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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,621 Views)
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None of this is real and is merely the dream of some hyper advanced ediacaran life form and it will end when he/she wakes up. BTW he/she is 2 years old.
EDIT:Which is why so many life forms on earth look so weird.
Edited by Dakka!, Nov 24 2016, 12:56 AM.
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Since there was speculation on how Cotylorhynchus could browse with such a small, high-set head:

It always walked in furrows that were exactly of the right depth, munching on the plants at ground level.
Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Nov 27 2016, 03:00 PM.
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You could go even further and say that it dug the furrows itself, explaining its large and robust forelimbs.

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Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
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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.

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Some dinosaurs had a symbiotic relationship with repenomamus-like mammals, letting them guard their nests from potential predators (as long as they didn't eat the young themselves).
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In what way does the mammal benefit? Do they raise their young in the same nest?
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Probably that.

Or it allows it to live with the dinosaurs and not get eaten.
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- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
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- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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Articulata was actually a valid clade after all.
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-Modern hyenas are actually convergently evolved hyaenodons and completely unrelated to hyenas from the fossil record.
-Pterosaurs actually evolved into bats, and bats aren't mammals at all.
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-Stegosaurus could actually glide with its back plates
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Viruses infact originate from highly degenerate multicellular and or alien organisms.
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The decline of Late Jurassic fauna was in fact caused by being outcompeted by zebras that mysteriously appear in the fossil record out of nowhere.

The ancestor of all life on earth was also the last of its own dynasty: A tiny, humble microorganism that eked out a living on an alien world whose sun was about to go supernova. An alien traveller took pity on the organism and placed it on a new, young world to continue that planet's legacy, where it gave rise to every organism in Earth's history

All Tomorrows is not only real, it's still going on. Primates aren't actually native to Earth at all - the first one was another pet of the Qu, roughly equivalent to our mice and gerbils. The intention of our punishment was to leave us to be outcompeted by the archosaurs, one of the Qu's favorite groups of organisms, but the K-Pg extinction occurred before that could happen - the extinction itself was, in fact, caused by the asteromorphs in an act of defiance against the Qu. The conspiracy of lizard people running the government is actually based in reality - the 'reptilians' are really sapient descendants of basal archosaurs that the Qu had placed on another planet hundreds of millions of years ago, specifically engineered to bring us down from the inside by causing enough political turmoil for the world to tear itself apart in revenge for toppling the aliens' favored creatures from power on their own homeworld.

Bonus: the fauna of the Ediacarian is actually much older than we believed it to be, going back nearly a hundred million years before the oldest known specimens of such creatures, and was incredibly extensive, with multiple lineages coming onto the land and even developing sapience. Near the end, however, a massive extinction occurred, even worse than the one at the end of the Permian, wiping out nearly everything but leaving only fossilizing a select few organisms - the Cambrian fauna we know and love. However, a few creatures did survive: the aforementioned sapients managed to place a large number of organisms within a safe haven deep beneath the surface before taking to the stars, their hundreds of millions of years of evolution shaping and warping their already-alien forms into something else entirely as they cast aside the name that they had once proudly referred to themselves as before taking on a more fitting title.
To us, that name is an incomprehensible combination of emitted pheromones too delicate for our noses to properly register, high-pitched chirps and clicks, and guttural 'gargling' sounds, but it is a name feared throughout the cosmos, a name that sends a shiver down the spines, notochords, or corresponding structures of all who hear it.
Roughly translated into a designation that human anatomy can easily reproduce, it simply means 'The lost;' a simple translation for a simple name, but one that carries untold terror to sapients across the stars.
They are the Qu.
And they are not pleased with the inheritors of their world.
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Celeomata hypothesis was correct
Tardigrades actually closer to nematodes than arthropods
Eukaryotes are polyphyletic
Amniota and lissamphibia are sister groups
"Fish" are a monyphyletic group
Acanthacephala are not rotifers

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Intelligent design is true

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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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Dec 10 2016, 03:22 PM
The decline of Late Jurassic fauna was in fact caused by being outcompeted by zebras that mysteriously appear in the fossil record out of nowhere.

The ancestor of all life on earth was also the last of its own dynasty: A tiny, humble microorganism that eked out a living on an alien world whose sun was about to go supernova. An alien traveller took pity on the organism and placed it on a new, young world to continue that planet's legacy, where it gave rise to every organism in Earth's history

All Tomorrows is not only real, it's still going on. Primates aren't actually native to Earth at all - the first one was another pet of the Qu, roughly equivalent to our mice and gerbils. The intention of our punishment was to leave us to be outcompeted by the archosaurs, one of the Qu's favorite groups of organisms, but the K-Pg extinction occurred before that could happen - the extinction itself was, in fact, caused by the asteromorphs in an act of defiance against the Qu. The conspiracy of lizard people running the government is actually based in reality - the 'reptilians' are really sapient descendants of basal archosaurs that the Qu had placed on another planet hundreds of millions of years ago, specifically engineered to bring us down from the inside by causing enough political turmoil for the world to tear itself apart in revenge for toppling the aliens' favored creatures from power on their own homeworld.

Bonus: the fauna of the Ediacarian is actually much older than we believed it to be, going back nearly a hundred million years before the oldest known specimens of such creatures, and was incredibly extensive, with multiple lineages coming onto the land and even developing sapience. Near the end, however, a massive extinction occurred, even worse than the one at the end of the Permian, wiping out nearly everything but leaving only fossilizing a select few organisms - the Cambrian fauna we know and love. However, a few creatures did survive: the aforementioned sapients managed to place a large number of organisms within a safe haven deep beneath the surface before taking to the stars, their hundreds of millions of years of evolution shaping and warping their already-alien forms into something else entirely as they cast aside the name that they had once proudly referred to themselves as before taking on a more fitting title.
To us, that name is an incomprehensible combination of emitted pheromones too delicate for our noses to properly register, high-pitched chirps and clicks, and guttural 'gargling' sounds, but it is a name feared throughout the cosmos, a name that sends a shiver down the spines, notochords, or corresponding structures of all who hear it.
Roughly translated into a designation that human anatomy can easily reproduce, it simply means 'The lost;' a simple translation for a simple name, but one that carries untold terror to sapients across the stars.
They are the Qu.
And they are not pleased with the inheritors of their world.
Hilarious. I feel Jurassic zebras will now be a running joke.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

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

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

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Dec 10 2016, 09:49 PM
"Fish" are a monyphyletic group
um, yes, that one's true.
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Dec 10 2016, 10:52 PM
Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Dec 10 2016, 09:49 PM
"Fish" are a monyphyletic group
um, yes, that one's true.
No, its not, because "fish" excludes tetrapods.
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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Sponges actually have legs but are just really lazy.

Snakes are just weiner dogs from the far future. Dog breeders bred the wiener dog to have shorter and shorter legs and over time it became serpentine. Then humans sent a bunch of them to the Paleozoic where they continued to evolve into their modern forms. The only reason they don't have hair is because in the Cretaceous they caugh a genetic skin disease that made them go bald and grow scaly skin.
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