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I am at such a complete loss for words, I'll just put this here http://www.deepseanews.com/2013/10/ill-see-your-horrifying-crab-barnacle-and-raise-you-a-heart-eel/ Yet another reason Ray finned fish are better than tetrapods
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Apr 28 2017, 03:30 PM
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There is enough nope in that article to deter quite a few people.
Almost everyone knows about sea stars and sea urchins, but not very many people know about their larvae. For starters, before metamorphosis, the larvae have bilateral symmetry. Here's the brachiolaria larva of a sea star:

And here's the late stage of a pluteus larva for sea urchins:

As far as I know, all echinoderms start out as bilateral larvae, but once they're developed enough, cells that were set aside start growing into what's called the rudiment. The rudiment carries the typical pentaradial symmetry of echinoderms, and this develops into the actual adult. The larva is absorbed into the rudiment, it settles on the sea floor, and you now have a mature echinoderm. Here's what the brachiolaria looks like right before complete metamorphosis, with the rudiment at the front.

Star-fish, anyone?
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Apr 28 2017, 05:21 PM
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The Galapagos are a pretty isolated place, almost a thousand kilometres from mainland South America.
The islands are famous for their diverse bird and reptilian fauna. Galapagos mammals receive less attention. Of course their are bats, bats live everywhere that's not polar. And there are sealions.
That's likely all you've heard of. Perhaps, like myself you would have assumed that the islands were just to far away for land mammals to reach. Not so, Galapagos actually does have one native land mammal, the Galapagos rice rat.
Unfortunately there isn't much information on these guys. These are the only free photographs I can find online.


I can't find much about them, they seem to be fairly typical rice rats. What's most interesting is that they live there at all. Rodents are supreme colonisers. The only significant land masses without them are Antarctica and New Zealand.
So, a point for spec projects, if a land mass is less than 1000 km from a continent with rodents, that landmass will likely soon have rodents.
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Apr 28 2017, 05:41 PM
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I imagine it'd be highly dependent on ocean currents.
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Apr 28 2017, 06:19 PM
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I thought I read that they were a product of human introduction. Or maybe that was conjectural.
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Behold the glorious Asaphoidea!  These guys evolved in an inland sea in post-europe in the Ordovician. They gradually evolved longer and longer eyestalks, likely due to the changes in turbidity. It's thought that they lay in the sediment, waiting for prey to pass by. They dissapeared in the O-S mass extinction. Quite popular among fossil collectors. You do know these trilobites first appeared in the Middle Cambrian...
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Apr 28 2017, 06:40 PM
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- Apr 28 2017, 05:21 PM
The Galapagos are a pretty isolated place, almost a thousand kilometres from mainland South America. The islands are famous for their diverse bird and reptilian fauna. Galapagos mammals receive less attention. Of course their are bats, bats live everywhere that's not polar. And there are sealions. That's likely all you've heard of. Perhaps, like myself you would have assumed that the islands were just to far away for land mammals to reach. Not so, Galapagos actually does have one native land mammal, the Galapagos rice rat. Unfortunately there isn't much information on these guys. These are the only free photographs I can find online.   I can't find much about them, they seem to be fairly typical rice rats. What's most interesting is that they live there at all. Rodents are supreme colonisers. The only significant land masses without them are Antarctica and New Zealand. So, a point for spec projects, if a land mass is less than 1000 km from a continent with rodents, that landmass will likely soon have rodents.
Several species, actually.
Kind of surprising how little coverage they get. Almost like a deliberate attempt to orwellianly edit them out or something.
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Apr 28 2017, 07:00 PM
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No, these are related to South American rodents and are distinct enough to be separate species.
And yeah, just found out about the other species. Apprently there are four living species and three extincit ones. https://www.quasarex.com/galapagos/animals/rodents-rats
I'll have to write something about the Polynesian rat. Despite being the third of the great rats that have adapted to live alongside humans, you don't hear as much about them as black or brown rats.
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Apr 29 2017, 12:20 PM
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Can we post organisms that people may know, but may not necessarily know the full weirdness of? Like people may have heard of a Chiton, but didn't know they had Magnetite teeth
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Apr 29 2017, 12:24 PM
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I would say that it's completely fine to do that, given what we've recently been saying about this thread (pointing out that we can use it also for obscure facts not just obscure taxa).
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Apr 29 2017, 01:28 PM
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Behold the glorious Asaphoidea!  These guys evolved in an inland sea in post-europe in the Ordovician. They gradually evolved longer and longer eyestalks, likely due to the changes in turbidity. It's thought that they lay in the sediment, waiting for prey to pass by. They dissapeared in the O-S mass extinction. Quite popular among fossil collectors.
You do know these trilobites first appeared in the Middle Cambrian...
The higher group they're in did. The eye-stalked fossils are only found from that region and date to the Ordovician. Also, the majority of trilobite groups in general appeared in the Middle Cambrian.
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I know I'm double posting, but, The Fijian Ground Frog.

One of two frogs that live on Fiji, it grows to about 11 cm in length and is likely an ambush predator, attacking nocturnal insects. But its claim to fame is its nesting habits. They will lay their eggs in a secluded place, like in the fold of a leaf or at the base of a tree, and the eggs develop terrestrially, skipping the tadpole stage entirely. This is probably what allowed them to get to Fiji in the first place, with eggs hitching a ride on rafts of vegetation created by storms.
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What is this? This, my friends, is Eokinorhynchus rarus, the first known fossil khinorhynch! It dates back to cambrian strata 535 million years ago. What's even better, is that this animal is actually noticeably different from it's modern relatives. Among these features are more segments and larger spines.
Congratulations khinorhyncha! You joined the "animal phyla with fossil records" club! Now I'm just waiting for fossil gastrotrichs.
http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/rh/rp/201511/t20151127_156577.html
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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
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Inceptis
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May 1 2017, 10:47 PM
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Now I'm just waiting for fossil gastrotrichs.
They might already exist, since there are rotifer fossils within some Dominican amber dating to the cretaceous.
Prototaxites was discovered in the first half of the twentieth century. Giant columns of organic matter dating to the Silurian, they confused many scientists, until it was proposed that they were giant lichens towering above the moss and liverworts. Some have now argued that they're in fact rolled up sheets of liverworts, but the growth pattern of the cells inside doesn't fit that hypothesis, and so they remain as some of the most successful fungi to ever live.
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This was getting fairly big.
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The Hundred Thousand Acre Woods: We're going on an expotition... Roald Island: Snozzwangers and Whangdoodles aplenty(Please don't feed the nerds). The Candleverse: Like The Library, but with candles. Basura: Also like The Library, but with trash and lost things. From Scratch: We all drew monsters as children...
More serious projects Rivun: Qhoths on Rivun, evermore. Pelagia: Earth's mirror twin Calida: Looking to where you first began can reveal what's gone unnoticed. The first exoplanet ever found has a lukewarm sibling... Spyra: Few things are stranger than jellyfish, especially when they apologize. Canto: A planemo carrying the seeds of life is adopted by an elderly red dwarf couple. Music ensues. (?) Methuselah: Much is still in the works, given that life doesn't evolve on a planet.
GD: It shall be revived when I revive it.
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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt - Archean life boi
Corecin - This is why this timeline is infamous, as it brought back every memory of the 'Jurassic Zebra' thread, and we can never forget about it, we thus nuked the planet and never looked back, turning our sights to other timelines.
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May 5 2017, 11:55 AM
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Yep, I thought they'd fit well into my Nibiru. I just made them way, way bigger and even more plant-like.
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