Hello @FaunaComplete! This is a very good first submission, though the description is a little short. Might I suggest adding details about its behavior? Eg. does it live alone or in herds, parental care, etc

how about instead we have an extinction event where a sophont evolves and plays sburb, thus bombarding Sagan 4 with meteors the size of the moon and wiping out all life on the surface and replacing the biosphere with carapacian exiles

the aftermath might be more interesting with fewer survivors

> Major predators above 1m in size have a 50% chance of going extinct.

That's the only extinction criteria? that would make it the least deadly mass extinction lol

I'm gonna merge this into the fanart thread

Seconded approval.

With everything fixed, I am changing this to approved.

(my being hard on the submission is not disapproval of the concept - I actually have an idea for a descendant)

"Dormant Spores (Worldwide ocean)"

This is not a valid biome to put a species in.

The atmosphere should not be included when an organism isn't part of the sky ecology (this is just hunting stuff in the biomes it flies over)

You say it's only in temperate and subpolar, but you listed polar biomes too.

Soma temperate mangal is listed twice.

Coolsteph temperate beach is listed twice.

The range is not one solid piece on the map.

Neotenous salamanders at least still have legs and move in ways that translate well when metamorphosis is induced. A goblin would not know what to do with the old leg style appearing out of nowhere.

With the removal of plains and addition of beaches, this could be salvaged as a plausible descendant of coastwoodufo, which is a slightly smaller but very similar ophrey species that's already coastal and lives in the north Darwin subtropics (which border the temperate regions).

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?:

• External?: Longer, narrower wings and other soaring adaptations; food pouch; oil for feathers; wide jaw splay
• Internal?: Omnivorous diet
• Behavioral/Mental?: Gifting to mates

Are Changes Realistic?: Y, however I feel that the jaw splay should be explained more. As an ophrey, it depends on a strong bite to kill prey, as it has no other structures that can be used for that; a wide gape would affect its jaw strength. Is it compensating in some way?
New Genus Needed?: already done

Habitat:
Type?: 3/3
Flavor?: 3/3
Connected?: N - How does it skip the beaches? Also, how did it get into the northern hemisphere?
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: kinda short but acceptable
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: n/a

Status: Pending - see highlighted issues

What are they getting out of it?

Please do not make organisms that fill half the nitrogen cycle on their own.

seconded

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Mar 26 2023, 02:45 PM)

The problem isn't dollo's law, the problem is pressure to regain primitive anatomy when it was clearly headed down a path where it wasn't useful. What pressure was this organism under that made going back to this form advantageous?

To add on--the leaping gremlin does not look or sound like a descendant of the crystal goblin at all. It looks like a descendant of the fluttering spardi twisted into being a goblin without explanation under the excuse of "atavism" while having a lifestyle completely discontinuitous with the goblin. Imagine if I tried to make an arsnoot-like descendant of the kugard; that's the level of evolutionary absurdity we're looking at here.

@Oofle

Nominations are now closed. I will post a poll once they've been sorted through for qualification.

The problem isn't dollo's law, the problem is pressure to regain primitive anatomy when it was clearly headed down a path where it wasn't useful. What pressure was this organism under that made going back to this form advantageous?

Because I completely forgot about this because of irl stuff, I'm giving 24 more hours for any last minute nominations.

Probably asterplents.

I'd have shortened the title to Allfriend Knightworm & Mycostrum

fix

I don't recommend submitting wips this close to the end of the generation.

Perhaps you should be approaching species ideas more as "X that eats Y or lives in Z" and working out adaptations from there, rather than every species being an Important Evolutionary Step.