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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,358 Views)
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I have no idea if someone already suggested it but if not
what about an Alternative Evolution scenario without Plants.
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A terraformed planet where the only animal introduced is the marine iguana.
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A terraformed planet where the only animal introduced is the marine iguana.
Unless you mean the only tetrapod, I don't think that would really work out at all, invertabrates are quite essential for these types of projects.
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A terraformed planet where the only animal introduced is the marine iguana.
Unless you mean the only tetrapod, I don't think that would really work out at all, invertabrates are quite essential for these types of projects.
Marine iguanas only eat red algae, though having some invertebrates could help give them a new food to evolve to eat.
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I'm thinking about another potential idea; an alien planet that due to as-yet-unconfirmed conditions, has only developed unicellular life in it's entire history, which is about the same length as Earth's. However, a fair amount do live on land. The whole point would be to replace 'plants' and 'animals' with cells and attempt to convey it in an interesting manner.
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Aug 14 2017, 10:52 PM
A terraformed planet where the only animal introduced is the marine iguana.
Unless you mean the only tetrapod, I don't think that would really work out at all, invertabrates are quite essential for these types of projects.
Not really. Actually, don't add them. I would actually love to see how long it would take for marine iguana's to fill the niches of insects, annelids, etc.

Plus, you could have amboebas, cilliates, radiolorians, etc fill up zooplankton niches.
Edited by IIGSY, Aug 16 2017, 05:57 PM.
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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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Aug 14 2017, 10:52 PM
A terraformed planet where the only animal introduced is the marine iguana.
Unless you mean the only tetrapod, I don't think that would really work out at all, invertabrates are quite essential for these types of projects.
Not really. Actually, don't add them. I would actually love to see how long it would take for marine iguana's to fill the niches of insects, annelids, etc.

Plus, you could have amboebas, cilliates, radiolorians, etc fill up zooplankton niches.
I could envision iguanas evolving into caecilian-like creatures which fill the niche of earthworms. I would consider starting this project now, but I have other commitments.
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Been thinking about this for a while, and I was wondering, if I post this, if anyone would be interested in an Alternate Evolution project, centering around fossil formations that don't exist (As of yet), describing the possibly organisms that lived there. I'm currently thinking of whether or not this would go in Alt. Evo, or Cafe Cosmique?
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I've had a few ideas recently, myself:

1) The Summer of Long Shadows: A world where the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum never ended, and Earth is still covered in rainforests up to the Arctic Circle. Due to the increased temperatures/humidity, crocodilians and other archosaurs compete with the now-flourishing mammals for food and living space.

2) Noah's Nightmare: A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.

3) A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things: An examination of an alternate microcontinent in the Pacific, where bats arrived before birds and make up the dominant fauna there.

4) Pretty in Pink: A terraformed world where the only species introduced are blue-green algae, brine shrimp, and flamingoes.

5) Valles Incompertus: A rationalized "Lost World" scenario (based on the awesomely corny Universal horror movie The Land Unknown) where relicts of the old Cretaceous polar dinosaur ecosystem exist in a very deep valley in Antarctica. The only thing holding me back from posting it here is that I can't think of a good way to justify the warm temperatures in the valley. Perhaps it could be an extremely deep volcanic rift valley, like a supersized Bentley Subglacial Trench. The air density that far below sea level, coupled with outpourings of volcanic gas, might be able to stay warm by trapping the heat from the 24-hour Antarctic summer sunlight, which would slowly dissipate throughout the winter.
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2) A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.
What would survive?
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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2) A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.
What would survive?
In terms of land biota, I'm thinking:

Most Procellariiformes and Charadriiformes
Domestic cats
Saltwater crocodiles
Opossums
Passerines in some form
Sea snakes
Rodents
Maybe (big maybe) some form of parrot or macaw

In terms of sea biota, I don't really know enough about fish to say much yet. Anything that can live in low-oxygen water and tolerate wild swings in salinity is probably a contender.

I also plan on adding some new forms of seagoing plant
Edited by Noah's Raven, Aug 19 2017, 03:39 PM.
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Aug 19 2017, 03:37 PM
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Aug 19 2017, 03:17 PM
2) A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.
What would survive?
In terms of land biota, I'm thinking:

Most Procellariiformes and Charadriiformes
Domestic cats
Saltwater crocodiles
Opossums
Passerines in some form
Sea snakes
Rodents
Maybe (big maybe) some form of parrot or macaw

In terms of sea biota, I don't really know enough about fish to say much yet. Anything that can live in low-oxygen water and tolerate wild swings in salinity is probably a contender.

I also plan on adding some new forms of seagoing plant
Yeah, no.

I can see some sea birds surviving, as well as sea snakes and maaayybee saltwater crocodiles. But everything else on that list is deader than dead. Especially cats. I don't see how cats could possibly survive this. They would drown, or get stuck on a tiny island, eat everything, then die.

But I have a contender. Halobates. The only pelagic insect, and it lives on the surface. It would experience little to no habitat disruption, as it does not live on land or underwater, and it would have plenty of places to lay it's eggs. Planet of the water striders, anyone?
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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You're long on snark, but short on actual answers. There's no reason why petrels and similar birds wouldn't survive; their preferred habitat now covers the entire world. And why wouldn't rodents survive? This isn't a total waterworld, there are still islands, and rodents are generalists. And if their food survives, there's no reason cats wouldn't eke out a living either.

Halobates sound interesting I guess, but microfauna doesn't interest me.
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You're long on snark, but short on actual answers. There's no reason why petrels and similar birds wouldn't survive; their preferred habitat now covers the entire world. And why wouldn't rodents survive? This isn't a total waterworld, there are still islands, and rodents are generalists. And if their food survives, there's no reason cats wouldn't eke out a living either.

Halobates sound interesting I guess, but microfauna doesn't interest me.
I never denied seabirds could survive, seeing as how they can spend massive amounts of time in the air at sea and may only land to raise chicks. And yes, there's islands, but they are small in number and quite tiny. Enough to raise a few seabird nests, but not a population of rodents. They would probably eat everything and experience a population boom, but then there is nothing to eat, so they would all die.


I guess it depends on how fast the water rises.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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I'm quite interested in your project premises Habilisaurus, especially Noah's Nightmare (I'm a sucker for a good waterwold project), but the others also seem quite interesting. The only one I'm dubious about is the third one down, an island ecosystem can always make for an interesting project, but we here at spec evo also strive for plausibility, and I can't really imagine bats ever managing to successfully colonize an island before some sort of bird managed to get there first.
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