Awesome giveaway idea!

I'm in, and I'm going to select House Cats.

After the demise of humans, the cats finally had to start looking after themselves... and they didn't like it! Fortunately for them, the dogs were in a similar situation and were looking for someone to be their master: a role the cats were all too happy to fill. The cats eventually evolved into virtually motionless piles of soft & furry flesh, who rely on the dogs to do all the work for them. If something ever happened to the dogs, or if the dogs ever experienced an awakening, the cats would be finished!

Thank you Thespian* and Novotnus, I have given +1 to you both

Not in and I really wish I hadn't read the two posts about cockroaches... it's a desert where I live and one cannot keep out all manner of insects in search of water. The exterminator cannot come too soon after one of those beasts landed on my shoulder yesterday - I'm still squirming and squeamishly shaking in disgust.

Years ago, in NYC, I owned a cat that used to catch the giant-sized ones. Never scare a cat with a giant waterbug in it's mouth... they let them go (once in the bedroom). Then I had to jump on the bed and scream until it was stomped.

~major girl here in case you hadn't noticed~

Not in but thanks for the giveaway.

You don't look like so, after that explanation of yours. :P

Thanks, Thespian*, for another sweet giveaway! +1 Thanks and uprep also go to the very generous Novotnus. In for RWarehall, please.

Mudskippers. They are completely amphibious fish, and will, brought on by climate change, spread in huge numbers all over the globe when temperatures continue to rise. As they tend to mudwrestle in-species over the land they hop onto, humans will be caught up in these freak battles and be crushed like vermin, as soon as these Oxudercinae grow to giant size. They will also carry knives.

Here's a National Geographic video that completely ignores the imminent, bleak future we all face once mudskippers will rule Earth.
Run, like now.

+1. Please count me in. Thank you for the giveaway! I'm going with snakes, mainly because of that crazy video on the news recently of a giant snake killing and actually eating a crocodile. After seeing that, I think it could just be a matter of time before one of those snakes eats me... a "Jill Sandwich," so to speak... :)

Added info: The civilization of the giant snakes will be a merit-based system, with a multi-layered hierarchy. The highest ranking officers will be the ones who can eat the largest crocodiles whole. If you can only eat a small crocodile whole, you could not be a senior officer. And heaven forbid if you can't even eat a small crocodile! But the giant snakes will be benevolent rulers, and they will not actually kill any crocodiles. Instead, they will only eat crocodiles who have already died of natural causes, which will make their whole hierarchy system a bit of a nightmare from an administrative point of view.

Well, that was the goofiest thing I could think of. It ended up being far dumber than it was in my mind! :)

Kiwis have grown and developed, gaining back their flight... of a sort. Trying to craft an airplane with just legs and a bill is an arduous task, much less flying one. However these plucky birds rely on their community to deliver, becoming the masters of the sky.

OK, but please, edit your post to tell me something about their civilization (as I asked in the OP), to qualify for the GA. ;)

Thanks Thespian* and Novotnus for the giveaway. Not in though.

I vote for the cockroaches too. It's not from my original thinking, but I agree with the explanation.
Sometimes they just don't die easily. Even if they do, they'll survive because of their rate of birth.
Maybe in the future there will be a species of half cockroach and half centipede...a flying centipede!!!

The Canine Empire was the successor of the Old Masters. A brutal and cruel breedist regime, governed by the elite Golden-Poodle-Collie triumvirate and ruled by the iron paws of their Alsatian and Pitbull stormtroopers, lesser and smaller dogs live with their tails between their legs. Reproduction is strictly controlled by the regime's eugenics program, with most dogs being sterilized, to produce the Master Breed.

Thanks to you and Novotnus
not in

There is really only one species which is worth to mention....now let us all take a moment to consider what Schnuff could mean......you got it? The first letter is *H* the last *O*. (stop tinyE i know that you now seek for possible answers)...of course its a HIPPO!!!!

In and thank you both.

Species: the Rat

After humans wiped themselves out, the rats were the natural heirs. They already were the masters of the cities the humand left behind. They were quick to adapt, intelligent, resistant to the radiation and poison the humans created and had a functioning social strucuture. Even if it's not always a nice one. They grew a bit and developed opposing thumbs. Now they were able to use and eventually understand, repair and improve on the derelict technology left behind by "The Poisoners", as they call us. Their society is totalitarian and based on social-Ratarwinism. Weak and stupid individuals only have value as risk-takers, so that the more valuable members of society can survive. But most of the menial work is forced upon weaker species anyhow. Raccoons for example, who became intelligent as well and have opposable thumbs too - but they were never nasty enough to stand a chance against the world-wide Ratocraty.

I"m in thanks.

Species: Dung beetle

Dung beetles will continue to thrive on the waste of other creatures long after humans are wiped out. They will develope mountains of dung from the waste of all the animals (who are now thriving without humans) which they will thrive on for countless years. Over the years there will be cities made of dung around the world.

My mistake. It has been updated at this URL: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_the_island_of_doctor_moreau_giveaway/post21

But I must warn you that my answer is very, very stupid! :)

I'm in.

House cats.

A race of four legged furry felines, they consider themselves superior to all other species. They have pet humans that will feed them whenever they wish and clean out where they use the bathroom at random.