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A giant underground cave system isolated since the Cretaceous, with a bacteria-fungus based food chain and creepy, blind, white sphenodonts and chigutisaurids, possibly non-avian theropods and sauropods as well. Like Diyu but with more Perdido-like faunal groups.

A terraformed planet where the only multicellular lifeform introduced is a genetically modified form of the Siberian salamander which gets its food from symbiotic algae.
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think large animals can live permanently in caves.
The caves themselves are also pretty huge.
But will enough "flora" grow there?
You bring up a good point, but the minerals and ample gases for chemosynthesis in the cave bring enough nutrients for plenty of bacteria, nematodes and fungi. I'll still scrap the sauropods if I do this though, and the largest creatures will be no more than ~40-50 kg (a dwarf megaraptoran and a crocodile-like chigutisaurid which act as the apex predators).
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Got to thinking more about the robotic cell idea after watching Issac Arthur's video on Self Replicating Robots. It might be interesting to have the initial colonizers be some kind of Von Neumann Probe, I'm thinking some mole like design, built to extract materials from the planets crust in order to repair any wear down they might undergo and to build more of itself. After a while, they might start going after others of its kind, and an ecosystem should start to form. They would need to gather fuel of some kind though, don't know if they would be gathering that from the ground as well or if they would be built with some form of renewable generators, like solar panels or something. Couple directions I could go with it, in addition to just having the first be nano-robotic cells. The probe angle allows me to have the dominate life forms appear more robotic overall, while the cell, I would imagine, would develop into squishier, more organic looking lifeforms. not that that's bad, just that I'm a stickler for aesthetics. Of course, this scenario could allow for both outcomes. Have nanobots that comprise the Probes self repair system become separate and just start living as single cells, then have a mass extinction event give them a chance to diversify into multi-cellular niches. Though, it would take a massive extinction event to equal things out, yet not too much to kill off the probes outright. Can I work such a balance? I don't know, like I said, there's a lot of potential ways to go with this, and a lot of factors to account for, such as plant analogs in the probe scenario. Would they even need plant analogs in that ecosystem? Could the probes evolve into sessile autotrophs? And the atmosphere, how much would that factor into how well the probes would function? Still a lot to consider.
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Can HeLa cells evolve?
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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
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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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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


There's no need for that kind of reaction. It's not the end of the world that He La cells aren't as adaptable as you hoped.
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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


There's no need for that kind of reaction. It's not the end of the world that He La cells aren't as adaptable as you hoped.
Your right, I guess. Still, it was a pretty cool concept while it lasted?
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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An alternate New Zealand/Zealandia, with the same basic faunal groups but instead of being relatively harmless it is large and terrifying like "Skull Island"-style lost world projects.
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An alternate New Zealand/Zealandia, with the same basic faunal groups but instead of being relatively harmless it is large and terrifying like "Skull Island"-style lost world projects.
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An alternate New Zealand/Zealandia, with the same basic faunal groups but instead of being relatively harmless it is large and terrifying like "Skull Island"-style lost world projects.
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If I ever get around to it, you can expect to see giant carnivorous sphenodonts, piranha/driver ant weta, crocodile-like skinks, and more stuff like that. Not sure about terror moas, seems too obvious.

EDIT: Forgot the New Caledonian Mekosuchus, Meiolania and Varanus.
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My Zeelandia had ziphodont mekosuchians and raptorial adzebills. The herbivores included meiolanids, sylviornithids and moas. No need to be radical when you consider what was on the fragments from Miocene to Recent.

The Old Endemics would shut out the possibility of all those latecomers going flightless, but animals would fly, blow and drift in.

I am convinced the cranial and postcranial elements attributed to an odd NZ mammal are from two different mammals. One is a diprotodont marsupial and the other probably a very primitive mammal - a living fossil. Not enough is known to reconstruct either of them but already by that time both known mammals were in the shadow of moas and adzebills in a continental ecosystem - why?
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Bear in mind NC actually sank and NZ mostly so: some bivalves and other freshwater endemics demonstrate part of NZ was continually emerged but the fauna and flora must have suffered extinctions. On NC particularly the endemics such as kagu and Sylviornis must have arrived recently from outside with ghost lineages in Australia. Such turned out to be true for the short tailed bats in NZ.
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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


There's no need for that kind of reaction. It's not the end of the world that He La cells aren't as adaptable as you hoped.
Wait. Are you sure they only survive in lab controlled environment? All they need is warmth and a constant source of energy. And perhaps we could genetically modify them a little.
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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Can HeLa cells evolve?

Probably not in the way you'd want them too. They'd probably evolve random alterations, but they most likely wouldn't be able to become meat-eating cancer slimes

Not to mention, they normally only survive in controlled, laboratory environments. If they were put in the wild, they might just wither, die, and decompose.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


There's no need for that kind of reaction. It's not the end of the world that He La cells aren't as adaptable as you hoped.
Your right, I guess. Still, it was a pretty cool concept while it lasted?
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Three ideas incoming:

- A project centered on a Terraformed world, with the creatures introduced being those from the Tiaojishan Formation.
- A world where the T/J (Triassic/Jurassic) Extinction never happened.
- A "fantasy" world, where the creatures are descended from those of the Cenozoic.

Am most likely to work on the Tiaojishan World, however.
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