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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,389 Views)
Arawak
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I believe that spiders will inherit the earth, and desert spiders would, if they could, take on a niche akin to the wild cat as a ambush predator instead of the typical web spinning business.
Perhaps it could be a secondary domesticate or cohabitant like cats became.
Edited by Arawak, Dec 13 2017, 04:44 PM.
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Please no click the Tumblr, you are just enabling him!
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Beetleboy
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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A speculative creature that might inspire the myth of the cyclops, a race of sapient tool-using elephants.
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Tenno
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Miniature pliosaur descendants in the far future that have adapated to fill the roles of reef fish, complete with bizzare flattenings and projections that push the limit of tetrapod anatomy. Also, their "cadual fins" are just paired flippers they "clap" together to move.
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An ectothermic carnivorous species of sloth descended from the two-toed sloth.

(May or may not use for future COM).
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- 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.

Future Projects
- 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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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Yiqi15
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Back in september, I created a reboot of TFIW on Idea Wiki. While its for the most part unfinished, i've created quite a few new creatures for it as well as entirely new ecosystems. A partial list of them are:

- A shire horse-sized equine descended from burros which has evolved nasal bladders for communication native to the North American Desert (which I have moved to 15 million years as with the three species below).
- A large species of jackal descendant which is an apex predator in eastern Africa, which is now mostly composed of dry forests.
- A highly cursorial descendant of humans which hunts in conjunction with the species above.
- A clade of large filter-feeding sharks that fill the niche of baleen whales native to much of the oceans.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- 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.

Future Projects
- 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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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Residential ceratosaurus fanboy
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I don't know if i'm gonna make a project with these creatures in it but here they are.


Saltwater descendents of tigerfish that take up the niches of sharks

Large descendents of porcupines that take up the niches of bison

Flightless burrowing parrots

Sophont descendents of ceratosaurus cause why not?
Projects in work
Raparia

Future project ideas:
Tale of the horned beasts - A alternate evolution project where ceratosaurus never went extinct and instead evovled to better fit the new challenges they shall face ahead of them.

Umber - A alternate universe project where portals have been opening up to a moon named "umber" other then a few species of freshwater and saltwater fish, as well as invertebrates. Pangolins,Iguanas,Noasauriade, and Cuttlefish are the most prominet group of animals.
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A large-ish terrestrial spinosaurid with lips, tusks, a large horse-like head, a shorter snout and a gular pouch used for swallowing small prey whole that inhabits rather a Sheatheria-like world or an Oceanus-like alternate universe.

(Oooh, possible project idea!)
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Avisia, an island archipelago isolated for over 88 million years, and is know home to megafaunal birds, mekosuchine crocodiles, and many relics. (currently in infancy)
Read here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8192410/2/#new

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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Mynameisnotdave23
Jan 10 2018, 08:05 PM
A large-ish terrestrial spinosaurid with lips, tusks, a large horse-like head, a shorter snout and a gular pouch used for swallowing small prey whole that inhabits rather a Sheatheria-like world or an Oceanus-like alternate universe.

(Oooh, possible project idea!)
That sounds like a foster for imaginary friends character.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




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Yiqi15
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Sivinoy (Elaphroelephas borealis: a (relatively) small species of elephant most closely related to around 2.3 meters high at the shoulder and two and a half thousand kilograms, with a more lightly built frame. It is covered in coarse light brown hair. It is native to eastern Asia (Russia, Mongolia and China), but it once ranged throughout north Asia (records exist of it living in the northern Caucasians and even Japan up until the 1400s). The sivinoy normally lives in small (bachelor or matriarchal) herds or is solitary, but large migratory herds can form in the fall. Sivinoys feed on grasses, leaves and other foliage, and are comparable to wild boars adapted to grassland lifestyle; in fact, the name comes from the russian word for porcine, ostensibly because indigenous tribes thought they were some strange cousin of them. It is a species which is known as an ecosystem engineer, knocking down and limiting the spread of taiga and keeping open plains common. This has caused the course of human history in the Far East, and indeed the world to butterfly much differently then ours...
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- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- 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.

Future Projects
- 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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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Rebirth
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A giant carnivorous theropod inspired by the original interpretation of the mythical "Bruhathkayosaurus".
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ZoologicalBotanist
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Mixotrophic Sea Slug
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A flightless, birdlike creature (has a beak, lays eggs, etc.) with a fleshy extension on its head (could be part of the beak) that uses its protrusion to reach food high up in trees similar to how elephants use their trunk to manipulate food.
Edited by ZoologicalBotanist, Feb 5 2018, 08:44 PM.


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Oh my god how long have I needed this. I am going to dump so many sketches in here.
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The Colossus of Lahāna

A star shines upon a small world, no larger than Pluto, it sits somewhere between where earth and mars would be, slowly orbiting the warm sun that feeds it.

The planet, Lahāna, is the smallest world yet discovered that supports life. A single, unique ocean wraps around the equator like a belt. Lahāna is by no means a cold world. Unusually for a planet of its size, Lahāna has a dense atmosphere, the planet is riddled with small lakes. The area surrounding the ocean belt may seem barren, though upon closer inspection it is revealed that the ground is blanketed by a kind of thick, wet flora, around 12 metres tall at the most, they seem out of place on a planet with such low gravity.

The poles of Lahāna are some of the strangest environments yet discovered. The thick, warm air of the equatorial carpet woods is thinner and cooler here. Trees that breach a kilometer in height cluster around energy rich mineral deposits, flying creatures, some 30 meters across, others the size of a human hand, soar and flit through the perfect air.

It's almost ironic, that on such a small world, the largest creatures in history can be found.

Abulomontis Regnus


The Walking Mountain is the largest mobile animal ever discovered, anywhere. At an incomprehensible height of 120 meters tall, this creature is an enormous omnivore that can, and will, eat any living matter it comes across. Though much of the fauna on Lahāna utilizes low-energy tentacle legs or thin, sprawling limbs, the Mountain has four thick, muscular legs, both with an exoskeletal and endoskeletal support system. The feet of the animal are huge, pancake-like pads, they disperse weight efficiently, and allow the animals to walk over most terrain.

Young Mountains are airborne. 50,000 to 1,000,000 eggs are ejected from an opening behind the eyes of the creature. Of this incredible amount of potential offspring, only around 50 will actually reach the first terrestrial stage, at only four meters tall with no true defenses, they are a prime target for the planet's many predators. The 8~ that reach a size capable of reaching adulthood mature quickly, shifting from 20 meters to 120 in only one or two earth years. They reproduce asexually, and the population of the species is around 5,000 individuals.


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"Die" - Arachnus

"though critising misseppls is hypcocresi on my part" - Archeoraptor

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A species (or as I have intended breed) of dog with an highly elongated snout like an anteater or aardvark used for radiating body heat due to living in an extremely hot climate.
Edited by Yiqi15, Feb 14 2018, 07:16 AM.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- 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.

Future Projects
- 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

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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A species that obtains all of its energy through photosynthesis and must hop to keep its heart pumping.

Movement would occur like this: Posted Image
Edited by ZoologicalBotanist, Apr 23 2018, 07:07 AM.


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