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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,435 Views)
Beetleboy
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The problem with a lesser K-Pg project like this one. Is that in order to have a project that only allows few types of non-avian dinosaurs (most likely a few small maniraptoriformes) to survive. And the Mammals to basically rule the Pleistocene and Holocene. Also means that you would lose the pterosaurs, the plesiosaurs & mosasaurs during the K-Pg extinction.

I suppose so. Like I said, these are just vague ideas.

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A xenobiology project. Or an alternate universe project. I'd just like to try and get something going.

Go for it!

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I had an idea briefly today of a world of organisms that look like cartoon characters/plushie animals, but for biologically plausible reasons. For example, they have large eyes for night vision or eye spots that look like massive eyes, and their chubby appearance conceals radula-like mouthparts and other predatory appendages.

Huh, I actually like that idea. It kind of disturbs me for some reason though.

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In response to Beetleboy's projects, the caecilian and bat projects pique my interest. With the latter one, would this be a project in which flying birds do not evolve, or a world where flying birds simply are never included? If the latter, then what other life forms would be there excluding bats?

The latter, I think, where flying birds were never introduced. Other lifeforms would be pretty much anything adaptable other than flying birds.
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When i came to the forums i wanted make a project about floating islands (on the air, and of course involves a different kind of matter and these stuff), liked the idea?
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I love that idea, though I'm not sure how it would work. I can really imagine mountain goats (or something like them) scaling the rock faces on the sides of the islands, and even jumping from island to island.
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When i finish with my current project (The Aragonian) I'm planing to do another one in the same timeline but in the far future, where arthropods with internalised exoskeletons rule the Earth. A technologicaly advanced species from that project may explore alternative dimensions and universes and that should be another project, but all of that will take quite a long time...
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Interesting. I wonder what this technologically-advanced species would be. What would it be evolved from?
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I envisioned them as theropod-like arthropods evolved from beetles. I already have the design, however anything is open to change and I might redesign them.
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An alternate earth where none of the Big 5 Mass Extinctions (O-S, Late D, P-Tr, Tr-J, K-Pg) occurred, and what would come to rule because of it.
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Loving all these ideas guys, keep 'em coming!
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Many of these look like they could make for pretty interesting projects.

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a lesser K-Pg event, in which a handful of non-avian dinosaur, marine reptiles, and possibly pterosaur species survive, but mammals rule on. Basically a modern-day world, mostly with mammals but a couple of interesting dinosaurs (mostly occupying specialized niches).


The problem with a lesser K-Pg project like this one. Is that in order to have a project that only allows few types of non-avian dinosaurs (most likely a few small maniraptoriformes) to survive. And the Mammals to basically rule the Pleistocene and Holocene. Also means that you would lose the pterosaurs, the plesiosaurs & mosasaurs during the K-Pg extinction.

Depends. Some researchers think that terrestrial crocodylomorphs and squamates were actually far more relevant competitors with Mesozoic mammals than dinosaurs, so a scenario where notosuchians and other terrestrial crocs and the many Late Cretaceous squamates get axed but not some dinosaurs is reasonable.

I'm very invested in non-placental mammals right now, and a world ruled by them would be interesting. Almost makes me want to reboot TA again.
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I have quite a few project ideas, but I'm having trouble getting motivated to do art for them.
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Some researchers think that terrestrial crocodylomorphs and squamates were actually far more relevant competitors with Mesozoic mammals than dinosaurs, so a scenario where notosuchians and other terrestrial crocs and the many Late Cretaceous squamates get axed but not some dinosaurs is reasonable.


Yes - most of the notosuchia did go extinct in HE K-Pg extinction event. But at least one group (the Sebecia) did survive until the mid Miocene. And while some of the Late Cretaceous and even Paleocene squamates were fairly large - there is still more species of squamates(nearly 9,000) than there is mammals today. So I don't think the squamates would have held the mammals back from becoming dominate. And the Sebecia seem to have been limited to South America. So axing them completely is unnecessary. And I also believe that non-avian dinosaurs would make it a bit harder for placental mammals to become dominate.

So maybe you would have a world were some non-avian dinosaurs dominate along side of marsupials and montremes.

Also I have a couple other project ideas which I'm working on - which I have not posted anything on yet.

1st is a Halloween based idea - of a fairly realistic(from a biological standpoint) look at classic mythical creatures - including vampires, werewolves, and dragons.

2nd is another lesser K-Pg extinction project where only a few groups of non-avian dinosaurs survive, no pterosaurs, no plesiosaurs, no mosasaurs, but possible more avialians.

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And while some of the Late Cretaceous and even Paleocene squamates were fairly large - there is still more species of squamates(nearly 9,000) than there is mammals today. So I don't think the squamates would have held the mammals back from becoming dominate.


We don't know how proportional the number of squamate survivors in the Palaeocene was. We know Cretaceous squamates took a very large hit, and that many Mesozoic squamates like polyglyphanodonts had more derived characteristics like heterodont teeth. Not to mention the fact that many Cenozoic squamates did reach large sizes in favourable environments, like Barbaturex, some Miocene south american iguanids and of course varanids.

Most likely, mammals simply diversified before squamates had a chance at large.

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So maybe you would have a world were some non-avian dinosaurs dominate along side of marsupials and montremes.


Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammalian faunas were much more diverse than that. Many non-marsupial metatherians, dryolestoids, multituberculates, many non-placental eutherians, haramiyidans, whatever the Saint Bathans mammal was...
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Once I have finished my current projects such as Mirabilis, I would really like to attempt something rather large and innovative. I am considering creating a multi-time period project - and I know how much of a bad rep they have here, but I think they have a lot of potential. The Future Is Wild went badly wrong, but I feel that is mainly because of daft creatures and the lack of time in each episode for more species and variety.
And look how amazing Sheather's Serina project went, and that was multi-time period. So yeah. I haven't really got any idea what sort of project it's gonna be yet, but I want to do it.
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How about a greater K-T extinction. Has that been done before?
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Unnamed No K-Pg project: coming whenever, maybe never. I got ideas tho.
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