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Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,422 Views)
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Nov 24 2015, 10:16 AM
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Also, I just had another idea. I'd like to investigate how at some point in the very far future, some of the unlikeliest animals might evolve flight. For example, turtles and crocodiles. Hhm. It needs more consideration, but I think I may use some in my Strange New World projec.
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Nov 24 2015, 10:33 AM
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It would definitely be cool if you did some >200 Ma spec. Even cooler if you did spec past the point where the oceans begin to dry out and plants begin to die due to the lack of CO2. So far this is mostly Ultrozoic territory, though I attempted it once. It didn't stick for long. I'm also not that great at future evolution.
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I tend to get dis– Hey, look, an elephant!
Potentially an elephant
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Nov 24 2015, 12:05 PM
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An idea I had from an earlier topic. Could be featured in a project in future for all we know
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An idea I had was one focussing on a seperate East AFrica (call it Lemuria, Zinj Land or whatever else you want) about 25-40 million years in the future, perhaps in the same universe as my current Kerguelen project, again with remnants of African fauna that are outcompeted on mainland Africa. One idea for a creature I had was this: a giraffe/brachiosaur like descendent of the gerenuk, for now nicknamed the giganuk (Magnibovis Antiquus). I'd been dicussing descendents of these creatures with Adman when htinking about Extended Pleistocene, though since he's dropped it, I wondered if I could include this in some distant future project. Here's my draft:  size chart
Hope its a good one!
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Beetleboy
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Nov 26 2015, 12:16 PM
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I just had an idea for an aquatic ferret/weasel which moves through the water by undulating its membrane-rimmed body up and down. I might use this for something once I've defined it a little more.
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Nov 26 2015, 10:25 PM
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well..four species of feral humans (1 that live in caves, 1 that is nocturnal, 1 that can climb trees and 1 aquatic) that evolved after a MEE (k-t level or p-t level), and the collapse of the civilization.
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Nov 27 2015, 09:20 AM
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Zalambdalestids giving rise to a lineage of jumping carnivorous pseudo-kangaroos as the main canine analogue in an alternate Cenozoic/no Kt timeline.
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Nov 27 2015, 10:02 AM
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More subterraean fauna. As in cave-dwellers, maybe even small mammals. Shrews could do well, since they could use echolocation to find food even if they lost their eyes.
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Nov 28 2015, 03:21 PM
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Huge, serpentine otariids with long necks that spend their entire lives at sea, feeding on small, schooling fish. And a primitive theriiform, splitting off before allotheria did on the family tree of mammals, that has a horizontally flexing tail, with a mosasaur like fluke and clawed, webbed, sea lion-like feet.
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Nov 28 2015, 07:12 PM
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Fun fact: otter shrews swim with lateral tail strokes. It honestly surprises me this hasn't evolved more times among mammals.
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Dec 4 2015, 09:38 AM
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I have lots of ideas for flying/gliding animals. For example, a gliding primate would be very interesting indeed.
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Dec 4 2015, 04:09 PM
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Sea-living mosasaur-like huge neotenic salamanders that rule the seas after a future mass extinction and fill the niche of apex predators.
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Dec 5 2015, 06:52 AM
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Nice idea with the neotonic salamanders, I have had many similar ideas previously.
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Dec 5 2015, 11:08 AM
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Salamanders? Lame. How about gigantic marine sirens and caecilians-or better yet, aistopods?
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Dec 5 2015, 11:13 AM
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Giant marine caecilians would be pretty cool.
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Dec 6 2015, 12:24 AM
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A reoccurring alien concept i've had for a critter are the the Fleshwalkers. They're a reoccurring "archetype" critter found on hydrocarbon worlds who dwell in the hydrocarbon lakes sucking, soaking and spewing oil. They tend to be radially symmetrical and just walk on the ground of the hydrocarbon seas no problem, though tend to aggregate in massive coastal colonies making them akin to a massive, mobile ecosystem when you combine them with other verities of "titanian" aliens. They look like massive, features fleshy things with large legs and a tower-like main body which can have specialized body parts for whatever niche they fill.
I will admit, their biochemistries I have no clue on. Surely they could do something interesting with hydrocarbon pumping through their antifreeze laden veins.
Another more specific thing would be lugomorph (rabbit)-based megafauna. Such idea just seems so strangely amusing. Chances are they've develop kangarooesque traits. Giant floppy eared bipedal hopping rabbits. Imagine it.
Never mind... I checked and noticed that idea's already been done to death.
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