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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,627 Views)
IIGSY
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Vertebrates are actually aliens
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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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Pelicans are sapient.

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Octopi are from another planet/universe, oh wait...
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Dolphins are more intelligent than we are, and are capable of interstellar flight.

So long so long so long so long
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Cestodes, canids, and cicadas share a common ancestor that lived during the miocene.
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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Nov 7 2016, 06:17 PM
Dolphins are more intelligent than we are, and are capable of interstellar flight.

So long so long so long so long
What you did there, I see it.
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Pigs are really just small elephants.

Every passerine is just a single genus with a wide array of colors.


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The Initial Bipedalism Hypothesis is true (for those who don't know, this is a bizzare idea that humans are the most primitive of all vertebrates and all other vertebrates evolved from human-like aquatic creatures).
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Tyrannosaurus rex is actually in the Tarbosaurus genus; making it Tarbosaurus rex
Edited by CaledonianWarrior96, Nov 7 2016, 07:25 PM.
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CaledonianWarrior96
Nov 7 2016, 07:23 PM
Tyrannosaurus rex is actually in the Tarbosaurus genus; making it Tarbosaurus rex
That would violate the rules of nomenclature though.
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Theropods are derived from bipedal crocodylamorphs
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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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Nov 7 2016, 07:38 PM
Theropods are derived from bipedal crocodylamorphs
It was an Epoch of Raptors, an Epic of Mammoths!
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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If theropods were crocodylomorphs that would make all of Archosauria dinosaurs, given how the clade is defined as all descendants of the last common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.
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Nov 7 2016, 08:15 PM
If theropods were crocodylomorphs that would make all of Archosauria dinosaurs, given how the clade is defined as all descendants of the last common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.
Err... it still wouldn't make various stem archosaurs dinosaurs, or pterosaurs, or possibly testudines...

EDIT: Nevermind, I see what you're saying now.
Edited by flashman63, Nov 7 2016, 09:05 PM.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

-----------------------------------------------------

Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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Some dickhead's deviantART
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Tuataras are actually lizards after all
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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