The Squibbon is a terrestrial Squid from The Future is Wild Series. An air-breathing cephelapod distantly related to the Megasquid, the Squibbon is almost totally arboreal, swinging through the "trees" of the Northern Forest, rather than brachiating like modern-day apes. It is shown to be highly intelligent, employing foreign objects as weapons against a marauding Megasquid. The squibbon is known to be the next intellegent beings after humans.

ConcernsEdit

Like its elephantine relative, the Squibbon poses a question: Could a soft bodied animal evolve to be air breathing, large and intelligent? On the Earth today, no soft-bodied terrestrial animal known of is larger than a rat, and none of them possess legs. According to the show, a highly specialized muscle structure supports it, and this could hold some water. However, the real question is whether a soft-bodied, terrestrial invertebrate such as the Squibbon could possibly compete with vertebrates. The only major advantage that the Squibbon could possibly have is its ability to squeeze through cracks, of which there seem to be few in its environment. Vertibrates may not exist at the time of the squibbon but animals like them would tend to evolve stiffening in their tentacles or arms. Animals with stiffer limbs would need less energy to move and would possibly move more efficiently generally, therefore the squibbon's tentacles or arms would tend to evolve into stiff, probably jointed legs. Thus, a creature like this Squibbon is probably not so likely to exist in the distant future.

There is, however, a way around this problem. It could have evolved the same pseudo-skeleton system as the Megasquid. However, in the Squibbon, it could have become jointed, with so many joints in its arms that they have become segmented, almost like a vertabre. Thus, an animal like a Squibbon could evolve.

NotesEdit

It is believed that the Centaurians are similar in appearance to the Squibbon but they live mostly on the ground and in water, their habitat is different from that of the Squibbon.

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5 million years
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100 million years
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200 million years
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