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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,603 Views)
IIGSY
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What would be the biggest biological plot twist? For example:
Scorpions are actually not arachnids, but eurypterid descendants
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Pre-cambrian rabbits.
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Sphenodon
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The megafauna of pre-glaciation Antarctica was comprised of non-avian dinosaurs and dicynodonts.
Edited by Sphenodon, Nov 6 2016, 01:07 PM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Aliens passed on their DNA to mesozoic mammals and our rise to sapience was that result.

I definetely didn't get that from any known source material like a graphic novel or anything (chuckles nervously)
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- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

(Click bold titles to go to page. To subscribe click on a project, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "track topic" on the bottom right corner)


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malicious-monkey
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Alien life uses DNA/RNA. I've always assumed something different would arise but it's quite possible that most/all roads lead to DNA and RNA.
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IIGSY
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Homo and Plasmodium are actually sister groups.
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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Sphenodon
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-The Cambrian Explosion was the direct result of highly-advanced aliens heavily modifying an Ediacaran proarticulatan animal species to produce multiple tissue layers, possess movement capabilities, and utilize bilateral instead of fractal/radial symmetry (let's say that Spriggina was either the end result or the base of this project). This was done as an experiment of sorts; given that they had remained so stagnant over the course of several dozen million years, the aliens decided to see if the introduction of this super-species would enhance the rate at which the other Ediacaran animals would evolve. Instead of that, it promptly wiped them out and radiated into its own ecosystem, evolving far faster than the old Ediacaran animals ever had as a result of the new ecological dynamics present. Had this not happened, animal life would have never developed to the extent that it has, and might have been supplanted by something else.

-Azdarchid pterosaurs were beginning to compete more seriously with birds towards the end of the Cretaceous and were starting to take back some previously-lost niches from them; given time, they may have relegated them to a far more obscure role in the global ecosystem.

-Up until the K-Pg event, most of Australia's small- to medium-sized herbivore niches were occupied by dicynodonts.

-All Earth life is descended from microbes hitchhiking aboard a probe launched into interstellar space several billion years ago by an alien civilization a la Voyager.

-Complex life had begun to invade the land during the Ordivocian period, but was wiped out during the End-Ordivocian mass extinction.

-Tetrapods did not invade land uncontested during the Devonian, and were competed against heavily by a group of similarly-terrestrial antiarch placoderms. The placoderms survived into the mid-Carboniferous, but had been heavily damaged by the End-Devonian mass extinction and were finally outcompeted by early temnospondyls.
Edited by Sphenodon, Nov 6 2016, 06:09 PM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Permian bears.
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pfft, DK making a project

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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?

~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13)
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Humans are actually genetically engineered aliens with their DNA engineered so that it matches earth life. They do not know they are aliens.

Hallucigenia was actually the tentacle feelers/weapons of a larger creature resembling a large worm with a body housing the tentacles at the back of its body.
"I was a Psychiatrist in Florida! For 3 weeks! Have you ever been to Florida?"




Some project ideas
The Future is Right
Ediacaran Explosion
Great Old Ones
Skinkworld


Unrelated:The Final Spec:What Could Have Been, And Still Can
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IIGSY
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Trichoplax actually originated in the cambrian explosion and has surived and remained literally unchanged for the entire phanerozoic eon.
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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Talenkauen
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Sphenodonts are actually highly derived pelycosaurian synapsids.


(wink wink, nudge nudge, ;D)
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There was a race of sapient dinosaurs that evolved in the Cretaceous and they developed technology beyond what we have, and they attempted to secure an asteroid in a steady orbit around Earth for the purposes of mining but ended up miscalulating the speed and pathway it was to follow and resulted in the K-Pg extinction event
Come check out and subscribe to my projects on the following subforums;

Future Planet (V.2): the Future Evolution of Life on Earth (Evolutionary Continuum)
The Meuse Legacy: An Alternative Outcome of the Mosasaur (Alternative Evolution)
Terra Cascus: The Last Refuge of the Dinosaurs (Alternative Evolution)
- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

(Click bold titles to go to page. To subscribe click on a project, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "track topic" on the bottom right corner)


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Zebras lived in the jurassic.
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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Nov 6 2016, 06:25 PM
Zebras lived in the jurassic.
And I thought that was forgotten
Come check out and subscribe to my projects on the following subforums;

Future Planet (V.2): the Future Evolution of Life on Earth (Evolutionary Continuum)
The Meuse Legacy: An Alternative Outcome of the Mosasaur (Alternative Evolution)
Terra Cascus: The Last Refuge of the Dinosaurs (Alternative Evolution)
- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

(Click bold titles to go to page. To subscribe click on a project, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "track topic" on the bottom right corner)


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CaledonianWarrior96
Nov 6 2016, 06:47 PM
Jasonguppy
Nov 6 2016, 06:25 PM
Zebras lived in the jurassic.
And I thought that was forgotten
Could never forget it :)

More/less seriously: mammals are actually derived from echinoderms that came to land.
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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