The timelines below show the time period were all the new species were created after the original cheetah had went extinct.
Brief Summary:
My organism, the Acinonyx jubatus (the cheetah) went from a very large population to a very low population. The decreasing of the cheetah all started when the ocean took away the savanna, basically washed it away into thin air. So what the animals did to help make it through and or survive this terrible crisis went along into a new environment, and had to interact with different species they have never interacted with before. In that case, the cheetah was one of the many animals in the savanna that were starting to die out and so the cheetah had to mate with another organism and or species to try to keep their traits/race going. Over the amount of 10 million years the cheetah had produced a whole kind of different species, like the circle of life one would eventually die off but another would be continuous until we have reached present day.
My organism, the Acinonyx jubatus (the cheetah) went from a very large population to a very low population. The decreasing of the cheetah all started when the ocean took away the savanna, basically washed it away into thin air. So what the animals did to help make it through and or survive this terrible crisis went along into a new environment, and had to interact with different species they have never interacted with before. In that case, the cheetah was one of the many animals in the savanna that were starting to die out and so the cheetah had to mate with another organism and or species to try to keep their traits/race going. Over the amount of 10 million years the cheetah had produced a whole kind of different species, like the circle of life one would eventually die off but another would be continuous until we have reached present day.
What had caused the speciation event? The ocean basically washing away the island were all the savanna animals were living and creating life on. With that happening to all the kinds of animals in that one environment, leaded up to one big biosphere with two completely different complex of organisms coming together to live as one. Two or more of the subspecies were created with the cheetah. The cheetah was dying out so with what was left of the cheetah mated with another organism to create a whole new kind to at least get some of the cheetahs traits/race saved for later/present world. The difference between the subspecies are that they have never come in contact with one another unless it was for the predator to get his prey, but since they all had to come together at one point there was roughly any of that unless their was another organism that just didn’t belong. Anywho, the difference is that they all had come together, something that has never happened before and with a 10 million time period created all these new species.