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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
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Yiqi15
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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).
I'm an underage muslim, so count me out.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Yiqi15
Sep 2 2017, 08:29 PM
I'm an underage muslim, so count me out.
There's...another one?
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 infinite waterworld project, but the only species that get transported to the world are freshwater and terrestrial organisms, the few of which survive to go onto land and freshwater areas then evolve to colonize the oceans. Lots of marine amphibians, arachnids, myriapods and insects.
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Sep 3 2017, 07:20 PM
An infinite waterworld project, but the only species that get transported to the world are freshwater and terrestrial organisms, the few of which survive to go onto land and freshwater areas then evolve to colonize the oceans. Lots of marine amphibians, arachnids, myriapods and insects.
I like. I like very much.
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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The Roof of the World: A project in the vein of "Land of our Forefathers" about Tibet when it was an island in the Tethys Sea.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
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A world where metazoans died off early.
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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flashman63
Sep 6 2017, 12:38 PM
The Roof of the World: A project in the vein of "Land of our Forefathers" about Tibet when it was an island in the Tethys Sea.
This sounds like it would be a really cool idea.
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flashman63
Sep 6 2017, 12:38 PM
The Roof of the World: A project in the vein of "Land of our Forefathers" about Tibet when it was an island in the Tethys Sea.
Sounds so awesome!
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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It's not a project, it's just an idea ...

A hollow planet with a star that shines and its interior and with a civilization of intelligent bovines (nothing plausible) with species very similar to those of the earth (for some reason).
It is not a biology-only project, it also includes the whole history of this civilization,religion and politics (but of course it would not be included, only animals).

it may seem like a very idiotic idea (and it is) but it is something I like to think of: animals that are very similar to those of the earth (even a species of seagull that actually exists in our world), but in this story, our planet does not exist and never existed, these similar animals (such as elephants, octopuses, insects, etc.) are "unpublished" to the universe.

I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think ...
and since I'm not very smart, all impossible questions (like terrestrial cephalopods and a hollow planet) are explained as "a race of space creatures like gods, ultraintelligent, who can do space engineering and create things like that ..."
Edited by Cool_Hippo43, Sep 7 2017, 05:15 PM.
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Sep 7 2017, 05:14 PM
I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think
You do realise the entire point of this site is plausibilty right? I'm not saying you can't make a project out of it (sounds genuinely intriguing), but you have a modicum of sense.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

My Zoochat and Fadom Accounts
- Zoochat
- Fandom
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5194951/1/#new
I stumbled across this old gem.

I wonder, what if such a parasite existed today? It would have to be a single celled organism rather than a metazoan though, as a very large portion (possibly a majority) or ecdysozoans are microscopic.

I wonder if it would have any significant impact on populations of ecdysozoans.
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


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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Yiqi15
Sep 7 2017, 05:34 PM
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Sep 7 2017, 05:14 PM
I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think
You do realise the entire point of this site is plausibilty right? I'm not saying you can't make a project out of it (sounds genuinely intriguing), but you have a modicum of sense.
It's not what I mean.

and that they are not 100% plausible things, for example "the mouth of such an animal could not be like that" or "crabs can not live totally on earth", understood?
things have a very plausible basis, for example, a crocodile species with longer legs, or a totally aquatic reptile ... most are just the basic species of the earth, with some changes, but in the basic (biologically; physically) are very similar. And as if it were an "alternative evolution".

but I do not know much about this kind of thing, I'm not an expert, I really do not know if there are several species of elephants on a planet, or if such a hippopotamus species "could not compete with other types of animals", or if a flying reptile can co-exist with birds ... these very accurate things I really do not want to make an animal physically, muscularly, biologically possible. Only "realistic"

Can you understand where I want to go?

(if you have any grammar mistakes, please forgive me ... I do not speak English well)
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Yiqi15
Sep 7 2017, 05:34 PM
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Sep 7 2017, 05:14 PM
I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think
You do realise the entire point of this site is plausibilty right? I'm not saying you can't make a project out of it (sounds genuinely intriguing), but you have a modicum of sense.
there are often more important things than plausibility. often, plausibility can take a back seat to matters of plot and such, even without invoking the Alternate Universes.
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Yiqi15
Sep 7 2017, 05:34 PM
Cool_Hippo43
Sep 7 2017, 05:14 PM
I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think
You do realise the entire point of this site is plausibilty right? I'm not saying you can't make a project out of it (sounds genuinely intriguing), but you have a modicum of sense.
It's not what I mean.

and that they are not 100% plausible things, for example "the mouth of such an animal could not be like that" or "crabs can not live totally on earth", understood?
things have a very plausible basis, for example, a crocodile species with longer legs, or a totally aquatic reptile ... most are just the basic species of the earth, with some changes, but in the basic (biologically; physically) are very similar. And as if it were an "alternative evolution".

but I do not know much about this kind of thing, I'm not an expert, I really do not know if there are several species of elephants on a planet, or if such a hippopotamus species "could not compete with other types of animals", or if a flying reptile can co-exist with birds ... these very accurate things I really do not want to make an animal physically, muscularly, biologically possible. Only "realistic"

Can you understand where I want to go?

(if you have any grammar mistakes, please forgive me ... I do not speak English well)
there are two (some say three) elephant species right now, and there used to be many more around at the same time. and don't underestimate hippos - there's a reason why no animal picks a fight with a hippo, and its not out of pity.

flying reptiles can coexist with birds -- they did before, and I've no doubt they can again.
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Sep 7 2017, 07:07 PM
Yiqi15
Sep 7 2017, 05:34 PM
Cool_Hippo43
Sep 7 2017, 05:14 PM
I do not care if this is "plausible" or "physically possible", I just think
You do realise the entire point of this site is plausibilty right? I'm not saying you can't make a project out of it (sounds genuinely intriguing), but you have a modicum of sense.
It's not what I mean.

and that they are not 100% plausible things, for example "the mouth of such an animal could not be like that" or "crabs can not live totally on earth", understood?
things have a very plausible basis, for example, a crocodile species with longer legs, or a totally aquatic reptile ... most are just the basic species of the earth, with some changes, but in the basic (biologically; physically) are very similar. And as if it were an "alternative evolution".

but I do not know much about this kind of thing, I'm not an expert, I really do not know if there are several species of elephants on a planet, or if such a hippopotamus species "could not compete with other types of animals", or if a flying reptile can co-exist with birds ... these very accurate things I really do not want to make an animal physically, muscularly, biologically possible. Only "realistic"

Can you understand where I want to go?

(if you have any grammar mistakes, please forgive me ... I do not speak English well)
there are two (some say three) elephant species right now, and there used to be many more around at the same time. and don't underestimate hippos - there's a reason why no animal picks a fight with a hippo, and its not out of pity.

flying reptiles can coexist with birds -- they did before, and I've no doubt they can again.
>implies birds aren't reptiles

Please don't temp the cladistic pedants.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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