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Red Earth Project
Topic Started: Jun 10 2008, 11:15 AM (2,296 Views)
Ramul
Fetus
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Just another exobiology project.

http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Metapods-70460286
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Spaceshipshark-71562385
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-scissorhands-72092647
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Finsuckers-73690779
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-featherleaves-74722686
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Squid-whale-76297840
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-caterpillar-plants-76756765
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-umbrella-trees-79157616
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-marine-molluscoids-79158305
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Manta-seatowel-79158540
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-seatowels-81379718
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-beaked-divers-81523792
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Sawtails-82037402
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Rakecrab-82127958
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Trunkworms-82447325
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Hornskulls-83606256
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Spearnoses-83611979
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Armor-worm-84930851
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-boweeds-88073199
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Stone-gnawers-88541986
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-Squidworms-90129155
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-terr-molluscoids-92666545
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-swimming-leaves-92670990
http://ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-The-crestheads-92678466
List will be updated with new species.
Critics and creature suggestiong always welcome.
Edited by Ramul, Jul 24 2008, 03:09 PM.
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Ramul
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Parts of it are still in planning and editing, so I'll try to answer the questions according to the current state, it may still change. If you have ideas for improvement or see any mistakes, point them out.
-Red Earth has its name from the color of the plants that inhabit it. It's slightly larger than Earth, 80% of its surface are covered by water and the land masses consist currently of three continents.
-The species on this planet (excluding the microbes) can be separated into three kingdoms: the "panimalia", which has the animals and typical plants (vermiphytes) and is by far the largest kingdom, the lithophytes, lichen-like lifeforms formed by the symbiosis of three kinds of microorganisms that are characterised silica shells and can be autotrophic or hererotrophic(further division of this group needs to be done) and the sulfozoa are a rather strange group with diverging biochemistry and live only in aquatic volcanic regions (this group is still in the making).
-The "panimalia" are divided into bibranchiates (armor worms, tetragnathes, asymmetria) tetrabranchiates (pneumonopteres, caterpillar plants), onychognathes (clawworms, spiderpillars, tentaculopods), rhizocephales (vermiphytes, bask worms), molluscoids, sea tubes, trunk worms and several other groups (changes, additions and regroupings will be done)
-The climate zones range from polar to tropical; the polar ice caps are fairly small, but a large part of the northern continent has a polar climate. The climate is more humid than on Earth.
- Because of the composition of the sunlight and the weak ozone layer the high UV radiation is a problem on the planet, which gets solved by thick, constantly regenerating skin, reflective hair, "sunshields", aquatic lifestyle and nocturnal activity.
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