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| Topic Started: Mar 24 2012, 08:26 AM (1,536 Views) | |
| Arachnus | May 13 2012, 06:42 PM Post #61 |
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I guess it could. A bird is a good design to base off of, since they can fly long distances, and the probe would be able to perch on the ground or in a tree to investigate anything. The denser air would also make flight even easier, so it seems like a bird probe is a good design. |
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| Alduin | May 18 2012, 06:21 PM Post #62 |
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 The Fisherman's Worm is the most intelligent of the mixotrophic worms. It baits prey using it's long tongue by grabbing a food item with the tongue. Then, when the animal falls for the prey, the Fisherman's Worm impales the side of the animal with it's tongue and sucks the dying animal into it's mouth. It has evolved it's scales into photosynthetic fur, with each hair resembling a small leaf. It's eyes are more advanced than the other species of mixotrophic worms, they are pentachromats, infact, they are the last mixotrophic worms with highly developed eyes. |
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| Alduin | May 21 2012, 04:12 PM Post #63 |
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The probe flies over to the hut, and investigates it. It finds a chest, and the mounted head of a fisherman's worm. The probe, using a device mounted on it's side, takes a x-ray of the chest to see the insides. Inside is a blanket made from the fur of an unknown animal. By the chest, are some flowerworm eggs, the probe picks up the eggs. The eggs are more like a seed, requiring water to hatch, but can go years without water. The probe picks up the eggs, and puts them in a lead lined compartment used for storing objects of interest. The probe's outer layer is gold, and the inner layers are titanium and iron, and for the x-ray instrument, it is lined in lead to prevent from killing objects of interest if they are alive. The probe flies out of the hut, and in the distance, the wind is picking up. The sagari in the forest, with their advanced hearing (most land dwelling animals on the planet have better senses of taste, smell and hearing, because storms are very common on this planet), detect the storm, and roll up their long tongues into their mouth. The outer layer of the probe is made of gold because gold does not react with anything, however, underneath it is iron. Edited by Alduin, May 21 2012, 04:18 PM.
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| Alduin | May 24 2012, 08:29 PM Post #64 |
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Also, all the animals on the planet on land can sense pressure, to detect oncoming storms, along with being able to sense electrical fields. |
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| Dark-Matter | May 26 2012, 01:12 AM Post #65 |
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Alcuin have you ever seen the documentary “Alien Planet", because the way you describe the probes analyzing the organisms reminds me about the documentary. Also do you have any drawing or spore creation about your probes? |
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| Alduin | May 26 2012, 04:05 PM Post #66 |
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Yes, that's where I took that. I haven't done a design of the probe in spore yet, but it looks like a metal bird. |
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| Alduin | May 27 2012, 03:14 PM Post #67 |
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All the full time aerial animals in this sleep cetacean style, have internal genitalia and reproduce through parthenogenesis. They are descended from a group of land dwelling animals that went extinct long ago and got replaced by the Octopods. The reason I use Spore is because I don't have a scanner and I don't draw real well. They also have hollow bones. The Impaler is a large aerial predator, it is 30 feet long, with each wing being 10 feet long, it is powered by large wings, internal methane sacks, and 8 biological ramjets, it is a liquivore, it kills its prey by impaling it's side with it's large proboscis, and smashing it into the ground and sucking it's fluids. When Impalers attack, they attack in groups, and when they attack Web Mouths, they first take out it's web, then they impale it's size. They have multiple hearts and multiple ganglia. They lay their eggs in clouds. They are covered in bio-luminescent patches.  The Sky Fish is an aerial filter feeder, with a wing span of 6 feet They lay their eggs in clouds, and are the lowest on the aerial food chain. They are powered by large wings, 8 biological ramjets and internal methane sacks. They feed on Aeroplankton. They are covered in bio-luminescent patches. They have multiple hearts and multiple ganglia.  The Sky Darter is an aerial liquivore and it's wing span is 20 feet long. They dart after their prey, with their long wings, 8 biological ramjets and internal methane sacks. When they catch their prey, they impale them into the towering Plantfungidae trees. They are covered in bio-luminescent patches. They have multiple hearts and multiple ganglia.  The Frillback is a predatory animal 6 feet tall. Like all Methanepods, it uses it's large methane sacks to startle predators and attract mates. They prey on everything from Hoard-rats to Ucorosuchus. If any of this is impossible, let me know. I tried my best to make them plausible, hollow bones, dense atmosphere, methane sacks, large wings and based the jet propulsion they use off of a ramjet. Edited by Alduin, Jul 10 2012, 07:29 PM.
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| Arachnus | May 27 2012, 03:45 PM Post #68 |
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I definitely question the evolution of the 'biological ramjets' that all these flyers use. What kept them from evolving more traditional methods of flight? Why go through all the trouble of evolving a system as complex as a ramjet engine, when you can simply flap your wings? Also, can you describe their sizes in greater detail? Using Terran animals for scale is helpful, but not all of us may be familiar with some of the animals you describe, especially the Skewer; some of us have never seen Alien Planet or read the book, and it doesn't look very professional from an aesthetic (or whatever) point of view. |
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| Alduin | May 27 2012, 03:53 PM Post #69 |
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Specialization for flight, they've been terrorizing the skies for a good amount of time. They evolved wings with methane sacks on them first, then some specialized them into methane powered ramjets. |
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| Alduin | May 27 2012, 06:39 PM Post #70 |
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 Speculative_Flish has decided to remake some of my creatures, this is the sky darter remade. |
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| Alduin | May 29 2012, 11:36 AM Post #71 |
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The aerial octopods fly through both flapping their wings and using biological ramjets, and they use internal methane sacks as well. The cruddiest animal I've done for this so far is the Skyfish. |
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| Alduin | Jun 23 2012, 04:44 PM Post #72 |
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The Vegetabilis is a small parasitic flowerworm relative, instead of using the flowering reproductive system it's relatives use, it must find a host before it can reproduce. The spores are released by a fruiting body ontop of the host, similar to how cordyceps reproduces, the spores are released into the air, where it is breathed in by a Hoard-Rat, the larvae begin to grow inside the animal's intestines. When the larvae reach a certain size, they burrow out of the animals intestines, killing the animal by blood-loss. The larvae go into the soil, after burrowing out of the skin. They begin to find a new host, a Sagari. The larvae burrow into the animal's brain, and, since the Sagari can move to new spots if it's old spot is unsuitable, the larvae force the Sagari to move to the top of a tree, and bite onto the tree, then the larvae begin to mummify the Sagari, killing it. The larva the become sessile, like how Sea Tunicates become sessile. The larva grow out of the animal's head, at this point they resemble mushrooms, and they begin to release spores, and the cycle starts all over again.
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| Alduin | Jul 6 2012, 08:39 PM Post #73 |
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The fisherman's worms are primarily carnivorous, but, when food is scarce they will photosynthesize. |
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| Alduin | Aug 30 2012, 02:25 PM Post #74 |
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Time for a lifeform on the moon of Nu, Nu's moon is a water world, and life on this moon are descended from Nu bacteria that hitch-hiked to this moon by a large meteorite impact that happened 2 billion years ago, when the planet was frozen, because of rising oxygen levels and slowly moving to it's current orbit. The Reed Titan is a large plant native to Tatenen. It forms a large stalk which can grow miles long. The stalk is supported by the water, the plant can also feed on organisms swimming around it using large tentacles; before the large lilypad-like leaf can reach the surface, it feeds mainly on organisms around it and chemosynthesis. The plants of this moon can feed through chemosynthesis, photosynthesis and sometimes on other organisms, as the case of the Reed Titan. I had this idea for a while, but, didn't publish it due to school. Edited by Alduin, Aug 30 2012, 02:25 PM.
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