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Nov 9 2016, 05:35 PM
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.  Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that?
Knock yourself out. But before I do, how plausible is it really, and what arthropod can it be derived from? Anyway, here is my own idea.
Feather beetle-
This beetle lives in an area with extremely dense areoplankton. Bacteria, pollen, viruses, protists, tiny arthropods, wind blown seeds and fungal spores, as well as other things, all float around in great numbers. These beetles have very feathery antennae, similar to saturniid moths. When it feeds, it spreads it's "feathers" out as much as possible. It then takes off. It flies around as much as it can, flying towards areas with denser plankton. After it has collected enough, it lands. It then proceeds to eat all the organic particles caught on it's antennae. It then "closes" them, folding the feathers against the antennae, which it does whenever it's not eating. It's larval stage is a lot more active than most other beetle larvae, crawling along the ground eating various things, including fallen areoplankton. It is an omnivore-detrivore, and it somewhat resembles a megalopteran larvae. They exhibit almost no sexual dimorphism, with females being scarcely larger than males.
 What do you think? Is it plausible? Is it even possible for such an environment to exist in one part of the world like an island without having to make the whole world like this?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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Nov 10 2016, 11:40 AM
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I don't know. A while ago I asked about the plausibility of a flying filter feeder that eats airborne conifer pollen in QTDNTOT, but didn't get any responses (I had a dragonfly descendant in mind).
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Nov 10 2016, 04:02 PM
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I don't know. A while ago I asked about the plausibility of a flying filter feeder that eats airborne conifer pollen in QTDNTOT, but didn't get any responses (I had a dragonfly descendant in mind). Maybe some birth defect happened in some arachnid that caused it's middle legs to fuse into wing-like structures, but it found it useful for gliding and it could escape predation and pass on this gene. Then more individuals get it, and it goes from there.
As for the feather beetle, is it plausible for it to retract it's feathers?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Nov 10 2016, 05:11 PM
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I don't know. A while ago I asked about the plausibility of a flying filter feeder that eats airborne conifer pollen in QTDNTOT, but didn't get any responses (I had a dragonfly descendant in mind).
Maybe some birth defect happened in some arachnid that caused it's middle legs to fuse into wing-like structures, but it found it useful for gliding and it could escape predation and pass on this gene. Then more individuals get it, and it goes from there. As for the feather beetle, is it plausible for it to retract it's feathers? Whuh? What does that have to do with aerial filter feeders?
If the feather beetle's lifestyle is plausible, it would probably tuck its antennae underneath itself when not in use. I dunno about retractable antennae.
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Nov 11 2016, 10:02 AM
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I don't know. A while ago I asked about the plausibility of a flying filter feeder that eats airborne conifer pollen in QTDNTOT, but didn't get any responses (I had a dragonfly descendant in mind).
Maybe some birth defect happened in some arachnid that caused it's middle legs to fuse into wing-like structures, but it found it useful for gliding and it could escape predation and pass on this gene. Then more individuals get it, and it goes from there. As for the feather beetle, is it plausible for it to retract it's feathers?
Whuh? What does that have to do with aerial filter feeders? If the feather beetle's lifestyle is plausible, it would probably tuck its antennae underneath itself when not in use. I dunno about retractable antennae. Could an environment with year round dense areoplankton even exist?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Nov 11 2016, 11:12 AM
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On another planet with different gravity or atmosphere? Probably. On earth? Probably not.
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Nov 11 2016, 11:55 AM
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On another planet with different gravity or atmosphere? Probably. On earth? Probably not. This is for my project. The planet has slightly lower gravity than on earth and has different continents, but is otherwise identical. Can a place have a 24/7 breeze?
Edited by IIGSY, Nov 11 2016, 11:56 AM.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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Nov 11 2016, 01:05 PM
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I suggest working on whatever plant or other organism would cause there to be dense aeroplankton all the time, and why.
My aerial filter feeder idea was migratory, flying to wherever conifers were currently blooming.
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Nov 11 2016, 04:37 PM
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I suggest working on whatever plant or other organism would cause there to be dense aeroplankton all the time, and why.
My aerial filter feeder idea was migratory, flying to wherever conifers were currently blooming. Dandelions?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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Nov 12 2016, 01:37 AM
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.  Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that? I'd be wondering why the middle pair of legs are suddenly up on the animals's back.
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.
Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that?
Knock yourself out.
But before I do, how plausible is it really, and what arthropod can it be derived from? Anyway, here is my own idea. Feather beetle- This beetle lives in an area with extremely dense areoplankton. Bacteria, pollen, viruses, protists, tiny arthropods, wind blown seeds and fungal spores, as well as other things, all float around in great numbers. These beetles have very feathery antennae, similar to saturniid moths. When it feeds, it spreads it's "feathers" out as much as possible. It then takes off. It flies around as much as it can, flying towards areas with denser plankton. After it has collected enough, it lands. It then proceeds to eat all the organic particles caught on it's antennae. It then "closes" them, folding the feathers against the antennae, which it does whenever it's not eating. It's larval stage is a lot more active than most other beetle larvae, crawling along the ground eating various things, including fallen areoplankton. It is an omnivore-detrivore, and it somewhat resembles a megalopteran larvae. They exhibit almost no sexual dimorphism, with females being scarcely larger than males. What do you think? Is it plausible? Is it even possible for such an environment to exist in one part of the world like an island without having to make the whole world like this? so......it no longer uses its antennae for sensory functions, but rather as a net?
I would assume it would need an intermediate form wherein the insect's sensory functions are covered by something else (or it relies on non-antennae senses almost exclusively)
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Nov 12 2016, 01:59 PM
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.
Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that?
Knock yourself out.
But before I do, how plausible is it really, and what arthropod can it be derived from? Anyway, here is my own idea. Feather beetle- This beetle lives in an area with extremely dense areoplankton. Bacteria, pollen, viruses, protists, tiny arthropods, wind blown seeds and fungal spores, as well as other things, all float around in great numbers. These beetles have very feathery antennae, similar to saturniid moths. When it feeds, it spreads it's "feathers" out as much as possible. It then takes off. It flies around as much as it can, flying towards areas with denser plankton. After it has collected enough, it lands. It then proceeds to eat all the organic particles caught on it's antennae. It then "closes" them, folding the feathers against the antennae, which it does whenever it's not eating. It's larval stage is a lot more active than most other beetle larvae, crawling along the ground eating various things, including fallen areoplankton. It is an omnivore-detrivore, and it somewhat resembles a megalopteran larvae. They exhibit almost no sexual dimorphism, with females being scarcely larger than males. What do you think? Is it plausible? Is it even possible for such an environment to exist in one part of the world like an island without having to make the whole world like this?
so......it no longer uses its antennae for sensory functions, but rather as a net? I would assume it would need an intermediate form wherein the insect's sensory functions are covered by something else (or it relies on non-antennae senses almost exclusively) Maybe it could use it as a net and sensory organ simultaneously?
Also, I have an idea for an environment of aeroplankton. On an island, the first plants to make it where grasses and dandelions. They had an explosion in diversity. They filled up almost all plant niches pretty quickly. The island was naturally very breezy, almost 24/7, meaning that dispersing seeds and pollen through the wind was still an effective way to reproduce. This means that almost all the plants on the island use wind dispersal. Many fungi also use the wind to disperse spores. The plants and fungi reproduce year round, but the various terrestrial filter feeders, as well as some herbivores, keep their population in check. Joining the seeds and spores are various airborne bacteria, protists, viruses and other microbes, as well as some tiny arthropods. Collectively, they make up the aeroplankton on this island. The year-round plant reproduction, almost constant breeze, and low gravity all come together to make constant, dense aeroplankton. It forms the basis of many ecosystems.
Is this realistic?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Nov 13 2016, 02:39 PM
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.  Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that?
I'd be wondering why the middle pair of legs are suddenly up on the animals's back. Because they've gradually become wings....? How did both of a flounder's eyes end up on one side?
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I doodled this the other day. It's an eight-legged arthropod thing with one pair of legs used as mouthparts, another developed into wings and antennae that have become climbing and manipulating appendages.  Sort of my take of what might've happened if terrestrial arthropods developed flight instead of aquatic insects.
Can I use that?
I'd be wondering why the middle pair of legs are suddenly up on the animals's back.
Because they've gradually become wings....? How did both of a flounder's eyes end up on one side? Is my ecosystem description realistic?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Ok let's wake up this thred. I had an idea of flightles crow species that inhabits a Eurasian tundra in future, that use hopping instead of runing, like bird kangaroo.
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Projects (they are not dead, just updated realy slowly, feel free to comment): -World after plague After a horrible plague unleashed by man nature slowly recovers. Now 36 million years later we take a look at this weird and wonderful world. -Galaxy on fire. They have left their home to get out of war. They had no idea what awaits them.
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