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Mar 19 2017, 03:45 PM
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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean. The introduced species include-
Vertebrates Platypus River otter American alligator Red eared slider Softshell turtle Alligator snapping turtle Garter snake Tentacled snake African dwarf frog Axolotl Ruber eel Electric eel Neon tetra Koi Goldfish Freshwater ray Alligator gar Australian lungfish Betta Carp Zebrafish Bass Anole lizards American bullfrog Muscovy duck Flamingo American white ibis
Panarthropods Giant water bug Daphnia Water strider Red swamp crayfish Freshwater crab Various dragonflies Various mosquitoes, crane flies, and midges Horseflies Freshwater amphipods Woodlice Brine shrimp Diving bell spider Freshwater mites Aquatic springtails Cherry shrimp Remipedes Scolopendra cataracta Diving beetles Whirligig beetles Mayflies Caddisflies Tardigrades Water boatman Backswimmers Copepods Triops Various millipedes Fishing spider Ostracods Water scorpion (both verities) Dobsonflies Velvet worms Wolf spiders Various land crabs, including the coconut crab Housefly American cockroach
Other animals Rotifers Nematodes Nematomorphs Various pond snails Various land snails and slugs Earthworms Medicinal leech Tiger leech Terrestrial nemerteans Land planarians Freshwater planarians Various freshwater bivalves Bryozoans Freshwater sponges Tubifex Hydra
"Flora" Reeds Lily pads Duckweed Volvox Pond scum Moss Liveworts Bladderworts Various lichens Aldrovanda vesiculosa Ceratophyllum Various alismatids Euglena Paramecium Many types of micro algae Palm trees Ferns The grass you see on lawns Various fungi (I don't know sh*t about fungi, so feel free to fill me in here)
For animals, I wanted to add mostly aquatic or amphibious species, with a few small terrestrial species. I did my best with the aquatic flora, but there probably has to be a lot more terrestrial plants. You can handle if you want to.
It would be pretty cool to see how these normally inland species evolve in the ocean sized pond.
Edited by IIGSY, Mar 19 2017, 06:59 PM.
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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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Talenkauen
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Mar 19 2017, 04:45 PM
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- Mar 19 2017, 03:45 PM
I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.
That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
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Mar 19 2017, 05:11 PM
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- Mar 19 2017, 03:45 PM
I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.
That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater. could the salt get bound to something and locked away (maybe instead of silica, something uses salt for its casings?)...or its a planet which gets terraformed young in its planetary life, before the oceans get particularly salty?
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IIGSY
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Mar 19 2017, 05:12 PM
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- Talenkauen Spec
- Mar 19 2017, 04:45 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Mar 19 2017, 03:45 PM
I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.
That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater. Then let's make the planet not have salt. It's highly unlikely, but it's possible.
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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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IIGSY
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Mar 20 2017, 02:30 PM
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So, guys. Barring the salt problem, how do you think life would evolve on this strange planet?
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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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Beetleboy
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Mar 20 2017, 02:32 PM
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Mar 20 2017, 02:32 PM
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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.
That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
Then let's make the planet not have salt. It's highly unlikely, but it's possible. Aren't sodium and chlorine like, essential to life as we know it, and if you're doing a terraformed planet, isn't it therefore essential to that planet? Removing salt from a planet that is supposed to harbour Earth life, will most likely mean almost everything remotely complex will die. If i'm wrong, which is possible, please correct me
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Hananas59
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Mar 20 2017, 03:01 PM
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The problem is not with our diet or with our systems. That's no problem at all.
It sits within our cells, we have Sodium/Potassium pumps which keep our inner equilibrium. If you remove salts you remove that and our cells will most likely die.
But it would most certainly be interesting if you found a way around that!
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Mar 20 2017, 03:38 PM
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You could just make it an alternate universe project, sorta like old school Sheatheria. That way you can just handwave it away and say "physics work different".
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IIGSY
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Mar 20 2017, 06:00 PM
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
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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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Mar 20 2017, 09:51 PM
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way. how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
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IIGSY
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Mar 20 2017, 10:29 PM
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- Rodlox
- Mar 20 2017, 09:51 PM
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh? Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean?
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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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Rodlox
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Mar 20 2017, 11:08 PM
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean? *sigh* this is like arguing theology.
do you need the oceans eternally fresh, or simply for a very very long time?
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IIGSY
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Mar 21 2017, 12:11 AM
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- Rodlox
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean?
*sigh* this is like arguing theology. do you need the oceans eternally fresh, or simply for a very very long time? Preferably eternal. If not, then at least enough to have fresh seas 50 million years from now.
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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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So, if the oceans can at least have fresh water oceans 50 million years from now, then I think stuff will go like this. Alligators will probably give rise to apex predators, with pike and bass being mesopredators. Ducks will evolve into all sorts of "seabirds". Water fleas will become major proponents of plankton. Plants and insects will have a much more prominent role in this giant lake than in our earth oceans. Water striders here will be like Halobates on earth. Reef would probably be made of mussels, algae, bryozoans, and freshwater sponges. Hydras will evolve either into reef builders of neo "jellyfish". Snapping turtles would probably become camouflaged ambush predators, akin to angel sharks or frogfish. Carp and goldfish descendants might be the main forage feeders. "Tidepools" would contain all sorts of insects and mollusks. Insects with aquatic larvae may even become neotenic, which could do all sorts of interesting things. Decapods like shrimps, crabs, and crayfish would probably take the place of their saltwater counterparts. Tadpole shrimp could take the place of horseshoe crabs. The diving bell spider, might also produce something interesting. Leeches could be some sort of shoaling parasite. The possibilities are endless!
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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
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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