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lamna
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Apr 20 2017, 08:28 AM
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As far as I know they are rodents. There doesn't seem to have been much change there.
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Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural
34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur.
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Apr 20 2017, 03:56 PM
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- Apr 20 2017, 07:50 AM
Something more normal and less disgusting this time. Are you implying that webspinners and viper fish are somehow disgusting?
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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lamna
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Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
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Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms.

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Living Fossils
Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural
34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur.
- T.Neo
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Are nipples or genitals necessary, lamna? [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash]
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IIGSY
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Apr 20 2017, 04:29 PM
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- lamna
- Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms. Well, you are scientifically, unequivocally, and objectively wrong.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Apr 20 2017, 04:52 PM
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Enjoying our azure blue world
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- lamna
- Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms.
Well, you are scientifically, unequivocally, and objectively wrong. You can't be objectively wrong on a subjective topic like beauty. Also, wut?
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Apr 20 2017, 05:08 PM
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- Zorcuspine
- Apr 20 2017, 04:52 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- Apr 20 2017, 04:29 PM
- lamna
- Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms.
Well, you are scientifically, unequivocally, and objectively wrong.
You can't be objectively wrong on a subjective topic like beauty. Also, wut? But our true god and savior Palaeoisopus said so, so it must be true.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Rodlox
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Apr 21 2017, 02:24 AM
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- Apr 20 2017, 04:52 PM
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- lamna
- Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms.
Well, you are scientifically, unequivocally, and objectively wrong.
You can't be objectively wrong on a subjective topic like beauty. Also, wut? I suspect that IIGS is trolling us. or disagreeing simply to be contrary.
(or disagreeing in pursuit of that ideological thing IIGS was doing a while back - if its spineless, it must be better than a backboned critter)
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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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Apr 21 2017, 05:09 AM
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http://libby-doe-mods-denofiniquity.tumblr.com/post/159818772925/8-of-the-worlds-most-bizarre-flowers#Notes
Just found a list of bizarre species of mostly orchids, felt like it would be cool here.
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. Protectorates of the Proan Empire- The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
- The Gavell Kingdom
- The Everdark Forest
- The Lunar Tundra
- The Sand Sea
- The Asteroid Cloud
- The Rotting Shard
- The Orbital River
- The Outer Shadow
- Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War- The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
- замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
- [To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
- [To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
- [To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
- [To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes- [To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
- نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
- The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.- Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
- A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
- Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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IIGSY
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Apr 22 2017, 12:08 AM
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- Rodlox
- Apr 21 2017, 02:24 AM
- Zorcuspine
- Apr 20 2017, 04:52 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
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- lamna
- Apr 20 2017, 04:25 PM
Call me a lunatic, but think mole rats and gophers are less disgusting than cod worms.
Well, you are scientifically, unequivocally, and objectively wrong.
You can't be objectively wrong on a subjective topic like beauty. Also, wut?
I suspect that IIGS is trolling us. or disagreeing simply to be contrary. (or disagreeing in pursuit of that ideological thing IIGS was doing a while back - if its spineless, it must be better than a backboned critter) I was joking. Plus, I dont promote "invertebrates". I promote arthropods. That term is meaningless in almost all contexts as many so called "invertebrates" have endoskeletons, including some sponges, echinoderms, and a number of cephalopods and gastropods.
But hey, let's not stray too far.
Edited by IIGSY, Apr 22 2017, 12:09 AM.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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Lycaon
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Apr 22 2017, 05:41 AM
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All hail Odin! All hail the Allfather!
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Uhm, you do know that being a vertebrate isn't about having an endoskeleton, right? So those "fake invertebrates, because endoskeleton" are still as much invertebrates as the others. :p
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Winners don't do maths.
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which gives even less incentive to even come here
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this forum has turned out very sad
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I think this place has totally devolved from its original state, and it's genuinely disappointing
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Because behind these messages on this board are real people who, by their writing, seem to be very unhappy.
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I am not the anime villain you all think me to be
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you guys should take a little time to reflect on what it has become?
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Apr 22 2017, 10:12 AM
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- Apr 22 2017, 05:41 AM
Uhm, you do know that being a vertebrate isn't about having an endoskeleton, right? So those "fake invertebrates, because endoskeleton" are still as much invertebrates as the others. :p Well, it is often used like that.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Apr 22 2017, 10:47 AM
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- Rodlox
- Apr 20 2017, 08:01 AM
wait, I thought chinchillas were part of the rabbit&cavy family (lagomorphs),,,did that change, or were they folded into Caviomorpha?
Rodlox.... Cavies, chinchillas and caviomorphs are still rodents. Where did you get the idea that they were lagomorphs?
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Apr 22 2017, 10:58 AM
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All hail Odin! All hail the Allfather!
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Uhm, you do know that being a vertebrate isn't about having an endoskeleton, right? So those "fake invertebrates, because endoskeleton" are still as much invertebrates as the others. :p
Well, it is often used like that. No, it isn't. People here don't do it, and science doesn't do it. Anyone with any knowledge on the subject will never call a sponge or a squid for example a vertebrate, and anyone without any knowledge on the subject will probably not even know enough about sponges or squids (again, for example) to confuse them in such a way with vertebrates. I'm sorry, but it's just wrong in any way, shape or form.
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- Lamna
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Winners don't do maths.
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which gives even less incentive to even come here
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this forum has turned out very sad
- Mac again
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I think this place has totally devolved from its original state, and it's genuinely disappointing
- I think you can guess who by now
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Because behind these messages on this board are real people who, by their writing, seem to be very unhappy.
- Yup it's him
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I am not the anime villain you all think me to be
- Maccie Mac
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you guys aren't the most agreeable lot
- Last one
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you guys should take a little time to reflect on what it has become?
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Apr 22 2017, 11:03 AM
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I'm going back to basics.
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So clown-nosed trilobites are a thing. This fellow is Sphaerocoryphe. I should probably do a post on weird trilobites at some point.
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Apr 22 2017, 11:11 AM
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Kalligrammatids where a group of lacewings that lived from the middle jurassic to the early middle cretaceous. They are noted for their resemblance to butterflies. Not only do they have butterfly-like wings, but they have a proboscis as well. Basal species have more distinct jaws. Their way of feeding (pollination, is unique among lacewings. The presence of eyespots on the wings of some species where probably used to deter predators, as in many modern moths. They are the largest lacewings (and among the largest of insects for their time), with Makarkinia adamsi having an estimated wingspan of 160 mm.
 A kalligrammatid fossil compared to a specimen of an extant butterfly
 A reconstruction of Oregramma illecebrosa
See? Post paleozoic arthropods aren't all boring.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
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Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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