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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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Aug 27 2017, 07:30 PM
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- Aug 19 2017, 06:52 PM
Oh wow, I did not realize those were Tunicates, or that they formed colonies like that. I had an idea for a terraform world where zooid colonies were the main organism, so now I'm wondering which one would be the better pick.
in the immortal words from El Dorado: "Both. Both are good."
Both is definitely an option. I'd have to mull over what food they would have access to, how they might compete against each other, a how they could diversify in time (My guess is that the Tunicates have the edge on land colonization, though maybe I'm wrong on that), but that's part of the fun, right? I've actually had a few ideas like this rolling around in my head lately, though some I can't decide if they would be better as terraforming projects or just alien biology. Right now I've got: - Aforementioned zooid colony planet. The alien variant would involve spinning off of another alien concept I have.
- A planet that is either a failed colonization effort where Slime Molds are given the unparalleled edge, or an alien planet where all the multi-cellular organisms are amorphous. Interestingly enough, it comes down to the plants with me. On the terraform side, I like the image of modern looking forests of pine trees with mossy ground and mushrooms scattered about, but the only thing you can find moving is a yellow blob. Of course, I would be exploring the mass die off of plants that couldn't reproduce without the presence of the pollinators that never arrived, so it would also be interesting to see what survives. On the alien side, seeing a darkened blob of cells sending...fronds, I guess, upward and having them flushed with chlorophyll is also a cool mental image. I suppose both is an option here as well, but I have some minor concerns that they might end up a tad to similar in the long run, my emphasis on plants excluded.
- I mentioned a self sustaining city environment a while back in the Project Ideas Topic[
note]Forgot I wasn't there for a bit, maybe that would be a better place for all this. (^^;)[/note](Don't need that now, would have formed outside the spoiler anyway), and I haven't given up on it. I don't have a list of colonizers down yet, but I have a few ideas in mind. No alien variant on this one...well, I may play with alien cities and creatures that have adapted to them, but it wouldn't be to the same extent. - Planet of Snakes, or just limbless, snake like aliens.
- A Neo-Carboniferous thing, though I might have a different way to show off giant insects.
- Planet of Bears...some of these are less though out than others.
- The initial colonizer is a kind of nanobot that would then form the basis for all life on that planet. I need to design the structure of the first 'cell' though, and figure out how they would function differently than other organic life, particularly once they become multi-cellular.
- Lastly is a general terraforming idea, again mentioned briefly in the Project Ideas Topic. The planet is the playground of some highly advanced race to test genetic engineering experiments and sociological developments, not just on earth organisms, but for various other alien worlds I also want as part of the setting (I have 3 at a well enough fleshed out point right now). The alien variant on the zooid planet might end up here, just depends on how I feel about it and if it works out logistically.
So yeah, trying to make it a big, interconnected multiverse, so I don't want too many worlds that are terraformed just for the sake of it, but sometime they seem more interesting than how it would emerge working from the ground up. It's a balancing act. And this isn't even including the ones that I know I want to be alien worlds like the 3 I hinted at, or the ones that are Alt history or universe. I mean, they're all alternate universe, but for simplicity I've been calling them aliens, v.s stuff that works with entirely different physics. Sorry if it's a bit confusing, I'm going to fix up the list in my sig with a more comprehensive list that hopefully lays it out better, but I've been a bit swamped as of late.
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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At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. Protectorates of the Proan Empire- The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
- The Gavell Kingdom
- The Everdark Forest
- The Lunar Tundra
- The Sand Sea
- The Asteroid Cloud
- The Rotting Shard
- The Orbital River
- The Outer Shadow
- Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War- The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
- замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
- [To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
- [To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
- [To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
- [To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes- [To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
- نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
- The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.- Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
- A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
- Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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Aug 27 2017, 07:31 PM
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Can HeLa cells evolve?
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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
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"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
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Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Aug 27 2017, 09:24 PM
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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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Aug 27 2017, 09:38 PM
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
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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!!!
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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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Aug 27 2017, 09:57 PM
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- Talenkauen Spec
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 07:31 PM
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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Aug 27 2017, 09:58 PM
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- Talenkauen Spec
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 09:38 PM
- Talenkauen Spec
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 07:31 PM
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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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
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Aug 27 2017, 11:11 PM
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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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Aug 27 2017, 11:36 PM
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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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This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death for my amusement to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault.
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Aug 28 2017, 03:11 AM
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- Aug 27 2017, 11:36 PM
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- Aug 27 2017, 11:11 PM
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.
 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.
Edited by Rebirth, Aug 28 2017, 03:15 AM.
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Aug 28 2017, 07:28 AM
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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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kusanagi
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Aug 28 2017, 07:34 AM
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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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Aug 28 2017, 04:45 PM
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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- Talenkauen Spec
- Aug 27 2017, 09:57 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
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- Talenkauen Spec
- Aug 27 2017, 09:24 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 07:31 PM
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.
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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.
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"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!
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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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Aug 28 2017, 06:05 PM
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 09:58 PM
- Talenkauen Spec
- Aug 27 2017, 09:57 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 09:38 PM
- Talenkauen Spec
- Aug 27 2017, 09:24 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Aug 27 2017, 07:31 PM
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? The Immortal Ecosystem of Henrietta Lacks?
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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man EATS EVERYONE." --Dromaeosaurus
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Aug 29 2017, 03:50 AM
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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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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Speculative Evolution:
Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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