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Preliminary images for upcoming project, Cay. Ignore the bird god thing. I still need help putting images here, but I think this works fine for now. Excuse my terrible "drawings".
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Those are quite good, Nitwhite. Don't be so down on yourself.
Anyway, here's my project idea, as elaborated on from the T-rex vs. Giganotosaurus vs. Spinosaurus post.
Basically, the project would take place on an Earth-sized planet with roughly the same gravity and conditions as Earth, with the ecosystems of Hell Creek (T-rex), the Candeleros Formation (Gigantosaurus), and the Kem Kem Beds/Bahariya Formation (Spinosaurus) being placed on different landmasses separated by mountain ranges, oceans, etc. After a century of time to adjust, these natural barriers would be removed, allowing the fauna to freely interact with one another. The project would then focus on the mishmash of fauna on the planet 30 million years in the future. (Or whatever amount of time would be long enough for some major change, but short enough to keep things recognizable.)
I'm debating whether or not to put the Morrison Formation (Allosaurus) and the Nemegt Formation (Velociraptor) in as well; hell, I may even put a Permian or Cenozoic ecosystem in as well. However, I'm stumped on what to put in the oceans: I definitely want Hell's Aquarium to be one of the fauna selections, but besides that, I don't know, although including the seas of Late Jurassic Europe is definitely tempting.
Anyone have any ideas for fauna or ecosystems to add?
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OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death for my amusement to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault.
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Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange
The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last.
Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ???
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GlarnBoudin
Jun 9 2016, 04:00 PM
I'm debating whether or not to put the Morrison Formation (Allosaurus) and the Nemegt Formation (Velociraptor) in as well; hell, I may even put a Permian or Cenozoic ecosystem in as well. However, I'm stumped on what to put in the oceans: I definitely want Hell's Aquarium to be one of the fauna selections, but besides that, I don't know, although including the seas of Late Jurassic Europe is definitely tempting.
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maybe i'll make a project maybe i won't maybe go fuck yourself
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Does anybody have any ideas and suggestions for my project The Ice Age?
Discontinued projects: The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday) 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)
Does anybody have any ideas and suggestions for my project The Ice Age?
Woolly Pterosaurs!
.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
The unburnt, unlucky in love, "oi you", and etcetera.
GlarnBoudin
Jun 9 2016, 04:00 PM
I'm debating whether or not to put the Morrison Formation (Allosaurus) and the Nemegt Formation (Velociraptor) in as well; hell, I may even put a Permian or Cenozoic ecosystem in as well. However, I'm stumped on what to put in the oceans: I definitely want Hell's Aquarium to be one of the fauna selections, but besides that, I don't know, although including the seas of Late Jurassic Europe is definitely tempting.
Cenozoic South America (T. birds and other weird things.)
If you wanna go really early, Devonian for Dunkleosteus.
The Great Song (5 myh, North America is filled with giant coots, life in the clouds, and the songs of human descendants. One curious society has devoted itself to the study of this world)
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Does anybody have any ideas and suggestions for my project The Ice Age?
A species of ape-like dinosaurs that defends itself by using it's long muscular arms and hands to sculpt and throw large snowballs.
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"I'm so antigay my lips are adapted to repel penis"~ Octo
"Sin is not real. It is a manmade concept to make us feel bad about things that are natural"- MrRepzion
"im not turned on by birds goddamnity"- Sheather
"But you could just row there, live in the wilderness and have sex with kakapos every day"- Hangin
"you leave the dolphins in the fridge for too long and they develop a culture"- Flisch
"DON'T GET ME WRONG, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMANS; BUT IF THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US THEN WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN AMIRITE?"- Ivan
"Mike Wazowski: he Only has one eye he is incapable of winking because that requires a second and blinking is both eyes, Mike bwinks."- Malik Obama
"Kids love frog titties"- Lamna
"Other moral of this sad story: never forget how completely the tiny microorganisms living in your nose can betray you for no apparent reason. Trust no one"- Monster
"Sometimes in the name of science, you have to give cocain to a fish"- Ben Taub
"For the love of Darwin's fluffy beard, not the zebras again."- Beetleboy
"Fun fact: Whenever you learn something new, you are slowly approaching omniscience"- Flisch
"therefore, hell and heaven must both be filled with camels"- sphenodon
"this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather
"I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam
"You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa
"I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster
You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky
"And he is afraid to be raped by Dutch people, Which is racist"- Olympian
"What even happened? I never thought I'd be whistfully looking back on your trying to rape Ivan"-icthyander
I just thought of this: maybe (Although I'll most likely be to lazy to do this) a sort of "more accurate" version of After Man, because, well, to many Insectivore devieritives.
Tet Tet is confused because he is tired and can't read or think straight. Please elaborate before my brain shuts off from lack of sleep.
Favorite quotes
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"I'm so antigay my lips are adapted to repel penis"~ Octo
"Sin is not real. It is a manmade concept to make us feel bad about things that are natural"- MrRepzion
"im not turned on by birds goddamnity"- Sheather
"But you could just row there, live in the wilderness and have sex with kakapos every day"- Hangin
"you leave the dolphins in the fridge for too long and they develop a culture"- Flisch
"DON'T GET ME WRONG, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMANS; BUT IF THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US THEN WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN AMIRITE?"- Ivan
"Mike Wazowski: he Only has one eye he is incapable of winking because that requires a second and blinking is both eyes, Mike bwinks."- Malik Obama
"Kids love frog titties"- Lamna
"Other moral of this sad story: never forget how completely the tiny microorganisms living in your nose can betray you for no apparent reason. Trust no one"- Monster
"Sometimes in the name of science, you have to give cocain to a fish"- Ben Taub
"For the love of Darwin's fluffy beard, not the zebras again."- Beetleboy
"Fun fact: Whenever you learn something new, you are slowly approaching omniscience"- Flisch
"therefore, hell and heaven must both be filled with camels"- sphenodon
"this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather
"I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam
"You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa
"I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster
You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky
"And he is afraid to be raped by Dutch people, Which is racist"- Olympian
"What even happened? I never thought I'd be whistfully looking back on your trying to rape Ivan"-icthyander
I just thought of this: maybe (Although I'll most likely be to lazy to do this) a sort of "more accurate" version of After Man, because, well, to many Insectivore devieritives.
People have done more accurate versions of Man after Man, which is a less popular book than After Man, so why not? Plus After Man is even more dated but has higher quality overall.
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Dr Nitwhite
May 22 2016, 06:47 PM
I've come up with an idea. It a collaborative project (anyone can contribute) and is set in a zoo/museum in the near future. The animals in said zoo are genetically modified, but for a specific purpose: to teach biology. Concepts such as gradualism vs. punctuated equilibrium, symbiosis, mimicry, and population genetics are taught to the general public through the exhibits, and plenty of scholarly work is conducted behind the scenes. Biologists test theories, create new organisms, and teach the public in the innumerable lecture halls, laboratories, and realistic habitat reconstructions. Most of the project would be open for public work, but it would have to adhere to some basic rules (no random, crazy organisms, this is a place of learning dammit!) I have come up with a few animals and places already.
The Hall(s) of Ecology- This area has small "biodomes", unique biospheres that are self sustaining. Other ecological concepts, such as predator/prey relationships, are tought here.
There are also two species I literally dreamed up, and are over in the species factory (I didn't know what to do with them at the time). These are a flying monkey with wings made from stiff keratin "feathers" that operate much like a birds. This animal is used to teach convergent evolution and possible revenues of how flight evolves. The second is a bipedal rodent that is colored like a plover. It is used to demonstrate mimicry.
The only things keeping this from being fully fledged is my inexperience with these sorts of projects, as well as how preliminary a project it is. I have no idea how to handle canonizing other peoples work, or how strictly I would wield this power, or if I would even handle it at all or if other people would help me. Advice and criticism are welcomed with beverages and a ready made meal.
This is getting closer to release. It even has a name! (Busterfield Biological Museum, Zoological Park, and Botanical Garden) References! Anyway, where would I put it? Continuum?
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Dr Nitwhite
Jun 10 2016, 04:20 PM
This is getting closer to release. It even has a name! (Busterfield Biological Museum, Zoological Park, and Botanical Garden) References! Anyway, where would I put it? Continuum?
Continuum or Cafe Cosmique, Cafe because it isn't actually spec, as you said it's more genetic modification.
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Tet the Zoologist
Jun 10 2016, 03:07 AM
peashyjah
Jun 9 2016, 07:37 PM
Does anybody have any ideas and suggestions for my project The Ice Age?
A species of ape-like dinosaurs that defends itself by using it's long muscular arms and hands to sculpt and throw large snowballs.
Yeah, it will rather be an descendant of Therizinosaurus and it doesn't just sculpt and throw large snowballs. It is also an animal that lives in small family groups. It also has very long claws to defend and protect itself too.
Discontinued projects: The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday) 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)
"Let's get stupid loud!" from SMFA. "You can't brush your damn teeth without a damn hook!!! " from Squidbillies..............
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Rodlox
Jun 9 2016, 08:14 PM
peashyjah
Jun 9 2016, 07:37 PM
Does anybody have any ideas and suggestions for my project The Ice Age?
Woolly Pterosaurs!
The wooly pterosaurs fill in the niches and roles very similar to those of the wooly mammoths (which don't exist in this world and universe) and they are also the last pterosaurs of the world and they only lived near the northern colder regions and parts of North America and Eurasia. They are actually descendants of the giant Azhdarchids of the late cretaceous period. They are mostly flightless but only one species is still capable of flight while some of the flightless species still have wings. I will reveal all of the species of the Wooly Pterosaurs soon.
Discontinued projects: The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday) 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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