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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,415 Views)
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A baleen whale-like Pterodaustro descendant
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Unnamed No K-Pg project: coming whenever, maybe never. I got ideas tho.
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Mar 2 2016, 01:09 PM
A bipedal frog with a marine piscivore niche. Think penguin-like in stance, and in habits too.
I feel if Ultrazoic ever took off we'd have gotten this.
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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When I was feeding the chickens yesterday I noticed one them was waiting by the fruit trees, standing very still, and when an insect eventually came, they jumped up beside the tree and caught it. It did this several times, and when one got away it chased it and caught it again. Got me thinking about insectivorous chicken-descendants.
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I had an idea of a sapient fungoid that I was going to put in my Arkaos project, but I decided it didn't make much sense so I threw it into the eternal pit of stupid ideas never to be seen again.
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Dinocephalian looking Gecko descendants. (Huh, might use it for my new Supercontinent project...)
Speculative Evolution:

Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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Drakeking10
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What about giant man sized bats that eat fruit, or meat? And use echolocation to stun their prey?
Edited by Drakeking10, Mar 23 2016, 10:37 AM.
Theoritically anything is possible, one just needs to think hard enough. But what is theoretically possible may not be possible in practice.

Religion, rationality, and civilization are all lies, they are simply manifestations of basic instincts.
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@Beaked bats: No, beaks can't evolve in mammals because of their lips. The closest thing in terms of aesthetics was the platypus beak, which is really just a sensory organ. Instead, the function normally ascribed to beaks seems to have produced gliriform teeth (ie the "rodent teeth").

Plus, teeth aren't actually heavier than a toothless beak.
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Ooh or giant flesh eating geckos with sharp teeth. I think I'd call that creature a Geckosuchus.
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Theoritically anything is possible, one just needs to think hard enough. But what is theoretically possible may not be possible in practice.

Religion, rationality, and civilization are all lies, they are simply manifestations of basic instincts.
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Here are a couple of mine

A boar that is as large as a rhino, they occupy a bison/mammoth niche, they are still omnivorous and will charge and gore other large herbivores.

An American alligator that can run, climb, dig, and fight with its legs and claws, they are completely terrestrial and occasionally attack mammoth boars by stalking them, chomping on their snout, and suffocating them.

A dog descendant that lives in Canada and has adapted to be herbivores, they grow as large as an American Bison but can easily defend themselves against potential predators
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Dapper Man
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How about:

A large sized Macaque descendant that is on two legs (Not to dissimilar to Australopithecus)

Long legged Tortoise descendants the size of horses.

Four winged birds (Microraptor type things)

Pig sized Snails.
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Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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A large sized Macaque descendant that is on two legs (Not to dissimilar to Australopithecus)
I was actually thinking of something extremely similar yesterday. Mind you, it was in a story context, but same idea.
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A giant scorpion with three tails...
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That seems like an incredibly unlikely thing to evolve naturally, Tet.

Also:

A group of long-legged flightless parrots that act very similarly to modern peafowl.

Colugo descendants that have evolved bat-like wings and true flight.

Aquatic tarsiers with webbing between their fingers.

Aquatic descendants of the macaques on Gibraltar. I shall call them sea monkeys!

Gliding baboon lemurs (Will add to the Library as soon as I have time)
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Or a 20 foot crocodile or alligator that can both gallop and swim. Or a 50 foot long crocodile that lives in the sea.
Theoritically anything is possible, one just needs to think hard enough. But what is theoretically possible may not be possible in practice.

Religion, rationality, and civilization are all lies, they are simply manifestations of basic instincts.
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Drakeking10
Mar 27 2016, 10:40 PM
Or a 50 foot long crocodile that lives in the sea.
Like an even bigger Machimosaurus?
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