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IIGSY
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Feb 9 2017, 11:51 PM
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What about marine iguanas or platypuses,
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
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"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Feb 10 2017, 03:17 AM
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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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Feb 10 2017, 07:32 AM
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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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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.
Before you get offended or butthurt read this -If something i say sounds racists or sexists, I AM NEITHER OF THOSE, it is language or cultural barrier, if you get offended please note me of that so i may correct myself. -English is not my native language, so gramar mistakes are expected, I will only accept your corrections if mistake makes comment unreadable, or if is something important like project post or com. Don't be a grammar-nazi, people dont like that. -I often use a common terms when writing, so yes I know birds are dinosaurs and that whales are cetaceans, no need to correct me i know that. -Sarcasm is something I commonly use in jokes, and before you get butthurt please check is it my sarcastic joke. -My goal is not to offend anyone, unless somebody is seriously getting on my nerves, and in that case all this is off!
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IIGSY
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Feb 10 2017, 04:33 PM
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The best be would be small, anus breathing lizards
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Fazaner
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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.
Edited by Fazaner, Feb 10 2017, 05:19 PM.
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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.
Before you get offended or butthurt read this -If something i say sounds racists or sexists, I AM NEITHER OF THOSE, it is language or cultural barrier, if you get offended please note me of that so i may correct myself. -English is not my native language, so gramar mistakes are expected, I will only accept your corrections if mistake makes comment unreadable, or if is something important like project post or com. Don't be a grammar-nazi, people dont like that. -I often use a common terms when writing, so yes I know birds are dinosaurs and that whales are cetaceans, no need to correct me i know that. -Sarcasm is something I commonly use in jokes, and before you get butthurt please check is it my sarcastic joke. -My goal is not to offend anyone, unless somebody is seriously getting on my nerves, and in that case all this is off!
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IIGSY
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Feb 10 2017, 06:22 PM
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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.
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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IIGSY
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Feb 10 2017, 07:11 PM
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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.

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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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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Feb 10 2017, 07:31 PM
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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. Yes please
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Feb 10 2017, 07:36 PM
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Recent Projects The Lance That Pierced the Stars -The world of chordates throughout its history. A planet populated only by lancelets, algae, and zooplankton. Dogworld - A planet of Good Boys, man's gift to their dearest friends.
Old Projects The Twisted Mirror -my first project, in which some unknown event sometime before the carboniferous drastically changed the course of earth's evolution, and a new clade arose that replaced the tetrapods. And then evolution went nuts. Sphera Vitae -my second project. A universe of giant hollow spheres populated with life from Earth. Each is seperate and unique from one another, and some downright inhospitable, though life evolves and finds a way like nowhere else. Haemos Island - A tiny volcanic rock in the middle of the South Pacific. An island that is no paradise.
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Feb 10 2017, 07:37 PM
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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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"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
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Feb 10 2017, 07:52 PM
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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. Turtles have hard brittle egg shells, so no.
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Feb 10 2017, 11:28 PM
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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, 11:40 PM
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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. Anus breathing marine squamates it is then?
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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Feb 14 2017, 11:13 PM
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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.
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Recent Projects The Lance That Pierced the Stars -The world of chordates throughout its history. A planet populated only by lancelets, algae, and zooplankton. Dogworld - A planet of Good Boys, man's gift to their dearest friends.
Old Projects The Twisted Mirror -my first project, in which some unknown event sometime before the carboniferous drastically changed the course of earth's evolution, and a new clade arose that replaced the tetrapods. And then evolution went nuts. Sphera Vitae -my second project. A universe of giant hollow spheres populated with life from Earth. Each is seperate and unique from one another, and some downright inhospitable, though life evolves and finds a way like nowhere else. Haemos Island - A tiny volcanic rock in the middle of the South Pacific. An island that is no paradise.
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Feb 18 2017, 06:56 AM
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ARH-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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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?
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Karkinos: Where faith meets myth on a world of the strangely familiar. Under New Suns: The forums own colonisation race! Steep yourself in my lore....
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