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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,394 Views)
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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.
So, would it look like red hair?
Basically, if you want it to.
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Two ideas for species I got when I got bored in english class. I may expand on them in the future (pun not intended).

1. A species of porcupine-descended rodent that stands upright similar to that of a kangaroo or wallaby.

2. A carnivorous ratite native to salt pans in and surrounding a continent (perhaps and alternate Africa).
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Some animals I have for my as-of-yet unnamed fantasy world project:

- A slender-bodied, long-tailed archosaur, somewhat similar to Lagosuchus or Marasuchus, albeit it walks on all fours, and its limbs are quite short. It it covered in fur (feathers?), and has small antler-like horns. Basically a realistic Chinese Dragon.

- Marine choristoderes (Maybe both neochoristoderes and hyphalosaurids?)

- A large, horse-like ornithopod, maybe a hadrosaur or iguanodont, that is covered in protofeathers. It's this world's version of a hippogriff.

- Fish-like nudibranchs (is my love for nudibranchs becoming apparent?)

- Massive hyracodonts (much like Paraceratherium), as well as domesticated Hyracodon and Nilgai.

- Two ideas for dragons - Flying Squamates or flying Ophiacodonts. Maybe I'll do both?

- Jaculus: maybe a pterosaur with long legs? (Early pterosaurs did have adaptations for hopping) Maybe a dragon.
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Apr 26 2017, 10:55 AM
Some animals I have for my as-of-yet unnamed fantasy world project:

- A slender-bodied, long-tailed archosaur, somewhat similar to Lagosuchus or Marasuchus, albeit it walks on all fours, and its limbs are quite short. It it covered in fur (feathers?), and has small antler-like horns. Basically a realistic Chinese Dragon.

- Marine choristoderes (Maybe both neochoristoderes and hyphalosaurids?)

- A large, horse-like ornithopod, maybe a hadrosaur or iguanodont, that is covered in protofeathers. It's this world's version of a hippogriff.

- Fish-like nudibranchs (is my love for nudibranchs becoming apparent?)

- Massive hyracodonts (much like Paraceratherium), as well as domesticated Hyracodon and Nilgai.

- Two ideas for dragons - Flying Squamates or flying Ophiacodonts. Maybe I'll do both?

- Jaculus: maybe a pterosaur with long legs? (Early pterosaurs did have adaptations for hopping) Maybe a dragon.
For the dragon check a small teropod yi qi, it has a membrane wings like small dragon.
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More like a wyvern than a true dragon, I would say.
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Close enough, unfortunately true dragons are impossible to evolve from tetrapods.
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Apr 26 2017, 11:17 AM
Close enough, unfortunately true dragons are impossible to evolve from tetrapods.
True. I have though of having hexapodal dragons, but they would be aliens, having evolved from a lineage of hexapodal vertebrate-like animals on a distant Earth-like planet. Honestly, having dragons as lizards or ophiacondonts seems a lot better to me, it's just more natural. They'd be most similar to Hyrotrioskjan's dragons (which I love and are the main source of inspiration for my dragons :D )

As for Yi qi, I was thinking of having Cockatrices Based off of Yi. Win-win!

I may reveal some more concepts in due time

EDIT: Those flying dragons could be wyverns. True Dragons (European dragons) could be (wingless) crocodilians or monitor lizards
Edited by Nembrotha, Apr 26 2017, 12:38 PM.
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Apr 26 2017, 12:36 PM
As for Yi qi, I was thinking of having Cockatrices Based off of Yi. Win-win!
You are basing a creature off me? I'm flattered.

You get the joke.
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- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

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- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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While these ones are from different time periods and universes, I may just throw them into my fantasy world.

- A large (6 meter-long) marine monitor lizard descended from the Water Monitor. They have a long, flattened tail for propulsion. Basically, a Cenozoic Mosasaur that isn't a Mosasaur.

- Arboreal ornithopods in a world where Antarctica never froze over. They have long flexible tails and anisodactyl feet. These ornithopods are very social, living in flocks of around 20.

- Cursorial dryolestoids, maybe kangaroo-like forms as well.

- Sapient descendants of ravens.

- Mer-folk: Fully marine descendants of humans. Their legs have become adapted for kicking, with strong joints and long webbed feet. They have lost almost all body hair with the exception of their eyebrows and head, and have a small dorsal fin on their back. Mer-folk are no longer capable of supporting themselves on land, and so live their entire lives at sea. They have a habit of hunting cetaceans and squid, but are omnivorous, so will go for anything edible.

- Large predatory caecilians.

- Basilisks, which are basically large anguid lizards or snakes (I'm leaning towards the first) which develop a flamboyant crest in the breeding season.
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That seams like Shetaria like alt universe project,you got me interested, if you won't more ideas i recomend a medieval bestiaries, they are full of strange creatures that could fit in fantasy like world.
Edited by Fazaner, Apr 28 2017, 04:41 PM.
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I'm a few days late, but the idea of flying ophiacodonts is definitely a new one, which I find really cool. Large predatory caecilians are also an interesting prospect to explore.
I was re-watching a Vsauce video about the brachistochrone curve, and wondered if this could be applied biologically. What if some sort of flying organism had some sort of brain mechanism that allowed it to consistently dive in this curve? It seems unlikely, but given things like the internal compasses of birds, would it impossible? At least in an alien species? It'd be a very small advantage, but an advantage none the less, and the dominant group of flying organisms could all possess "cycloid organs" in some scenarios. In larger taxa where this wouldn't be that useful, such a mechanism might be employed for further bizarre uses - being capable of such accurate automatic calculations would open several evolutionary doors.
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- Large predatory caecilians.
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Had an amazing idea.

You know how I've talked about styliforms?

What if there was a flying mammal in which the styliform evolved into a pterosaur-like wing finger... and the hand disappeared altogether?

NO HANDS!!!!
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Hmm, that could make an interesting COM. Make a tetrapod with no hands; "look ma, no hands!"
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I've got few species I'm planning to put into my magicless fantasy/ alt universe world, named the beastiary.

Herda

The Herda are a mammalian race descended from a group of herbivorous animals resembling Swine. This race is my attempt to create a herbivorous species that captures what most real herbivorous mega-fauna are - brutish paranoid idiots that lift bro. As a race, the Herda are generally quite socialist (if not communist, as the Herda form herds in which the rest of the herd is just as important as the Herda themselves) and also tend to be aggressive to other species (since the other races often descend from predatory species).

Dartic

The Dartic are the youngest race to attain sapience, and have been long the slave-race of the Vaws (as they’re the only race who could be easily taken by such a small race as the Vaw). Reptilian creatures, a human might mistake them for a strange dinosaur, however, their head and body shape (snake-like) and the shape of their long and nimble legs/ankles shows that they’re closer to lizards. Only recently liberated this race has quickly found itself the go-to source of cheap labor, and Dartic-founded communities are primitive and without much of the technology found in other communities.

Human

As with every other fantasy world I do have a bipedal-walking-talking-ape-thing my world, but I’ve done my best not to make them like traditional “special snowflake” races. For one thing, humans in this world aren’t the new race that came up and began to colonize everything - in my world the humans have been around for a fairly long time and are the second oldest race within my world. Secondly, rather than being the jack of all trades race humans within my world have a specific advantage, that being that humans are amazingly enduring for a species (based on the real world fact that humans are very endurant). Not only that but these humans aren't quite human since they live in a vastly different world, they're pretty human like and evolved many similar things as humans, but are more primate-looking with thick hair and shorter, bigger-nosed faces.


Perisca

This race is the reptilian race of mine, but rather than make this race either the ancient draconian-style species or the snake-like dexterous race I’ve chosen to emphasis the calculating and observant nature of reptiles (well, this is from my experience with my lizard, who I often see spend long stretches of time observing and calculating before acting when he hunts), and the Perisca known to be the some of the better intellects due to great observance. Being reptilian they don’t often form large communities of Perisca (as, being reptiles, they’re less inclined towards complex social groups despite having well-developed social brains compared to other reptiles) but have spread to communities of other races as planners or strategists.

Vaw

The Vaw are the most physically unique of all the species within my world, if they’re one of the most “normal”compared to our world and could easily pass without notice. This is because they’re birds, normal birds, slightly larger than normal with stronger legs, five dexterous toes, and brightly colored feathers but birds all the same and most people from our world wouldn't notice their odity. This race has been around for a relatively short period of time but have quickly integrated themselves into the world as they’re mimicry and social nature has given them a reputation (well-earned) as silver-tongued con men.

Relication

The Relication are the oldest race within this world, descended from an old lineage of Synapsids (I'm currently thinking Dinocephalia) which had managed to survive this race has evolved cognotive abilities far greater than the other species (mostly related to greater memories and senses as well as simply having larger brains), and is capable of reasoning above that of the other species, making them sought after as philosophers or practicers of "magic" (chemistry, it's really just that). However, fear over their superior wisdom has lead the other races to mark them as an enemy/cause for various disasters and so their population is staggeringly low even considering they evolved on the isolated continent of australia.

Note that I took this from a /r/worldbuilding post I made so I didn't go into to much of the accurate science.
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