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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,387 Views)
IIGSY
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What about marine iguanas or platypuses,
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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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Actually I've been wondering about that, too. Why is it that when we see return from land to sea scenario, it's always big sizes that we're talking about? Why isn't there any animal less than say 20 cm in length that has returned to water and schools in big numbers? Otters and sea turtles are the closest to that, but they're still like 50 to 60 cm.
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Perhaps becouse, in most project and in real life, that place is already taken by fish or water inverts, and the animals like otters and turtles(with exeptcion of cloaca breathing turtle) need to surfice for air, while fish and marine inverts don't, and that is big advantige for tham.
But still if anybody can make sardine otters i would like to see that.
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The best be would be small, anus breathing lizards
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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Feb 10 2017, 04:33 PM
The best be would be small, anus breathing lizards
That still leaves problem of marine reproduction, but that gives me a idea, is it possible for his lizards to develop egg that can survive in salt water?
But still, crustaceans would take that niche long before, they develop into form you wish.
Unless you make a world without invertebrates ( i posted that idea on the thred before), but that is also very unlikly, if not impossible.
Edited by Fazaner, Feb 10 2017, 05:19 PM.
Projects (they are not dead, just updated realy slowly, feel free to comment):
-World after plague After a horrible plague unleashed by man nature slowly recovers. Now 36 million years later we take a look at this weird and wonderful world.
-Galaxy on fire. They have left their home to get out of war. They had no idea what awaits them.

My Deviant art profile, if you're curious.
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Fazaner
Feb 10 2017, 05:18 PM
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Feb 10 2017, 04:33 PM
The best be would be small, anus breathing lizards
That still leaves problem of marine reproduction, but that gives me a idea, is it possible for his lizards to develop egg that can survive in salt water?
But still, crustaceans would take that niche long before, they develop into form you wish.
Unless you make a world without invertebrates ( i posted that idea on the thred before), but that is also very unlikly, if not impossible.
Lizards can give live birth. It's happened many times in squamates before. Like mosasaurs, as well as many skinks and snakes.
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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Not really a project idea, but I had nowhere better to put this. It's a phylogenetic tree of animal I made when I was a year or two younger. I wanted to include all the various extinct stem groups. It's pretty outdated, by hey, I tried.

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Here is a more up to date one, this time only with extant animals. There still probably some mistakes. Sorry for the crappy resolution.

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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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Feb 7 2017, 08:49 PM
A project that centers around taking simple yet implausible concepts and running with them. Concepts can range from mildly implausible ("what if dolphins re-evolved into terrestrial animals?") to really weird and nearing impossible but not quite ("what if a fish evolved to walk on its teeth?" or "what if a rodent evolved some sort of mind control?")

Then, as mentioned, you run with the idea. For example, let's just assume that a lineage of tooth-walking fish somehow became successful. Assuming that were true, jump ahead maybe 20 or 30 million years. What have the tooth-walking fish evolved into now? Have they become weird, downward-facing filter-feeders, using their tooth-legs to sift through food in the sand as they walk? Maybe their tails, now no longer used for swimming, are used in elaborate mating displays. Maybe their tongue has become more dexterous, with sharp spines on its tip used to spear small worms and drag them into its mouth as it crawls.

There wouldn't be a singular setting, as each concept would be a part of its own separate continuity (unless stated otherwise). Could be a group project.
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As a side note, couldn't the cloaca breathing turtles reproduce by giving live birth? I don't mean through their cloaca, but maybe the mother could have a sort of soft spot on her shell that her young could burst out of, and then the soft spot can heal itself until the next time it's needed.
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Feb 10 2017, 07:37 PM
As a side note, couldn't the cloaca breathing turtles reproduce by giving live birth? I don't mean through their cloaca, but maybe the mother could have a sort of soft spot on her shell that her young could burst out of, and then the soft spot can heal itself until the next time it's needed.
Turtles have hard brittle egg shells, so no.
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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Air breathing marine animals have a clear advantage when it comes to large, active niches, but doesn't have any benefit to animals much smaller than an otter. Only exception I can think of is sea snakes.
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Feb 10 2017, 11:28 PM
Air breathing marine animals have a clear advantage when it comes to large, active niches, but doesn't have any benefit to animals much smaller than an otter. Only exception I can think of is sea snakes.
Anus breathing marine squamates it is then?
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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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Okay, so I have this 'idea' for a game. Basically, it's how I would have done the game ARK survival evolved, though it is by no means an exact copy any more than it is any wilderness survival game. I've played it before with decent degree of success, though it was only with four players and in person. I feel like it could easily have potential to be played with many people, and it can help with balancing, as I have only one test subject who plays the game in a very similar manner every time, and starts in the exact same place almost every time. It's not exactly a role play, as it has character and creature stats, kind of like how dungeons and dragons is role play that has stats and relies directly on math and numbers. I've got 142 creatures in it so far, each of them being an extinct creature from basically any time period from before the KpG extinction event, including but not limited to dinosaurs, anomolocarids, placoderms, Synaptics, and pterosaurs.

A: would anybody be interested in playing such a game?

B: as the game requires a ton of communication between players and gm, do you guys think it would be unable to function on a forum due to excessive posts likely needed to play?

Also, sorry if this isn't the best thread for this, I couldn't think of a better one.
Edited by Uncanny Gemstar, Feb 14 2017, 11:14 PM.
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I had an idea for a group project under a similar scenario to Galapagaia (where in which the world is entirely simulated and therefore has no expiration date). In this project, it would work similarly to a terraformed world concept, except that the life transplanted has to be voted for by the community, although those organisms would have to fill a select broad ecological niche; such as main autotroph, an apex predator etc... Then once the founding organisms were selected, it would follow as a normal community project. Would this be something people could involve themselves in?
Edited by Lowry, Feb 18 2017, 06:57 AM.
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