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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,625 Views)
IIGSY
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3lfig
Nov 8 2016, 06:34 PM
The whole theory of evolution is wrong
Har har har...
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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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GhoulBoudin
Nov 8 2016, 02:41 PM
ÐK
Nov 8 2016, 05:34 AM
But "Deinosaurus" isn't a synonym of Tyrannosaurus, how does that work?
I think he meant Dynamosaurus.
i think....whatever T.rex's name was before it was T.rex.
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Dynamosaurus imperiosis is the name I believe given by Barnam Brown initially.
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Biggest biological plot twist? That Earth and all that live on it aren't real but a computer simulation made by beings from another universe. Easy.
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Dinosaurs were created when an early archosaur was based in mutagen (in other words, the plot twist in some TMNT episode)
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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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Mosasaurs actually reverted back to land and evolved into snakes, with previous snake-like ancestors (like Tetrapodophis) actually having died out without leaving a lineage of their own
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The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
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"you are about to try that on a species that clawed its way to the top of a 4 billion year deep corpse pile of evolution. one that has committed the genocide you are contemplating several times already. they are the pinnacle of intelligence-based survival techniques and outnumber you 7 billion to 1" - humans vs machine
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Ordovician goats
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Cambrian ants
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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Sphenodon
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Just going and listing random clades as having origins in the Paleozoic isn't a plot twist; there needs to be some kind of feasibility aspect to it (as well as enough of a revelationary aspect), or else be a reference to something of the sort. For instance:

-Sea snails are actually gekkotoans
-Testudines really are parareptiles after all
-Lampreys are not actually relict agnathan fish; rather, they're the last extant conodonts.
-Extant duck genera are descended from a highly aberrant, short-legged presbyornithid.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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ÐK
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The Precambrian rabbits and Permian bears are also hilarious maymays and witty references, so just listing a random time and clade doesn't have the same effect.

-Insects actually evolved from crustaceans, rendering crustaceans in the traditional sense paraphyletic...hang on a second.
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IIGSY
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Springtails actually are insects 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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TerrificTyler
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Kangaroos and kin actually evolved from frogs, with just a high case of convergence with mammals

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Hyraxes are actually just really big and fluffy bees that lack a hive structure
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All life on earth was made to eventually be offered as food the Sea Dumplings..........



YOU WILL ALL BE FOOD!!! THE DUMPLING HIVE WILL CONSUME YOU ALL!!!!
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