@Doomwyte I wanted to make something as strange and derived as an antlear is from a guppy. The idea somehow cross-pollinated with the "quadrupedal burrowing bird" spec-evo cliche. Simply not having eyes made this creature much easier to draw.
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@Doomwyte I wanted to make something as strange and derived as an antlear is from a guppy. The idea somehow cross-pollinated with the "quadrupedal burrowing bird" spec-evo cliche. Simply not having eyes made this creature much easier to draw.
@sunnySerina
Oh, well they don’t really need eyes do they, lol.
Or you could leave them with photo sensitive patches like a hagfish has. But really the possibilities are infinite. Does this mean, we’ll be seeing giant “dune worm” parrots in the near future?
Oh, well they don’t really need eyes do they, lol.
Or you could leave them with photo sensitive patches like a hagfish has. But really the possibilities are infinite. Does this mean, we’ll be seeing giant “dune worm” parrots in the near future?
@sunnySerina
Oh, well they don’t really need eyes do they, lol.
Or you could leave them with photo sensitive patches like a hagfish has. But really the possibilities are infinite. Does this mean, we’ll be seeing giant “dune worm” parrots in the near future?
Oh, well they don’t really need eyes do they, lol.
Or you could leave them with photo sensitive patches like a hagfish has. But really the possibilities are infinite. Does this mean, we’ll be seeing giant “dune worm” parrots in the near future?
@Doomwyte: That's a tempting proposition if they had more time. But they enter very late in Ararauna's lifespan. The sun will scorch all life from the planet and then supernova no more than ten million years after they emerge.
@Doomwyte: That's a tempting proposition if they had more time. But they enter very late in Ararauna's lifespan. The sun will scorch all life from the planet and then supernova no more than ten million years after they emerge.
@Doomwyte @SunnySerina
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Ramisyllis_multicaudata_Sarah_Faulwetter_Capture.png[/img]
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I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
@Doomwyte @SunnySerina
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
WORM
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I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
WORM
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I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
@Xionahri
Worm squared, perfect. Yes, I know of sponge worms. But that’s a great joke, lol!
[img]https://i.pinimg.com/474x/1a/68/96/1a6896e23eeacee902c8363fb8741213.jpg[/img]
Now if someone can photoshop a worm in place of that plucked chicken.
@Xionahri
Worm squared, perfect. Yes, I know of sponge worms. But that’s a great joke, lol!
Now if someone can photoshop a worm in place of that plucked chicken.
Worm squared, perfect. Yes, I know of sponge worms. But that’s a great joke, lol!
Now if someone can photoshop a worm in place of that plucked chicken.
[quote name="Xionahri" date="2021-02-02 12:23:12" ]
@/Doomwyte @/SunnySerina
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Ramisyllis_multicaudata_Sarah_Faulwetter_Capture.png[/img]
WORM
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I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
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I had no idea a branching worm was possible and I doubt that even my wyrms would ever evolve such a body plan.
Xionahri wrote on 2021-02-02 12:23:12:
@/Doomwyte @/SunnySerina
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
WORM
O
R
M
I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
Here's somethinng that needs to be on the list.
WORM
O
R
M
I wonder how long it'd take for a bird to evolve that body plan. Or even just why.
@sunnySerina
@Xionahri
The fun thing is... that it’s not just sponge worms!
There’s a variety of polycheates that produce duplicate animals, still attached. These are specialized individuals that at spawning time break off from the the main worm. They swim together in a swarm. The swarming worms spawn and die. Meanwhile, the original worm stays nice n’ safe in its hidy hole/sponge/under a rock.
http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2009/05/my-genitals-just-grew-eyes-and-swam.html
@Xionahri
The fun thing is... that it’s not just sponge worms!
There’s a variety of polycheates that produce duplicate animals, still attached. These are specialized individuals that at spawning time break off from the the main worm. They swim together in a swarm. The swarming worms spawn and die. Meanwhile, the original worm stays nice n’ safe in its hidy hole/sponge/under a rock.
http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2009/05/my-genitals-just-grew-eyes-and-swam.html
@sunnySerina
@Xionahri
The fun thing is... that it’s not just sponge worms!
There’s a variety of polycheates that produce duplicate animals, still attached. These are specialized individuals that at spawning time break off from the the main worm. They swim together in a swarm. The swarming worms spawn and die. Meanwhile, the original worm stays nice n’ safe in its hidy hole/sponge/under a rock.
http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2009/05/my-genitals-just-grew-eyes-and-swam.html
@Xionahri
The fun thing is... that it’s not just sponge worms!
There’s a variety of polycheates that produce duplicate animals, still attached. These are specialized individuals that at spawning time break off from the the main worm. They swim together in a swarm. The swarming worms spawn and die. Meanwhile, the original worm stays nice n’ safe in its hidy hole/sponge/under a rock.
http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2009/05/my-genitals-just-grew-eyes-and-swam.html
[quote name="sunnySerina" date="2021-02-02 11:34:57" ]
@ Doomwyte I made a quick illustration of a typical wyrm, its head, and vestigial toes near the vent:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/5OM7IRr.jpg[/img]
[/quote]i like this guy!
sunnySerina wrote on 2021-02-02 11:34:57:
@ Doomwyte I made a quick illustration of a typical wyrm, its head, and vestigial toes near the vent:
[quote name="PixelSpiral" date="2021-02-02 13:24:03" ]
[quote name="sunnySerina" date="2021-02-02 11:34:57" ]
@ Doomwyte I made a quick illustration of a typical wyrm, its head, and vestigial toes near the vent:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/5OM7IRr.jpg[/img]
[/quote]i like this guy!
[/quote]
Thank you!
PixelSpiral wrote on 2021-02-02 13:24:03:
sunnySerina wrote on 2021-02-02 11:34:57:
@ Doomwyte I made a quick illustration of a typical wyrm, its head, and vestigial toes near the vent:
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned in this thread yet, but a couple weeks ago a friend showed me a spec evo project i found really interesting,
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/member-project-diyu-t3513.html
It's a really neat spec evo project following the discovery of an isolated underground cave ecosystem called Diyu in Yunnan, China that's been completely isolated since the early Cambrian. Everything from bacteria and archaea, to complex animals are a direct descendant of early Cambrian lifeforms. The ecosystem has been allowed to evolve completely separate from the rest of earths evolutionary history, which i find absolutely fascinating. The project is incredibly diverse, yet beautifully terrifying and alien. There's stuff from the exant relatives of Vetulicolians to some really cool spec fungi. I reccomend it
Also, I've been meaning to fully read through Serina. Based off what i've read so far, it's really good. I like the author's other works too. (that one Australopithecus story :') )
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/member-project-diyu-t3513.html
It's a really neat spec evo project following the discovery of an isolated underground cave ecosystem called Diyu in Yunnan, China that's been completely isolated since the early Cambrian. Everything from bacteria and archaea, to complex animals are a direct descendant of early Cambrian lifeforms. The ecosystem has been allowed to evolve completely separate from the rest of earths evolutionary history, which i find absolutely fascinating. The project is incredibly diverse, yet beautifully terrifying and alien. There's stuff from the exant relatives of Vetulicolians to some really cool spec fungi. I reccomend it
Also, I've been meaning to fully read through Serina. Based off what i've read so far, it's really good. I like the author's other works too. (that one Australopithecus story :') )
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned in this thread yet, but a couple weeks ago a friend showed me a spec evo project i found really interesting,
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/member-project-diyu-t3513.html
It's a really neat spec evo project following the discovery of an isolated underground cave ecosystem called Diyu in Yunnan, China that's been completely isolated since the early Cambrian. Everything from bacteria and archaea, to complex animals are a direct descendant of early Cambrian lifeforms. The ecosystem has been allowed to evolve completely separate from the rest of earths evolutionary history, which i find absolutely fascinating. The project is incredibly diverse, yet beautifully terrifying and alien. There's stuff from the exant relatives of Vetulicolians to some really cool spec fungi. I reccomend it
Also, I've been meaning to fully read through Serina. Based off what i've read so far, it's really good. I like the author's other works too. (that one Australopithecus story :') )
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/conceptual_evolution/member-project-diyu-t3513.html
It's a really neat spec evo project following the discovery of an isolated underground cave ecosystem called Diyu in Yunnan, China that's been completely isolated since the early Cambrian. Everything from bacteria and archaea, to complex animals are a direct descendant of early Cambrian lifeforms. The ecosystem has been allowed to evolve completely separate from the rest of earths evolutionary history, which i find absolutely fascinating. The project is incredibly diverse, yet beautifully terrifying and alien. There's stuff from the exant relatives of Vetulicolians to some really cool spec fungi. I reccomend it
Also, I've been meaning to fully read through Serina. Based off what i've read so far, it's really good. I like the author's other works too. (that one Australopithecus story :') )
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