Now I can report the finding of another "Easter Egg" : You need to be an Palaentologist to find it - if it's intended as an Easter Egg after all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Well, in some Battlefields or rather in tasks of the Necromancer you can see little, tiny snails.
These "snails" look exactly like Wiwaxia from the Burgess Shale Fauna.
The Burgess Shale Fauna - similar strata have been found all over the world, but especially in China - is known for it's oddity, or rathzer extraordinarity. It was about the "Cambrian Explosion", when all sorts of living creatures with the most extraordinary body plans lived in the great oceans.
There, we find animals which are greaet-grand-ancestors of modern animals, and others, which have simply died out, and are hardto reconstruct, because their body plans were never again used in the whole evolution. Anomalocaris is such an example, or Opabinia, or the strange Hallucigenia.
Wiwaxia, however, doen't look that strange, although scientists still don't know what it is; to me, it looks like an very early snail with sings on its back - a little bit like a hedgeghog. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> It looks like a member of the Monoplacpophora - a still existing small branch of the group which produced snails, gastropods in general, Octopus, Ammonites, Belemnites, seashells, and others. Monoplacophora are a bit like snails , but with only one "house" on their back.
( On Monoplacophora :
http://manandmollusc.net/advanced_introduction/moll101monoplacophora.html Source :
http://manandmollusc.net )
I've found a few links showing Wiwaxia and some more animals :
http://www.usc.edu/dept/mda/180evolution/IMAGES/wle.htmlhttp://www.usc.edu/dept/mda/180evolution/IMAGES/bbae.html(Source :
http://www.usc.edu/dept/mda/180evolution/IMAGES )
You can click on the images and see them in bigger form with more details.
Well, I was quite surprised, to see Wiwaxia in a game ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> Greetings to the one who had this idea ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
Alrik.
