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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,387 Views)
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So to add on to those creatures above that i said would be in a future project, how about shrimp descendants that take the role of reef fish?
Edited by CeratosaurusKing, Apr 8 2018, 01:59 PM.
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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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Planet Aegean

After establishing an colony on the earth-like planet Aegean, newly-created creatures have been genetically engineered from one of mankind's future descendants. Planet Aegean was an completely barren and empty planet full of savannas and deserts with no native animals but that was before one of 100 spaceships, complete with a extra-uterine laboratory inside the gigantic spaceship where the "alien" colonists and genetic engineers create and develop new human beings that are most likely capable of breathing and living in the artificial atmosphere and biosphere of the planet.

Planet Aegean is almost similar to Planet Aether in many aspects but it is 4 times larger than Aether and they both share one fifth of Earth's gravity.

Inhabitats:

The "Invader": The transmuted offspring of the Second Men and a product of 5 million years of genetic engineering and elective surgery, the newcomer that came to Planet Aegean tend to still stay inside the gigantic spaceship that brought his kind there in the first place. They have also developed a kind of autochthonous madness, believing themselves to be the true sole descendants of humanity and the last true heirs of their long forgotten ancestors.

The Glider:
An newly-created posthuman engineered to glide between the branches of their planet's indigenous trees. It has developed flaps of skin between the arms and body, useful for gliding slowly above the savannahs of Aegean. It also has a tooth-derived beak only used for sexual display. It was perfectly domesticated. It, along with other posthumans inhabiting planet Aegean, died out after their masters left.

The Climber:
An more perfectly adapted version of a totally similar species once living on Planet Earth many thousands of years ago, the Climber has an unusually huge head and teeth of different shapes and sizes used for eating a variety of different plant species. Its eyes let the creature see only in black and white since the cone cells are removed completely. Its limbs only climb up the trees endemic to their colony world. Unintelligent and not very strong nor fast, the Climber was around for a unnaturally short time and eventually dies out with other human-derived species on the planet.

The Stalker:
An close relative of the Glider, the Stalker and Glider looked alike in many aspects but the Stalker lacks the ability to glide, its ears pointer, its head is longer, is far more larger and slow-moving than the Glider. Its arms have shortened and weakened, leaving the fingers to developed into slow-walking legs. Its hind legs are longer than the front legs. Its tooth-derived beak is longer than that of the Glider but is still used for sexual display. After an unnaturally short span of time, it, along with many other bizarre human-derived species, dies out after their masters left Planet Aegean behind and seek to return to the Milky Way Galaxy.
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My first speculative evolution project was scrapped because it was a shameless ripoff of Sheatheria. But it did have some interesting concepts. Five limbed coelacanth descendants, giant parasitic tardigrades, and amphibians with ovipositors and angler-fish like reproduction. But my favorite concept was something I never gave a name. These were Hyracotherium descendants that filled the niches of primates. I have drawings of them somewhere if you want me to scan them and post them here.
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REMAINS OF BIBLICAL BEHEMOTH DISCOVERED, AND ITS IDENTITY IS COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED

March 20, 2025

Scientists at Yale University have announced that the Behemoth, a mysterious gigantic animal described in the Bible (Job 40:15-24) has been found. Newly described ancient bones from two individual animals discovered on and around Jabal al-Lawz, a mountain in Saudi Arabia, date between 1200-400 BC, and indicate that the identity of the biblical monster is completely unexpected.

The identity of the Behemoth has perplexed both biblical and secular scholars for centuries. The mainstream explanation was that it was a reference to the elephant, hippopotamus or rhinoceros, while skeptics believed it was a mythical animal, while creationists believed it was a reference to a dinosaur like Brachiosaurus. The new study reveals it to be none of those things, though the rhinoceros guess was closest to the truth.

The Behemoth of the Bible was in fact the last surviving species of indricothere, leaving a gap in the fossil record between the Miocene and Holocene. It was not the largest of indricotheres, the largest species of which, Paraceratherium transouralicum, could reach lengths of 24 feet long and heights of 15.7 feet. The newly described remains of the probable Behemoth, for comparison, indicate an adult mammal around 13.8 feet tall and 20 feet long, which is still the largest land animal to have lived in the past 10,000 years or so.

The remains, which include rib bones and a partial humerus from one individual and a thigh bone from another, had been written off as elephant bones by an archaeological expedition which had discovered them in the 1920s, but certain details indicated they were indricothere bones. This was confirmed by mtDNA and nuDNA sequencing, which found a closer affinity to rhinoceros and horse DNA than elephant DNA.

The behemoth bones show no signs of butchering, which along with Bible verses suggesting that only God himself could threaten the gigantic animal, suggests that the animals were not hunted, and therefore hunting could not have lead to their apparent extinction.

This discovery is perhaps one of the biggest paleontological discoveries of the decade, if not the century so far. "The discovery that the Behemoth of the Bible was not only a real and unique animal, but a living fossil, is amazing, and has many shocking implications." mammal paleontologist Katie Buckingham said, who was not involved in the study.

The paleontologists who described the bones are negotiating a further expedition to Saudi Arabia's deserts and mountains to look for more remains of these giants. They have not ruled out the possibility that the Leviathan, the fire-breathing dragon of Job 41 may have been a real animal as well, though they reserve judgement until evidence is found.

A documentary about the discovery of Behemoth will air on the National Geographic channel at 6 PM EST on March 25th, 2025.
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This is something for a project where I attempt to expand the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet (aka C.M. Kosemen). From posthumans that could have mentioned or completely new and original human-derived species to Qu-derived species, these will become the most fascinating ideas that popped out of my mind.

I have the drawing of a marine posthuman that has developed a body shape almost similar to that of the now-extinct Plesiosaurus and it was perfectly domesticated by the Qu. It was also closely related to the "lightly mutated, generalized" Swimmers that went on to become the Tool Breeders after the Qu left their home world behind as part of their departure.
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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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Huh. I have to commend you, Pea, your artwork has improved, although your English still needs work.

...I never thought that I would ever be saying that.


Come to think of it, there actually was one plesiosaur/sea turtle-like posthuman in the book, albeit just a skeleton.
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Basically, imagine Tyrannosaurus rex as a posthuman.
I don't want to.
Some folks on Tumblr already did that, actually, as well as with normal apes.

(Apologies for the double post)


- A lineage of Suminia descendants that developed into all manner of humanoid forms, kinda like flashman's sauropithecines.
- Fishing therizinosaur that spears fish with its claws and pulls them off with its stout ripping, chopping beak.
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Phytodrifters

Phytodrifters are a primitive but important group of aeroflora on Athero. They consist of one central body and 3 or more large feathery appendages called aeroroots (all aeroflora and ballooners have them in some shape or form). The central body performs photosynthesis, while the aeroroots absorb moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere, as well as catch the wind currents to keep the phytodrifter aloft.

Phytodrifters reproduce through division, and they can do so VERY quickly. A division cycle can happen in 3 days, and a new one can start 6 days after the last one ended. Phytodrifters are symmetrical, with the division beginning at the line of symmetry. First, the phytodrifter will double the amount of aeroroots that it has. Next, the central body will elongate, with half of the aeroroots on each side. The final stage is when the two seperate, creating two separate phytodrifters.

There are over 10,000 species of phytodrifter, each differing in preferred atmosphere layer, number of aeroroots, size, and other factors.

Phytodrifters are a major part of the aeroplankton on Athero, and are fed on by many species, including tiny herbivores and huge filter-feeders. Phytodrifters are also the ancestor to all modern aeroflora, ballooners, and ballooner relatives.
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How about an octopus-like creature that freezes water (or some other internal fluid with a higher freezing point) in its arms, giving it a rigid skeleton of sorts. It has multiple small orifices in its arms, allowing it to direct frigid air to select locations in its limbs, which then become solid due to the ice that forms within. If it wants to melt the ice it closes the portals and regains limb flexibility.

The limbs themselves are very malleable and can form a variety of rigid shapes depending upon the animal’s needs; for instance, penetrating thick ice or using spear-like projections to impale prey. It can then thaw itself and surround the prey.

I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on its plausibility. It’s a work in progress. I can explain more.
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. . . that is such an awesome idea. I can't say how plausible it is, but it seems . . . possible at least. I love it.
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That is pretty cool. It would have to have a body temperature higher than the internal liquid's freezing point though, probably high enough that the liquid would quickly melt when not exposed to the "freezing" air.


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Inretioauribia (Trapping Ears) - A subclade of alien that like most of the clade it is nested in, Seniauribia or Six Ears, has two pairs of ears (each pair has three individual ears). While one functions as regular ears, the other is adapted to hunting food, lacking inner ears entirely. The ears, whose placement varies are brightly coloured and are constantly filled with a sodium-based fatty acid substance similar in function to cerumen and consistency to butter, hence being dubbed buttyrium. The buttyrium attracts smaller aliens who get caught in the ears, before it feeds on them. Some species have large tongues which lick and pick trapped prey into the mouths, another have muscles which push it to their mouths; others with more acidic buttyrium simply just let drain back into their ear canals with the digested food entering into their organs which function as their stomachs via a smaller duct in turn leading to the esophagus. The clade can vary in size from forms just over five millimeters to seventeen meter behemoths.
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RE: ice octopus; cool idea, but I don't see it working. Freezing and dethawing its body so regularly like that seems likely to be quite harmful, inefficient, and unreliable, and ice isn't strong enough of a solid to function as any sort of effective rigid support system.
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How about an octopus-like creature that freezes water (or some other internal fluid with a higher freezing point) in its arms, giving it a rigid skeleton of sorts. It has multiple small orifices in its arms, allowing it to direct frigid air to select locations in its limbs, which then become solid due to the ice that forms within. If it wants to melt the ice it closes the portals and regains limb flexibility.

The limbs themselves are very malleable and can form a variety of rigid shapes depending upon the animal’s needs; for instance, penetrating thick ice or using spear-like projections to impale prey. It can then thaw itself and surround the prey.

I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on its plausibility. It’s a work in progress. I can explain more.
maybe you can make an entire alien phlyum/class that does that idea
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so I may do something with this idea but I see is fair to share it since I never saw anyone work on that
so we have post-humans
but what about post-Neanderthals
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
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