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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
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Mar 27 2016, 10:40 PM
Or a 20 foot crocodile or alligator that can both gallop and swim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaprosuchus
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Mar 5 2016, 03:49 PM
A baleen whale-like Pterodaustro descendant
I had a similar idea, except with Dsungaripteroids, but they were Pelagic Soarers.
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What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
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Tet the Zoologist
Mar 28 2016, 06:30 PM
What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
Maybe a little unlikely, unless of course, they want to satisfy the hell out of their predators whilst giving them a chance to escape (I mean, seriously, the predators or what ever would snap them right up)
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What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
Now I just have this image of adults throwing babies at each other like some sort of sadistic snowball fight (though it'd be funny with baby dolls)
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What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
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Mar 28 2016, 06:30 PM
What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
That's incredibly wasteful and inefficient. It would never work.
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Several ideas relating to the Speculative Permian Project:

A Dicynodont that looks like the South American Rattleback (The future is wild) but with sprawling legs and 20 centimeter long tusks.

A species of Leviathan (I partially mentioned them, you know, those fully aquatic Prionosuchus descendants) that migrates between the Indian Ocean and a savannah in Ethiopia (Which gets occasionally over flooded, and turns into a swamp)

A larger species of Loon Lizard relative (You know what I mean if you've read it) that looks like a Deinocheirus, and has the niche of a Ostrich.
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Mar 28 2016, 07:42 PM
Tet the Zoologist
Mar 28 2016, 06:30 PM
What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
That's incredibly wasteful and inefficient. It would never work.
What about unfertilized eggs? Seems like a good way to use that wasted energy-to distract a predator long enough for the mother to make its escape.
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Possible, but it's changing the question. Even then, it doesn't seem like something best used a projectile as much as a decoy, and even if you get around that there are far better and more reliably available things that could be used.
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Pardon my language but that is a fucked up product of evolution, fictional or non-fictional
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Mar 28 2016, 06:32 PM
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What about a creature that uses its babies as projectiles
Maybe a little unlikely, unless of course, they want to satisfy the hell out of their predators whilst giving them a chance to escape (I mean, seriously, the predators or what ever would snap them right up)
What about a moth or other fecund insect that fires numerous small, tough shelled eggs at an attacker? If you disturb a gravid moth, it starts laying eggs everywhere (either as a distraction or to ensure they could survive even if she gets eaten) so it's not that far off. Consider how some caterpillars already shoot fecal pellets, like this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0516_030516_caterpillars.html
Also, one time years ago I reared a batch of lappet moth caterpillars that would poop, grab the pellet with their anal prolegs, and rapidly twitch the end of their abdomen to throw it. They always did it when I disturbed them to change their leaves, and could've sworn they aimed for my eyes...
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With so many projectile-defense mechanisms that already exist (besides those already mentioned I'd add vomit and glandular spray) and wouldn't imperil the user's offspring, I'm not sure why baby-throwing would evolve.

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Was this designed by Wayne Barlowe? It's a bit like the creatures from Expedition which had detachable "heads" (identified by the narrator as possibly being symbionts).
Edited by Sayornis, Mar 29 2016, 08:32 PM.
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