Over the course of millions of years into the future continental drift slowly moves the mass of Antarctica northwards. As it creeps centimeter by centimeter away from the Antarctic Circle, it's climate changes. Ice caps give way to tundra, which eventually gives way to pine forest and grassland. As greenery takes hold inland, animals begin moving inland to take advantage of the new sources of food. There are insects, birds and bats which can fly in, but another strain of animal gallumps into the new greened inland in search of food: the seals. First they make their way inland along rivers hunting freshwater fish and they become more adept at moving over land to get from river to river. On land they stalk burrowing land penguins for food, grub for grubs and increasingly turn to supplementing their diet with berries, then roots, then shoots. Their front flippers become legs that can bear their weight while their rear flippers are used increasingly as one in overland locomotion and eventually merge together into a single third leg. Eventually you have the emergence of the Landeels.





30 million years in the future Landeels come to fill many new niches. Some become predators like wolves or tigers, others become herbivores. A few even shrink down in size and fill the role of foxes and squirrels. The Common Antartican Landeel is fairly basal and is a generalist omnivore about 1 to 1.5 meters long and weighing in at 60-120 kilograms. Males tend to be larger than females. They dig burrows, roam the forests in small groups and reproduce in large numbers. They are quite vocal creatures.

