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horrors of evolution: the 10 freakiest animals of speculative biology
Topic Started: Nov 22 2010, 05:34 PM (2,497 Views)
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I don't have very many weird creatures either... weird in earth standards, but not weird in spec ev standards. I think the freakiest would be my parasites, which infect any fresh water it can find, and infects whatever animal or plant drinks from the water source. If it infects a plant, it drains it of all it's nutrients, basically sucking it dry, so to speak. If it infects an animal, it enters the brain and alters both behavior and causes mutations to appear at alarmingly fast rates while also absorbing nutrients from the organism. Neither plant nor animal ever lives to see a year after infection. The parasite has no name, but the locals call the infected baalin, or demons. The only small favor is that it cannot infect most invertebrates or small animals, so its spread is mostly limited. Baalin are to be killed and burned upon discovery. That... doesn't always go so well though.
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I guess the various Kinetities from Cthonia are weird, and Harvils, Mudcentaurs and maybe Scythers from Djeres. Featherworm too.
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Orcathero maybe, but you'd have to see it move.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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My work-in-progress rape mountains and anus rippers, both fungus.
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Why do they have such evocative names?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Dec 20 2010, 03:34 PM
Why do they have such evocative names?
The rape mountain was originally thought up into that topic about aliens that use towers for reproduction. The anus ripper came from me pooping and thinking about Athlete's Foot, also Headcrab Zombies.
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Fakey, you have the most twisted thoughts out of anyone here. Dude, I almost pukes when you mentioned rape mountains and anus tippers! God, man!
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Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Dec 28 2010, 10:34 AM
Fakey, you have the most twisted thoughts out of anyone here. Dude, I almost pukes when you mentioned rape mountains and anus tippers! God, man!
Actually it was anus rippers. I've also got a Genidonta in the process. It's looks like the human reprodution system, only with slimy, foul teeth and putrid venom.
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