I like its blocky, artificial-looking shapes and secondary succession position.

Sagan 4 Alpha does have lower standards for plausibility than Beta, but I wonder how much of an advantage having extra digits would give. Do Scarlet Phylers outright fall out of trees and die? Or is it merely convenient to have extra digits?

If the color match is as close as the image suggests, the females must be very well camouflaged indeed.

"Ramul island" should be capitalized.

It's hard to recognize Baseejies that don't have crystals that look like bad CGI.
It's nice to see additions of flora. I like how you gave the background flora lighter outlines.

This is enormous for a water table creature.
Does the reproductive template need to specify "male and female", or is that presumed the default, and only specified if something is unusual?

These should become ecologically very important. It's interesting how it parallels some of the "planimals" of the Beta timeline.

"Its selects" should be "it selects". I recommend revising the sentence, because that suggests it can magically enhance the sizes of whatever flora it selects, rather than changing diets to bigger foods over time.

I recommend using GIMP to enhance the color and contrast of your drawings.

Interesting...it seems to be very dark purple, rather than black.
Those sweat-leaves are creative, interesting, and pretty plausible.

"Barlowe Chaparral" has a period at the end. That's a typo.
When you say "standing on its tail", do you mean standing only on its tail, or using a tripod configuration with its back legs and tail?
That's some nice fur detail.

I like the artwork.
Why does it have elephant-like ears instead of floppy bunny-like or bat-like ears?
It's interesting to see more organisms taking advantage of Seashrog-spread species and spreading them further; it seems like a very quick way to inject more large flora species into habitats.
" shaking displays.." has two periods.

It's creative, plausible, and opens up interesting ecological opportunities.

With all the extra driftwood from Seashrog nests, anything that feeds on sunken driftwood (e.g.., something like a gribble worm) would surely flourish.

They share the Barlowe Temperate Rainforest environment.

Unfortunately, there's no way to make spoilers on Sagan 4 Alpha. If these seem ludicrously large, know that the original images were much, much larger.
These were all made years ago. Some of the organisms have since been submitted, so one can use those to make a rough timeline of when I made each sketch page.


"Fermisaurs" and Fermi Grayflora


Mostly Dundis and Pukais:


Flora, Filter-Feeders and a Rejected Dundi:


Curals, Sunlogs, and More "Fermisaurs":

I'm just imagining a sighted Sauceback saying "Saucebacks can't see!", closing its eyes and bumping into a tree.
Somehow, this gives me the vague notion of Saucebacks which can sleepwalk or Saucebacks getting tangled up in spiderweb or Spanish-moss-esque sheetlike organisms.

I myself have probably had a few Sagan 4 Alpha-related dreams, but I cannot recall them.

Thank goodness they eat at least one non-genus organism.
I wonder if it interacts with the Sauceswarmer? It "is always on the hunt for prey which is often much larger than itself", and the Sauceswarmer's smaller than the Hemoswarmer, which would make it easier to take down.
I like how they are simultaneously familiar and alien. Are they fuzzy botflies or shrews? They're both, and have no eyes.

At first, I figured these were descended from the Bonyfee. Nope, but they sure like making colorful lumps and dots on a hard substrate.

I wonder if the explosion of tiny genus groups will have great top-down effects on "algae" populations. That is, what if bigger organisms go extinct specifically because tinier genus groups eat up most of the "algae" supply? The fact there are so many domains means it's difficult to make a fairly-plausible "disease genus" or "parasite genus" that regulates multiple genus groups. It's like something that infects both Archaea and seaweed.

I don't think the number of seeds within the nuts needs to be specified in the reproductive template.

"Ancestors rich" should be "ancestors' rich".
That's distinctive Nergali art: muted colors and shading, tentacles and grotesque-ness. It's a donut-eyed frown-bean. I imagine it discourages predators by frowning really hard at them and making it really awkward.

It's interesting to note established populations of Carnosprawl and Fuzzweed on Fermi. One can split up the history of Fermi into "pre-Seashrog" and "post-Seashrog", as well as other historical markers, such as "pre-Bonegrove" and "post-Bonegrove".

By Beta standards, I would ask you clarify how it keeps such dangerously high amounts of salt within its body as a de facto toxin. But this is Alpha, so the standards are looser.

As interesting as seashrogs are, the emphasis on seashrogs and things that interact with seashrogs in the Bonegrove's description makes Seashrogs seem to be the human-equivalent protagonists of Sagan 4 Alpha.

I like how it differentiates Fermi Temperate Beach's coast and beach environments, and how it may make a new sub-environment itself.

I was a little disappointed it has no relation to the boneflora (Bonephyta primus descendants), though.

Interesting: it's like a free-living thorny-headed worm that eats iron.

Ooh. Iron-eating (or breathing?), herbivorous bacteria biofilm moss that lives in the water table. What a lovely alien organism.

Some of the old members might be contactable via DeviantArt, or it might provide some leads.
At risk of appearing as if I'm stalking, Elerd favorited something on DeviantArt that was published on May 14, 2020, which means Elerd hasn't been gone for years on the platform.
Most likely, Somarinoa and Ittiz are still active on DeviantArt: I've sent the latter a message.
People going by "LadyM" and "Irinya" appear to like My Little Pony. At risk of stalking-like behavior, it might be worthwhile to check out My Little Pony forums and ask. Russ1 might be active on DeviantArt; I sent the person who might be Russ1 a message.

These could make mountain peaks much more habitable, whether from land species or stranded (heh) troposphere species.

I figure these were easy to draw, since you could automate most parts using preset brushes.

Generation 20?! What?!
I went on a brief trip through the Generations, and the oldest extant organism I can recall is the Fraboohorn. (Although the Octhermas genus group is basically a genus-ified Protohydroia Octherma)

Ah, enough predator of the Stegosnaper. It sure is no apex predator anymore.
I like the shading and speckles.

Does it make sense for a genus group to arise from an organism that had such a restricted range, even if potential prey populations exploded into genus groups? Or should that implausibility be set aside, due to Alpha's looser rules on plausibility?

"functio" is a typo; it should be "function".

The art is lovely. I like the shading and patterns.