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Green Tube Worms; What do you guys think?
Topic Started: Mar 24 2010, 05:38 PM (403 Views)
MitchBeard
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Hey guys, I do a little bit of spec on my blog occasionally. I was just wondering what any of you think of my Green Tube Worms.
I actually have an idea to make the sessile form a bit more plausible, so I have to do an edit on it soon.
Cheers! :lol:
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Margaret Pye
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Very clever idea!

But why bother with Riftia? Wouldn't a photosynthetic sea slug be a more convenient, less specialised ancestor, not requiring mad scientist intervention?
My speculative dinosaur project. With lots of fluff, parental care and mammalian-level intelligence, and the odd sophont.
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MitchBeard
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Yeah, I came across Elysia chloriata when I was researching these, almost too late I'm afraid. I already had a massive diversification of my tube worms in my head.
I also like Riftia because they're already so specialized to being an autotroph; they're such a stripped back animal. I liked the idea of building them back up into a new weird more complex organism again.
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Xenophile
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Love it! Your tube worms are very original! Welcome to my favorite site on the internet!
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