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Biggest biological plot twist
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Noah's Raven
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We are all actually just sapient troodontids living in a full-immersion VR MMO of a speculative future where the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor, and I've been playing so long I've completely forgotten about my troodontid life and how to leave the simulation. Please help me get out.
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Smooth hounds are not sharks, but just extremely shark-like canids.
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Arthropods actually are polyphyletic
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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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Chiroptera are, in fact, Hemiptera. Calvin was right.

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Aug 19 2016, 07:42 PM
As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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Sea serpents are actually surviving palaeophiids.
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Glires, treeshrews, colugos are actually in the Xenarthran group, and primates are the sole members of Euarchonta (which should really be called Primata)
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Nov 6 2016, 01:06 PM
The megafauna of pre-glaciation Antarctica was comprised of non-avian dinosaurs and dicynodonts.
I'm starting a project about pre-glaciation antarctica, And Ive been looking at fossil animals in there.

The megafauna was comprised of relatives of Macrauchenia, Trigonostylops, and Astrapotheria, along with possible evidence of large ratites. However, the remains are extremely fragmentary, so classification is difficult.
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Oct 23 2017, 04:24 PM
Sphenodon
Nov 6 2016, 01:06 PM
The megafauna of pre-glaciation Antarctica was comprised of non-avian dinosaurs and dicynodonts.
I'm starting a project about pre-glaciation antarctica, And Ive been looking at fossil animals in there.

The megafauna was comprised of relatives of Macrauchenia, Trigonostylops, and Astrapotheria, along with possible evidence of large ratites. However, the remains are extremely fragmentary, so classification is difficult.
Don't forget primitive Australodelphians, while there's no fossil evidence of them there they certainly occurred on Antarctica.
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Mao
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Sphenodon
Nov 6 2016, 01:06 PM
The megafauna of pre-glaciation Antarctica was comprised of non-avian dinosaurs and dicynodonts.
I'm starting a project about pre-glaciation antarctica, And Ive been looking at fossil animals in there.

The megafauna was comprised of relatives of Macrauchenia, Trigonostylops, and Astrapotheria, along with possible evidence of large ratites. However, the remains are extremely fragmentary, so classification is difficult.
Don't forget primitive Australodelphians, while there's no fossil evidence of them there they certainly occurred on Antarctica.
Yes, but they would've been extremely primitive ones.
As of my gender, I have every gender imaginable, some even inconceivable to your minds. I have every gender in the gender spectrum, as well as ones you cannot envision.
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Arthropods aren't animals or native to Earth. They are the descendants of and eldrich god who put a piece of himself on a random planet shortly before his death
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


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Saturniid moths lose their mouths as adults so they can't use God's name in vain.
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We are actually unicellular
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Oct 24 2017, 08:39 PM
Arthropods aren't animals or native to Earth. They are the descendants of and eldrich god who put a piece of himself on a random planet shortly before his death

That's not so far from the Hawai'ian myth about the octopus:

Oceanic Mythology
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At first the lowly zoophytes and corals come into being, and these are followed by worms and shellfish, each type being declared to conquer and destroy its predecessor, a struggle for existence in which the strongest survive. Parallel with this evolution of animal forms, plant life begins on land and in the sea--at first with the algae, followed by seaweeds and rushes. As type follows type, the accumulating slime of their decay raises the land above the waters, in which, as spectator of all, swims the octopus, the lone survivor from an earlier world.
Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Oct 25 2017, 12:57 PM.
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The cephalopods aren't mollusks at all but highly-specialized and more moblie echinoderms.
Edited by peashyjah, Oct 25 2017, 07:53 PM.
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The platypus is a quadrupedal duck.
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