The Epic of Serina Returns
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- The wildest era yet comes to a world of birds. A breakdown of the Hothouse Age from Dylan Bajda’s speculative biology project ‘Serina.’ (Full Playlist: • The Epic of Serina | P... )
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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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♫ Beauty Flow, Second Coming, Majestic Hills, Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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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 💪
He didn't abandon it. He was waiting for enough material to update from the source before continuing.
Writing speculative evolution (and general writing) ain't easy and it takes time. Lots of time.
Serina as a project started aaaaall the way back in 2015.
@@ZeoViolet Yeah, though as a person who really is following the project, I have seen that it was somewhat updated faster than before (from my view at least) and loads of content were added; I was questioning why there weren't any new episodes/parts on this channel. And yeah I know he made some continuation on the series actually not that long ago but it still felt like he abandoned it before the new videos of Serina appeared.
@thekingzhaul5914 especially spec biology. The amount of research you have to do to create a semi "plausable" being is insane.
It is really impressive how the author writes AND draws all the stuff himself, although sometimes Trollman makes the drawings (or even entries I think). He also keeps a really good pace.
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
Youre making a Speculative evolution project!! Named *Folivoria* a seed world About sloths a group of Xenarthan Mammals was become Large animals like megatherium and now in small. Thank you this comment!! ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
Something Dr. Seuss would come up with while on acid.
@@Zekeriyasenturk6513 they are?
@@C-Farsene_5 a world of sloths are introduced vertebrate is Monk sloth or Dwarf Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus)
@@Zekeriyasenturk6513 no I mean if this commenter is actually making a seed world cos I don’t see anything about thar
I love how no matter what in any speculative evolution project everything returns to dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs truly were the perfect life forms.
I think in Serina it's a nod to the fact birds are theropods. It makes sense they'd converge on body plans similar to other dinosaurs eventually.
birds are evolved from dinosaurs
birds are dinosaurs@@bbdd1212
Birbs are already dinosaurs. Dinonuggies are a warcrime
This project is one of the most interesting speculative evolution projects out there. Truly shows how resilient and adaptive birds are.
YOUR’E EVERYWHERE
Dinosaurs: "It took an entire cataclysm to decimate our kind, but even then it wasn't enough"
How does it show that, its all fake
I made up a species of bird that have 10 times the intelligence of humans and they cured cancer. Truly showing how resilient and smart burbs are.
Wow
imagine a seed world that's filled with something absurdly specialized, like say, an echidna, as its only vertebrate
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They becoming alien
It would take alot longer to specialize but it get weird
Monotremes
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 well I mean yeah, no doy
Amazing what otherworldly universes the human mind can create. We need more speculative zoology media!
its still often pale in comparisson what nature itself creates
when we look at real life animals
Ya but some projects are amazingly detailed
@thegoofygoober8456 point taken, I’ll get to work 🫡
Funny you should mention that I'm currently making my own
@@thedohudson3836 I would love to see it. Can you link it pls?
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.
huh, that seems like erasure and criticism at the same time
* Sheather888
@@matheusinacio4722 oh word? how
awww thats great
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.
cheese
Also "goatsucker"
The sog gobblers
@@bleetz1509THROW THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!
is there one called mephala too?
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.
Also it amazing to imagine if giant herbivores activity triggering the development of new "mountain ranges" which actually formed from trees that forced to clump together in one place because if they seeded in much wider space, the sapling will quickly eaten or trampled
Is it anything to do with
> "Serina's getting colder and will never warm again"
> *Warms again*
lol
@@nicolajo666 it’s more the fact that everything is telegraphed in advance and is taking an interminable amount of time to arrive.
I find it fascinating that the birds were reverting back into thr non avian dinosaur's
it actually makes a lot of sense considering most dinosaurs are ancestors to birds, and there was a case of an extinct bird species evolving back into existence
that was basically the whole gist of the Skuorcs. Metamorphic birds changed the game a lot when they first arose with neotenic "birdfishes" that took onto the waters along with fishes and snails, Skuorcs brought it a step further by not becoming birds and staying in that "bird lizard" teenage stage which was what allowed them to develop the skeletal structure to re-unlock the dinosaur bodyplan. in fact, Skuorcs are now also converging into mammals themselves with things that look like opossums and weasels too.
@@SRMC23 and some of them evolving into literal feathered serpent
@@SRMC23 that's why the skuorcs are the GOATs
@@gamerstheater1187That’s not how it really works - and the reevolving bird wasn’t the same species as the last one.
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.
What is it about😮
Now I want to know what it is
@@TheSilentOne-0same
It’s like an alternate earth where there are mythical creatures and magic and stuff, that would be the worldbuilding part, and there are dragons, that evolve from salamanders, that’s the spec evo part. That’s like a really basic summary of what I’m doing. So ye
@@Skimhalf cool
FINALLY WE ARE BACK TO THE SPEC XENOBIOLOGY. I love these projects
This is a Seedworld
Serina is one of the biggest sci fi evolution stories I've ever seen
Yes, another Serina. Rejoice!
Yaaaaaaaaaaa
Agreed
REJOICE, REJOICE, REJOICE
yes
REJOICE BROTHERS OF SCIENCE
I love the way that Serina is not just a speculative biology but an addictive drama story
Edit: MOM HELP I'M FAMOUS!!!
I felt like I got punched in the gut when the last treeweaver died
@@someoctopus8749 I felt the same when the sea stewards died
@@waldofabian1202 suffering
@@someoctopus8749live laugh, love, treeweaver and Bird
@@waldofabian1202 But they didn't died? They were moved to another planet
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
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.
I miss the sea Stuart
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.
Idk how CA would do this but like
still
We have one. It is of the painted repanthor
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 oh ok
But wut about a skeleton
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8where can we see the animation?
This series is Truly your magnum opus in my eyes. Altho in middle 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
Curious Archive didn't create the series, he's just condensing it into a mini documentary type series
That's a based teacher to put up with you talking about speculative evolution
I can't imagine how this series could even end?!
Am I going to cry again over the death of these birds? (and fish)
Omg I will cry when it’s over
Dylan Bajda is creating a new story, the bleeding heart, so I’ll want to see what that’s all about
@@Skimhalf Another spec evo project?
Yes, you will
@@takenname8053idk wut it’s about but I hope
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.
The Serina videos are always amazing and my favorite.
I enjoyed the references to the Alien Speculative art of Darwin IV of "Expedition". Always love some great spec evo like Serina!
* drops everyting immediately *
Oh how much I anticipated this! 😃 I got to Serina through your first video about it and have been reading the updates ever since. But hearing these unique stories from you is another experience which I always enjoy 😊
An absolutely amazing series! Seeing it back is really a Christmas gift in an of itself!
How could you make a Serina hothouse age recap, and NOT mention the two best animals in the chapter: the Heffalump and the Woozle?
Those got a good laugh out of me.
*THE WHAT NOW*
With the three new intelligent species at the end, it seems that sapience on Serina developed a total 10 times since the canaries first came to the planet
Forktailed-Babbling Jay
Southern Gravedigger
Woodgrafter
Daydreamer
Greenskeeper
Woolly wumpo
Singular Blue-tailed Chatter Raven
Reaper AukVulture
Sylvanspark
Slaughter Sprinter
Whisperwing
@@Littlekoji-df1cf thx for listing all the sapient species, king/queen
I love how none of them looked even vaguely primate-like. Spec Evo keeps associating ape and human body plans with sapient species a bit too much
@@dracodracarys2339I’m more a fan of the eosapien’s body plan since it doesn’t even look remotely close to anything you’d see on earth
@dracodracarys2339 but walking at least semi upright and having opposable thumbs would be the most evolutionary plausible characteristic of a terrestrial sapient species, but yes, I think most aliens depicted in media look far too human like when it comes to body plan.
Imagine how the Organisms of Purgatory, Hell, Heaven and Valhalla would evolve like, that could be pretty interesting. Awesome vid btw.
So extremely happy this is returning. Also, the fact that finches, over millions upon millions of years of evolution, evolve into things so strikingly similar to modern day animals, really goes to show the perfection of modern day animals. And also the many many improvements possible
the survive ears pun hurt my soul
sorry for starting the ear pun chain
Seeing this seires again makes me so happy because this is the seires that inspired me to start my own world😊
Same partially it is so good!
What kind😮
Ye pls tell us what kind
As in it partially inspired me too
@@Gumstone4 it’s on my channel!!
Every time I think we’ve hit the peak of weirdness on Serina, Dylan Bajda comes along and goes “You call that weird, watch this!!”
I love how most of the birds are going back to there early dinosaur roots going from flying animals back to a dinosaur body plan is really cool
It’s super amazing how serina almost went extinct, but then it bounced back
Thanks to a choise of a little bird
Serina species be like:
"This is a southern grumplesnort. These dependents of the snip scrunglo have adapted their cheek lips into formidable weapons
They do be luke that
They're named luke? 💀
@@M50A1 well why not, IS LUKE NOT A GOOD ENOUGH NAKE FOR YOU!? THE HORROR!
I think he meant to say like
@@Skimhalf no no, Luke is better
When the world needed him the most, he returned!
As much as I appreciate your more abstract conceptual videos that make mention of multiple properties, I’ll always show a bit of favoritism to the archive videos that regard specific fictional universes. I can understand why you’d want to branch out in content, and perhaps the imposter syndrome that might come from feeling like your success is dependent upon other people’s work, but for me, works like Serina and a lot of CM Koseman projects feel inextricably entangled with the Curiosity Archive. Thank you for sharing so many wonderful worlds with us
The Birrin videos are what introduced me to this channel, they're definitely my favorite, mainly bc they were the first spec bio project I had seen
Ya for me it was either the Birrin vids or Serina
I literally went back to rewatch some of your videos on Serina earlier today, I got so excited to see this 😀
I'd love to see a project such as this transition into a playable game. The sheer amount of lore is superior to that of Subnautica itself.
This series is the way I discovered your channel and I’m glad you are continuing it as the project gets updated
Serina is a beautiful world and if you are going to do more with it in the future I cannot wait!
I feel the exact same way : D
Same
I swear, Curious Archive is such a great channel and is one of my favorites. This is how i learned about the spec evo genre and i love it. ❤❤❤
Time to re watch all of serina again
lol ya
Than you for having subtitles.helps my deafness know what these funky creatures are
The tree mountain environment is magical, I love that so much
The best way to end the year, going back to the classics!
“Babe wake up, Curious Archive dropped another video”
A return to one of the best spec Evo and seeded world projects is the best thing to see before the new year!
Please keep up with this series don’t abandon it!
Thank you Archivists for making this delightful artform accessible and spreading the good word of creators across the board. I always love waking up to find one of your videos on my feed.
Haven’t started it yet but hell yes! I missed Serina so much and am so glad Dylan Bajda returned to it
“Jumpo Wumpo”
“Lumpalope”
“Shucklumps”
“Carnackles”
“Bloblump”
“Spire-Pire”
“Screehonk”
“Soggobblers”
“Skoblins”
“Skogres”
“Treegups”
“Dig-Dag”
“Burtle”
“Squab-Goblins”
“Bogglebirds”
“Squaboon”
“Rasp”
“Prismuffalope”
“Wellicans”
“Creviathans”
"Lumperjack"
"Dazzedupe"
"Bristleback Soghog"
"Roly-poly Flopfish"
"Glooba"
"Grandiose Gigagret"
"Grumplump"
"Skueasels"
"Ploose"
"Tuskbilled Snort"
"Scrunge"
"Awegull"
"Tribbybara"
"Seasaw"
"Shimmering Shellshuck"
"Giant Pygmy Pretenguin"
"Clown Chamarmatoo"
"Ticklemonster"
"Twilynx"
"Kangglider"
"Beachbully"
"Dynamic Duikerduck"
"Gnawceros"
"Camelraptor"
"Wumbo"
"Spoonbill Saladgator"
"Bludgerigar"
"Plink"
"Loopalope"
"Bloop"
"Arctic Snagglejaw"
"Hadropotomus"
"Fanfaloot"
"Nocuous Perilporp"
"Pterdevil"
"Lolligolugo"
"Jirdbird"
"Joojub"
"Platyplotter"
"Porcuplumpus"
"Spikysnout Skwimmer"
"Porpedo"
"Heffalump"
"Blue Dungaroo"
"Clobbering Kak"
"Bladderbuck"
"Royal Villaingull"
"Toratoddle"
"Duckbilled Saladmander"
"Pricklepoke Sniffler"
"Sidestriped Signalope"
"Excavear"
"Carriagoose"
"Sanguine Squibis"
"Lumpredator"
and finally, "Wild Pug"
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So happy for more spec evo content
This was amazing. Thanks to Dylan Bajda for creating this masterpiece and thanks to you for covering it on your channel.
The Curious, the Archive, and the holy crap.
I find it very funny that you can hear him almost start laughing at some of the creature names multiple times throughout the video.
Serina is legitimately one of the most beautiful pieces of literature/art/beautiful craziness I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing.
Awaited Serina for some time now. Thanks!!
This is one of my favourite speculative evolution videos thank you so much!
I've liked the video game essays, but speculative evolution is how I found this channel in the first place; so it's good to see more of that content.
I love stuff like this and listen to this series when I’m trying to sleep because it sounds like having a stroke but in a calm way
didn't expect to hear the best name ever "Jumpo Wumpos"
Omg I can't wait you don't know how much this series and your channel as a whole Inspired me and my career choices thank you
I missed the illustrated spec bio videos dearly. Glad to see the Serina one still going strong!
I'm adding this to my Serina playlist I'm glad my favourite thing on this channel returned.
I've been waiting a year for this and it was worth it. Now all that's left is the chapter of the extinction.
Apparently old friends are back from migration... welcome back serina
Serina is one of those things I am truly astonished to see is the work of one person. Okay, it's sometimes two people but you know? The breadth of creativity and thought put into an entire ecosystem of a planet, even into single sophont species is more than most fantasy-scifi genre films get.
Bajda's work continues to be worthy of the Epic genre. It was fun to see all the inspiration drawn from non-avian dinosaurs this time around
I've loved the recent essay content you've been making, and it's introduced me to a couple games I've loved playing over the holidays, but it's also great to see a return to your coverage of projects like this. Essentially I'm saying you don't miss. Happy new year to all
Woah never realized I’d be able to see even more Serina, so sick😆
“Welcome…..to Jurassic Park”
Thank you for taking us back to Serina for your last Archive entry of 2023, I look forward to witnessing what wonders you choose to share for 2024, Happy New Year!!😊
8:02 i just heared thunder in the distance at the same time as this sound. the result was really cool
That’s crazy
I need to watch a documentary about this narrated by a British person.
Ooooohhh Fr lol that would be hilarious
THIS IS WHY I HAVE NOTIFS ON BABEYYY YEAH!!
I was so happy to see this in my homepage, I fell in love with this series a while ago!
I'm not the only one that feels nostalgic with these birds, fishes and snails
You should take a look at the 'Children of Time' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The Spider civilization and their evolving relationship with the Ants of their world is fascinating.
It's great that you cover Spec projects again. I highly recommend covering Kaimere and updating on Dragon Slayer codex gor future videos.
Oh definitely Kaimere. Although the creator does cover it himself.
@@Skimhalf that's true, Keenan does his Kaimere lore dive like every Tuesday. I can't really think of a well-made series that hasn't been covered already.
Ya it’s unfortunate but also fortunate. I mean, curious archive can still cover stuff tho. For example, the epic of Serina is covered on Dylan Bajda’ google site and it’s still covered here.
Yesssss Kaimere!
Thanks for returning this marvelous series
Thank you so much for this series. Also thank you Dylan. I re-watch this every few months. It's so interesting and fun. And really knows how to hit you in your feels.
Amazing video hope you continue the series!
It is back. BIRB PEOPLE, REJOICE!
The way Serina involves the reader into a story of speculative evolution is just amazing, I haven't felt like this since the Yaetuan sagas.
Of course Curious Archive's narration does this epic justice, cannot wait for the final Chapter (also would love it if once it is over we got a mega-video with all the chapters combined.)
I cannot believe that you bring back this old series
You get 5 million dollar and get to live forever but an immortal snail hunts you down
The snail:
Babe wake up new serina dropped 🗣️🗣️
It's crazy how it started with small birds, insects, small fish, and flowers. Now it has a huge variety of creaters that all use to be birds.
when i say i RAN to this when i saw another era for serina!! this is one of my favorite series ever covered on this channel i'm so HYPED
15:17 he forgot to mention that strikeworms are descendants of insect-like bumblebirds that have turned their wings into mandibles and that the ones on the screen are actually the FEMALE members.
Yes more serina! Love this
Serina is possibly the favorite thing on this channel. I’m so glad that this legend is of a series is back.
I just finished the series, so glad it’s back!
Love it can't wait for the next one thanks for all your hard work it is appreciated
Great video I enjoy your content. If you can you do a video of the wildlife of frontiers of pandora?
since i found your channel it has quickly become my favorite one out there
It is impossible to overstate the amount of joy i felt at seeing there was more in this series! So i wont try, stories like this of change and trial are what hit me most strongly. Thank you so much for continuing this and please keep going further too!
16:26 is definitely a Darwin IV reference.
If you know, you know.
A Daggerwrist
One of the best best best youtuber ever lived on Earth. .. I mean on SERINA 😅
Finally, some Speculative Evolution! I haven't seen anything about it since that Apollo project
I absolutely adore this project and wait for every new video you make on this project, I love the content man, keep it up with lots of love.