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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,425 Views)
flashman63
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Mar 16 2016, 09:01 AM
What about a world where Dryolestids instead of Therians took over Australia and South America? And what about a terraformed world where the only species introduced are "living fossils" and left there for 50 million years.
And the last remnant of the Therians are an inconspicuous fossorial mole...

Also, I want to do a crpytid project, though more "20th-21st Cenury urban legends" then Bigfoot and mythology.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

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I don't know if it's been done already but what about a project about future evolution with the premise that humans died out from nuclear warfare.

I know that means essentially death for more species than we'd like to see die off but in reality that looks the most likely scenario for human extinction if you're making a future evo project where humans are extinct.

So with that being said, it'd be a unique take on what animals, plants, fungi and other organims would arise from such a disasterous event as pretty much nearly all human habitational zones and other places would be destroyed and the surrounding areas would be dosed with various saturations of radiation and how it affects the environment millions of years in the future (given the half life of some radioactive elements).
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I feel there's still a ton of untapped potential in no P-Tr extinction scenarios. They've been done before, but mostly people just want to work with dicynodonts and gorgonopsids. But that's not all that went extinct. Over Ninety percent of all life on earth. NINETY. There's a ton of stuff that nobody even thinks about in there.

Flora? Composition of forests and other flora in an ecosystem was changed completely. Though most major groups lived, gymnosperms and seed ferns become a lot less common, and more Mesozoic conifers started to rise up.

Insects? Most modern groups are far more traceable to the Triassic than to the Permian. The majority of insects in the paleozoic were fairly unrelated to any modern group.

That's not even scratching the surface.

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Hmmm... I've got some ideas:

A world where the Devonian Extinction didn't happen.

A timeline of the future dominated by Invertebrates.

A alien planet covered in clouds that surrounds a red dwarf.

A greater K/T extinction (This has been done before, right?)

A world that is covered by water.

A planet where the only animals introduced are Tardigrades.

A planet where the only Tetrapods introduced are Rabbits.

Another planet in which Elephants are the only Tetrapods introduced, and go through Neoteny.
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I want to do an earlier K-T extinction (maybe early cretaceous), and also a seeded toroid world (not sure with what but)...
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Toxic gasses come from volcanos and cracks in the earth to wipe out most mammals smaller than a dog, than species of reptiles take over while mammals occupy smaller niches.

Or an alternate one where earthquakes rattle the earth and most land animals and certain sea creatures go extinct, the world is then mainly inhabited by birds, with reptiles and mammals taking small niches

A planet that was failed to be colonized by humans but the animals and plants they left behind did well, species like rats, geckos, frogs, and some endangered species and must compete, different Claude's occupy many niches, like frogs acting as crocs and geckos like leopards

An alternate earth where Hexapoda fish colonize the land instead of the normal ones, this causes creatures with multiple limbs, occasionally used for wings, extra legs, or arms.

Alternate world where elephants are the dominant species, hint hint, not so subtle advertising

Planet where humans only put insects

A planet with only caves and lot of earth animals on it.

I'm okay is anybody uses these but I would like to know, especially if I was about to make one of these projects
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Mar 22 2016, 10:59 PM
Hmmm... I've got some ideas:

A world where the Devonian Extinction didn't happen.

A timeline of the future dominated by Invertebrates.

A alien planet covered in clouds that surrounds a red dwarf.

A greater K/T extinction (This has been done before, right?)

A world that is covered by water.

A planet where the only animals introduced are Tardigrades.

A planet where the only Tetrapods introduced are Rabbits.

Another planet in which Elephants are the only Tetrapods introduced, and go through Neoteny.
Oh, there's where you've got your neotony elephant idea from.
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This is a idea I've had for a while, a greater K-pg extinction where turtles and crocodiles are the dominant land animals, flowers replace grasses, mammals and birds kind of alternate roles in some areas, whalebirds(although not live-bearing ones) descended from hesperonides, saltwater sharks becoming almost extinct, instead sharks are freshwater, and where NM and Asia have not be connected so since the extinction event
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So I have a good idea. A prehistoric documentary-like project (can be any era and period, though the Mesozoic may be the best to work on) of a fresh carcass feeding an ecosystem.

If anyone has seen Nature's Wild Feast then you'll know exactly what I mean. If you haven't, pretty much a Channel 4 nature documentary crew (Same people who did Inside Nature's Giants) filmed a fresh hippo carcass being eaten by various animals in an african ecosystem and showed how it became organicaally broken down by maggots, insects and other biodegrading creatures. It was also livestreamed online for a few weeks if I'm right. They also did the same thing for an elephant.

So my idea is that but with extinct animals. Personally I think the best choice would be an Argentinosaurus carcass as it feeds a prehistoric South American ecosystem during the mid-Cretaceous, some 100 - 95 million BCE, but any animal from any time would fit in the project well
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Future Planet (V.2): the Future Evolution of Life on Earth (Evolutionary Continuum)
The Meuse Legacy: An Alternative Outcome of the Mosasaur (Alternative Evolution)
Terra Cascus: The Last Refuge of the Dinosaurs (Alternative Evolution)
- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

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Mar 22 2016, 11:20 PM
I want to do an earlier K-T extinction (maybe early cretaceous), and also a seeded toroid world (not sure with what but)...
How about Simosuchus? It's a cute little son of a gun, it's got loads of potential, and it would be awesome to see what you could do with it.
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Here is a project I'm actually going to do

On a very large earth like planet in the habitable zone is discovered scientists figure out that life on the surface isn't possible. All opportunity for life is in the planets immense caverns, life is already starting with microorganisms, in the many environments of the caverns.

After mining most of the newly discovered ores and minerals, a few small animals are put in the caves, however the sun of the leader of this project decides to put more interesting life in the caverns.
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Hm... I'm probably going to make about 2 of these.

Darwinia- a land where animals from the past and present were put onto a planet similar to earth.

Mythologicon- like Cryptozoologicon with mythical creatures.

Avigea- a world where birds are the main animals.

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One thing the State has in spades is teenagers, and boy oh boy do they love to tell stories. Sometimes ghosts, sometimes axe murderers, but most of all, monsters. Giant mammoths, Bigfoot, lizard men. Things that have been talked about since the State was first discovered, but people shut up about when the modern world arrived. But it turns out, these darned kids might not be so wrong after all.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
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Hm... I'm probably going to make about 2 of these.

Darwinia- a land where animals from the past and present were put onto a planet similar to earth.

Mythologicon- like Cryptozoologicon with mythical creatures.

Avigea- a world where birds are the main animals.

Anyone got any preferences they'd like to vote for on this?
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