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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,608 Views)
9Weegee
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After Homo Erectus evolved, an odd genetic twist reversed them into dogs.
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Sometime in the Mesozoic, a terrestrial parasitic sea pen evolved which latched onto the skins of dinosaurs. And that's where feathers come from.
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Dr Nitwhite
Aug 19 2016, 07:42 PM
As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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All so called "protists" are just derived myxozoans.
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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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Yiqi15
Jul 14 2017, 02:39 PM
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"B.E.A.R.S."
What does that stand for, again?
nothing, I was just referencing a TetZoo joke.
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Human beings are the only species on earth that weren't genetically modified by aliens.
In the shadows and crevices they lurk. Hiding from human eyes they are
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A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of
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A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world.
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Jul 29 2017, 11:38 PM
All so called "protists" are just derived myxozoans.
Oddly Nielsen implies something similar for the choanoflagellates, noting that they have the genetic machinery to be multicellular like metazoans but not even the "colonial" species are multicellular.
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Just like some conspiracy theorists say, humans were indeed genetically modified by aliens - From jellyfish. In the Cretaceous. And so were frogs.
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Leaellynasaura72
Jul 30 2017, 07:49 AM
Just like some conspiracy theorists say, humans were indeed genetically modified by aliens - From jellyfish. In the Cretaceous. And so were frogs.
This, among others, is such a fantastic butchering of everything science stands for that its amusement levels exceed the inaccuracies.

There is only one member on the forum: Livyatan grew lonely and created more accounts to have some level of interaction. This soon grew out of control to the point where he developed extreme split personality disorder; he lost all sense of self around two years ago. He frequently creates more accounts, and when a member cuts out quickly, it's simply because he's forgotten the information to sign in. The poor man doesn't even know that I, as a more-sane fragment of his conscience, is even discussing this.

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Inceptis
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Leaellynasaura72
Jul 30 2017, 07:49 AM
Just like some conspiracy theorists say, humans were indeed genetically modified by aliens - From jellyfish. In the Cretaceous. And so were frogs.
This, among others, is such a fantastic butchering of everything science stands for that its amusement levels exceed the inaccuracies.

There is only one member on the forum: Livyatan grew lonely and created more accounts to have some level of interaction. This soon grew out of control to the point where he developed extreme split personality disorder; he lost all sense of self around two years ago. He frequently creates more accounts, and when a member cuts out quickly, it's simply because he's forgotten the information to sign in. The poor man doesn't even know that I, as a more-sane fragment of his conscience, is even discussing this.

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I'v always imagined Livyatan as a grizzled sailor guy
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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The nubian plate was always separate from the African continent, and has only collided with it 75 million years ago,
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- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

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- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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That's not biology. That's geology.




Animals only colonized lands. All terrestrial animals form a monophyletic clade called geozoa. Their superficial resemblance to their supposed aquatic relatives is an example of extreme convergent evolution.
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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Aug 1 2017, 07:39 PM
That's not biology. That's geology.
there are geological cratons, and there are biological cratonmimids - so the entry is valid.
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Jul 14 2017, 02:39 PM
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Jul 10 2017, 12:10 AM
"B.E.A.R.S."
What does that stand for, again?
the permian bear joke comes from critising to assuming certain groups appeared before landmasses joined bc biogeography
as you know bears are found from south america to Asia and europe and even some lived on africa
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Every different species of lifeform in fact independently evolved from a line that originated from a completely separate abiogenesis.

Initial bipedalism is true.
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Virtually all of these have been about the present or the past. I have one for the future:



Mankind has always been doing his best to understand nature and biology. However, even with our vast intellect, biology has had several billion years to get a head start, while nature has had over a dozen. However, as mankind has progressed, he has done so exponentially, and soon, we will reach the point where our knowledge as a species will double within 24 hours. A few years after this point, the universe has resorted to pulling the last tricks out of its sleeve, and Earth is documented to nearly as much as it can. But there is still one thing that has eluded discovery till now-a simple species of archaea that lives in literal rock, halfway through the crust. That such a mundane organism is the last species to be discovered is ironic, but perhaps the more ironic thing is that when this last species is discovered, man is in the process of turning into living AIs, thus ceasing to be biological at the moment we've mastered biology.
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