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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,605 Views)
CoolKuy
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A Nonintelligent Pinniped
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The platypus is a quadrupedal duck.


No. Birds are bipedal platypi.
Projects:
PNF-404 (Pikmin as an Alternate Evolution project.)
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peashyjah
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Bydo
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The Gondwanian
Oct 26 2017, 12:24 AM
The platypus is a quadrupedal duck.
No. The Platypus is an highly specialized species closely related to the Duck.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Brock Slabson, Ph.D.
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Alas, poor Yorickosaurus.
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Humans are actually the result of Martians forgetting their kids while on a trip to the intergalactic supermarket. ICPS (Intergalatic Child Protective Services) is still investigating this after nearly 66 million years. Bureaucracy, folks!
Edited by Brock Slabson, Ph.D., Dec 8 2017, 05:13 AM.
SAGUENAY
An Evolutionary Experiment Gone Awry

CP STUDIOS
Purveyors of Aural Mystery and Wonder
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LλmbdaExplosion
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Cretaceous monkeys.We only know of rodents,marsupials and monotremes that are still alive today,that were doing well back then
Edited by LλmbdaExplosion, Dec 9 2017, 01:05 PM.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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Kerguelen
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High Evolutionary
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Fish are aquatic reptiles which evolved fins and gills like whales and dolphins. Also, dolphins have gills, we're just not looking hard enough.
In the shadows and crevices they lurk. Hiding from human eyes they are
Creatures From Beyond

Upcoming Projects

A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of
Aridia

Far far away in a distant land. Emperors reign and beasts prowl. Monsters and demons fill the deadly forests. Let us take a
Journey to the East

A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world.
Predators of the Plioence

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GreatAuk
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Northern Penguin
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Monotremes are actually cynodonts
Let us dance together.
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suchipithecus
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Newborn
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Mammals evolved from birds adapting to a terrestrial lifestyle who redeveloped teeth and whose feathers became hairlike
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Archeoraptor
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"A living paradox"
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there is a secret beluga civilization threatened by global warming,when time comes we will see who realy does earth belong to.
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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LλmbdaExplosion
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Or sharks are placoderms and monitor lizards just terestrial mosasaurs.Or the turtles are actually very derived ankylosaurs.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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IIGSY
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Spiders aren't arthropods at all, just posthumans from the future and sent back
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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Ceratosauridslover89
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Warrior Cat Extraordinaire
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The closest living relative of Genyodectes is the Jaguar and for the Carnotaurus, the Anaconda
Edited by Ceratosauridslover89, Dec 10 2017, 10:32 AM.
My RPG: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8176961/1/?x=90#new

My Group Project: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8178008/1/?x=90#new

A project of my own: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8177902/1/?x=90#new

My other Project: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8179151/1/?x=90#new

DeviantArt: https://extremefluttershy.deviantart.com

Xugroyruta: A Chlorine Earth - http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8205450/1/?x=90

Twitter: Check out Genyodectes (@genyodectes): https://twitter.com/genyodectes?s=09
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LλmbdaExplosion
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Dec 10 2017, 10:30 AM
Spiders aren't arthropods at all, just posthumans from the future and sent back
HOW ABOUT NO
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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Yiqi15
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Prime Specimen
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The Saint Bathans mammal is actually a species from the future that got sent back in time somehow.
Current/Completed Projects
- 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.

Future Projects
- 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

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

My Zoochat and Fadom Accounts
- Zoochat
- Fandom
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IIGSY
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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JewelCombineAdvisor
Dec 12 2017, 05:35 AM
Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Dec 10 2017, 10:30 AM
Spiders aren't arthropods at all, just posthumans from the future and sent back
HOW ABOUT NO
HOW ABOUT YES



Also, humans are post humans
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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Mynameisnotdave23
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Idiot Extraordinaire
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IGGSY
Jan 11 2018, 08:11 PM




Also, humans are post humans
WHAAAAA
Projects


Avisia, an island archipelago isolated for over 88 million years, and is know home to megafaunal birds, mekosuchine crocodiles, and many relics. (currently in infancy)
Read here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8192410/2/#new

Deviantart: https://mynameisnotdave23.deviantart.com/
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