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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
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The glorious return of the dinosaurs or the lesser crocodiles.Seriously,mammals are almost out,excepting some rodents,marsupials,bats and shrews.
Why are mammals almost out? They're very successful and seem to have a long way to go before dying down. If a Permian-level extinction happened, sure, but without that they will probably continue to dominate for many millions of years to come.
They could die out,not entirely without a big P-T extinction event.Just take a look at what are what their brothers(humans)are doing to them.For example many big mammals will go out in the near future(elephants,felines,canids,ursids,etc).Well until they are dead,let's welcome our mongoose and badger overlords!
I doubt canids and felids will go extinct in the near future. Domestic cats and wild foxes are probable to survive humanity. Also domestic dogs.
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A project where the only animals introduced are weird or badass animals I need help deciding which animals should be in this project I wanna make. Extinct animals are allowed too.
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I've had a couple project ideas, and I think at some point I will probably post several of these, although now I'm only really working on the first one.

Future Antarctica: I'm sure I'll come up with a better name in the future; this is just a placeholder. This project takes place 15 million years in the future, exploring the evolution of various species on an Antarctica with no ice. The climate has warmed significantly, and so forests are once again present on much of the continent. The terrestrial species will all be evolved from birds and bats, and I have some semi-terrestrial pinnipeds in the works.

Yggdrasil: This is an Alternative Universes project based on the development of life on a giant, world tree. It will be populated by the somewhat cliched rifts in spacetime, with the descendants of arboreal animals being the primary inhabitants. Aside from one notable exception, it will be populated mainly by Cenozoic fauna, as the same mass extinctions were present on Yggdrasil as on Earth.

Ungulata: This is a Serina-like project exploring the development of life on a world where the only tetrapods introduced are the ungulates. There will be two continents, Artiodactyla, with Artiodactyls introduced, and Perissodactyla, with Perissodactyls introduced. Cetaceans will also be introduced as the primary ocean fauna, as they are, cladistically speaking, Artiodactyls. The two continents will develop their own life independently for some amount of millions of years, but will eventually merge into one supercontinent.

Carboniferous Bats: Another yet unnamed project which I have done very little work on, but I like the idea. Basically, Bracken Cave, a cave known for its large number of Mexican free-tailed bats, is transported to the late Mississippian. From there, I haven't done much, but I expect that it would result in advanced mammals taking over the world earlier.

Any suggestions, especially for names, are appreciated.
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Yggdrasil: This is an Alternative Universes project based on the development of life on a giant, world tree. It will be populated by the somewhat cliched rifts in spacetime, with the descendants of arboreal animals being the primary inhabitants. Aside from one notable exception, it will be populated mainly by Cenozoic fauna, as the same mass extinctions were present on Yggdrasil as on Earth.

You should know that my Sylvaria project has a premise that is basically identical to that - I'm not saying that you stole the idea or anything, just thought you should know. I won't protest at you making this project if you want, I'd be curious to see somebody else's interpretation on it, but given an identical premise I'm not sure how well it would work with 2 great trees on the forum. :) Up to you really.




Also, just saying this thread is now approaching 100 pages. I feel rather proud :P - yep it was me who started the Project Ideas topic.
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Dec 5 2017, 08:43 AM
Carboniferous Bats: Another yet unnamed project which I have done very little work on, but I like the idea. Basically, Bracken Cave, a cave known for its large number of Mexican free-tailed bats, is transported to the late Mississippian. From there, I haven't done much, but I expect that it would result in advanced mammals taking over the world earlier.

Any suggestions, especially for names, are appreciated.
What a coincidence! I'm thinking of transporting Crested Fjiordland Penguins to that time period. I'd love to hear more about this bat experiment. I imagine they would feast on many of the insects, while becoming prey for the largest flying insects.
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Yggdrasil: This is an Alternative Universes project based on the development of life on a giant, world tree. It will be populated by the somewhat cliched rifts in spacetime, with the descendants of arboreal animals being the primary inhabitants. Aside from one notable exception, it will be populated mainly by Cenozoic fauna, as the same mass extinctions were present on Yggdrasil as on Earth.

You should know that my Sylvaria project has a premise that is basically identical to that - I'm not saying that you stole the idea or anything, just thought you should know. I won't protest at you making this project if you want, I'd be curious to see somebody else's interpretation on it, but given an identical premise I'm not sure how well it would work with 2 great trees on the forum. :) Up to you really.

Oh. I didn't know about that. I wouldn't want to make a project very similar to someone else's. I had already postponed that one, so I'll come to a decision later.
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What a coincidence! I'm thinking of transporting Crested Fjiordland Penguins to that time period. I'd love to hear more about this bat experiment. I imagine they would feast on many of the insects, while becoming prey for the largest flying insects.
Cool. Mainly I had imagined some larger forms of flying bats evolving quickly, preying on flying insects. I had also assumed that there would be flightless bats pretty quickly, which would kickstart mammalian evolution by about 150 million years and result in some pretty big changes. I'd love to see how the penguins turn out.
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What a coincidence! I'm thinking of transporting Crested Fjiordland Penguins to that time period. I'd love to hear more about this bat experiment. I imagine they would feast on many of the insects, while becoming prey for the largest flying insects.
Cool. Mainly I had imagined some larger forms of flying bats evolving quickly, preying on flying insects. I had also assumed that there would be flightless bats pretty quickly, which would kickstart mammalian evolution by about 150 million years and result in some pretty big changes. I'd love to see how the penguins turn out.
Yeah I can see larger, maybe hawk-like bats being the first major change. And thanks to New Zealand, we have an idea about the path flightless bats would take. I imagine they would do really well, allowing mammals to take over rather easily. May I suggest a lineage? Since fish-eating bats exist, in a world with primarily fish and amphibians, I could see a bat evolving a lifestyle like a gull.

As for the Penguins, they do very well in marine environments obviously, coastal and island species becoming very widespread and diverse. Not apex predators, but common in the oceans. I'd love to see how they would interact with the marine amphibians of the time. On land they don't diversify as much, but some large insectivorus and even herbivorus forms evolve after enough time, taking advantage of their high metabolisms and ability to breed away from water.
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....Well, it's a better idea than the Jurassic zebras, at least.


Actually, maybe you two could collab on this. A bat and a penguin, together in an alien world.


Also Terraraptor, what's this Tales of Anachronism project in your sig?
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....Well, it's a better idea than the Jurassic zebras, at least.
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....Well, it's a better idea than the Jurassic zebras, at least.


Actually, maybe you two could collab on this. A bat and a penguin, together in an alien world.


Also Terraraptor, what's this Tales of Anachronism project in your sig?
I take it Jurassic Zebras is something of a meme on this site? Or at least having some weird backstory?


Hmm, not a bad idea. A flying mammal and a Terrestrial bird together in the Carboniferous. What do you say Centralen? Would you wanna collaborate on this someday? I'm up for it, though after a little while, I'm in the middle of classes at the moment.

As for tales of Anachronism, its what we are talking about. I posted it a little while ago on this thread.

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Idea I'm going to do in a few years time or so.

Tales of Anachronism

Basically, a species or two are transported from their home time/biome into a completely new one. They are observed in documentary style writing in two stages. First the initial introduction, with things like following individuals, species interactions, survival (Yes or No), behavioral adaptation, etc. Then, a second stage where we see some of the introduced species descendants an unspecified millions of years later (Will vary). Each "episode" will focus on one or two species transfers. Think "Walking With Dinosaurs" but following the lives of these transported species and their descendants.

Might as well share the first episode idea (I currently have about 7). Crested Penguins transported to Scotland.... in the Carboniferous Visean Scotland formation.
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Alright guys my project where only badass or werid animals that are underused in speculative evolution projects in my opinion has a cast of organisms here are some of them!

Vertebrates:
Aardvark
Axolotl
Blue footed booby
Bumble bee bat
Bornean rainbow toad
Chinese giant salamander
Cassowary
Cryolophosaurus
Doedicurus
Dimetrodon
Dwarf crocodile
Echinda
Emperor tamarain
Elasmosaurus
Frill Necked lizard
Flying dragon A.K.A draco volans
Fossa
Gerenuk
Giant guitarfish
Goblin shark
Golden snubbed nose monkey
Holy cross frog
Indian purple frog
Josephoartigasia
Jagaurundi
Kiwi
Kashmir musk deer
Liopleurodon
Leafy sea dragon
Mata Mata turtle
Megalaina
Naked mole rat
Narwhal
Ocean sunfish
Okapi
And that's all planned for now which animals do you think I should add I have invertebrates set and ready just need some help with vertebrates.
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Which cassowary? Which echidna? Which kiwi? Unless you are going to release all 3 cassowaries, all 4 echidnas and all 5 kiwis, you need to use species names.

Also I already recommended Thylacoleo carnifex, who definitely deserves a place on a list of weird and badass animals. Some other good weird animals off the top of my head include the Thylacine, Duck-billed Platypus, Albert's Lyrebird (lesser known than the Superb) and a tree kangaroo (you choose which, don't just say 'tree kangaroo' because there are 10 species). A diprotondontid like Hulitherium, Zygomaturus or Diprotodon (among others) may also be a good choice.
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Which cassowary? Which echidna? Which kiwi? Unless you are going to release all 3 cassowaries, all 4 echidnas and all 5 kiwis, you need to use species names.

Also I already recommended Thylacoleo carnifex, who definitely deserves a place on a list of weird and badass animals. Some other good weird animals off the top of my head include the Thylacine, Duck-billed Platypus, Albert's Lyrebird (lesser known than the Superb) and a tree kangaroo (you choose which, don't just say 'tree kangaroo' because there are 10 species). A diprotondontid like Hulitherium, Zygomaturus or Diprotodon (among others) may also be a good choice.
Yeah now thinking about I should have included their species name however I wouldn't mind adding in all species of echindas,Cassowarys and kiwis! keep in mind this is still a bit of a wip some of these creatures might not make it but most of them will I will also need to add in some more fishes as Well.
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Tale of the horned beasts - A alternate evolution project where ceratosaurus never went extinct and instead evovled to better fit the new challenges they shall face ahead of them.

Umber - A alternate universe project where portals have been opening up to a moon named "umber" other then a few species of freshwater and saltwater fish, as well as invertebrates. Pangolins,Iguanas,Noasauriade, and Cuttlefish are the most prominet group of animals.
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Why do they gotta be "badass"? What constitutes whether or not an animal is badass? What's important about them being badass? How many times can I say "badass" before I embarrass myself?
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