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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,416 Views)
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Pack Hunting parrot-derived predators?
Also lots of stuff with oviraptorisaurs...I may do a project with them honestly
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Squids that use electroreception, with one lineage using electric shocks to kill prey. Some are wobbegong-like ambush predators, while others actively swim after their prey.

Sessile anemone-like squids-maybe another lineage of the electrosquids I mentioned.

A lineage of chalicothere-like herbivores derived from Hyracotherium.

Chalicothere-like, primate-like, fruit bat-like, desmostylian-like, and primate-like hyraxes.
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A Moeritherium like rodent descendant (It was a concept I thought of a while back)
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Exobio concept I had a while ago: a "phylum" descended from a starfish-like radial creature with four limbs, each bearing a rudimentary eye and other sensory organs. Its evolution would involve the specialization and differentiation of these limbs, resulting in the following forms:
-Tripedal creatures with one limb, the "head," having more advanced sensory capabilities.
-"Amphisbaenas" with two opposite limbs developing into "heads" (with more advanced sense organs and mouths) and the other limbs being used only for locomotion (in some cases dividing into two or three limb pairs).
-Descended from the above, creatures with differentiated "heads" and "tails"-- the head would in some species the tail would feature weapons such as stingers or graspers, to be used in self-defense or for catching prey. Some would also lose their side-limbs and move like snakes or eels.
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Feb 19 2016, 12:45 AM
a feral descendant of homo sapiens..
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Chimp-man-zees...

Feral humans aren't something that would take any time to evolve at all. In fact if some civilisation destroying event happened some time in the next 100 years there could be legitimate feral humans in our lifetimes... I kind of see any form of feral person going full on trust-no-one Mad Max mode. In an ideal world maybe feral humans would revert into herbivorous passive apes again, but in the real world it would probably be anything but peaceful.
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A succulent plant (or alien succulent analog) with one or more "rain cup" receptacles for catching rainwater, lined with thin absorbent skin. When it's not raining, the cup is covered up with several petals that fold together like the flaps of a cardboard box, to prevent the plant from losing moisture. The petals are stimulated to open by the percussion of raindrops, and close when the rain ceases.

Animals exploit this feature by tapping on the petals, which "fools" them into opening, and either piercing the thin skin underneath for water or just drinking up un-absorbed water from the cup.

The rain cup could also easily be exapted into a trap: the petals would open if tapped and then close when an animal got inside, and the prey would then be digested as in a pitcher plant.
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Sayornis
Feb 26 2016, 04:50 PM
The rain cup could also easily be exapted into a trap: the petals would open if tapped and then close when an animal got inside, and the prey would then be digested as in a pitcher plant.
Or what if a carnivorous species of plant mimics the rain cup plant?
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I don't think that any animals which can properly tap the rain-cup can be eaten by a mere carnivorous look-alike... It'd be quite hard for insects to properly tap the plant (perhaps by flying and hitting the plant?)
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Feb 19 2016, 10:58 PM
Exobio concept I had a while ago: a "phylum" descended from a starfish-like radial creature
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with four limbs, each bearing a rudimentary eye and other sensory organs.

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Probably a dumb idea but carnivorous bird that hunt like crocodiles, like some future duck or other aquatic bird
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What about a giant Gondwanathere or Multituberlucate (think horse to bison sized)
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A Moa like Crow descendant (In terms of behaviors, size, and shape)
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