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May 19 2018, 06:14 PM

My current understanding;

Evolutionary Continuum: Current species evolving from now, either on earth or transplanted elsewhere?

Café Cosmique: ? I see random art and concept threads but also full in depth projects so I'm not sure what should go here?

Also, would a "recreate extinct species in modern day and see where they go from there" thread go in Evolutionary Continuum or Café Cosmique?
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well, from what I know in the Evolutionary Continuum are worked out hypotheses for a future from now on, that is: evolutions of animals that already exist today. always being a hypothesis of how the future would be or something (if you, for example, work on something of the past as an extinct animal, will not be the continuum, but the alternative evolution

in the cosmic cafe apparently are random reflections and if I'm not mistaken there are also wolrdbuilding projects and things like that (in case you want to work in an alien society or things like that)
I guess

and I think that this concept of "recreate extinct species in modern day and see where they go from there" should be located in the alternative universe, since these species of the past are placed in a "present", so it is not our present. if you only worked on the evolution of these extinct animals but without transporting them to the present and mixing everything there would be in the alternative evolution


although I may be wrong
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May 19 2018, 06:14 PM
My current understanding;

Evolutionary Continuum: Current species evolving from now, either on earth or transplanted elsewhere?

Alternative Evolution: Possible alternatives to what did evolve in our own timeline from an ancestor further back than present.

The Habitable Zone: Speculative Xenobiology inside our current universe

Alternate Universes: Speculative life in universes with slightly or vastly different rules of physics.
That sounds about right.

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Café Cosmique: ? I see random art and concept threads but also full in depth projects so I'm not sure what should go here?
As someone who doesn't really use that section of the forum I'm not 100% sure, but from what I've understood it involves works of fiction one comes up with that has something to do with the theme of speculative evolution. I think RPs can also go there.

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Also, would a "recreate extinct species in modern day and see where they go from there" thread go in Evolutionary Continuum or Café Cosmique?
I think it could potentially work in either of those sections, depending on whether you focus more on creature and environment descriptions or more on a story or stories set in this speculative world.
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Cafe Cosmique is essentially any creations (art, writing, RPs, whatever) that aren't related to speculative evolution.
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May 19 2018, 07:14 PM
Cafe Cosmique is essentially any creations (art, writing, RPs, whatever) that aren't related to speculative evolution.
Tartarus
May 19 2018, 06:53 PM
I think RPs can also go there.

We have an separate section of the forum for RPs, you guys. It's directly below Cafe Cosmique.

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May 19 2018, 06:14 PM
Also, would a "recreate extinct species in modern day and see where they go from there" thread go in Evolutionary Continuum or Café Cosmique?

I agree with Tartarus that it could certainly go in either depending on your goals. There have been previous future evolution projects that have dealt with genetically engineered creatures (Jurassic World 2.0, seems the most applicable to this situation, even if it isn't exactly typical) so it isn't necessarily based solely on the exact, real present.
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I could probably start it in Cafe Cosmique, and if it seems to be going in a direction more suited for Evolutionary Continuum I could always ask for it to be moved/remake the topic there, couldn't I? That seems to be a good idea.
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I knew we had an RP section, but I had thought it was a subforum of Cafe Cosmique; I've never been in it, myself.
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Does anyone know what the ears of parareptiles look like?
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May 20 2018, 12:09 AM
Does anyone know what the ears of parareptiles look like?
From what I can gather, they're little holes like other reptiles.
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Does anyone know what the ears of parareptiles look like?
Ears in parareptiles seems to be a variable condition, depending on the structure of the stapes and size and presence of an otic notch for the eardrum, although based on squamates it probably just looked like a hole in the head with a tight membrane across it (like this one from Russia for example).

That said, parareptiles may be a polyphyletic grouping according to recent unpublished work, so there may not be a single answer regarding parareptile ears.
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why are canada geese not called canadian geese?
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May 20 2018, 08:32 AM
why are canada geese not called canadian geese?
Because they are not only found in Canada.

Also correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think this is the kind of question for this topic.
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in what situation do you see the american alligator/pumas evolving ways to hunt and eat burmese pythons
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May 20 2018, 11:31 AM
in what situation do you see the american alligator/pumas evolving ways to hunt and eat burmese pythons
I don't know about pumas but alligators already predate on pythons, especially fully grown male alligators which are capable of hunting pythons more than 10 feet long. It's sort of like a predator war between those two reptiles to be honest. I don't know if alligators will ever evolve to specifically hunt snakes (tbh that sounds like a risky strategy if you want your species to survive) but if you mean just with snakes as part of their menu then I don't think they need to evolve anything
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Are there any species of non-avian Dinosaurs known that definitely evolved from another known dinosaur?
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What are the chances that saltwater crocodiles are capable of expanding to New Zealand? Assuming they do so in an interglacial period (like today) around the time ocean temperatures reach their highest peak possible
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