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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,395 Views)
Mapafius
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Hi i have got three interesting ideas.

The first one is about inteligent aquatic specie. It is octopus living in big swarm like bees or ants and building its home in iceberg they maybe use some sort of accid instead of ink, to melt down ice and create corridors and halls.Theyir home floats in watter and move. They are transparent so predators cant see them and they use ultrasound to comunicate like dolphins and navigate in labyrinth of theyir home. They are devided into four casts: Workers, wariors, scout/discoverer and reproducers (with queen and drones). Theyir anatomy vary among casts and especialy anatomy and functions of theyir tentacles, which are highly specialized and mostly individuum has 4 "pairs" of tentacles with specific function. Workers and scouts are the most inteligent. They have got slow civilisation evolution as they are so social that they lack indipendent individuals to push evolution forward so they evolve theyir civilisation slowly but peacefully it is also because of disadvantage and chalanges civilisation underwater can have.

Seccond idea is about elephant like creatures with many trunks also resembling octopus. Main diference is that all its trunks has holes/nostrils not just in theyir end but along all length of trunks same as suckers on octopuses tentacles and they can open and close them. They use theyir trunks to přeci se manipulation bůh also to comunicate in melodies. With many trunks which they can use as pipes/flutes they can create verry complex melodys and harmonys

Third idea is about animal "growing" on trees. It is just that male and female of specie create seed which they implant to ground, then they take care of plant or tree growing from it and after all there are cocons resembling fruit growing on that tree in which grows babies and of it is brown it crack and set creatures free. Then creatures helps its parents to také care about tree untill ot is Matúše enough to fond themself partner and create theyir OSN tree. They dont maybe even need all to reprodukce, some maybe jsut také care about trees and help others but dont reprodukce by itself, they live in big comunities and páčky and protects theyir trees.

I was also everytime wondering how could species like centaur evolve. I could imagine there were some six leged animals which then developed longer front legs so they can lift front of theyir body to ptobably get some food from trees, then by long evolution theyir menaged to stop use theyir front legs mainly to lean and walk and start to use them as hands reaching for fruit I also created concept of such specie driven from inspiration in cangaroos. Theyir back legs and back body was like some sort of kangaroos, theyir middle legs were like something between kangaroo and gorila so the middle legs was also able to serve as hands or legs and their front legs and front body reseambled something between human and kangaroo. They main advantage of theyir anatomy was that theyir was able to stand on two legs being leaning on theyir masive tails as kangaroo and having four hands free to work/fight/reach on high trees/ scare other animals but also to stand on four legs and having two free hands but also to stand on all six "legs" so they can use every advantage on every stand like posture and theyir posture is universal.
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These are a few drawings i did from like last year.

A. The unnamed fully terrestrial descendant of the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) that has been adapted to a more predatory lifestyle unlike other crocodilians which have remained unchanged throughout the last few millions of years in the future. It tends to be very slow-moving and also has two types of teeth: Two serrated saber teeth that are 10 inches long and many smaller teeth found in the rest of the mouth. However, it also tends to be slow-moving and it hunts down only snakes and rodents that are smaller than themselves. It still lives in swamps and lay eggs on dry land like its ancestors but it also has tough armor along its back and tail to keep it well-protected against predators such as birds of prey and large amphibians.

B. All tropical birds of the world like the one below for example are now flightless, because of an evolutionary process with their feathery wings evolving into strange-looking hands with newly-grown opposable thumbs used for grabbing onto their food items and also for grasping branches whenever they move about in the undergrowth of the trees they lived at. Birds of this newly evolved flightless type are always slow-moving, taking the same ecological niche as the now extinct sloths from the Age of Man. Their diets varied from hard-shelled nuts to fruits, indicating that they are herbivorous. They spend most of their lives eating and sleeping but they are active at both day and night. Their feathers have become very shaggy and hair-like, which means that they can adapt more to their new flightless ways of life. They build their nests and lay their eggs underneath trees and also near rivers where the adult parents usually stay until their newborn young finally hatch from their eggs.

C. Amphibians like the one below the flightless bird from earlier have evolved convergently similar to their primitive ancestors way back from the Paleozoic Era of prehistoric times. These creatures all look alike but they are different in diet and size. They are mostly found only on the southern continents, expect for Antarctica.

D. These descendants of the Queensland Lungfish (Neoceratodus .spp) have evolved about 70 million years from now when whales are completely extinct but other marine mammals have left behind descendants and their evolutionary lines have increasingly continued. From now on, lungfish have gaven rise to a variety of descendants, from large creatures occupying the same niches as whales to smaller predators that have evolved to resemble their now extinct cousins (Coelacanths).
These creatures have spilt into five evolutionary lines, but the first two are more common and varied. The first evolutionary line consist of giant toothless behemoths that can reach from 85 to 100 feet long, becoming the largest fishes of their time. The second evolutionary line consists of smaller predatory species that looked very similar to the whale-like toothless species of the first evolutionary line but they are more faster, social, and they also have mouths full of small serrated sharp teeth. These creatures all belonged in one single genus called the Porcinis and they have more slender and narrow bodies which make them swift fast-moving hunters. They mostly replaced the Killer Whales and Porpoises of today but unlike them, both the Oscines (the genus to which the giant toothless whale-like lungfishes belong to and also closely related to Porcinis) and Porcinis itself have barbels that have been used to search for food underneath the sea floors. These lungfish descendants also have hard armored scales that have made them well-protected at the same time when predators such as sharks are nearby. They can no longer move on land or breathe out of the water until they reach adulthood. Species of the genus Oscines are animals that feed on plankton and smaller fish while species of the genus Porcinis are carnivores of varied diets, from shellfish and worms to small sharks and squid. These creatures are always found living in the Indian Ocean until during spring time, their mating season occurs and they only breed and mated in large freshwater ponds and rivers.

Note: All of the creatures from above appeared during about 100 million years from now in the future when humans and other mammals are almost extinct, leaving them to only inhabit the northern arctic regions of Asia and North America and also on the island continent of South America.
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These are a few drawings i did from last year.
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Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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These are a few drawings i did from last year.
Okay, cool, but want to explain what they are? :)
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Is it possible to have a large filter feeding Sundew plant that eats aeroplankton?
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Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
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I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
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Apr 15 2017, 02:46 AM
I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
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.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
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Apr 15 2017, 02:46 AM
I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
The aeroplankton in the Dirftlands functions much like ocean plankton. Bacteria and microalgae are fed upon by tiny animals. Air moisture does play an important role.
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.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Apr 15 2017, 02:46 AM
I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
The aeroplankton in the Dirftlands functions much like ocean plankton. Bacteria and microalgae are fed upon by tiny animals. Air moisture does play an important role.
not as much plankton along the sea floor (but, to be fair, that little bit could help inch it along the path from being partly planktonovore to fully)

...is the sundew occupying the tree niche while its eating plankton? (that way it can feed away from the ground)
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I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
The aeroplankton in the Dirftlands functions much like ocean plankton. Bacteria and microalgae are fed upon by tiny animals. Air moisture does play an important role.
not as much plankton along the sea floor (but, to be fair, that little bit could help inch it along the path from being partly planktonovore to fully)

...is the sundew occupying the tree niche while its eating plankton? (that way it can feed away from the ground)
Sort of. I don't know the exact size, but I imagine it to be pretty large.
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


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
The aeroplankton in the Dirftlands functions much like ocean plankton. Bacteria and microalgae are fed upon by tiny animals. Air moisture does play an important role.
not as much plankton along the sea floor (but, to be fair, that little bit could help inch it along the path from being partly planktonovore to fully)

...is the sundew occupying the tree niche while its eating plankton? (that way it can feed away from the ground)
Sort of. I don't know the exact size, but I imagine it to be pretty large.
I propose that it be any size you want it to be, but that it has tiny microstructure filaments across its branches to maximize plankton capture area so it's energy efficient.
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Mr.Scruth
Apr 15 2017, 02:46 AM
I think it quite possible in a desert or bog environment. I'd advise you base your aeroplankton by feeding off dust and condensation in the air Tsillandia-style.
Huh? I was just thinking the plant would sit there and have plankton stick to it's tentacles.
I was referring to the aeroplankton itself. Sorry if I didn't make that clear- the plant would probably be sessile.
The aeroplankton in the Dirftlands functions much like ocean plankton. Bacteria and microalgae are fed upon by tiny animals. Air moisture does play an important role.
not as much plankton along the sea floor (but, to be fair, that little bit could help inch it along the path from being partly planktonovore to fully)

...is the sundew occupying the tree niche while its eating plankton? (that way it can feed away from the ground)
Sort of. I don't know the exact size, but I imagine it to be pretty large.
I propose that it be any size you want it to be, but that it has tiny microstructure filaments across its branches to maximize plankton capture area so it's energy efficient.
So, would it look like red hair?
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.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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