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| Trashed Postozoic Ideas; They're free for use, except for the pictures | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 28 2010, 04:53 PM (2,006 Views) | |
| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 04:53 PM Post #1 |
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Here I shall post my trashed animals from the Postozoic. They are free for use, but they won't be yours. They're still mine, and I might still use them for the Postozoic or another project of mine. But the pictures aren't free. Hedgeatherium/Hedgehogs/European Forest: 5 feet long gray tiger-like long-snouted carnivorous hedgehog with short quills over the body.  Seabat/Bats/European Forest coasts: 2-fingered 8-foot wingspan white sea-going piscivorous long-snouted bat. Replaces some seabirds. Antarctic Bat/Bats/Antarctic Savannah Tundra: 6-foot wingspan brown carnivorous bat. It eats eggs and small rodents. Predator Rat -- Brown Rat -- European Plains: 5 foot long gray carnivorous rat. The 4 incisors have sharpened, stopped continuously growing, and have seperated to become farther apart, but there are no teeth in the gap. Therohoatzin -- Hoatzin -- South American Rainforest: 2-3 feet long arboreal black (with golden belly and a crest) arboreal Hoatzin with 3 fingers on the elbow of the wings. It can still fly, but usually climbs. It eats fruits and leaves. Mersnail/Lower Heterobranchia Sea Slugs/Oceans: These are the ones that have replaced most herbivorous fish. They look the same except that their bodies are streamlines, has evolved primitive flippers, and the back of the body looks like a dolphin tail.  Kochlidtheres/All over the world except for South America and Antarctica: They are bipedal snails. They have evolved water-tight skin, and the foot has evolved 2 long legs at the side, which became normal legs, an endoskeleton, and the shell has become like the shell of a turtle. The herbivorous ones still have a radula with a lengthened mouth, but the insectivorous ones has become long, sticky, and spike-less. They also have a long tail to balance their weight. They outcompeted lizards because of the fact that they are hermaphrodites. They have also evolved amniotic eggs.  **NOTE** If you will ask Canis Lupus for permission too it will be appreciated. Tree Octopus/Octopus/Europe, Asia, and Africa 100 MYF: An arboreal octopus descendant. 4 of it's legs are long, thick, and used for swinging, while the other 4 are wider, sticky, and stronger, used to catch prey and climb trees. It also has an extendable mouth used to kill and eat.  Platyraffe/Platypus/Australian Savannah: A 10 foot tall herbivorous giraffe-like descendant of the platypus.  Terror Bill/Platypus/African Savanna: A carnivorous platypus. They have developed teeth-like structures on its bill to kill and eat.  Feel free. I'd prefer if you'd comment here before using one of these creatures. Also, the pictures aren't yours. You can't use my pictures. Edited by Pando, Apr 29 2010, 01:19 PM.
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 06:09 PM Post #16 |
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Plus, snails are already on land anyway. And they've proven (well, in a marine environment at least) that they can actually locomote quite efficiently (hopping anyone?). Through torsion, it is also possible for them to evolve a notochord-like structure, in effect evolving chordate characteristics. Metalraptor and I speculated that "ribs" would evolve as the creature evolved a greater size, leading to the evolution of legs. |
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| Practically Uninformed | Apr 28 2010, 06:10 PM Post #17 |
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...strangely compelling. May I buy the concept of an arboreal octopus and a land-snail that outcompetes something for 400 Oogles? |
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| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 06:12 PM Post #18 |
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You can use them. And don't worry, on the subtitle I said that it's free 
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 06:20 PM Post #19 |
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You really need to ask me for the snail idea. Pando did get inspired by me. Let me think...sure, you can use it. Just know that I'll also be using it for my revised TFIB. |
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| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 06:27 PM Post #20 |
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I thought that Project Nostalgia only did 15 MYF? And Project Nostalgia is, what, you're 2nd, 3rd, or 4th revision? |
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 06:38 PM Post #21 |
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Well, Metalraptor and I have talked, and we've decided to do it all over again. And yes, it is my 4th revision. What? Can I help not striving for perfection? |
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| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 06:44 PM Post #22 |
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It's okay. The only thing I have against it is that you just started Nostalgia... Where do you know Metalraptor from? Because in this forum he's in validating status, and unless he verifies his account and starts posting he'll be deleted. |
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 06:47 PM Post #23 |
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His internet, for whatever reason, won't allow him to join this site. I forget now, but he was the first one outside of these forums to notice my old (and dead) TFIB website. He's a great speculative biologist and he would be a great asset to this site. |
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| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 06:52 PM Post #24 |
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What prevents him from accessing the forum? Send him this URL for him to perform a traceroute. Try Yola for the new TFIB website if you want one, not a lot of features but a good website nonetheless and 2x as much as Webs (1 gig). |
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 06:54 PM Post #25 |
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I'm not a website man, so I probably won't do a TFIB website. |
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| Pando | Apr 28 2010, 06:57 PM Post #26 |
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When's v4 coming? What times will it encompass (first time I've used the word  )?
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 28 2010, 07:04 PM Post #27 |
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15MYF, 100MYF, and 225MYF. That's what Project Nostalgia is about. I've been too busy to write the creature description. |
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| Pando | Apr 29 2010, 01:20 PM Post #28 |
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So when's 100 MYF starting? And when are you going to post your first Aussie animal? An update to this thread: You can't use my pictures! |
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