[ARCHIVED] Coconut Crabs

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[ARCHIVED] Coconut Crabs
Topic Started: May 14 2010, 01:17 AM (4,027 Views)
Pando	May 14 2010, 01:17 AM Post #1
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	As the Chinese swamp of 120 MYF nears its end (got a batch ready) I've been wondering about Coconut Crabs. The coconut crab is unique among arthropods that as they went on land their gills didn't turn into body tubes, but is currently in a proto-lung. In the Postozoic it goes further and turns into a real lung, allowing them to grow bigger. What is the biggest size they are able to achieve and what diversity can they have? I'm guessing that they will be able to grow as big as a lot of vertebrates as some seascorpions (including a 7 foot long one) went on land and arthropleura existed.

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Pando	May 17 2010, 02:30 AM Post #76
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	It's okay, but I will have to accept it. And please, don't post it in this thread. Please post it in the pinned "species submission" thread.



MitchBeard	May 17 2010, 02:47 AM Post #77
proud gondwanan Posts: 431 Group: Members Member #281 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male Nationality: Australian	Yeah, cool man. I know what I'm doing.



Pando	May 19 2010, 11:15 PM Post #78
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I've drawn a tree megacrab. Feel free to comment on it (please do).



Canis Lupis	May 19 2010, 11:18 PM Post #79
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	Reminds me of a squid.



Pando	May 19 2010, 11:30 PM Post #80
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I said that they have eyestalks for a wide range of sight.



Practically Uninformed	May 20 2010, 03:03 PM Post #81
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Pando	May 20 2010, 03:05 PM Post #82
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	#1 drawing mistake. Not very good at drawing. #2 they're not bugs!



Practically Uninformed	May 20 2010, 03:08 PM Post #83
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Technically, though, they're not crabs anymore. A lot of creatures possess misnomer names that more describe their appearance and behavior rather than their actual ancestry. Take the Snaiad "birds" (a lot of Snaiadi animals have the word "bird" somewhere in their name), or the prairie dog, or the Guinea pig.
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Pando	May 20 2010, 03:11 PM Post #84
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	They were never crabs though. Hermit crabs are hermit crabs. But their still not bugs. Bugs only refer to small land arthropods, gastropods, and sometimes worms.



Practically Uninformed	May 20 2010, 03:12 PM Post #85
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Perhaps "bigbugs", to emphasize that size issue?
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Ook	May 20 2010, 03:12 PM Post #86
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	mountain beaver,marsupial mice.. i think that name is great



Pando	May 20 2010, 03:16 PM Post #87
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Fine, the climerbug is okay, but marmotbug won't describe very well most of the land megacrabs.



Practically Uninformed	May 20 2010, 03:18 PM Post #88
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Chimpanbug? Macaque crab? I dunno, what would their behavior bring to mind?
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Pando	May 20 2010, 03:19 PM Post #89
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	That's the problem, they are diverse. They aren't all herbivores, in fact a lot are obligate carnivores.



Practically Uninformed	May 20 2010, 03:21 PM Post #90
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Baboon bugs? Do they have any tics that someone can get a name out of?
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