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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.
Extremophiles are very good at surviving in certain extreme conditions. Put them them in a different extreme condition and they'd die off easilyh.
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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.
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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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Future Evo:
Future Ice Age of sorts.
Terraformed world only populated by Iguanas and Invertebrates.

Alt Evo:
A no PT Extinction (Permian-Triassic)

All I can think of. Had a few ideas for the No PT extinction, but they never really kicked off (If you get which creatures I'm talking about.)
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Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.
I'd say this has potential.
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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
We have to remember one thing. Chordates and panarthropods both evolved from primitive "worms". Hell, the urbilateran ancestor was probably a "worm". But there is one other thing to consider.

Cycloneuralia is being considered paraphyletic by a growing number of people (sort of the ecdysozoan version of platyzoa). The general consensus is that nematodes (and nematomorphs) are closer to panarthropods than to scalidophorans. If this is true, then the wormy ancestor of panarthropods had cycloneuralian features, like the position of the brain around the pharynx.

This means that our lonely little nematode would probably give rise to neo-panarthropods if given enough time. What do you think?
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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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
We have to remember one thing. Chordates and panarthropods both evolved from primitive "worms". Hell, the urbilateran ancestor was probably a "worm". But there is one other thing to consider.

Cycloneuralia is being considered paraphyletic by a growing number of people (sort of the ecdysozoan version of platyzoa). The general consensus is that nematodes (and nematomorphs) are closer to panarthropods than to scalidophorans. If this is true, then the wormy ancestor of panarthropods had cycloneuralian features, like the position of the brain around the pharynx.

This means that our lonely little nematode would probably give rise to neo-panarthropods if given enough time. What do you think?



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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
We have to remember one thing. Chordates and panarthropods both evolved from primitive "worms". Hell, the urbilateran ancestor was probably a "worm". But there is one other thing to consider.

Cycloneuralia is being considered paraphyletic by a growing number of people (sort of the ecdysozoan version of platyzoa). The general consensus is that nematodes (and nematomorphs) are closer to panarthropods than to scalidophorans. If this is true, then the wormy ancestor of panarthropods had cycloneuralian features, like the position of the brain around the pharynx.

This means that our lonely little nematode would probably give rise to neo-panarthropods if given enough time. What do you think?



...................................... You are a GENIUS!!!!!
But how can we make these neo-panarthropods unique from existing ones? I don't want them to be re skinned tetrapods either.
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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
We have to remember one thing. Chordates and panarthropods both evolved from primitive "worms". Hell, the urbilateran ancestor was probably a "worm". But there is one other thing to consider.

Cycloneuralia is being considered paraphyletic by a growing number of people (sort of the ecdysozoan version of platyzoa). The general consensus is that nematodes (and nematomorphs) are closer to panarthropods than to scalidophorans. If this is true, then the wormy ancestor of panarthropods had cycloneuralian features, like the position of the brain around the pharynx.

This means that our lonely little nematode would probably give rise to neo-panarthropods if given enough time. What do you think?



...................................... You are a GENIUS!!!!!
But how can we make these neo-panarthropods unique from existing ones? I don't want them to be re skinned tetrapods either.
Make life alien-like. Don't make it tertrapedal, go for octopodal instead. Have them all be pseudoarthropods, with exoskeletons and vertebrae. Give them extra eyes, or no eyes at all.
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Just take something that makes them unique among animals and expand upon that feature sequentially.
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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.
Tardigrades are only "invincible" when they're in cryptobioses. Otherwise, they're just as delicate as any similarly sized animal. Also, it takes tardigrades quite a bit of time entering and exiting cryptobioses. In fact, I think several nematodes rival the durability of tardigrades. But yeah, I think some might survive. But for the sake of this, let's say the extinction was SO bad, that not even tardigrades would survive. Even the one metazoan that made it through just barely survived. I think this is a good place to start:

After a while, when the surface of the earth starts to become a little more hospitable, bacteria starts clumping together to from stramatolites. Eventually, there is tones of structures made of bacteria, as well a a thick biomat of bacteria. Then, after a long time, our hardy little animal surfaces to see this recovering biosphere. They eat tones of bacteria, initially causing a population crash. But the bacteria adapt. This starts a new arms race between the bacteria and the nematodes. This eventually leads to the Initiovumian explosion, and the start of a new eon, the Nematozoic.


I wonder how big and complex the future nematodes could get........ Like car sized grazing nematode slug-monsters, and massive swarms of mini grazers crawling through the undergrowth. Then, maybe burrowing ambush predators with multiple sets of jaws and extendable neck. I really like this idea.
We have to remember one thing. Chordates and panarthropods both evolved from primitive "worms". Hell, the urbilateran ancestor was probably a "worm". But there is one other thing to consider.

Cycloneuralia is being considered paraphyletic by a growing number of people (sort of the ecdysozoan version of platyzoa). The general consensus is that nematodes (and nematomorphs) are closer to panarthropods than to scalidophorans. If this is true, then the wormy ancestor of panarthropods had cycloneuralian features, like the position of the brain around the pharynx.

This means that our lonely little nematode would probably give rise to neo-panarthropods if given enough time. What do you think?



...................................... You are a GENIUS!!!!!
But how can we make these neo-panarthropods unique from existing ones? I don't want them to be re skinned tetrapods either.
Make life alien-like. Don't make it tertrapedal, go for octopodal instead. Have them all be pseudoarthropods, with exoskeletons and vertebrae. Give them extra eyes, or no eyes at all.
Wait do nematodes even have eyes? If not, then what can they evolve from?
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


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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They would also have to get passes eutely and their exoskeletons (remember, nematodes, like arthropods, have chitinous exoskeletons that they molt).
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


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Eyes are a fairly easy thing to evolve, that's not a problem. No in-depth explanation needed there.
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As for the legs, is there a specific part they have to be derived from or can they "just grow" legs? If the former, what is that part?
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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An idea for a project I want to do once I get a proper drawing tablet.


The Ark


The year is 6313. Humans have colonized many parts of their galactic arm, simultaneously sharing it which other space fairing sophonts. On the other side of the Milky Way, a dangerous alien race of bio-cybernetic creatures called "Malaware" were waging war on all "lower" life forms. They spread like the virus they are across the galaxy, until they came across the arm that humans and many other species reside in. The Malaware, at first, slaughtered everything in their path, but the galactic residents fought back. The combined forces of all these alien races were too much for them to handle. The Malaware had not come across any sapient that could take down a whole fleet of their ships with one beam. In a storm of panic and rage, the Malaware released their ultimate weapon. The Galacticide. A swarm of nano machines that could render a galaxy steril in meer centuries. The galacticide had one goal; make more galacticide. Once the Malaware released it, the machines spread like wild fire. Going from planet to planet, dissolveing all life down to its molecular components, building new rockets from those components, and repeating the process. The humans and all other alien races had no way of stopping this destructive force. So, in an effort to save all life from the Milky Way, they created an Ark. A planet four times the size of earth, but with the same amount of density and gravity. They took animals from several worlds, put them special habitats, and put the planet inside a temporary pocket dimension. The humans and the other races built a gateway in the center of the galaxy, turning the black hole into a wormhole that would connect then to the closest habitable galaxy; Andromeda. They pulled the Ark out of its pocket universe, gave it an artificial sun (that would become inactive and become the planets moon once the planet found a stable orbit in a naturally occurring star), and threw it into the portal. The Alien races sealed the doorway up, saving life in the Milky Way. The planet soon found itself in orbit around a star similar to our own, and millions of years later, life has evolved into many strange forms.
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