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| IIGSY | Nov 8 2016, 09:00 PM Post #76 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Har har har... |
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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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| Rodlox | Nov 8 2016, 10:50 PM Post #77 |
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Superhuman
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i think....whatever T.rex's name was before it was T.rex. |
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.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP) | |
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| Nyarlathotep | Nov 9 2016, 08:51 AM Post #78 |
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The Creeping Chaos
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Dynamosaurus imperiosis is the name I believe given by Barnam Brown initially. |
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| Beetleboy | Nov 9 2016, 11:27 AM Post #79 |
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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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| Yiqi15 | Nov 9 2016, 12:10 PM Post #80 |
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Prime Specimen
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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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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Nov 9 2016, 12:14 PM Post #81 |
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An Awesome Reptile
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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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| Vorsa | Nov 9 2016, 12:15 PM Post #82 |
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Mysterious tundra-dwelling humanoid
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Silurian whales |
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My Deviantart: http://desorages.deviantart.com/ Birbs "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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| Velociraptor | Nov 9 2016, 02:43 PM Post #83 |
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Reptile
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Ordovician goats |
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| IIGSY | Nov 9 2016, 05:07 PM Post #84 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Cambrian ants |
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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 | Nov 9 2016, 05:22 PM Post #85 |
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Calcareous
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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. |
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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 | Nov 9 2016, 05:28 PM Post #86 |
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Adult
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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 | Nov 9 2016, 06:50 PM Post #87 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Springtails actually are insects after all |
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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 | Nov 9 2016, 07:05 PM Post #88 |
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Snazz God
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Kangaroos and kin actually evolved from frogs, with just a high case of convergence with mammals |
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| Finncredibad | Nov 9 2016, 07:12 PM Post #89 |
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Edgy and Cool
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Hyraxes are actually just really big and fluffy bees that lack a hive structure |
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| Talenkauen | Nov 9 2016, 07:25 PM Post #90 |
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Perpetually paranoid iguanodont
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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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