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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,351 Views)
Rodlox
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thinking about life that may have arisen on the continent of Franklinia - the northern neighbor of Laramidia and Appalachia. I know Franklinia had hadrosaurs (Edmont.sp at least), and the better pterosaur & birds (toothed and otherwise) could probably make their way to and fro, so isolation won't be total.

supposedly Franklinia was only isolated for ten million years...but we know how things can appear in that span of time (cetaceans, bats, large tyrannosaurs, etc)

so I was thinking about looking at what picks at the ground alongside the hadrosaurs (thinking of flightless toothed birds, maybe mammals), and what preys on them all.


would that be too close to the other dino projects being done right now? (Terra, Pacific Impact...others?)
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Sep 18 2017, 02:04 AM
Just found this video on life in compost. Not sure how helpful it will be to you, but hopefully it might give you some ideas.
NOTE: As a little nitpick, the narrator inaccurately refers to springtails as insects, but this shouldn't be too much of an issue as the main point is how the video shows compost life diversity rather than how well it classifies said life.
I saw that video. It's pretty, but not too helpful.


I know there's nematodes, mites, millipedes, etc. But I want to know specific mites, specific nematodes, specific millipedes, etc. It need not be species (but that would be nice), just specific clades.
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The story of an island inhabited by giant arthropods, and the giant mekosuchines which have evolved to prey on them.
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The story of an island inhabited by giant arthropods, and the giant mekosuchines which have evolved to prey on them.
How giant is "giant"?

What sort of arthropods are there?
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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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A Serina-style project, but using parrots, and frogs. I got ideas for little "normal" parrot species, giant carnivores with raptorial feet, and weird tortoise-like herbivores.


Also fluffy, endothermic frogs.... And neotenic tadpole fish... And limbless snakelike frogs.
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I recently watched AlternateHistoryHub's video about the concept of California being an island, and how that would affect human history. I, hoever, am more interested in what kind of life could evolve if this actually was the case. And so, this project idea.

Premise: massive handwaving on the creation of the island, literally being that magically 15 million years ago the Strait of California forms, trapping native life forms in the region in there. Since I am basing of the video, there are massive cliffs (I think he says they're 13,000 feet tall) on the northeastern shores of the island, and massive cliffs on the mainland northeast of the island. It is set during the times of exploration by the Spanish imperialists and is written as if they wrote it, documenting all of the life there.

I'd like to focus on the island itself, the cliffs on both the island and the cliff on the mainland. The strait will also be covered extensively. It's a very early concept, so it will be a while until its ready to post.
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Just watch that video a little bit ago, and I couldn't help but think such thoughts myself. :D Can't wait to see what you come up with, especially if it's being presented with a 16th century Spanish flair.
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Speaking of AlternateHistoryHub, the internetless world video I found very intriguing- I may yet work on a worldbuilding project where that is the theme (perhaps, rather than messing with our history, this would be the world an alien civilization lives?)
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Oh right, got to watch that video next.

I had also considered various substances or developments that alien civilizations might have to contend with, such as a wood analog or reliable methods of flight, though I haven't gotten to go to far in depth to analyze them yet.
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Had an idea, but it hinges on a detail I'm not sure of:

in the prehistory of the planet Earth, oceans have opened and closed...Tethys did, for example.

Is it possible for the Pacific Ocean to close partly or entirely?
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The tectonic upheaval required to move Asia/Australia east or America west, or the volcanic upheaval required to make volcanic islands to patch up the distance would be deadly to Earth life
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Sep 25 2017, 11:37 PM
The tectonic upheaval required to move Asia/Australia east or America west, or the volcanic upheaval required to make volcanic islands to patch up the distance would be deadly to Earth life
okay; thank you.

so, how did Tethys close?
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Sep 25 2017, 11:29 PM
Had an idea, but it hinges on a detail I'm not sure of:

in the prehistory of the planet Earth, oceans have opened and closed...Tethys did, for example.

Is it possible for the Pacific Ocean to close partly or entirely?
I'm pretty sure it's already "closing"
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Diyu on Mars.
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I'm seeing if I can turn Littoralis into a bigger series (The Vivasphere series, respectively), and I want to incorporate some of its sister worlds into it (albeit, a limited number of them).

I've got three down, but I'm having trouble with the fourth one. I've been contemplating using either my parrot/frog world idea, or a chameleon world.

However, I'm open to suggestions from anyone who's interested. As long as it's a minimalist set (no more than 3 tetrapod species or less allowed), it's usable.
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