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| peashyjah | Nov 4 2017, 03:52 PM Post #1351 |
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Bydo
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It sure is awesome! |
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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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| Tenno | Nov 4 2017, 09:17 PM Post #1352 |
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Spoiler: click to toggle I was thinking either neotenic fish larvae for aquatic "nanoverts" and amphibians for land. Theres gotta be a lower limit for mammals due to the whole giving birth and stuff. As for megafauna... C H A E T O G N A T H S |
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| IIGSY | Nov 4 2017, 09:19 PM Post #1353 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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I see, you are a man of culture. |
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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 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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| Mao | Nov 5 2017, 12:07 PM Post #1354 |
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Homo Erection
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oh boy, I can't wait to see the world of giant worms with fins. |
| As of my gender, I have every gender imaginable, some even inconceivable to your minds. I have every gender in the gender spectrum, as well as ones you cannot envision. | |
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| Rebirth | Nov 6 2017, 05:54 PM Post #1355 |
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Various Earth lifeforms on a terraformed planet orbiting an orange dwarf star with tens of billions of years of habitability. |
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| Nyarlathotep | Nov 7 2017, 06:35 AM Post #1356 |
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The Creeping Chaos
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Not a particular project perse, but some more speculation with regards to alternate hominin branches before Homo sapiens. Examples of this could be what if the Paranthropids hadn't gone extinct and had continued on their path of specialised herbivores. |
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| Mao | Nov 7 2017, 03:12 PM Post #1357 |
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Homo Erection
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What about the "Mediocre Project"? It takes place 40 million years in the future, and man is extinct. there are such tropes as lagomorph deer, hand-walking birds, whale penguins, and killing off most carnivorians. it's map will be a direct rip from Dougal Dixon except reskined, and there's no attention to flora or fungi at all. it's really only going to focus on tetrapods and some arthropods, without giving a flying fuck about fish. and they explain creatures by boring ass lists! |
| As of my gender, I have every gender imaginable, some even inconceivable to your minds. I have every gender in the gender spectrum, as well as ones you cannot envision. | |
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| Archeoraptor | Nov 7 2017, 03:25 PM Post #1358 |
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"A living paradox"
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Adman though of that world dominated by squamates ,amphibians,chelonidis and choristodera in a hardder k-pg mammals would fare better than birds so what about a birdless cenozoic with more diverse flying mammals |
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Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest and who knows what is coming next........... " I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way I have to know what lies on the unknown universe I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings" " Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| Dromaeosaurus | Nov 7 2017, 06:45 PM Post #1359 |
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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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A project where super-advanced beings create a planet in an empty solar system and follow it along billions of years. Bickering all the way, competing to give supremacy to their favourite clades, and starting planet-wide disasters to spite each other. Heck, make them schoolchildren from an impossibly powerful multigalactic civilization that have to evolve an intelligent species from scratch as a school assignment. They would try multiple strategies, different environments, more direct or indirect approaches, etc. - it would be a neat way to explore what intelligence is and how it arises. Something about life on Earth in the far future - like, 500 million years hence at least - would also be nice. Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Nov 7 2017, 07:08 PM.
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My deviantART page - My other extra-project work - Natural History of Horus and its flora and fauna - A graphic history of life (also here) - AuxLang Project: a worldwide language - Behold THE MEGACLADOGRAM - World Without West: an alternate history SpecEvo Tutorials: Habitable Solar Systems (galaxies, stars and moons); Planets (geology, oceans and atmosphere); Ecology (energy, biomes and relationships); Alternative Biochemistry (basic elements, solvents, pigments); Biomechanics (body structure, skeletons, locomotion); Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, digestion, respiration); Perception (sense organs and nervous system); Reproduction (from genetics to childbirth); Offense and Defense (camouflage, poisons and weapons); Intelligence (EQ, consciousness and smartest animals); Civilizations (technology, domestication and culture); Exotic Life (living crystals, nuclear life, 2D biology); Evolution (genetics, selection and speed); Phylogeny (trees of life); Guide to Naming (how to name your creations) (and more!) My projects here: Natural History of Horus (19th century naturalists... in space) Galactic Anthropology (intelligence takes many forms around the Milky Way) Settlers from the Deep (a tour in a blind and slimy future) Coming soon: A Matter of Time (a history of the future... all of it) | |
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| trex841 | Nov 7 2017, 07:23 PM Post #1360 |
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Entity
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Another not quite spec project that I did kind of ask about a good while back; an alternate present with divergent human involvement in the biosphere (roles off the tongue, don't it?). What species were spared by our alternate decisions? What alternatively went extinct? Could anything have been domesticated that wasn't here? Given the high number of potential branches off this one prompt alone, it might not be suited for just a project, though. |
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team. At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. (And this is just the spec related stuff) | |
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| IIGSY | Nov 7 2017, 08:16 PM Post #1361 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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A project where a planet is one giant salt flat. Introduced animals are brine flies and brine shrimp |
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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 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 | Nov 7 2017, 09:09 PM Post #1362 |
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Prime Specimen
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As well as flamingos and ants? |
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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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| Chuditch | Nov 7 2017, 09:12 PM Post #1363 |
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Dasyurid
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What about the Lake Eyre Dragon? Anyway, knowing IIGS this is supposed to be a vertebrate free world. |
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| IIGSY | Nov 7 2017, 09:40 PM Post #1364 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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No ants, no lake Eyre dragons. Maaaybee flamingos. |
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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 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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| Rebirth | Nov 8 2017, 11:15 PM Post #1365 |
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Something like IIGS's salt world project, but there are no flamingoes, and other species introduced include mesosaurs, Lake Eyre dragons, pygocephalomorphs, and highly salt-tolerant goby fish. The planet also has high volcanism, and hardy plants are also introduced. |
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