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Biggest biological plot twist
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Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,621 Views)
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Nov 24 2016, 12:55 AM
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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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Nov 27 2016, 02:59 PM
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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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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.
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Sphenodon
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Nov 27 2016, 03:09 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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Nov 27 2016, 06:57 PM
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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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Nov 27 2016, 06:59 PM
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In what way does the mammal benefit? Do they raise their young in the same nest?
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Nov 27 2016, 07:44 PM
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Probably that.
Or it allows it to live with the dinosaurs and not get eaten.
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Articulata was actually a valid clade after all.
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Dec 9 2016, 07:52 PM
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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. -Centipedes are actually derived anomolocarids and convergently evolved with millipedes -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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Dec 10 2016, 03:22 PM
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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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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. 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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. 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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.
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Dec 10 2016, 09:49 PM
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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
But the biggest one yet
Intelligent design is true
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!!!
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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 "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
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Dec 10 2016, 10:46 PM
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- GhoulBoudin
- 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.
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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 "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
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Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Dec 10 2016, 10:52 PM
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Dec 10 2016, 09:49 PM
"Fish" are a monyphyletic group um, yes, that one's true.
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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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Dec 10 2016, 11:45 PM
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- Rodlox
- 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.
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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 "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
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Dec 11 2016, 12:49 AM
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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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"But you could just row there, live in the wilderness and have sex with kakapos every day"- Hangin
"you leave the dolphins in the fridge for too long and they develop a culture"- Flisch
"DON'T GET ME WRONG, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMANS; BUT IF THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US THEN WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN AMIRITE?"- Ivan
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"Kids love frog titties"- Lamna
"Other moral of this sad story: never forget how completely the tiny microorganisms living in your nose can betray you for no apparent reason. Trust no one"- Monster
"Sometimes in the name of science, you have to give cocain to a fish"- Ben Taub
"For the love of Darwin's fluffy beard, not the zebras again."- Beetleboy
"Fun fact: Whenever you learn something new, you are slowly approaching omniscience"- Flisch
"therefore, hell and heaven must both be filled with camels"- sphenodon
"this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather
"I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam
"You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa
"I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky
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