to get my hands on it!!!

That was really a nice episode ! And a nice touch to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the "Jurassic Park/World" franchise as awhole, and the very first movie, "Jurassic Park" (released the 11th of 1993) ! X)

Microphone quality was definitely better on this one. Great episode! However, I can't help but feel like something was missing among the local fauna. A big therapod perhaps(although it may not have been able to survive on islands). I suppose there's the sleeping god, who hopefully has some dinosaur-ish aspects to it

Almost all the animals look very much like their Earth counterparts. I was wondering if more of them would be more derived given their isolation. But still a great episode looking beyond the Known World. And especially nice to watch this episode on a weekend rather than a work day

Hope get to see Kaishel Eventually. Nice work!! Excited to see what is here.

I wish theres a 1 hour version if this amazing ambience music

One quick question. If the Kaimerans want to a lot of research without making too much contact with the native inhabitants, then why haven't tried to create some for of cloaking technology via Kaimere's native magic? It could potentially provide them the best of both worlds, so long as they practice proper sanitation and such to prevent the transfer of potential diseases.

Jurassic islands lets goooooooooo This is the episode i was waiting for the most

I always love seeing new creatures in this world

Considering the Permian Jackals are semi-domesticated like the ancestors of dingoes, perhaps the local people initially settled there from the Permian Islands.

Always love these peeks beyond the known world!

Would love some more geography videos! Specifically wouldn’t mind a video going in depth on the geography of Kaimere overall (tectonic plates, ocean currents, wind patterns, biomes, comparisons to Earth landmasses, etc.)

Awesome episode!! This was a region I’ve been so excited to see😁 But c’mon man…surely there’s gotta be ONE relic stegosaur lineage holding out somewhere in this archipelago? :’)

God I love stuff like this is found out about your channel cause your video on kaimerian elephants and I am hooked in Heck I made my own seed world speculative evolution project

NOOOOO RiP stegosaurs 😢💔 I figured allosaurus would be done and gone but I was hoping for at least a derived stegosaurid to survive 😭😭😭

My favorite episode so far

Heck YES! I love every single one of these creatures. And also... Settlers??? Voyagers??? So Many Questions. Sad that my boi Allosaurus doesn't (that we know of) have any living relatives but it does make sense. Large carnivores do tend to go extinct pretty easily. Also did you say... arboreal pachycephalosaurs? Have we seen those? I love the idea. Arboreal Cretaceous Bonk Goats.

WOOOOOOO THE CREECHURS HAVE RETURNED

Awesome episode! I like how the dominant fauna is fairly "primitive" with most reassembling early taxa. I notice you were talking a bit slower than usual and had a spot of trouble at 17:24 . I hope you're ok and that you recover soon from whatever ails you!

Was hoping to see somw stegosaur descendants but other than that, this is a great video to honor jurassic june!

The fact that most dinosaurs, overall, whatever on mainland or in islands (thus most especially in insular places) have remained pretty generic and trapped in time is explain by the fact that, for most, they haven't really need to evovled into really weird or derived forms. Azhdarchid pterosaurs, for example, outside giving laway rise to new species overtime, have barely evolved in form/shape in 66-65 mya. Only rising in size or not. Because they are already so proefficient at what they did as behavirors and diet, which were already pretty most generalist themselves, making the animals themselves very generalist andcapable to adapt and face most situations, that they evolved only some minors new traits whithout changing a lot overall. Sure, like the two Flightless Tapejarid groups, of the Notzokideu and Permian Tapejarid lineages, show it, some offshot can evolved and become very differents overtime. But the overall main leading group still and remain in it's own beaten path and don't usually leave it. After all, why to change when we are in a good state/situation and you have keys success ? Why to quit your comfortable path for another with the potential risk to not be as successufll, especially on the long term and oly on the short one ?

There's a Balrog in that mountain, calling it now!

hmm......honestly the animals here seem generic compared to the absolute speculative evolutionary marvels that are the inhabitants of the Permian islands, this is still great in terms of overall world building but the fauna of this island look like mostly average dinosaurs

When willl you plan to do an episode about the abyss?, i realy want to know the deep sea creatures of kaimere.

Awesome Job!👏🌟

This episode is pretty cool, I was most surprised by the sauropods cause I thought they were diplodocids, camarasaurids and brachiosaurus’s. Convergent evolution is interesting

One of the best birthday presents I could've gotten

Hi, Keenan! I’m a huge fan of your work on Kaimere and world building/illustration in general. I myself am a huge zoology, taxonomy, storytelling, and kaiju enthusiast. I do have a question, though: how do you give your creatures names? Not just scientific names (I kind of just put Latin words for that) but common names like how the last land croc is called “Ammut” or that one giant mosasaur is called “Motomazor” (please forgive me if I misspelled any of them). And how do you decide what your map will look like? I’m currently in the world building phase of writing a story similar to Kaimere (basically a world of dark magic, lizard and bird people, dinosaurs, and dragons) and this would be a huge help. Edit: I love how this was specifically done for JP30 yet still feels like an already planned out part of Kaimere. Keep up the awesome work, man!

Moment of silence for the spiky bois.

Can't help but wonder what inhabits the mountain regions. I'd imagine various pterosaurs would be able to reach the islands.

6:07 They're flocking this way!

Can't believe I got the fact that the apex predator is ceratosaur right.Well kinda since it isn't confirmed.I would like to ask why do most of the animal from the early panel look so generic?

Im still curios about the endemic birds of this islands

Are Noasaurs and Heterodontosaurs present on Kairul in their own lineages?

are you planning on/have you made any conlags for Kaimere, if so please showcase, would be really cool

This was not a fine idea, this was an *EXCELLENT IDEA!*

Great video! But how is kaimere able to have taller mountains than earth when it has more mass? Or am i just being confused by your wording

WAKE UP BABE KAIMERE JUST DROPPED

Sweet video man! Though it is a major letdown to see no surviving stegosaurs on these islands. 😔 So what now?

You know I realized I had never left a comment on this video with my thoughts. Overall a really neat video the Jurassic Islands really are a strong contrast to the two Permian landmasses. A place where lineages have remained in relative stasis. If I may ask how do you decide what to depict in these overviews of regions and do you think you'll ever revist them in some manner to explore say the microfauna you know like amphibians, small reptiles, and invertebrates of these places. I'm sure in universe such things are far easier to capture for study by Kaimeran naturalists than theropods

Let’s goooo after the Jurassic park bday let’s goooo

Let me guess, the God beneath the Lonely Mountain takes the form of an animal, particularly some form of volant hybrid of various crocodilians and dinosaurs?

please tell me that there are large chains of caves and zonotes the size of continents and with their own ecosystem where there are dinosaurs and other creatures that live in those caves. please!

Omg is that the full map reveal ? (maybe it was before but I missed it). Incredible work as ever!

Those animals are unusually conservative when compered to your Cretaceous survivors but it's ok and it's great video. Also I was thinking about something last time, in Prehistoric Park sauropods have been know for falling over fences to get to their favorite food and I wonder if habit of your Titanosaurs to not only fall over trees but to also clear out any debri is somehow inspired by it.

Are their other species of Pterosaurs on the Jurassic Island other than Tapejarids and Aguronathids.

How were the Jurassic Islands like during the Warring Clades Period?

How big were the giant stegosaurs during the Tyrant Dynasty?

This is an amazing video, but I'm going to be depressed and list what was lost -allosaurids(allosaurus) -megalosaurids(torvosaurus) -stegosaurs -diplodocids(diplodocus) -brachiosaurids(brachisaurus) -camarasaurids(camarasaurus Is it truly a jurassic experience anymore?

Are there going to be short stories of the Ecological surveys?

Are there any continents or islands on Kaimere without a native human population?

I love how these creatures can exist and may some day be unearthed from the fossil record. In some ways each creature you devise is a hypothesis/ prediction.

Hmm... Really sad to talk negative. I think fauna could have been more creative and shout Jurassic more obvious. Lack of Jurassic's representitive lineages (ex: Stegosaurs, long-tailed pterosaurs, Allosaurid/Metraicanthosaurid descendents, distinctive Jurassic sauropod lineages) made fauna more like generalized and conservative Mesozoic assembledge. I think apex predators looking not too far from mainland Megaraptorans contributed to this too. I really like effort you put into color design and speculative evolution still.

Is sad that there are no livong species of stegosaurs found on these islands, i was wonder how they would look like after milions of years since the jurassic period

Yesss

I like the lore if only there's a video game adaptation. Lol

Huh, unusually low researcher mortality rate on this one.

Sad the Stego’s died off. Wonder if there are still any allosaurus out there. Good note that my witch character should be careful around anything the locals refer to as a god.

I've noticed similarities between flagellosaurs and koordu based on their teeth (and tails). My guess is that flagellosaurs are highly derived descendants of dicraeosaurs (if that's still applicable to koordu).

I'm sad there is no surviving carnosaurs

A kaimeran pantheon of elder Gods ?

whats the song in the background called, and is it on spotify or youtub?

Arborial Pachys? Was there any video about them?

Great video.

Carnosuchus vulgaris certainly comes across as less intelligent and cruder in behaviour next to the Megaraptora therapod family and Permian dragons.

What if a reverse harvest happens where Kaimeran fauna are harvested from Kaimere and released on Earth in great numbers?

What were the stegosaurs that once lived on the island look like

*Queue the Jurassic Park theme*

Is Archiepiscipotitan a Titanosaurs or A brachiosaurus

What's at the heart of the mountain? Deeper catacombs linked to the lost Witch civilisations? Yet more semi-failed experiments and abominations created by the even more mysterious First Children? A First Children complex housing another "tamed" Portal? A mix of all three things?

Welcome to Jurassic island! The more disappointing jurassic park! Jk, this is really good

8 Miles??? How did a mountain get to that size, especially on a planet much larger than Earth? And also are the humans of the Jurassic Islands and the Permian Islands just a different ethnicity of Homo sapiens, or an entirely different species?

LESTSSSS GOOOO

Are there any creatures that migrated to the islands recently by sea or sky?

Next month: Elephants of Kaimere Episode 17

WHAAAAT no stegosaurs! ok buddy, what are these so called "Jurassic islands" without the Jurassic's most iconic thyreophoran herbivores! well ima just go be sad and hug the anky's still with us on Kaimere.

It's a Lost World and Not a Lost World in the same time ! In general, thus especially in the early days when this term was used for the first time, mainly with "The Lost World" book by Arthur Conan Doyle, this term usually refer, in most people mind, in a isolated location, unknown or mostly obscure to everyone and just discovered in the fiction that use it, where very ancient forms of life, usually prehistoric (whatever Mesozoic or Cenozoic or both), have survived whithout many, see at all changes. While it's true that many clades of animals can barely changes in shape and behaviors over the run of numerous millions of years, with only giving rise to new species but still identical in everything to their ancestors, like salamanders, most arthropods, etc... this trend only occured in species that can face most or any situations with the same overall shape and diet, and as such as adapable and generalist beings that haven't the need to evolved. Such a level of generalism only mostly occured in small organisms, not a lot in medium or large animals, which have more specialized need and as such, less disposed to face changes if they don't evolved more than only slightly. This is why now, a Lost World is ussually defined more in modern days as a place where ancient clades have survived even under a very different see radical forms far from the ones of the base ancestors. But outside that, it's worth to point out that, in the case of Kaimere specifically here, it's technically ALL the ENTIRE planet who is a Lost World in itself !