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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,604 Views)
Tartarus
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Humans are postspiders.
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Mynameisnotdave23
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Humans are actually derived lancelets
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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)
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Setaceous Cetacean
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WHALES ARE DERIVED FISH!
If you like balloons, the color red, or mixotrophic plants derived from photosynthetic vertebrate-analogues, then check out my xenobiology project Solais

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IIGSY
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Setaceous Cetacean
Jan 12 2018, 07:04 PM
WHALES ARE DERIVED FISH!
That's actually true, give me a real plot twist
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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Mynameisnotdave23
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TELOSTS ARE ACTUALLY TIME-TRAVELLING CETACEANS FROM THE FAR FUTURE
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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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IGGSY
Jan 12 2018, 07:05 PM
Setaceous Cetacean
Jan 12 2018, 07:04 PM
WHALES ARE DERIVED FISH!
That's actually true, give me a real plot twist
THAT WAS THE POINT! IT WAS A STUPID JOKE!
If you like balloons, the color red, or mixotrophic plants derived from photosynthetic vertebrate-analogues, then check out my xenobiology project Solais

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Scrotum humanum actually was a giant human after all.
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GreatAuk
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Plants are actually sentient.
Let us dance together.
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Mynameisnotdave23
Jan 12 2018, 06:56 PM
Humans are actually derived lancelets
They are because we evolved a long time ago from lancelet/tunicate larvae-like ancestors.
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.




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Nate River
Jan 20 2018, 06:59 AM
Plants are actually sentient.
That one might actually be true, though.
The Library is open. (Now under new management!)
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Aug 19 2016, 07:42 PM
As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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CoolKuy
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Sponges and Coral are derived Tunicates
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PNF-404 (Pikmin as an Alternate Evolution project.)
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Setaceous Cetacean
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Plants are derived jellyfish.
If you like balloons, the color red, or mixotrophic plants derived from photosynthetic vertebrate-analogues, then check out my xenobiology project Solais

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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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Tapeworms are chordates
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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Jan 27 2018, 11:15 AM
Plants are derived jellyfish.
well in some of troll projects they are.........in a way
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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Fungi are actually sessile colonies of extremely primitive wormlike animals.
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