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Does anyone know what to least endangered species of Gibbon is? I can’t seem to find anything.
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from very qucik search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_hoolock_gibbon this oen is vulnerable while msot are endangered and a few are in critic
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
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Is it possible for a tetrapod's (Namely mammals) hind limbs to ''fuse'' and become a fluke-like ''tail''?
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Its been done before in manatees and cetaceans, so definitely with mammals, but not sure how likely it would be for that to happen in other groups. Still possible though.


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Its been done before in manatees and cetaceans, so definitely with mammals, but not sure how likely it would be for that to happen in other groups. Still possible though.
Just saying, but in both of those cases the tail became a fluke, I'm wondering if limbs could become a tail. (Not trying to be rude, just pointing that out.)
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Its been done before in manatees and cetaceans, so definitely with mammals, but not sure how likely it would be for that to happen in other groups. Still possible though.
Just saying, but in both of those cases the tail became a fluke, I'm wondering if limbs could become a tail. (Not trying to be rude, just pointing that out.)
I don't know why I thought that the hind limbs evolved into a tail. (Mermaids: A Body Found might be why. Their "mermaid" Had fused limbs and its tail was compared to a manatee, so...) I still think its possible, given the proper conditions, such as an animal without a tail or with a short tail and webbed feet becoming more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, eventually ending in a species with fused hind limbs.
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Is it possible for a tetrapod's (Namely mammals) hind limbs to ''fuse'' and become a fluke-like ''tail''?
I immediately think of a bat's tail. While the limbs themselves may not be fused, they are connected by the membranous uropatagium, which may serve as a transitional stage, or may serve the same purpose without complete fusion.

I wonder at the structural ramifications of such a fusion, however. Would it interfere with the pelvic joints, and all of the complicated plumbing involved with that area? Would we not instead see a tail return and the legs just atrophy, as we see in cetaceans? Or maybe look at seals, and see how their hind limbs, still separate, function during swimming as a single unit? :Sam:

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Projects I'm probably going to do:

Evolutionary continuum:
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Alternative Evolution:
The Sanctuary- The best zoo in the world
The Habitable Zone:
Sapients of the universe- exactly what it sounds like
Alternate universes:
A bestiary of the land of Hyrule- again, exactly what it sounds like
Ixuligaxa- A Sheatheria-esque project but the wildlife came from the orvadacian and earlier.
Café Cosmique:
Ultimate power- A gritty reboot of Power rangers, but not too gritty, some xenobiology and posthumans
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I always had this doubt ...
the emergence of creatures that can both do photosynthesis and "eat" other animals, is plausible? as plents. How would these beings arise?
they could develop some sort of mechanism of photosynthesis separate from the plants in the past when they were very basal forms of organisms? or it would be better something like very primitive organisms, but that happened to make photosynthesis with microscopic algae, that given a long time of evolution, have become great "animals," and can even turn things like earthy plants, more with a greater capacity of movement (carnivorous plants that can really chew you). and even if it is a question of symbiosis with algae, there could be some kind of symbiosis between algae and beings already more complex, I mean, with things that are already animals (in the first case these things diverged from the animals for a long time) as garden worms of "the future is wild", polychaetes that came to have a relationship with algae?
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On Earth, carnivorous plants largely come about in areas with low nutrients in the soil, or with high competition. They supplement the diet with what they catch, typically insects. It's not so far a jump, because many insects are already accustomed to approaching-- and even entering-- plants to find their own nutrition. A carnivorous plant, such as a flytrap or pitcher plant, capitalizes on this behavior and some modified features to catch their prey for much-needed materials.
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Add to that mixotrophes such as Elysia chlorotica, which eats algae and uses the DNA from the algae to make chloroplast, which has the capability to become even more plant like over time.


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On Earth, carnivorous plants largely come about in areas with low nutrients in the soil, or with high competition. They supplement the diet with what they catch, typically insects. It's not so far a jump, because many insects are already accustomed to approaching-- and even entering-- plants to find their own nutrition. A carnivorous plant, such as a flytrap or pitcher plant, capitalizes on this behavior and some modified features to catch their prey for much-needed materials.
I am not talking about a carnivorous plant like those of the earth, but rather as a sessile predator, which will use the same artifices as a carnivorous plant, and that when it could not capture a prey it would make photosynthesis ... but this was just an atelle idea for complementary, I did not even think about it
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Would it be possible for a species to breath fire by spraying a combustable venom and lighting it with flint stored in a special cheek pouch? I read a book that presented it as a possible way for dragons to have fire breath, and would like to include it in a few species of my own if such a method is possible. (For reference, the book was Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons)
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