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| IIGSY | Dec 18 2017, 04:50 PM Post #1471 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Yeah. Shrimp are totally mollusks |
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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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| LλmbdaExplosion | Dec 18 2017, 06:04 PM Post #1472 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Bllourgth.I was shit for brains today.I thought he said only spiders and insects,not the whole clades.
Edited by LλmbdaExplosion, Dec 18 2017, 06:04 PM.
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When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes. Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman! | |
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| IIGSY | Dec 18 2017, 06:08 PM Post #1473 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Since when did 'arthropods' just become 'spiders and insects'? |
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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 | Dec 19 2017, 05:04 PM Post #1474 |
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Prime Specimen
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I once came up with an alternate history project where a species of latin american equid survives to the Holocene and cause Latin America's history and biogeographic distribution to butterfly dramatically. While I never got around to writing it, I would like to explore how even one species of animal can affect humanity. |
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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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| Dapper Man | Dec 21 2017, 05:40 PM Post #1475 |
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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Some ideas for a potential Future Evolution project. The premise is that a field-journalist goes to the future, and documents the organisms there, trying to decipher what they're descended from (Note that this might've been after an asteroid strike, still trying to work out the backstory of this future world): - An intelligent, tribal(?), bird, perhaps descended from a Shrike. - A large, 6-ft (sheep-sized) rodent, with an armor plated tail, potentially a part of a clade of Glyptodont-esque rodents, maybe descended from Rats? - A couple of species of post-humans, including a "giant", nocturnal, aye-aye like species, that lives in caves. - A large, flightless bird, similar to a Dodo. Not sure what it's ancestor will be just yet. Edited by Dapper Man, Dec 21 2017, 05:40 PM.
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Speculative Evolution: Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack. | |
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| LλmbdaExplosion | Dec 22 2017, 12:33 PM Post #1476 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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The FTW already done something similar to that.Personally i believe,that hedgehogs or some rodents like the porcupines could be better candidates for such forms than agouti or rats. Edited by LλmbdaExplosion, Dec 22 2017, 12:43 PM.
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When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes. Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman! | |
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| Ragnar | Dec 23 2017, 06:07 AM Post #1477 |
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Cephalopod Fetus
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I'm new to this forum so I don't really know if this Alternative Evolution idea will catch on - A Late Devonian Earth in which the lobe-finned fishes never made it to land. Instead, either placoderms or cartilaginous fishes become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates. This project may also take place in the present day, when the descendants of these pseudotetrapods have diversified to cover terrestrial, arboreal, marine and semi-aquatic niches. Imagine a flying Bothriolepis descendant. |
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| Dapper Man | Dec 23 2017, 09:12 PM Post #1478 |
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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Adding another idea onto this Story. Also, if anyone's got any ideas for the stories name, that'd be helpful. - Large, running birds, similar to ostriches that're common in the European woodlands that are commonplace. Not sure if they're proper ratites yet. Commonly found amongst some [docile] post-humans. Will post more when the projects out. Edited by Dapper Man, Dec 23 2017, 09:23 PM.
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Speculative Evolution: Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack. | |
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| truteal | Dec 25 2017, 05:12 PM Post #1479 |
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forum bigfoot
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British Invasion -An alien planet (filled with alien flora/fauna) gets colonized by space-faring steampunk British, who bring with them assorted British species (Brown Rat, European Rabbit, Red Fox, Blackbird and assorted plant species including the Blackberry) -After a few thousand years the colonists disappear (either leaving the planet or going extinct) -The speculative begins, how does the native flora/fauna deal with these newcomers and how do the newcomers adapt to their new home? |
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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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| Beetleboy | Dec 27 2017, 04:30 AM Post #1480 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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I’m working on a sort of personal spec evo challenge at the moment, in which I have to rationalise a random non-existent creature, and build a complex and though out speculative creation from it. I’m putting together a speculative creature generator, that allows, through a system of dice rolls, to randomly create the base work, skeleton if you will, of an imaginary species. You first navigate down a simplified taxonomic tree using the dice to narrow it down further and further, until you get to something quite specific. I couldn’t include every family, so it is somewhat incomplete, but there are still many options. Once you’ve narrowed it down to say, a bovid, at which point it is up to your own interpretation to get something more specific if required, you can then move onto further categories such as defensive strategies, diet, activity cycles, social groupings, etc. For each of these there are many different options, and I’ve tried to be quite specific, with the dice rolls allowing you to not only get to ‘herbivore’, but then narrow it down further to ‘nectarivore’ or whatever. The result, after a number of dice rolls, is something that may or not make any sense - it’s kind of up to the user to work through it logically, and if necessary, reroll. I’ve tried out what I’ve got so far a few times, and the results vary from humorous - a burrow-making nectar-drinking elephant?! - to, very rarely, a perfectly ordinary animal, although the odds are stacked against you there. More often than not though, you get something that is plausible but still very unique and bizarre, providing an interesting challenge to rationalise and use it to build off, creating a speculative animal. Due to the randomness of it, the creatures can be somewhat outlandish, but in most cases, I found that it would be possible to work with it. On occasion, the generator even mimics reality. One of my favourite results from the test run was a large, nocturnal vulture that feeds mostly on fruit, mates for life, and uses defensive regurgitation against potential predators. This is not so implausible, as the palm-nut vulture is already a partial frugivore. I plan on honing the generator further, adding further categories, and add reptile and amphibian options, but I’m unsure whether I’ll add amphibians and invertebrates. I’m also going to create a speculative habitat, probably tropical savanna mixed with some forest, hypothetically found in an alternative universe - this will be a setting for me to rationalise and develop a variety of creatures that the generator creates. By randomness and dice rolls, I hope to create a plausible, unique, and interesting ecosystem with only a hint of whimsicalness. I don’t know if I’ll publish the generator for others to use, or the speculative challenge I mentioned above, but I wanted to talk about it. I’ll probably post updates here from time to time if people are intrested in the progress of the generator and speculative ecosystem. |
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| LλmbdaExplosion | Dec 27 2017, 05:10 AM Post #1481 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Man since i suck at spec evo things,the generator will really come in handy. |
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| Archeoraptor | Dec 27 2017, 05:41 AM Post #1482 |
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"A living paradox"
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an advice for all the oens making terraformed projectrs with lsit of introduced species.try to make an stable ecology,for example you have introduced a big carnivore mammal that means you will have to include its prey,for thisreaso nstarting with small animalks is better for soem people,also being small is not bad,even if you want to work with megafauan thry can grow andthere is a ton of weird ones. |
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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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| Rodlox | Dec 29 2017, 03:20 PM Post #1483 |
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Superhuman
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Placid - a planet where one year=one day ...and continent names composed from scientific equations (or should that be where geological era names come from?) as an example, the equatorial continent Fma, from F=ma (force=mass times accelleration, i think) |
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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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| LλmbdaExplosion | Dec 29 2017, 03:29 PM Post #1484 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Imagine if Earth's years were in days.New Year's Eve every single day. |
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When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes. Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman! | |
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| Yiqi15 | Dec 29 2017, 03:35 PM Post #1485 |
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Prime Specimen
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So, its the opposite of Mercury, where one day equals one year? |
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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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