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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,401 Views)
Jasonguppy
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A terraformed world where the only animals are ones that have been named after celebrities- lots of spiders and also things like Anhanguera, Arsinotherium, and Pachyrhinosaurus.
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Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Sphenodon
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You'd also have Obamadon and Han solo.

Here's another one: rather than a terraformed world with some kind of small, fast-reproducing species introduced, a large variety of animals species are introduced - but aside from ecological "maintenance" organisms (pollinating insects, earthworms, etc.) the fauna is comprised solely of large or megafaunal animals (bears, elephants, great apes, whales, crocodilians, sea turtles, flightless birds and large birds of prey, pantherid cats, etc.).

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Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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I'd be down for that.
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An archipelago in the future (estimating around 75 million years from now) where ophidians have taken up most carnivorous niches (and at least one herbivorous niche).
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- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

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- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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I've been wondering about herbivory in that group.
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Dec 8 2016, 04:16 PM
An archipelago in the future (estimating around 75 million years from now) where ophidians have taken up most carnivorous niches (and at least one herbivorous niche).
I was thinking of something similar to that but it involves fish and mollusks.
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)



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What about an alternate universe where gravity effects volume, not weight?
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Hmm could we even imagine what organisms in that sort of universe would look like?
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Project where the old idea of the world getting progressively hotter as one descended was a reality. The earth is a cone, and the solar system in orbit around it. We look at the landmasses far south. You wouldn't get very far, but who know?

Edited by Dr Nitwhite, Dec 10 2016, 10:16 PM.
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Not familiar with that one.
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I have an idea where a really, really, REALLY big mass extinction happens. So big, that only one metazoan survives. Halicephalobus mephisto, also known as the devil worm. Also, all plants die, and even bacteria are pushed to their limits.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110601-deepest-worm-earth-devil-science-animals-life/
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Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
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Well I'd say Halicephalobus mephisto is a likely candidate to survive an extinction, but what about tardigrades and deep sea fish and invertebrates? They'd be pretty tough to eradicate. Plus without plants and a good chunk of bacteria photosynthesis is going to abruptly be stopped, making the surface pretty hostile and unwelcoming for their descendants
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Anoxia could kill off all deep sea fish easily enough in a super extinction.
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Dec 12 2016, 06:05 PM
Well I'd say Halicephalobus mephisto is a likely candidate to survive an extinction, but what about tardigrades and deep sea fish and invertebrates? They'd be pretty tough to eradicate. Plus without plants and a good chunk of bacteria photosynthesis is going to abruptly be stopped, making the surface pretty hostile and unwelcoming for their descendants
If you read the article, this nematode is the deepest living animal. Enough ocean acidification would probably kill deep sea life. Yes, plants are gone, but maybe stromatolites made of surviving microbes clumping together could make for some new "flora"? Maybe the descendants of non-photosynthetic microbe clumps could be the new plants?
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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Yes i did read the article, I didn't account for anoxia with the deep sea fish. I didn't think that ocean acidification would be a huge problem for the creatures who live off the volcanic vents considering how incredibly hostile that environment is anyway. That still doesn't rid the tardigrades though, they can hibernate for ages and are probably the hardiest creature on the face of the earth, and laugh in the face of radiation and subzero temperatures. Or they would if they had the proper body structures to do so. I mean look at this face.
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