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CryperVilla
Oct 6 2017, 04:40 PM
Bagheera kiplingi, a mostly herbivorous species of jumping spider from Central America.
Copy paste from Wikipedia
B. kiplingi inhabits Mimosaceae trees, Vachellia in particular, where it consumes specialized protein- and fat-rich nubs called Beltian bodies. The nubs form at the leaf tips of the acacia as part of a symbiotic relationship with certain species of ants. The spiders actively avoid the ants that attempt to guard the Beltian bodies (their food source) against intruders. Although the Beltian bodies account for over 90% of B. kiplingi diet, the spiders also consume nectar and occasionally steal ant larvae from passing worker ants for food. Sometimes, they cannibalize conspecifics, especially during the dry season.
Despite their occasional acts of predation, the spiders' tissues have been found to exhibit isotopic signatures typical of herbivorous animals, implying that most of their food comes from plants. The mechanism by which they process, ingest, and metabolize the Beltian bodies is still unresearched. The vast majority of spiders liquefy their prey using digestive enzymes before sucking it in.
While they feed almost exclusively on a herbivorous diet in Mexico, where they inhabit more than half of Acacia collinsii trees, populations in Costa Rica, where less than 5% of Acacia are populated by B. kiplingi, do so to a lesser extent. Although this species is mostly territorial and forages solitarily, populations of several hundred specimens have been found on individual acacias in Mexico, with more than twice as many females as males. B. kiplingi appears to breed throughout the year. Observations of adult females guarding hatchlings and clutches suggest that the species is quasisocial.
I just found out about these beauties when I was researching spider eyes, and I was thoroughly shocked to learn the extent to which they feed on plants. If this could evolve once, perhaps the adaptation could eventually lead to lineages of herbivorous arachnids?
Sorry for the shameful self promotion, but I got a pretty cool herbivorous arachnid
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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"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
A noxious pest of livestock and stored grain products.
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CryperVilla
Oct 6 2017, 04:40 PM
I just found out about these beauties when I was researching spider eyes, and I was thoroughly shocked to learn the extent to which they feed on plants. If this could evolve once, perhaps the adaptation could eventually lead to lineages of herbivorous arachnids?
Keep in mind that this only evolved because beltian bodies are meant to serve as a food source for normally carnivorous arthropods. There's nothing impossible about herbivorous arachnids but it's unlikely that this particular instance will lead anywhere. It isn't much more suited to "real' herbivory than other spiders.
"Six-foot feather duster with suicidal tendencies!" - Ross Noble's perfect description of emus
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The Gondwanian, Western Quoll
The Gondwanian on Night Parrots
It was one of two mainland Australian parrots to have been said to have gone extinct, the other being the spectacular Paradise Parrot, which I may cover in a later post.
Told you I will.
Paradise Parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) Sadly, Australia's other 'extinct' bird hasn't come back yet. Nor ever will (probably...)
History John Gilbert collected the first Paradise Parrot specimens on the Darling Downs of Queensland in 1844. Charmed by the birds fantastic colours and grace, he requested to John Gould that the bird be named after him (If you remember, John Gould named the Night Parrot as well. Gould is widely known as 'The Father of Australian Ornithology and Mammalogy", naming hundreds of new species in his time spent in Australia and publishing two books; one on birds, one on mammals. Gilbert was his main field scientist). Gould disliked using people's names in species names, and beacsue he had already named the Gilbert's Whistler after him, named the bird pulcherrimus -very beautiful. Gilbert was killed by Aborigines before learnt this (In a turn of events, it turned out that Gilbert's Whistler had already been given a scientific name. Poor Gilbert. However, the bird still retains his surname in its common name, and he has the Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) and Gilbert's Dunnart (Sminthopsis gilberti named in his honour). He gave the bird the common name of Beautiful Parrakeet, and described it with much enthusiasm: "The graceful form of this new Parrakeet, combined with the extreme brilliancy of its plumage, render it one of the most lovely of the Psittacidae yet discovered; and in whatever light we regard it, whether as a beautiful ornament in our cabinets, or a desirable addition to our aviaries, it is still an object of no ordinary interest." In many ways, it was the kiss of death
The 'Beautiful Parrakeet" in The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes by John Gould. These are two males.
Huge numbers of Paradise Parrots were shipped to Europe, and the fabulous male was a sought after stuffed specimen. Meanwhile, cattle overgrazed the bird's vital habitat, the fire and water regimes were altered, and the Prickly Pear cactus invaded its range. The termite mounds it relied on for nesting were removed to create tennis courts, ovens, floors and roads. Add a little bit of cat and fox predation, and the little parrot was tipped over the edge. The last authentic sighting was in 1922.
A live photo taken at Burnett River, Queensland, in 1922, the year of the last confirmed sighting.
Biology The Paradise Parrot is one of the 5 Psephotus parrots that existed at the time of European settlement. Today, only 4 remain. These are the Red-rumped Parrot, Golden-shouldered Parrot, Hooded Parrot and Mulga Parrot. All are beautiful, but the Paradise Parrot was the prettiest of them all. In habits, it is similar to the Hooded and Golden-shouldered Parrots, it's closest relatives. They all nest in termite mounds; makes sense as these are abundant in the northern areas where these three birds live. However, this made it easy for trappers to harvest young birds. Open savanna woodland consisted its main habitat, and it lived in an area of south-east Queensland. It was said by Gilbert to have an 'agreeable' voice. It traveled in pairs or small family groups, and fed quietly on seeds in the early morning and late afternoon. Its flight was low, undulating and swift.
Other than this, little else is known of its biology, but it is assumed similar to its close relatives. It is a sad fact that such a charming creature is no longer with us, a classic story of human greed and ignorance. But, the past is past. We must learn from the mistakes of those before us. Meanwhile, as we go on with our daily lives, one of the Paradise Parrot's closest relatives, the Golden-shouldered Parrot, is also facing extinction. It is important we work to save this bird now, or it will go the way of its relative!
Some preserved male Paradise Parrot specimins, showing the beautiful colours of the bird.
Active projects: Van Diemen's Land- Where Gondwanan life found sanctuary in the cool Southern Ocean Wollunqua- Australia during the Recurocene. Final reboot of The Late Simpson and Land Down Under
Dead projects (may be rebooted one day): The Last of the Dinosaurs- Dinosaurs really did survive the extinction The Late Simpson- The last piece of the Outback in a changing world. Land Down Under was an attempted reboot Cascus- A world familiar yet different Land Down Under- The weird and wonderful world of post-Holocene Sahul. Rebooted as Wollunqua
Forum user Uncanny Gemstar drew what is supposed to be a me. Thanks!
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As they walk in, they're greeted by a small, poorly kept pathway leading to a poorly constructed Japanese-style gate. Behind this, a small field made up of corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, among other plants is contrasted by large piles of books, as well as a few rather out of place looking laptops. Off in the corner, a small woman, with long, striped, and strikingly colorful socks, no shoes, unremarkable denim shorts, a large, fancy black coat, arm warmers, glasses, a tuque, and somewhat unkempt, mid-length blue-and-pink-streaked red hair, is rummaging through a trash bin, located behind a sign saying "employees only". She continues this for a while (walking behind a wall to change her outfit now and then), until one of her visitors coughs. Startled, she looks up, apologizes, and grabs a handful of textbooks and novels before daintily running off to join them.
What, you want me to tell you what these mean?
Predenterra The (Lost) Lost World The Standing World
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Clarifications on my sex and gender Sorry if I come off as rude, I don't put much thought into word choice sometimes. I'm also super prone to editing my posts, sometimes multiple times, in the minutes following posting. For the love of god, take my posts from my earlier days on the forum with a grain of salt. I was not particularly knowledgeable or mature back then. Some of them are so cringe-worthy I can't even bring myself to look at them.
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It would have to be something extremely alien, pushing the limits of our imagination. But those are always my favorite kinds of life. ~~The Words of The Xenologist
Words To Live By
Ignorance is never insulting if you're willing to learn, we're all ignorant about most things. ~~The Words of Lamna
Words I Live By
Yeah, and even if you don't agree with creationists on that concept, that doesn't mean they can't be decent people. I have friends who are creationist (possibly even young earth) that I get along with fine in general life. I don't think they're right of course, but that doesn't make them intellectual degenerates. ~~The Words of forbidden3
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jman123
Ass-breathing fish-lizards? Sounds like a punk rock band
Sheather
"Holy fucking shit a toilet paper roll! Our favorite thing!"
Urufumarukai
Tyrannosaurus aquastronka
Kamineigh
Myo, if you don't stop reading the YouTube comments...
Lamna
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Sheather bathes in cum?
Cephylus
And last night I dreamed I was blowing up a Kindergarten with a grenade launcher for no particular reason...
revin
Oh, and of course more people get killed by selfies than by sharks. Of course.
The smell of rotting flesh really kills my appetite, surprising, but the visual appearance of corpses makes me hungry. Is that weird?
Ebervalius
I mean, let us say I'm a genderfluid blurflux demi-romantic woman who is sexually attracted to men, but only if they are Melanesian and have a voice like that of Nicholas Cage. Okay, so what?
trex841
When I first saw that picture, I thought you were dissecting a condom.
Mr Mysterio
All hail Robo-Stalin.
Peashyjah
Seems like everything in this project is now dead.
Stealth Rock
Seagulls are pretty much trees, right?
Watcher
We all must finish chapters of our lives to go on to the next. Sometime this means leaving behind versions of ourselves that don't want to die.
Yiqi15
For April fool's, we had to make an orgasm that resembled a human foot.
Flisch
im the black market
CaledonianWarrior96
He was a skater birb, she said tweet you later birb
Most People at Some Point
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Some dude called plucas1 from Youtube comments
Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.
Xenoblade Chronicles
Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim. But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods. So you think we should just shut up and die?! If that is the fate decided by a god. You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die. We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end. To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
Hades - Kid Icarus Uprising
When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
Kid Icarus Uprising
But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
"god knows you will finally see,scars will heal but were meant to bleed
Also known as:
Archeo or that guy who misspells
yo may know about extinct pangolins like eomanis,and you would get tha appart from developpment of scales and tranformation-loss of dentition for their lifestyle they haven´t done nothing very different from what they do now, well you are wrong
Epoicotheriidae--- This group of North American stem-pangolins livwd for around 21 million years in the Eocene-Oligocene,the were specialised burrowers similar to golden moles or fairy armadillos they have most characteristics associated with fossorials like short hands,modified forelimb bones,reduced eyes and a upwards pointy snout if i found the skull pic i will add it late,smae for info on other pangolins and pholidotes since I recall aplaenodonts
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest and who knows what is coming next...........
" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way I have to know what lies on the unknown universe I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings" "
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coming soon......a world seeded by outcast clades and some important easily forgotten ones.the world of the caecilians and company and who knows what is coming next...........[comming soon/spoiler]
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Lyvatan The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the newbies would tell you. It’s a forum legend. Lyvatan was an admin of the forum, so powerful and so wise he could use science to influence the human imagination to create life… He had such a knowledge of the forum that he could even keep the ones he cared about from leaving.Speculative Evolution is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his admin power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice banned him while he was offline. Ironic. He could save others from leaving the community, but not himself.
Speccer´s Quotes "The moral of the story: never trust a catfish"-Bettleboy
Ooo, this is fascinating. I didn't even know they had a North American distribution, let alone anything like this.
Though funnily enough, as I posted this, I found an article where that picture was used and I think I might have read it before, and that part just completely slipped past me.
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...
"god knows you will finally see,scars will heal but were meant to bleed
Also known as:
Archeo or that guy who misspells
it was a tet zoo article and I recall skull pic from a paper while reasearching for Astarte
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest and who knows what is coming next...........
" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way I have to know what lies on the unknown universe I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings" "
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coming soon......a world seeded by outcast clades and some important easily forgotten ones.the world of the caecilians and company and who knows what is coming next...........[comming soon/spoiler]
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Lyvatan The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the newbies would tell you. It’s a forum legend. Lyvatan was an admin of the forum, so powerful and so wise he could use science to influence the human imagination to create life… He had such a knowledge of the forum that he could even keep the ones he cared about from leaving.Speculative Evolution is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his admin power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice banned him while he was offline. Ironic. He could save others from leaving the community, but not himself.
Speccer´s Quotes "The moral of the story: never trust a catfish"-Bettleboy
Okay, the basic idea is to name an obscure, interesting, or just plain weird organism (or just an obscure/interesting/weird fact about a well known one), living or extinct, to try and bring a little discovery to each other's days! Just make sure to post the name, formal or not, some basic information, a picture, and if possible, a link to a relevant wikipedia article or other information source, unless you've covered everything known.
Members of the genus Palaeophis were large aquatic snakes that existed from the maastrichtian to the priabonian ages in the waters of europe and north africa, and while the smallest were shorter than a man is tall, the largest belonging to the species colossaeus were nearly thirty feet long(longer than most orcas!). Studies of their vertebrae show vascularisation suggesting a faster metabolism and higher growth rate then modern snakes. It's unclear, but they may have possessed small but developed hind limbs.
These guys are probably pretty well known on here, but maybe there'll be someone who didn't know of THE GLORY OF THE SEMI-ENDOTHERMIC DOLPHIN-SNAKES.
Dammit! I wanted to do a gigantic sea snake for my project, but why does nature always beat me to the punch?
As of my gender, I have every gender imaginable, some even inconceivable to your minds. I have every gender in the gender spectrum, as well as ones you cannot envision.
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...
Forum user Uncanny Gemstar drew what is supposed to be a me. Thanks!
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As they walk in, they're greeted by a small, poorly kept pathway leading to a poorly constructed Japanese-style gate. Behind this, a small field made up of corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, among other plants is contrasted by large piles of books, as well as a few rather out of place looking laptops. Off in the corner, a small woman, with long, striped, and strikingly colorful socks, no shoes, unremarkable denim shorts, a large, fancy black coat, arm warmers, glasses, a tuque, and somewhat unkempt, mid-length blue-and-pink-streaked red hair, is rummaging through a trash bin, located behind a sign saying "employees only". She continues this for a while (walking behind a wall to change her outfit now and then), until one of her visitors coughs. Startled, she looks up, apologizes, and grabs a handful of textbooks and novels before daintily running off to join them.
What, you want me to tell you what these mean?
Predenterra The (Lost) Lost World The Standing World
Read First
Clarifications on my sex and gender Sorry if I come off as rude, I don't put much thought into word choice sometimes. I'm also super prone to editing my posts, sometimes multiple times, in the minutes following posting. For the love of god, take my posts from my earlier days on the forum with a grain of salt. I was not particularly knowledgeable or mature back then. Some of them are so cringe-worthy I can't even bring myself to look at them.
Words Maybe
Great Words
Words To Spec By
It would have to be something extremely alien, pushing the limits of our imagination. But those are always my favorite kinds of life. ~~The Words of The Xenologist
Words To Live By
Ignorance is never insulting if you're willing to learn, we're all ignorant about most things. ~~The Words of Lamna
Words I Live By
Yeah, and even if you don't agree with creationists on that concept, that doesn't mean they can't be decent people. I have friends who are creationist (possibly even young earth) that I get along with fine in general life. I don't think they're right of course, but that doesn't make them intellectual degenerates. ~~The Words of forbidden3
Member Quotes
jman123
Ass-breathing fish-lizards? Sounds like a punk rock band
Sheather
"Holy fucking shit a toilet paper roll! Our favorite thing!"
Urufumarukai
Tyrannosaurus aquastronka
Kamineigh
Myo, if you don't stop reading the YouTube comments...
Lamna
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Sheather bathes in cum?
Cephylus
And last night I dreamed I was blowing up a Kindergarten with a grenade launcher for no particular reason...
revin
Oh, and of course more people get killed by selfies than by sharks. Of course.
The smell of rotting flesh really kills my appetite, surprising, but the visual appearance of corpses makes me hungry. Is that weird?
Ebervalius
I mean, let us say I'm a genderfluid blurflux demi-romantic woman who is sexually attracted to men, but only if they are Melanesian and have a voice like that of Nicholas Cage. Okay, so what?
trex841
When I first saw that picture, I thought you were dissecting a condom.
Mr Mysterio
All hail Robo-Stalin.
Peashyjah
Seems like everything in this project is now dead.
Stealth Rock
Seagulls are pretty much trees, right?
Watcher
We all must finish chapters of our lives to go on to the next. Sometime this means leaving behind versions of ourselves that don't want to die.
Yiqi15
For April fool's, we had to make an orgasm that resembled a human foot.
Flisch
im the black market
CaledonianWarrior96
He was a skater birb, she said tweet you later birb
Most People at Some Point
Quotes
Some dude called plucas1 from Youtube comments
Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.
Xenoblade Chronicles
Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim. But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods. So you think we should just shut up and die?! If that is the fate decided by a god. You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die. We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end. To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
Hades - Kid Icarus Uprising
When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
Kid Icarus Uprising
But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.
Sawflies and horntails (suborder Symphyta) are already plenty obscure to most people--they're the weird cousins of bees, ants, and wasps, but they look more like flies and their larvae look more like caterpillars. You've probably even seen one before without knowing what it was. Like caterpillars, most sawfly larvae eat leaves or burrow into plant stems. They don't eat other insects like ants and wasps, nor do they feed on pollen and honey like bees. That's what makes the family Orussidae--the parasitic wood wasps--so bizarre. They're unique among the sawflies in that they have carnivorous larvae, which feed on the larvae of beetles and other sawflies in wood. No other family of sawflies does this. It's thought that the Orussidae, with their taste for meat, resemble the common ancestor of sawflies and "advanced" hymenopterans like bees and wasps. There are only 85 species in this family, which dates back to the Jurassic period, and they are usually small and brightly colored. They are of little economic importance, although one New Zealand species, Guiglia schauinslandi has been considered as a possible biological control agent for the introduced horntail Sirex noctilio.
Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph
Dammit! I wanted to do a gigantic sea snake for my project, but why does nature always beat me to the punch?
there are different ways to be a giant snake (compare pythons to anacondas)...and what habitat you can access (see swimming titanoboas)
.---------------------------------------------. 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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