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| Archaeopteryx888 | Mar 15 2018, 07:47 AM Post #331 |
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Will any new continents form in the future? |
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| ZoologicalBotanist | Mar 15 2018, 08:07 AM Post #332 |
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Yes, because continental drift will move the existing continents into new shapes and locations. We do not know for sure what they will look like, and I do not think they have names, but they will exist. |
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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Mar 16 2018, 02:49 AM Post #333 |
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Once the next supercontinent forms in about 200 million years and the eventually breaks up there'll be new continents. How they'll look is entirely unknown but that just leaves the spec potential to be high |
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| LλmbdaExplosion | Mar 16 2018, 04:14 AM Post #334 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Similar to these of today i think.Unlikely but is fun. These breakup and fusion stages will happen like 3 times until 800 my future. Do rifts in super continents form where the continents collided or in new spots?Just curious. |
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| A small dog | Mar 16 2018, 07:21 AM Post #335 |
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I have an idea but I don’t know if it’s realistic or not. Basically, it’s a fish (I’m thinking shark, possibly placoderm) that has a brain as a juvenile but eventually resides in a single spot where it lives for its entire life as an ambush predator, relying entirely on nerves to sense its prey. |
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| Empyreon | Mar 16 2018, 10:26 AM Post #336 |
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Are you plausible?
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My mistake. I guess I started thinking about it from the wrong direction. With a sessile predator, the question becomes why do they plant themselves in a single spot? We can draw on ambush predators for inspiration, but what would push a creature all the way to becoming sessile? If you're a predator and you plant yourself in one spot, it's likely to be in a path of common travel (game trails, etc.) but what if the prey population changes course? Can you uproot yourself? And what about other aspects of a predator's life? Do you have a reproductive strategy that isn't unduly inhibited by a sessile life? Just brainstorming, the only Earth analogue I can think of that comes close to what you're talking about is coral. They feed on zooplankton, but also contain algae in their bodies that photosynthesize and transfer energy to the polyp.
Sparking a venom on flint? Seems risky. If you don't expel the results quickly then your head might explode! Much less problematic would be a pair of chemicals, kept in separate venom sacks. Expelled together, and interacting with oxygen in the air, you get conflagration! And it's not happening inside your mouth! See the movie Reign of Fire for a fun example of this.
Edited by Empyreon, Mar 16 2018, 10:27 AM.
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| Archeoraptor | Mar 16 2018, 11:30 AM Post #337 |
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"A living paradox"
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about carnivorous plants well I think euglena algae comes close to that If I'm right bc this unicelular species can swim and do photosynthesis and if there is not enough food crawls and ingest, thotugh take this with a grain of salt
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| Russwallac | Mar 16 2018, 11:41 AM Post #338 |
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"Ta-da!"
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Based on my conversations with other people here about this particular topic, even the mixing venoms idea seems highly implausible. |
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| Empyreon | Mar 16 2018, 02:39 PM Post #339 |
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Are you plausible?
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Yeah, but less implausible than the flint/gas method. That's why I used the phrase "less problematic" instead of "more likely". Any time we're talking about dragons, the conversation is salty (as in, "Take this with a grain of..."). |
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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Mar 16 2018, 04:33 PM Post #340 |
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Realistically (somewhat) there's only really two ways you can get fire breathing dragons; 1) through genetical engineering 2) through evolutionary means on an alien world where some of the lifeforms could produce fire (one idea I had was that the faunal life produces alcohol as a waste product that it excretes through tubes from the mouth, which can also deter predators and in some they develop a rock-like bit in the mouth that was originally developed to produce sounds but evolved to become the ignition mechanism along with the alcohol. I know it's unlikely but that's my best scenario for fire breathing to evolve). EDIT: I forgot I changed my avatar and got scared by it Edited by CaledonianWarrior96, Mar 16 2018, 04:33 PM.
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| Mynameisnotdave23 | Mar 16 2018, 11:06 PM Post #341 |
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If a species of delphinoid evolved sapience, what do you think their culture would be like? (Based on the social behavior of most species). |
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| Octoaster | Mar 17 2018, 01:38 AM Post #342 |
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In all honesty, probably somewhat similar to our own, on the mental side of things that is. Being descended from pack-hunting predators they too would likely evolve a social mentality akin to our own. I may be mistaken, but being aquatic and suspended in three axes they may have a higher developed locational awareness organ, I don't know if the same would apply to their balance system, I don't do much with aquatic creatures. However, certain parts of the brain being larger may impact certain other parts of their brain, and could result in a weakened sense of several things: potentially emotion, memory or a number of others. So on the mentality side of things they would likely be somewhat similar to humans, with some parts vaguely numbed, whatever they may be. Which parts those would be I don't know, that's up to you. Unless you just expand the braincase entirely. |
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| Cool_Hippo43 | Mar 18 2018, 01:40 PM Post #343 |
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Okay, Of all the animals of Darwin Iv, what most astonished me as a child was the Gyrosprinter ... I would like to know if this story of "legs became molten in the first months over millions of years" It really is possible, and if that dumbbell system is also possible. and taking advantage of the subject, which would be more plausible: Two legs melt in the region of the feet or they develop interim as one? |
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| Mitosis | Mar 18 2018, 03:03 PM Post #344 |
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Is it possible that Tenrecs are not members of Afrotheria or even crown group Placentals, but are descended from Non-Placental Eutherians like Zalambdalestes, who developed on their own after the disappearance of Epipubic Bones in the Eutherian lineage leading to modern Placentals? They still have a cloaca which unites the anus and the urogenital tract, and a lower body temperature than most Placentals. I've also read that they have simply constructed, zalambdaldont premolars with a single root, again pointing to the rodent and shrew-like Zalambdalestes, a group of Non-Placental Eutherians from the fossil record, who still had Epipubic Bones, and likely gave birth to tiny, underdeveloped joeys in the Mesozoic. Edited by Mitosis, Mar 18 2018, 03:04 PM.
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| CeratosaurusKing | Mar 18 2018, 10:21 PM Post #345 |
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I'm not a furry or anything but could alien lifeforms that look simliar to Anthropormorphic versions of earth animals be plausible? |
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