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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,345 Views)
IIGSY
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Rebirth
Nov 8 2017, 11:15 PM
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.
Hmm, yes. What will the flora be?
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


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truteal
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An alt history project about Wild Rhinos in Australia
My sporadically updated Youtube page

Do you get it? I hardly ever come here so I'm like something a cryptozoologist would study
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A terraformed world project where the only tetrapod introduced is a single species of macropod, Serina-style.

Think about it. Macropods are a relatively recent group (only starting to diversify in the mid-Miocene) and they have already shown immense adaptability. They live everywhere; mountains, forests, deserts, even in the tops of trees (if Tree Kangaroos were speculative creatures posted on the forum everyone would be complaining that it isn't plausible. But they exist and show the macropod's potential). They breed like rabbits and can adapt to new situations quickly. Now imagine them given an entire world, with no competition and a hell lot of time to evolve. The possibilities are endless.
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An alternative evolution project where Xenarthrans evolve in Australasia instead of the Americas but the exact opposite occurs with the marsupials where they are the most dominant land mammals of North and South America. The other placental mammals don't exist in this timeline as marsupials and xenarthrans have occupied every ecological niche available, from giant whale-like behemoths living in oceans all over the world to highly intelligent monkey-like tree climbers. They would lived in every continent and habitat, from the great northern deserts of Africa to the central grasslands of North America.
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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I've been trying to create realistic future ecosystems lately, taking into account things like feral and invasive species. At the moment, I've only really worked on Australia, but a discussion on South American hippos elsewhere on the forum got me thinking about them too. My thoughts on Australia:

. during the interchange between Australia and Asia, bamboo spreads south and becomes a major component of Australian fauna

. gliding tree kangaroos, now being outcompeted by primates, but still clinging on in a few remote cloud-forests and seasonal mixed bamboo and eucalyptus forest.

. giant camels, like Australia's answer to the giraffe

. rabbits doing weird stuff like becoming bamboo specialists

. feral donkeys . . . with horns

I don't want to give too much away, so that's why I kept that really brief. I will probably publish this stuff as part of a larger project eventually.
~ The Age of Forests ~
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Rebirth
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Nov 9 2017, 06:04 PM
Rebirth
Nov 8 2017, 11:15 PM
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.
Hmm, yes. What will the flora be?
Any halophytes, really (cresses, mangroves, cordgrass, etc).

Another Library or Cornucopia-type infinite plane project, but instead of being a library or farm it's an infinite indoor aquarium or zoo.
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I was looking through a sketchbook and found a picture I drew a couple months ago. I remembered the concept right away. In this timeline, the modern day climate is tropical, warm and moist. The oxygen levels are much higher. These conditions mimic those of the Carboniferous period. In fact, the climate has been like that ever since that period. Not only that, but in this timeline, amniotes never evolved. As such, the fauna that rules this world is very different. Arthropods and amphibians rule the land. The picture I found that portrayed this concept was a scene in a swamp forest from that timeline. The organisms shown included:

- A long-abdomened, tree-climbing insect. Looks similar to a dragonfly without wings.

- A huge, long, eel-like fish that I assume is predatory (it's got that killer look in it's eyes).

- Huge dragonfly-like insects with elongated heads which they use to snatch small fish from the surface of the water.

- Tree-dwelling, snake/caecilian-like amphibians.

- A huge aquatic predatory amphibian similar to those from Carboniferous times.

- Land-dwelling herbivorous amphibians with stout bodies and large heads. They look adorable with those big eyes.

- Plants that seems to be convergent with flowers but different in structure.

- Trees similar to those of Carboniferous times.

It's just a basic scetch of a scene but I feel like this is a concept I really like and probably will begin to plan out properly soon. It has a lot of potential.
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Thought of a future evo thing, with Suids being the dominant megafauna in the world.
Speculative Evolution:

Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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IIGSY
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How about a world with no megafauna at all?
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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Rodlox
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Nov 16 2017, 06:29 PM
How about a world with no megafauna at all?
do humans and horses count? (i swear i read that those are megafaunal sizes...but i can't recall where)
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Parts of the Cluster Worlds:
"Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
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a world where there are 3(4?) groups of terrestrial Vertebrates =

-Tripods, which are a group that evolved from a species of Placoderm (Antiarchi), which developed lungs; the two front members are arthropod-like.

-Tetrapods ... nothing to comment

-Hexapods, which evolved from basal species of "spiny sharks" (Acanthodii) and developed 6 limbs (the same thing as tetrapods, but with a couple more members)
-apods,that evolve from hagfishes,but they have few species

the largest groups are, in descending order, the tetrapods, the hexapods, the tripods and finally the apods, which are limited to less than a dozen species


(Sorry for my bad English,I'm learning yet)
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I guess the apods are a superclass consisting of limbless classes?

So, a timeline where there were 4 superclasses? Interesting.
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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Cool_Hippo43
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Nov 17 2017, 12:24 PM
I guess the apods are a superclass consisting of limbless classes?

So, a timeline where there were 4 superclasses? Interesting.
the apods are different from the other vertebrates without limbs (like snakes) because never, in their evolutionary history they had members, different from the ancestors of the snakes that once had legs

but I'm still thinking about how this would work
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IIGSY
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Nov 17 2017, 10:00 AM
a world where there are 3(4?) groups of terrestrial Vertebrates =

-Tripods, which are a group that evolved from a species of Placoderm (Antiarchi), which developed lungs; the two front members are arthropod-like.

-Tetrapods ... nothing to comment

-Hexapods, which evolved from basal species of "spiny sharks" (Acanthodii) and developed 6 limbs (the same thing as tetrapods, but with a couple more members)
-apods,that evolve from hagfishes,but they have few species

the largest groups are, in descending order, the tetrapods, the hexapods, the tripods and finally the apods, which are limited to less than a dozen species


(Sorry for my bad English,I'm learning yet)
I made a thread about this
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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Rodlox
Nov 16 2017, 09:28 PM
do humans and horses count? (i swear i read that those are megafaunal sizes...but i can't recall where)
If I recall correctly, "megafauna" refers to any animal with a mass greater than 45 kg. In that case humans and horses would indeed count as megafauna.
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