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Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,392 Views)
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ah yes, the guy who said if sloths had one more thing wrong with them, sloths couldn't possibly be alive.
(scary dude)


He was also the guy who thought white people were the first humans, and that all other races were just "degenerate" versions of Caucasians.

Sounds like a real stand-up dude. You gotta love old-timey psuedoscientific racism. And by "love" I mean "hate".
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I am still thinking of how to divide the enclosures. By habitat type, clade, or time period? On a side note, I'v been building up a massive list of extinct arthropods for no apparent reason. Sorting them out will be a pain in the ass.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

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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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I reckon that you should do it by Time Period, although that'd have predation problems and such. I'm thinking you should do it by diet types, so, for example, piscivores together, and planktivores together, to avoid predation.
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What kind of park would have multiple species of incompatible animals in one area together?
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Mr Mysterio
Jan 3 2017, 02:23 AM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
ah yes, the guy who said if sloths had one more thing wrong with them, sloths couldn't possibly be alive.
(scary dude)


He was also the guy who thought white people were the first humans, and that all other races were just "degenerate" versions of Caucasians.

Sounds like a real stand-up dude. You gotta love old-timey psuedoscientific racism. And by "love" I mean "hate".
That's what the information available at the time (in addition to natural racism and in group preference) indicated at the time. You'd be hard pressed to find a pre-20th century biologist who wasn't a racist.
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Jan 3 2017, 03:03 AM
I reckon that you should do it by Time Period, although that'd have predation problems and such. I'm thinking you should do it by diet types, so, for example, piscivores together, and planktivores together, to avoid predation.
Just because animals wouldn't normally predate each other does not neccasarily mean they're gonna get along together. For example, keeping large African herbivores together can actually be quite hard, even though they don't eat each other, they can still be aggressive and territorial.
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So, how are we gonna know which creatures are compatible with each other. I think this would make a nice collaboration.

I think this would help a lot. http://dibgd.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0
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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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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You can't, really. Just don't make it unrealistic by making every single species with the same diet get along just fine. (And many if not most predators shoudnt be housed together.)
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Jan 3 2017, 08:14 PM
So, how are we gonna know which creatures are compatible with each other. I think this would make a nice collaboration.
why don't you start work on it, and then if anyone wants to collaborate, they'll offer.
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A project I plan on doing later on.

Earth; The Year One Billion


Can this planet even be called earth anymore? It's been eons since the last human breathed here a billion years ago. Everything has changed so much. The sun has expanded slightly, causing the "Earth" to become hotter, triggering world wide droughts. The continents have once again all come together to form another Pangea. The super-continent is mostly desert and dry "grassland", with some fungal forests growing along the coasts. Life here is seemingly unrelated or alien to anything that existed in the anthropocene. This is true to a degree. Although most life on the planet are descended from humble echinoderms, worms, and arthropods, they are a far cry from their ancestors, far too different to even be closely related to them. But there are, in a way, some familiar faces here. Highly derived mammals scamper about the landscape, with most being small and rodent-like. But despite their mammalian heritage, they are not actually mammals anymore. They're so derived from the anthropocene mammals that it would only seem appropriate to put them in a new classification; The Chronidonts. These creatures (at least the terrestrial species) have hair and are endothermic like their ancestors, but how they reproduce is quite different. Most species give birth after a few weeks of conception to extremely underdeveloped young. The larvae appear to be mere embryos that have had barely any time to develope, and they usually still have gill slits on ther necks as well. After birth, they crawl over to their mothers teetsand clasp on, practically fusing to their mothers body. After a few more weeks, they quickly fall off their mother, now strong enough to defend themselves. They slither away into the underbrush as soon as they fall, due to many mothers in the Chronidont clade being canibalistic. Terrestrial Chronidonts do fairly well, and occupy a number of niches, but the true diversity of these creatures lies in the ocean. A billon years from now, mammals rule the seas. Aquatic Chronidonts appear to be early stage embryos, with most having no limbs. This is because they are neotenic. Some Chronidonts never fully developed after dropping off their mother, and with them still retaining their gills, they moved back to the water and diversified. The only other competition Chronidonts have is with the aquatic mollusk descendents and the fish-like arthropods.


I quite obviously haven't figured out all the science behind it, but I came up with it a few days ago, so I'm really just crafting out a base for the project.
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Are Chronodonts derived from Marsupials or Placentals?
Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos:
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Not quite sure yet. But this far into the future it doesn't really matter what group they're descended from.
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Also, Me and Fire Finch are both doing projects about monster hunter.
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Meet Henry Johnston: a forty three year old divorced man who lives alone in Chicago, Illinois. He spends his days commuting to a Meijers store where he works, watching sports with his friends, and getting visits from his son who has just graduated university. He doesn't seem like of guy whose name would be known across the multiverse.

Little does he know however, in an alternate dimension, he's an entire planet. To be precise, a massive version of his head the size of earth exists, floating around a yellow star. If you were to go onto this planet, you would find a bizarre and grotesque world. Its a world where hair follicles replace grass and trees; a world of very derived parasites; a diverse planet, from the great Polar Hair Forests, to the Teeth Mountains, to the subdermal Bone Desert.

It all happens while Henry is busy checking food items out.
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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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Cool. I have several questions Yiqi. Is the head alive and have an immune system and functional blood vessels and nerves and all? Or was it alive and is now dead, and if so is it decaying? Or was it never alive and never decays? Does it have a molten core due to the pressure and heat? And is it affected by regular Henry Johnsons day to day life; as in he takes a shower and the planet floods, he cuts his hair and the polar hair forests are suddenly torn apart, he gets a black eye and the planet suddenly gets a giant bruise? And if so, when our Henry dies then does head planet die too?
Sorry for asking so many questions btw.
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