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PortentosaMan
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Jul 28 2017, 07:07 PM
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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.
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Jul 28 2017, 07:17 PM
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- Jul 28 2017, 07:07 PM
I will begin with the last vertebrate, and after that metazoan. Please do me a personal favor.
M a k e i t a f i s h
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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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PortentosaMan
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Jul 28 2017, 07:20 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. M a k e i t a f i s h Haha :). I made it a fish already! The ancestor is a undefined modern ray finned fish.
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Jul 28 2017, 07:30 PM
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- StellarInsect
- Jul 28 2017, 07:20 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- 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. M a k e i t a f i s h
Haha :). I made it a fish already! The ancestor is a undefined modern ray finned fish. yAy
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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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Jul 28 2017, 07:51 PM
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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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Jul 28 2017, 07:54 PM
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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.
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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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ForceofHabit
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Jul 28 2017, 08:02 PM
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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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opeFool
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Jul 28 2017, 08:27 PM
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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. 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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Jul 28 2017, 11:01 PM
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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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Jul 30 2017, 07:07 PM
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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, 07:30 PM
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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. 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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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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Jul 30 2017, 07:39 PM
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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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Jul 30 2017, 08:01 PM
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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.
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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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Jul 30 2017, 11:37 PM
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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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Jul 30 2017, 11:45 PM
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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.
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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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Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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