Blast into the future: the arthropozoic *OLD*

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Blast into the future: the arthropozoic OLD; Arthropods become the dominant megafauna, macrofauna, and microfauna
Topic Started: Oct 9 2016, 06:37 PM (1,688 Views)
IIGSY	Oct 9 2016, 06:37 PM Post #1
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	Ever since they came about during the cambrian explosion, arthropods have truly stood the test of time. They come in staggering diversity, filling in many niches. However, they don't do very well as megafauna. Their size is limited by their respiratory systems and exoskeletons, as well as competition from vertebrates. That, however, is all about to change. Quarentary: The Quarentary goes on for about another 2000 years before abruptly coming to an end. Human civilization continues to advance in science and technology. But the human population expands rapidly. Deforestation, pollution and ocean acidification increase to an alarming level. Political tensions also hit a breaking point and a massive war commonsense. Instead of nukes, which are very outdated at this point, the WMD are plasma bombs. These bombs are nuclear bombs with one added features. As the bombs fall, they collect he surrounding oxygen and rapidly heat it up to convert it into plasma. These bombs have a much wider explosion radius. To cap it all off, an asteroid smacks earth. This extinction kills of many creatures. Groups that died: Butterflies Over half of all dipterans (true flies) Over half of all flatworms Lice Ticks Most mantids Honeybees Conifers Many flowering plants Any species that was considered endangered before hand Many minor groups like zoraptera Most corals Most vertebrates Most organisms that directly depend on vertebrates for their existence that where not already mentioned And so much more Neocarboniferous: Life on earth starts to recover. Oxygen levels start to rise. Most organisms still look relatively "normal" at this point. Many arthropods start to get a notable, but not too drastic, increase in size. This happens before vertebrates can fully recover and thus they still stay small. With the lack of butterflies and honeybees, moths and hoverflies are the new major pollinators. Nothing to much goes on in this period. It lasts for about 20 million years. Treacheagene: Strait of Gibraltar closes. Antarctica heads north, colliding with australia. South and North America separate. Africa heads north, smash the arabian plate even more into asia. Arthropods have basically secured their grip as the dominant megafauna at this point but are still limmited by their exoskeletons in size, with new forms starting to evolve. Vertebrates are slowly being out competed to extinction. With the reduction of copepods, this leaves a gap for a new group to enter the realm of zooplankton. Springtails. While they do have their fair share of macroscopic forms, they really shine in the microscopic world. They are an important component of zooplankton and soil mesofauna. Some arthropod groups, including phasmids, beetles, and decapods, also start to independently evolve something revolutionary. Proper lungs and a more flexible exoskeleton, as well as a more erect posture. Though this wouldn't be fully accomplished until the next period. With the almost complete lack of corals, barnacles have taken the reefbuilding niche. A minor mass extinction kills of the remaining vertebrates. It lasts for about 50 million years. Arthropogene: Austrarctica heads north, colliding with asia. North america collides with europe. South america is isolated. Arthropods reach their ultimate height during this period. Oxygen levels are at an all time high during, at 45%. With the previously mentioned adaptations being full developed, some arthropods reach titanic proportions. Naturally, aquatic animals tend to reach larges sizes more than land animals. Many highly derived forms come about. Barnacles reefs are very large and widespread, being a biodiversity hot spot, just as corals reefs do in our timeline. Insects continue to evolve symbioses with plants. Robberflies compete with dragonflies for dominance of the skies. Crustaceans, large and small, roam around the oceans. Caroline algae also becomes a keystone organisms, with whole "forests" made of them, much like today's kelp forests. Lasts for about 60 million years. Exogene: The world is pretty alien now, though many relics of the past still persist. Oxygen levels, and therefor arthropod size, start to decrease. Our super continent starts to split in two, the North ameraficarabia and the indoeurasiastralia. Forests start to shrink. Deserts start to grow. But despite all this, something shocking happens. The birth of a new sapient species, Arachnosapiens. It is a far off descendant of jumping spiders. It lives in tribes and can construct tool such as spears. Lasts for about 32 millions years. Finalegene: The world is now almost completely unrecognizable now, with very few familiar looking organisms. They majority of terrestrial habitats are deserts or arid plains. Animals exceeding 4 kilograms are rare. Arachnosapiens survives up to this point, but it will not stand up to what is to come. Lasts for about 35 million years. The end: A mass extinction simply dubbed "the end" ensues, putting the permian-triassic to shame. Multiple super volcanoes erupt, kicking tons of ash and dust into the air blocking out the sun and suffocating many animals. Then not one, but two large asteroids smash into earth. This kills more than 99% of life on earth. The only surviving organisms are microbes living deep in the ocean or in the soil. Of these, the only animals are nematode worms. Earth is a barren wasteland but, one day, life will recover. What's next? Who knows... Edited by IIGSY, Oct 20 2016, 08:22 PM.
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


GlarnBoudin	Oct 9 2016, 06:58 PM Post #2
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	Interesting premise. Will be watching with interest.
	Quotes Spoiler: click to toggle OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death ~~for my amusement~~ to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


IIGSY	Oct 9 2016, 07:34 PM Post #3
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	GhoulBoudin Oct 9 2016, 06:58 PM Interesting premise. Will be watching with interest. What is your favorite aspect? Any suggestions, ideas or criticisms? Is it realistic? Edited by IIGSY, Oct 9 2016, 08:06 PM.
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


GlarnBoudin	Oct 9 2016, 08:59 PM Post #4
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	The project's too early to form a favorite part of it yet. However, I'm unsure as to how invertebrates would be able to get a firm footing before vertebrates. Remember, most mass extinctions where vertebrates were reduced to just a few species quickly resulted in vertebrates becoming dominant once again.
	Quotes Spoiler: click to toggle OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death ~~for my amusement~~ to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


IIGSY	Oct 9 2016, 09:12 PM Post #5
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	GhoulBoudin Oct 9 2016, 08:59 PM The project's too early to form a favorite part of it yet. However, I'm unsure as to how invertebrates would be able to get a firm footing before vertebrates. Remember, most mass extinctions where vertebrates were reduced to just a few species quickly resulted in vertebrates becoming dominant once again. Because of a sudden increase in oxygen combined with the fact that arthropods are generally better at tanking mass extinctions than vertebrates.
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


HangingThief	Oct 9 2016, 09:59 PM Post #6
ghoulish Posts: 1,238 Group: Members Member #1,870 Joined: Feb 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Yank Also known as: A noxious pest of livestock and stored grain products. Gender: Chitinous	I like the idea of sapient jumping spiders, it's one i've had before.
	Hey.


IIGSY	Oct 9 2016, 11:34 PM Post #7
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	HangingThief Oct 9 2016, 09:59 PM I like the idea of sapient jumping spiders, it's one i've had before. That's nice to hear. Anything else you want to say?
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


GlarnBoudin	Oct 10 2016, 10:04 AM Post #8
Disgusting Skin Fetishist Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #1,641 Joined: Feb 15, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Alternate Evolution Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" Gender: What is a gender? A miserable pile of secrets!	Homages to B-movies would be nice. Shit like mantises named after Kamacuras, enormous scorpions, King Kong-esque 'spider pits', the works.
	Quotes Spoiler: click to toggle OctoSharkTaSaurus: WELP. HELL-O-PHANTS IT IS. Kamineigh: I was six and I had started having fantasies about this old crone dying. Sometimes by my own hand. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG IF A SIX-YEAR OLD WANTS TO KILL YOU WITH THE SAME HANDS HE JUST USED TO MAKE A BLOCK TOWER. Parasky: No, he's right, they have a medical grade walrus at most hospitals for that sort of thing. Mr Mysterio, regarding yours truly: I'm learning things about you that I'm not sure I wanted to know. HangingThief: An otologist is only as good as his walrus Stealth_Rock: We have a discord for double penetration? Ichthyander: If your eyelids are massive enough to significantly affect the path of light in space, it is time to go sleep. Mr Mysterio: Glarn-Glarn, don't... don't fuck the cave baboons. Kamineigh: They lacked wings. Instead, they went around in modified pilot's gear and beat the shit out of people using maces. Parasky: No! We will not calm down! This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death ~~for my amusement~~ to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault. Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse! My Projects Spoiler: click to toggle The Therocene: An Age Familiar and Strange Retrozoic Park: Where the Past Comes to Life (Idea thread is here!) Coming Soon Spoiler: click to toggle Evolutionary Continuum: Jurassic Safari: An adventure 65 million years in the making continues. The Future is Altered: When man plays God, he plays to win. Alternative Evolution: The Extended Jurassic: The time of the titans extends through the Cretaceous Xensaron: Second chance for the strange The Habitable Zone: Bellator: A World at War Pentrex: The five worlds of the five champions of the dinosaur world, together at last. Alternate Universes: Terra Venatus: Where fantasy comes to life Terra Incognita: Planet Earth, now with 150% more pulp! Sol and its Surrounding Worlds: A Guide to the Organisms and Peoples of the Solar System (Companion to Terra Incognita) Guide to the Ark: ??? Cafe Cosmique: Time Rip: When Dinosaurs Attack! My dA page. My Fanfiction.net page.


HangingThief	Oct 10 2016, 10:58 AM Post #9
ghoulish Posts: 1,238 Group: Members Member #1,870 Joined: Feb 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Yank Also known as: A noxious pest of livestock and stored grain products. Gender: Chitinous	Or, alternately, instead of making all the big predators obvious things like giant scorpions, centipedes, mantids etc. you could use derived orthopterans, mecopterans, neuropterans, opiliones etc.
	Hey.


IIGSY	Oct 10 2016, 03:21 PM Post #10
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	HangingThief Oct 10 2016, 10:58 AM Or, alternately, instead of making all the big predators obvious things like giant scorpions, centipedes, mantids etc. you could use derived orthopterans, mecopterans, neuropterans, opiliones etc. Well, sadly, I don't have ideas for those at the moment. But I do have ideas for phasmids, barnacles, fleas, and springtails. I do also have an idea for centipedes, but trust me, it's not what you think. Edited by IIGSY, Oct 10 2016, 03:27 PM.
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


IIGSY	Oct 10 2016, 04:19 PM Post #11
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	Cockroaches are a very ancient group of animals that have changed very little over the past 300 million years. Even well into the Arthropozic, cockroaches don't change all that much. But there is one exception. Meet omniblattera. This is monster is derived from the American Cockroach. It has lost the ability to fly, but it still uses it's wings for mating displays. They are purple. Male must impress females with their dances, and will protect her fiercely from competitors. Interestingly, males and females look mostly the same, with females being slightly larger. But they are distinguished by distinct pheromones. They have a semi-erect posture. They, like their ancestors, are opportunistic omnivores, eating pretty much anything they can get a hold of. However, they prefer a more meat based diet. They run pretty fast, at 20mph. They use their spiky legs to subdue prey, and their powerful mantis like jaws to eat it. It lived from the middle Neocarboniferous to the early Treacheagene. It was, without a doubt, the largest cockroach to ever live. Spoiler: click to toggle I know, my drawing isn't the best Edited by IIGSY, Oct 12 2016, 07:48 PM.
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


HangingThief	Oct 10 2016, 05:00 PM Post #12
ghoulish Posts: 1,238 Group: Members Member #1,870 Joined: Feb 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Yank Also known as: A noxious pest of livestock and stored grain products. Gender: Chitinous	Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt Oct 10 2016, 03:21 PM HangingThief Oct 10 2016, 10:58 AM Or, alternately, instead of making all the big predators obvious things like giant scorpions, centipedes, mantids etc. you could use derived orthopterans, mecopterans, neuropterans, opiliones etc. Well, sadly, I don't have ideas for those at the moment. But I do have ideas for phasmids, barnacles, fleas, and springtails. I do also have an idea for centipedes, but trust me, it's not what you think. It was just an arbitrary list. Phasmida and springtails sound intriguing.
	Hey.


IIGSY	Oct 10 2016, 05:18 PM Post #13
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	Even after arthropods established megafaunal dominance over vertebrates, they where still limited in size by their physiology. That is until, the early Arthropogene. Some arthropod lineages independently evolved proper lungs and a more flexible exoskeleton allowing them to grow to titanic sizes, among them is Gigantophasmid. It is a colossal descendant of the spiny leaf insect. It rivals the largest ever land mammal (paracetherium) in size. It has a very upright posture. Females are somewhat larger than males, as with all phasmids. Females lay many eggs, though few will make to adulthood. As nymphs, they live their lives similar to their long gone ancestors, as arboreal leaf eaters that use camouflage. Once they reach a certain size, usually around the size of a fox, they move out of the trees on to the ground. Once at adult size, they practically immune to predation. Many smaller creatures like hitch a ride on these behemoths weather as parasites or just to get a free ride. They terraform the land devastating a lot of trees, as they eat a LOT. It has a sail and an horizontal abdomen. They have truly left a mark on the areas in which they live, but sadly, these giants went extinct during the end Arthropogene extinction. Spoiler: click to toggle
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


IIGSY	Oct 12 2016, 02:32 PM Post #14
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	With the transition into the Exogene, and decreasing oxygen, Arthropod size has started to decrease. But that doesn't mean a few giants haven't survived. Say hello to Arachnostilt. This strange creature, derived from wolf spiders, was one of the last giant arthropods to ever live. It is built more for speed than strength, though it still has a good deal of strength. Like all arachnids, they have book lungs, which are more efficient than insect tracheae. This, combined with still somewhat high oxygen of the Exogene has allowed them to get this big. They are about 2 1/2 meters tall, but some large specimens can reach up to 3 meters. As with most spiders, females are typically larger, being roughly a quarter of a meter taller than males. Their main prey is giant tortoise beetle. Their giant half meter fangs are used to dig under the beetles carapaces and flip them over. However, the most interesting aspect of these spiders is that they do not produce venom or silk. Their spinnerets and venom glands are vestigial and completely useless. This is because they do not dig burrows and they relay on the mechanical damage of their fangs to kill prey. Like with any spider, any good sized wound can be fatal. Because of this they almost always choose flight over fight when faced with danger. They do not fight enemies or take dangerous prey unless absolutely necessary. They are extremely fast, as they can run over 60 mph. These giant spiders went extinct during the late Exogene. Spoiler: click to toggle
	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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


HangingThief	Oct 12 2016, 03:10 PM Post #15
ghoulish Posts: 1,238 Group: Members Member #1,870 Joined: Feb 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Yank Also known as: A noxious pest of livestock and stored grain products. Gender: Chitinous	How do such large arthropods shed their exoskeleton without collapsing?
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