40000 BC ? a great ice age is ending Another titanic struggle for global supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the animal species Dominant Species The Card Game is a fast-playing game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history the ponderous rescinding of an ice age & what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth Players will use six major animal classes ? mammal reptile bird amphibian arachnid or insect ? to further their goals in various terrain Through wily card play players will strive to become dominant at as many different terrestrial & sea biomes as possible in order to claim valuable victory points It is survival of the fittest All of this leads to the end game ? the final descent of the ice age ? where the player who has accumulated the most victory points wins the game But somebody better become dominant quickly because it&s getting mighty warm