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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,360 Views)
PortentosaMan
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I will begin with the last vertebrate, and after that metazoan. The reason I will begin with the last vertebrate is because then I have in a way settled the creatures of this future and have something to build on.
Edited by PortentosaMan, Jul 28 2017, 07:17 PM.
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StellarInsect
Jul 28 2017, 07:07 PM
I will begin with the last vertebrate, and after that metazoan.
Please do me a personal favor.



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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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Jul 28 2017, 07:17 PM
StellarInsect
Jul 28 2017, 07:07 PM
I will begin with the last vertebrate, and after that metazoan.
Please do me a personal favor.



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Haha :). I made it a fish already! The ancestor is a undefined modern ray finned fish.
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StellarInsect
Jul 28 2017, 07:20 PM
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Jul 28 2017, 07:17 PM
StellarInsect
Jul 28 2017, 07:07 PM
I will begin with the last vertebrate, and after that metazoan.
Please do me a personal favor.



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Haha :). I made it a fish already! The ancestor is a undefined modern ray finned fish.
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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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Not sure if I'll ever do this, or if it has been done before, but what if a terra-formed world was set up as an experiment for evolution by introducing only plants and the organisms they rely on, for example bees and worms. Basically, a planet where flora develops a food chain, locomotion, a brain (or something like it) and several other fauna-like attributes. I have a few ideas, but definitely not enough. I don't know much about plants, and I'm researching them for future projects, but I think someone else could take on this trope if they are up to the task. You would probably do it better.
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The Gondwanian
Jul 28 2017, 07:51 PM
Not sure if I'll ever do this, or if it has been done before, but what if a terra-formed world was set up as an experiment for evolution by introducing only plants and the organisms they rely on, for example bees and worms. Basically, a planet where flora develops a food chain, locomotion, a brain (or something like it) and several other fauna-like attributes. I have a few ideas, but definitely not enough. I don't know much about plants, and I'm researching them for future projects, but I think someone else could take on this trope if they are up to the task. You would probably do it better.
Those bees and worms are gonna become megafauna and fill all animal niches long before plants would.
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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The idea of plants developing into animal-like organisms has been done before with the project Umbriel http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5716621/1/ (which is actually a personal favorite of mine), but most of the life present is descended from conifers. Aside from that though, nobody has ever really tried doing anything with the idea.
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Jul 28 2017, 07:51 PM
Not sure if I'll ever do this, or if it has been done before, but what if a terra-formed world was set up as an experiment for evolution by introducing only plants and the organisms they rely on, for example bees and worms. Basically, a planet where flora develops a food chain, locomotion, a brain (or something like it) and several other fauna-like attributes. I have a few ideas, but definitely not enough. I don't know much about plants, and I'm researching them for future projects, but I think someone else could take on this trope if they are up to the task. You would probably do it better.
I've been toying with the idea of that, but I would probably make the plants aliens. Gives me more options and I don't have to research immense amounts into Earth plants and see what animals they'd need to survive. I would probably do it something like this (amazing art, by the way), where there are no large bodies of water at most a small lake. I was thinking that instead of oceans of water, there would be oceans of plants, and there could be "continents" forming out of the different amounts of water found in one patch of plants at any given time. For example, short grass-like plants would grow in areas of low water supplies, and these would be the "oceans", while large, tree-like plants would grow in patches where water is plentiful, forming "continents". I would probably do this Serina-style, showing off era-by-era and showing how plants evolve to out-compete each other and how the continents change around.
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Not all plants depend on animal pollinators, and some who do rely on pollinators are capable of self pollination. Just throw in some willows and legumes, along with numerous other more 'primitive' plant species. There's more angiosperms that fit the criteria, I just can't recall them.
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A world without vertebrates? Chaetognaths and pelagic gastropods as fishes, essentially a new time to experiment with body plans as in the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods. And throw in new colonisations of the land if you will.
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Jul 30 2017, 07:07 PM
A world without vertebrates? Chaetognaths and pelagic gastropods as fishes, essentially a new time to experiment with body plans as in the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods. And throw in new colonisations of the land if you will.
I have a project like that, and it has some pelagic gastropods. Strangely, fish like chaetognaths aren't so much of a thing. The seas in my project are mostly dominated by crustaceans, cephalopods, and fish like leeches. There is also a large number of marine insects.
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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


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Marine insects do not work very well because they are more visible to fishes than are crustaceans. There are a reason so very few exist in OTL. Leeches parallel onychophores enough to become arthropod-like and even colonise the land upon lobopods. TFIW ruined the idea with flish and land squids without bones, but that is the kind of thing.
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kusanagi
Jul 30 2017, 07:39 PM
Marine insects do not work very well because they are more visible to fishes than are crustaceans. There are a reason so very few exist in OTL. Leeches parallel onychophores enough to become arthropod-like and even colonise the land upon lobopods. TFIW ruined the idea with flish and land squids without bones, but that is the kind of thing.
1. How are insects more visible than crustaceans?

2. Regardless, there is no vertebrates in my project.
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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Marine insects are rare because there's really no place for them, there's just too much competition from crustaceans and other groups that are established in the ocean. Doesn't have anything to do with being more visible to fish... if you mean that crustaceans are often translucent, there are translucent freshwater insects such as glassworms.
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HangingThief
Jul 30 2017, 11:37 PM
Marine insects are rare because there's really no place for them, there's just too much competition from crustaceans and other groups that are established in the ocean. Doesn't have anything to do with being more visible to fish... if you mean that crustaceans are often translucent, there are translucent freshwater insects such as glassworms.
I dont think that's a good reason. By that logic there should be no marine tetrapods. And also by that logic, arachnids, myriapods, and terrestrial crustaceans should be rare because of competition from insects.
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


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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