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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
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- A world where the T/J (Triassic/Jurassic) Extinction never happened.
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I've had an idea for about an alternate universe where organisms can slowly change their body shape in order to adapt to different environments. For example, an eagle could decrease its wing muscles and increase its leg muscles when they find themselves in a flat and grassy area. Humans living near the shore could also grow webbing between their fingers and make it disappear when they migrate into a desert environment.
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That.... sounds fucking kickass. Do they pass the traits down to their kids?
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Here's a Serina-like idea inspired by this pic

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-During the 1780s, the British invent a time machine
-They go back in time to the Precambrian
-They leave behind The European Rabbit and several species of grasses (and possibly the Red Fox and the European Hare)
-Evolution ensues
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An inversion of the infamous Jurassic Zebra project, where an unidentified sophont deposits a population of dryosaurus into present day Australia.
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Sep 2 2017, 03:03 PM
Here's a Serina-like idea inspired by this pic

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-During the 1780s, the British invent a time machine
-They go back in time to the Precambrian
-They leave behind The European Rabbit and several species of grasses (and possibly the Red Fox and the European Hare)
-Evolution ensues
I like the idea, though you might need to add some things like earthworms and bugs for the ecosystem to be stable.
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You're right, but they might outcompete the Precambrian "native" organisms
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truteal
Sep 2 2017, 03:03 PM
-During the 1780s, the British invent a time machine
-They go back in time to the Precambrian
-They leave behind The European Rabbit and several species of grasses (and possibly the Red Fox and the European Hare)
-Evolution ensues
Interesting premise. But there is the whole problem of how Earth's atmosphere back then would have been toxic to the organisms you wish to introduce. So more likely all your grasses, rabbits, hares and foxes would die and thus have no impact on Earth's timeline.
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Sep 2 2017, 05:49 PM
truteal
Sep 2 2017, 03:03 PM
-During the 1780s, the British invent a time machine
-They go back in time to the Precambrian
-They leave behind The European Rabbit and several species of grasses (and possibly the Red Fox and the European Hare)
-Evolution ensues
Interesting premise. But there is the whole problem of how Earth's atmosphere back then would have been toxic to the organisms you wish to introduce. So more likely all your grasses, rabbits, hares and foxes would die and thus have no impact on Earth's timeline.
The Brits also invented a machine that made the atmosphere breathable to modern day organisms (and planted a few tree species) :sam:
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Composta.


It's a terraformed world where there was no care to introduce specific organisms. People dumped literally tons of compost, dirt and dead leaves onto a planet in the habitable zone. But with it, came bacteria, "protists", seeds, spores, earthworms, nematodes, tardigrades, rotifers, small frogs, snails, slugs, centipedes, ants, millipedes, springtails, worm lizards, mites, beetles, earwigs, flatworms, isopods, and all that dandy stuff.

What do you think and what could come of it?
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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


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Composta.


It's a terraformed world where there was no care to introduce specific organisms. People dumped literally tons of compost, dirt and dead leaves onto a planet in the habitable zone. But with it, came bacteria, "protists", seeds, spores, earthworms, nematodes, tardigrades, rotifers, small frogs, snails, slugs, centipedes, ants, millipedes, springtails, worm lizards, mites, beetles, earwigs, flatworms, isopods, and all that dandy stuff.

What do you think and what could come of it?
Sounds a good plan to me.

I imagine getting to the surface wouldn't take too long for plants and animals, though it would obviously take a while for the plants to get settled in and then the animals from the soil. It would be predominantly arthropod dominated at least initially before any surviving vertebrates diversify to occupy dominant positions.
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Sep 2 2017, 07:17 PM
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Sep 2 2017, 07:07 PM
Composta.


It's a terraformed world where there was no care to introduce specific organisms. People dumped literally tons of compost, dirt and dead leaves onto a planet in the habitable zone. But with it, came bacteria, "protists", seeds, spores, earthworms, nematodes, tardigrades, rotifers, small frogs, snails, slugs, centipedes, ants, millipedes, springtails, worm lizards, mites, beetles, earwigs, flatworms, isopods, and all that dandy stuff.

What do you think and what could come of it?
Sounds a good plan to me.

I imagine getting to the surface wouldn't take too long for plants and animals, though it would obviously take a while for the plants to get settled in and then the animals from the soil. It would be predominantly arthropod dominated at least initially before any surviving vertebrates diversify to occupy dominant positions.
The vertebrates are worm lizards, caecelians, and tiny frogs. Make of that what you will.
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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A typical terraformed planet project, except that all the introduced species were chosen by forum members (legally) under the influence (just alcohol to be safe).
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A typical terraformed planet project, except that all the introduced species were chosen by forum members (legally) under the influence (just alcohol to be safe).
So not me I guess.
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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A typical terraformed planet project, except that all the introduced species were chosen by forum members (legally) under the influence (just alcohol to be safe).


......... What a strange idea........
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