In its history, it has been an Ice planet more than once, though, as well as periods when most of the landmass was Desert (early Mesozoic) and of nearly uniform lush growth (mid-Mesozoic) note Studies have shown, however, that Mesozoic climates were far more diverse than previously thought. We have several of them in our own solar system, in fact, missing only a breathable atmosphere.Įarth itself could fairly be considered a water planet. Almost never are we shown or told that a planet is entirely a Single Biome Planet in television or movies, and the ones that are are almost always either very temperate, tropical, desert, ice, or water worlds, which all have a statistical probability of existing. Many times there are lines to the effect that it is a fairly standard planet. It should perhaps be noted that we usually only get very small views of these planets. This is and ecological equivalent to the Planet of Hats, and the locals will often have a hat that resembles the human cultures that inhabit similar environments.Ī creature well-suited to the local environment may be upgraded to horse status, if it's big enough. For this reason, alien creatures are often simply described as being native to Planet Such-and-Such, rather than to any specific location on it, with the assumption that you'd find them regardless of what spot you landed on. In addition, beyond having simply uniform surface biomes, these planets often have a single ecological community over their entire surfaces - a swamp planet, for instance, isn't just covered by swamps, it's covered by the exact same swamp everywhere, with precisely the same native plants and creatures. Very rarely does any planet have the same level of environmental diversity as Earth, despite being as large and having a normal orbit. It doesn't matter if the events of the story only take place on a small portion of the planet - we are still told the entire planet has one climate specifically, the same climate as where the story takes place. Many other planets and natural satellites will often be defined by a single setting. Or you'd think so after seeing so many alien worlds trapped in solitary, homogeneous landscapes. we must be the most varied planet in the universe. On this single planet, you can find jungles, mountains, forests, deserts, prairies. Earth is a wonderfully varied place with an amazingly diverse biosphere.
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