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Jan 1 2017, 03:17 PM
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I have this idea of nematomorphs infecting gastropods. This is possible, right? I don't see problem with that. For example Trematodas infect two animals in their life cycle, first infecting snails as intermediate host then by snails getting to vertebrates. You could do the same with any species not only gastropods.
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Jan 2 2017, 11:43 AM
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Thanks for the ideas, Fazaner!
The tortoise is great! It would have a lighter shell to not sink, and a longer neck to reach up to the surface while the rest of it's body remained underwater.
How did you know?! I was going to do iguanas for the main herbivores, along with chuckwallas and tortoises. The nimble iguana would likely live on the savannah and plains. Thanks for the ideas!
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Jan 9 2017, 06:51 AM
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Thanks for the ideas, Fazaner!
The tortoise is great! It would have a lighter shell to not sink, and a longer neck to reach up to the surface while the rest of it's body remained underwater.
How did you know?! I was going to do iguanas for the main herbivores, along with chuckwallas and tortoises. The nimble iguana would likely live on the savannah and plains. Thanks for the ideas! How about a large cricket or snail or other herbivorous "invertebrate". Though they get completely crushed in the presence of placental mammals, large invertebrates seem to do much better if birds and reptiles are the dominant vertebrates. Just look at new zealand and the giant weta.
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Jan 10 2017, 11:21 AM
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A sea otter-like wallaby that carries rocks in its pouch to crack open molluscs.
I love this idea! A multifunctional pouch is something I thought about before, mainly for a concept that will appear in Legacy (which is what my genetic modification themed project is called, I've discussed it here before), a bipedal GM'd dog with a pouch. Humans call them 'poochettes' or 'purse pups', but I haven't decided what to call their descendants yet. I'm wondering when to publish Legacy, since a lot of the beginning is already done, so I might post it today . . .
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Jan 10 2017, 11:36 AM
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Why not pouch pouches :), pretty cool concept too.
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Jan 10 2017, 11:41 AM
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Why not pouch pouches :), pretty cool concept too. Thanks. Even though I'm not really fond of dogs, in fact I actually have a fear of them, after being attacked by one when I was younger, but they sure are cool for spec.
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Jan 11 2017, 08:06 PM
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Thanks for the ideas, Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt! I think a large grasshopper, cricket, snail, or slug would be very possible, most likely in the forests.
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Jan 11 2017, 08:42 PM
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Hmm, I was bored in science class today, and might have fell asleep, but when I stopped being sleepy I wasn't tired, but I was still bored so I messed around with these two pencils, pretending they were organisms, and somehow that made me wonder about making biologically advantageous necrophilia. I think that came into it because one pencil was broken - the lead represented all the important organs, and so the one broken in half was dead, but the lead was exposed, and I stuck the head of the other pencil into it, which kind of seemed like some sort of reproduction, and hence necrophilia.
Anyway, I wonder if some sort of organism, probably alien, or at least very far from our present time, could have some bodily functions continue to work as normal even if the central nervous system stops working. So a dead male could still be a viable source of sperm to impregnate a female (if they were hermaphrodites, this would be a lot simpler, since a dead female probably isn't useful, unless we're going all in with this). In a harsh world where finding mates is difficult, perhaps this could be advantageous enough to outweigh the fact that your young will inherent genes from something that didn't survive.
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Jan 12 2017, 06:28 PM
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There are actually some organisms where a male's body can continue mating after death. For example, the body of a mantis male will keep injecting sperm into the female he's mating with even if she's bitten off his head (which happens rarely in the wild, but still it is something that's been observed and documented nonetheless). Granted, postmortem mating occurs only shortly after death, and not long after it, but still it does show your concept is perhaps not all that implausible.
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Jan 13 2017, 01:13 AM
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An idea: a derived, terrestrialized descendant of some type of crayfish. Small and herbivorous (or mostly so), being devoted grazers of soft grasses and similar low-lying plant life. The front-most pair of chelipeds remains of similar size to those of their ancestors, while the second and third pairs have enlarged and adapted to use as plant-clipping appendages; the fourth and fifth pairs of limbs remain purely ambulatory, and are now long enough and held in a stance sufficient to keep the creature elevated off the ground. The pleon is usually kept curled beneath the cephalothorax, but not in a manner of carcinisation; rather, it remains large and possesses intense musculature.
The creatures possess a unique use for this; when threatened, they initiate a modified version of their ancestors' instinctive escape reaction allowing them to spring across the terrain in a manner similar to that of a grasshopper or jird (forward, as opposed to backward). To facilitate this, the uropods have shifted, morphed and transmuted into a foot-like appendage at the posterior end of the pleon, bearing a rugose surface on their "upper" surfaces to aid in traction with the soil.
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Jan 13 2017, 05:53 PM
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An idea: a derived, terrestrialized descendant of some type of crayfish. Small and herbivorous (or mostly so), being devoted grazers of soft grasses and similar low-lying plant life. The front-most pair of chelipeds remains of similar size to those of their ancestors, while the second and third pairs have enlarged and adapted to use as plant-clipping appendages; the fourth and fifth pairs of limbs remain purely ambulatory, and are now long enough and held in a stance sufficient to keep the creature elevated off the ground. The pleon is usually kept curled beneath the cephalothorax, but not in a manner of carcinisation; rather, it remains large and possesses intense musculature. The creatures possess a unique use for this; when threatened, they initiate a modified version of their ancestors' instinctive escape reaction allowing them to spring across the terrain in a manner similar to that of a grasshopper or jird (forward, as opposed to backward). To facilitate this, the uropods have shifted, morphed and transmuted into a foot-like appendage at the posterior end of the pleon, bearing a rugose surface on their "upper" surfaces to aid in traction with the soil. Sounds very similar to a concept I made awhile ago, except they're arboreal so they only use their tails to jump as a last- ditch escape effort.
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- Jan 11 2017, 08:06 PM
Thanks for the ideas, Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt! I think a large grasshopper, cricket, snail, or slug would be very possible, most likely in the forests. Also, there could be the terrestrial equivalent of cleaner shrimp.
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Today i got a idea for animal but i am not sure about it, so i want to hear yours opinion. Large marine semi-aquatic otter descendant, with long flexible neck, for fins, and generally plesiosaur-like appearance. Neck is what makes a problem, if i am not wrong it would will require more vertebra, and could be done in 30 my? Otter is european species.
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Some concepts I've had in my head for a while of very derived animals, living sometime in the distant future.

A: Snake descendant that has, utilizing it's split jaw, turned into a radial organism. It is a sessile organism, with hundreds of sticky 'hairs' on jaws to trap other organisms like a venus fly trap.
B: I've been wondering if some kind of tetrapod (Or neo-tetrapod), might be able to evolve a life cycle with more drastic changes. I used an entirely terrestrial amphibian as an example, with oviviparous reproduction, and the young are entirely terrestrial tadpoles that burrow through the ground, and gradually venture to the surface.
C: Some variety of bird which has developed pseudo-fingers.
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