I find ocean-to-sky to be the best way of getting nutrients up there. As mentioned in the science thread, I'm also planning a phlyer that loads up the sky with lots of dried urine that came from the sea.
Drinking Cloudgrass (Nimbaphyta vergo)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Cloudgrass
Habitat: Atmosphere (Troposphere), LadyM Tropical Ocean, Jujubee Tropical Ocean, Chum Tropical Coast, King Tropical Coast, BigL Tropical Coast, Jlindy Tropical Coast, Fly Tropical Shallows, Hydro Tropical Coast
Size: 2 meter wide bubble
Support: Cell Wall (Cellulose), Flotation Sac (Hydrogen)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Aeroplanktivore (<2 cm), Oceanic Planktivore (<2 cm)
Respiration: Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Spores), Asexual (Macroscopic Binary Fission)
The drinking cloudgrass split from its ancestor. With the absence of any medium-sized sky flora to compete with, it grew 10 times its ancestor's size. Like its ancestor, it is bilaterally symmetric, however its bubble is more spherical and it floats with its leaf-covered end tilted upwards. It bears a "skirt" of sticky tendrils which surround its root tendrils. It is named for the behavior these changes evolved to support: instead of living "attached" to clouds, it floats freely by day and drifts downwards to "drink" from the ocean by night. In addition to drinking, its sticky tendrils also capture plankton from the water. This is a much better food source than aeroplankton and allows the drinking cloudgrass to grow and reproduce considerably faster than other sky flora, even reaching full size faster than its smaller ancestor.
The drinking cloudgrass's sponge tissue only extends one centimeter past its membrane. This makes it very lightweight and therefore have considerably more lifting power, at the cost that much shallower wounds are sufficient to pop it. However, being able to survive floating on the ocean's surface also gives it time to heal from such wounds and re-inflate. Metals within its membrane such as magnesium prevent hydrogen from leaking out of its bubble.
Like its ancestor, the drinking cloudgrass reproduces sexually using spores. It produces millions of spores per day using the nutrients it gains from the ocean overnight, creating a consistent ocean-to-sky transfer of nutrients which allows other sky flora to grow and reproduce more quickly. Fertilized spores germinate inside clouds and fall as raindrops. Juveniles float at the surface of the ocean, using macroscopic binary fission to rapidly bud new individuals and growing quickly using oceanic nutrients. They utilize cloudbubble cryoutine symbiotes to convert large amounts of water into hydrogen to form their bubbles. Once they reach about half their full size, they are able to float out of the ocean and begin their daily migrations between sea and sky. Very few survive to adulthood, as they are extremely vulnerable to predation early in life.
One of the biggest problems with trying to make a sky ecosystem in an earthlike atmosphere is that there's just not a lot of nutrients in the sky; most of it comes from seaspray. Our sky plants are fairly slow-growing as a result. But I've been working on an idea for a way to bring a ton of nutrients up there really, really fast.
The hairy sky phlyer pees out of its skin and all over its trichomes, which then float through the air after being shed. That right there is conveniently packaged and dried nitrogenous compounds that can be taken up by sky flora, allowing them to grow a lot faster if there's a lot of it.
Right now, the hairy sky phlyer eats stuff from the sky ecosystem. Therefore, it isn't really giving back more than it takes. But perhaps a descendant could.
I have confidence that anything in Serina is probably biologically feasible, therefore I'm gonna take inspiration from a species there. The shadowskimmer is a giant bird that flies eternally, skimming for fish by night and soaring fast asleep at stratospheric heights by day. The hairy sky phlyer is much like the shadowskimmer in that it almost never lands and is able to reproduce without a nest; perhaps a descendant converges on it, swooping lower and lower for mistswarmers until it begins to dip its lower jaw into the ocean itself, causing it to incidentally start catching miniswarmers, krillpedes, and gilltails. As this is a much better food source than aeroplankton, I think it would quickly begin to evolve skim-feeding adaptations. It would be able to reproduce a lot more often thanks to the increased nutritional intake, resulting in a much larger population. This would also make it able to produce more trichomes, which are shed more often to remove the increased amount of waste. And as it soars by day, trichomes containing nitrogenous compounds from its urine fill the atmosphere to get caught and utilized by the sky plants.
Someone on a spec server I'm on likened this concept to marine snow, but in the sky. It would likely become a keystone species.
The hairy sky phlyer pees out of its skin and all over its trichomes, which then float through the air after being shed. That right there is conveniently packaged and dried nitrogenous compounds that can be taken up by sky flora, allowing them to grow a lot faster if there's a lot of it.
Right now, the hairy sky phlyer eats stuff from the sky ecosystem. Therefore, it isn't really giving back more than it takes. But perhaps a descendant could.
I have confidence that anything in Serina is probably biologically feasible, therefore I'm gonna take inspiration from a species there. The shadowskimmer is a giant bird that flies eternally, skimming for fish by night and soaring fast asleep at stratospheric heights by day. The hairy sky phlyer is much like the shadowskimmer in that it almost never lands and is able to reproduce without a nest; perhaps a descendant converges on it, swooping lower and lower for mistswarmers until it begins to dip its lower jaw into the ocean itself, causing it to incidentally start catching miniswarmers, krillpedes, and gilltails. As this is a much better food source than aeroplankton, I think it would quickly begin to evolve skim-feeding adaptations. It would be able to reproduce a lot more often thanks to the increased nutritional intake, resulting in a much larger population. This would also make it able to produce more trichomes, which are shed more often to remove the increased amount of waste. And as it soars by day, trichomes containing nitrogenous compounds from its urine fill the atmosphere to get caught and utilized by the sky plants.
Someone on a spec server I'm on likened this concept to marine snow, but in the sky. It would likely become a keystone species.
Blood Tropofly (Retrocapillum sanguivore)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Tropofly
Habitat: Atmosphere (Troposphere)
Size: 4 cm long
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Omnivore (Soaring Phlyer blood, Hairy Sky Phlyer blood and trichomes, Cloudgrass)
Respiration: Semi-Active (Unidirectional Tracheae)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm (Basking)
Reproduction: Sexual (Hermaphrodite, Eggs)
The blood tropofly split from its ancestor. It has claimed the untaken niche of feasting on the blood of sky-dwelling phlyers. As this requires exposing itself more to travel between food sources, it has become considerably smaller so that it can grow quickly and spend more energy on reproducing as much as possible. It still feeds on cloudgrass, but it gets much of the same nutrients and more from eating the trichomes of hairy sky phlyers. Like its ancestor it can rest on cloudgrass, but it will also rest among hairy sky phlyer trichomes, holding on using its antennae and tails.
Unlike its ancestor, the blood tropofly lays its eggs on fauna as well as flora. Its favorite host is the hairy sky phlyer, as its trichomes prevent the eggs from falling out. Larvae feed on blood, skin, and trichomes. They reach full size in just a few weeks and fly off to mate and lay eggs of their own, continuing to feed on blood all the while.
The blood tropofly is a necessary component to the sky ecosystem. This is because it brings nutrients from flying creatures to sky flora which consume the fly. Though the phlyers eat other sky organisms and don't bring much nutrients into the sky themselves, much of the nutrients are ultimately lost when they defecate; the blood tropofly slows this process. As a result of its contribution, the sky ecosystem has become more stable, though it has a long way to go before it can become as lush and diverse as its predecessors.
Birds can actually fly much higher than that, but I couldn't put this in the stratosphere like that without making it a wildcard. Like high-flying soaring birds such as vultures, it is well-insulated by its feathers.
| QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Oct 28 2021, 11:02 PM) |
| How does this feed on the Fansnapper if they live in separate biomes? |
| QUOTE |
| As an adult, the ascendophrey preys almost exclusively on other soaring creatures. All species which soar effectively enter the "troposphere" biome for hours on end, which allows it to feed on species that are not technically listed as sharing its range when it flies above their native biomes. When hunting large prey, it can employ mob hunting tactics, but it otherwise usually hunts alone. It generally stays close to one of the biomes it can nest in, but because the supercontinent is so weirdly shaped and the non-montane biomes are so narrow, it has access to the tropical and temperate skies above nearly all biomes. |
I've added a bit about what happens to shed trichomes; they're bonus aeroplankton with nitrogenous compounds
Ascendophrey (Falcotherium ferocior)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Sausophrey
Habitat: Atmosphere (Troposphere), Dixon-Darwin Rocky, Dixon-Darwin High Grassland, Vivus Rocky, Vivus High Grassland, Vivus Alpine, Darwin Alpine, South Dixon Alpine, Verserus Alpine, North Dixon Alpine
Size: 1.6 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Carnivore (Soaring Phlyer, Hairy Sky Phlyer, Sausophrey, Faxon, Sansaws, Woodsalcon, Coastwoodufo, Fansnapper, Snapperbeak Hookphlyer, Dixon Hookphlyer; Juveniles: Rosybeak Phyler, Nightsnapper, Robynsnapper, Nectarsnapper, Gryphler, Interbiat, Montemsnapper, Xenobees, Xenowasps), Occasional Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Unidirectional Macrolungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Hard-Shelled Eggs)
The ascendophrey split from its ancestor. It has turned its attention skyward and begun to feed on flying prey. Taking advantage of thermals and utilizing its advanced respiratory system, it is able to soar as high as 10 km above the ground, which is higher than most other species are even capable of breathing, let alone flying. Its largest pair of eyes have been specialized, no longer open to air and bearing a more complex retinal structure to greatly improve its image-forming ability. It soars over a myriad of different biomes in search of food, but nests among rocks in various open montane biomes. It cannot fly forever and must eventually land; however, it is easily able to fly far enough to cross biomes it would never sleep or nest in within a single day, owing in part to the supercontinent's strange shape and narrow biomes. This has allowed it to nest in several disconnected mountain biomes.
The ascendophrey has two main methods of killing its prey. One is to swoop down and snatch it with its jaws. However, the ascendophrey also hunts prey which is too large to carry. To kill these, it utilizes a new trick: diving hooves-first directly into the head, smashing its prey's brain with so much force that it is instantly converted to mush and may even be ejected out the mouth. It will then follow the resulting carcass to the ground to eat. When hunting its fellow flying saucebacks, it instead aims for the sauce plate to the same effect.
As an adult, the ascendophrey preys almost exclusively on other soaring creatures. All species which soar effectively enter the "troposphere" biome for hours on end, which allows it to feed on species that are not technically listed as sharing its range when it flies above their native biomes. When hunting large prey, it can employ mob hunting tactics, but it otherwise usually hunts alone. It generally stays close to one of the biomes it can nest in, but because the supercontinent is so weirdly shaped and the non-montane biomes are so narrow, it has access to the tropical and temperate skies above nearly all biomes.
The ascendophrey nests communally among rocks in the mountains in warm months, as it is a poor climber and cannot nest in trees. Early on, it regurgitates meat for its chicks to eat, but once they are able to fly they leave their parents' care to hunt on their own. Independent juveniles are generally more solitary, though as they grow older they will begin practicing mob hunting, and they eat smaller flighted prey close to the ground for the first year of their lives. Very few survive to adulthood, as they are vulnerable to predation early in life.
Hairy Sky Phlyer (Angeliflora pilosus)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Soaring Phlyer
Habitat: Atmosphere (Troposphere); Mating Only: LadyM Tropical Ocean, Jujubee Tropical Ocean
Size: 2 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Unjointed Wood)
Diet: Omnivore (Tropoworm, Herbivorous Tropoworm, Cloudbubble Tropoworm, Tropofly, Cloudbubble,Cloudgrass, Nimbuses, Hair Nimbuses, Leafy Plyentwort seeds, Parasitic Floats, Mistswarmers), Photosynthesis
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Regional Heterotherm (Wings, Insulating Trichomes)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Live Birth)
The hairy sky phlyer split from its ancestor. It is named for its integument; convergent with the unrelated gryphler, it has produced an indumentum of trichomes derived from skin cells. Unlike the unicellular trichomes of the gryphler, the hairy sky phlyer's trichomes are multicellular and branching. They die after forming, leaving behind their cellulose cell walls. The trichomes are transparent, allowing light to pass through for photosynthesis, but they appear white due to subsurface scattering. They insulate its wing muscles so that they may remain warm enough to function. It is considerably larger than its ancestor, using its broad bill to catch large amounts of flying organisms. It mainly flies around the equator, where the constant humidity and storms encourage large amounts of aeroplankton production. It may soar close to the sea, allowing it to feed on mistswarmers and thus bring new nutrients from the ocean to the sky was well.
The hairy sky phlyer no longer nests and it can sleep on the wing, so it usually only lands to mate. It lands in the ocean and takes off by flapping against the water. The reason it was able to make this innovation is because, as a plent, it gives live birth through its mouth. Its babies are born very well developed, albeit small, and will spend a few minutes to an hour inside their mother's mouth to gather their bearings. They will then leap out and begin to soar on their own. If they don't leave, their mother will push them out with her tongue so that she may eat again. The hairy sky phlyer offers no parental care.
Although the hairy sky phlyer gets some of its energy from photosynthesis, it does not consume most of the sugar it produces. Instead, it stores massive amounts of sugar to use as antifreeze to prevent its wings from freezing and breaking off in the cold atmosphere. All four wings are used in soaring, though the lower pair may rest at an angle. As the skeletal portion of the wing is woody, it holds itself up while still being able to be bent to flap, making it cost less energy to soar than it would for, say, a skysnapper or a flying sauceback.
The hairy sky phlyer's legs have been reduced to only their woody nails, which resemble hooves protruding directly from its torso and serve to guard its underside in the event of a crash. Crashes are usually fatal, but when they aren't, it's because the nails held it off the ground just enough to prevent its abdomen from being torn open as it slid across the ground.
In order to urinate through its integument, the hairy sky phlyer has a patch on its underbelly where all liquid waste is sweated out and removed over time by shedding or by incidental bathing while in water. This causes the trichomes on its underside to be discolored. Its trichomes often remain in the sky after shedding, contributing some nitrogenous compounds and cellulose fiber to the aeroplankton population.
"The underswooper is a better twilight and masonlight hunter than other falcotheres, as it can see better in the dark."
I don't think it's a problem. The art already follows all rules.
Yeah, they can hunt in early morning and late evening too though.
Except the underswooper, that one can be active at night.
Except the underswooper, that one can be active at night.
As single units, they would be the first section almost 1:1 plus the paragraphs for each species. This easily puts them above my 10 shortest fauna descriptions.
The whole point of subgenera is that these ecologically important species that should have representatives in several biomes are realistically all basically identical, so it's a waste of slots to submit them individually.
The whole point of subgenera is that these ecologically important species that should have representatives in several biomes are realistically all basically identical, so it's a waste of slots to submit them individually.
Falcophreys (Falcotherium (Falcotherium) spp.)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Sausophrey
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin, Vivus
Size: 60-100 cm long
Support: Endoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Carnivore
Respiration: Active (Unidirectional Macrolung)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Hard-Shelled Eggs)
Following its evolution, the sausophrey radiated outwards into new biomes, producing many new species which are nearly identical apart from local adaptations. These are known as falcophreys. They are flying mesopredators comparable to eagles or hawks, which see any small fauna not in flight as potential food.
Falcophreys have slotted wings, allowing them to soar without needing long legs and allowing them to take advantage of thermals while scanning the ground for potential prey. They are generally diurnal, though they may hunt in the early morning or late evening as well, allowing them to hunt some nocturnal creatures. As they lack talons, they catch and kill prey by swooping down and snatching them with their sideways beak-like jaws. These can bypass woody armor and short spikes. They cannot taste garlic and can tolerate the taste of ammonia, allowing them to consume certain strongly-flavored nodents. They have very good color vision, particularly in the ultraviolet spectrum, which is very helpful for identifying prey.
Falcophreys are poor climbers and nest communally on the ground, usually in the shelter of shrubs or rocks. Quite unlike the birds of prey they resemble, their young are able to run soon after birth, allowing them to escape from predators, though they cannot yet fly. They perform parental care, feeding their chicks fresh kills. Outside of breeding season, falcophreys are largely solitary and territorial.
Falcophreys have “tail crests”, which serve both as rudders for flight and as communication devices. These can be hidden by folding their tail feathers up against them. The tail crests are always colorful, but not always to the naked eye; they commonly utilize colors outside of the visible spectrum, so they may not appear distinct to anything that is not a jewel-eyed sauceback.
==Species==
===Sansaws===
(Falcotherium deserta)
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Desert, Dixon-Darwin High Desert, Vivus High Desert, Dass Temperate Beach, Wind Temperate Beach
Size: 80 cm long
Diet: Carnivore (Xatakpa, Sabulyn, Teacup Saucebacks, Lizatokage, Egg Lizatokage, Serpmander, Stowaway Harmbless, Kakonat, Shorelance, Pirate Waxface larvae and juveniles, juvenile Harnessback, juvenile Seashrog, juvenile Tilecorn, juvenile Roofback, juvenile Frilled Greenscale, juvenile Mothhead, juvenile Skewer Shrog, juvenile Xatazelle, juvenile Pickaxe Tamow, juvenile Stride Sauceback, juvenile Plehexapod, juvenile Desert Ukjaw)
The sansaws is very similar to the sausophrey, but it hunts in the southern desert and bordering beaches. Its lighter coloration helps reflect heat and sunlight off of its body as it hunts throughout the day. It has been known to swipe baby pirate waxfaces right from the tails of their mothers. It nests among small flora and shrubs found in the desert, such as coastal goth trees, bristlepiles, and arid puffgrasses, where its eggs and juveniles are well-hidden.
The light spots on the sansaws' tail glow pink under ultraviolet light. They appear as a color unperceivable to the human eye to other jewel-eyed saucebacks.
===Faxon==
(Falcotherium dixonensis)
Habitat: Dixon Savanna, Dixon Tropical Scrub, Dixon Dunes
Size: 80 cm long
Diet: Carnivore (Teacup Saucebacks, Interbiat, Pink Scrambler, juvenile Rainforest Buttpiper, juvenile Opportunity Shrew, juvenile Stink Shrew, juvenile Grassland Lizatokage, juvenile Varant, juvenile Xatagolin, juvenile Xatazelle)
The faxon resides in western Dixon and is closely related to the Sansaws. It has a pinkish coloration so that it remains hidden against dry grass. It finds tall grass, as well as larger flora such as fuzzpiles and young ferines, to be suitable hiding places for its nests. Its tail glows with contrasting blue and orange stripes under ultraviolet light, despite its drab appearance in the visible spectrum.
===Snawler===
(Falcotherium vivusensis)
Habitat: Vivus Polar Woodland, Vivus Polar Scrub, Vivus Tundra
Size: 1 meter long
Diet: Carnivore (Teacup Saucebacks, Kehaida, Pikashrew, Snowtunnel Shrew, Sabulyn, juvenile Proto-Tejdaw, juvenile Rainbow Phlock, Stretchskunik)
The snawler is the largest of the falcophreys. Its large size can be attributed to its choice of habitat in Vivus’ polar region, where being larger is better for holding in heat. Being white in color with black spots of varying density causes it to resemble a pile of dirty snow while on the ground. Its spiracles are mostly obscured by the long feathers on its back.
The snawler breeds in the short polar summer. It rarely breeds in the tundra, as its chances of survival are much higher in the milder scrub and polar woodland. Stoutplage and dense thickets of tripcrystals and hedgecrystals provide adequate protection for its eggs and young. Its irridescent tail appears to other jewel-eyed saucebacks as a shifting rainbow of the entire (for them) visible spectrum.
===Woodsalcon===
(Falcotherium parvus)
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Boreal, Darwin Temperate Woodland, Vivus Boreal, Vivus Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Rainforest, Javen Temperate Rainforest, Irinya Temperate Riparian, Bone Temperate Riparian, Huggs Temperate Riparian
Size: 60 cm long
Diet: Carnivore (Teacup Saucebacks, Swiftsnapper, Montemsnapper, juvenile Treehook Tamow, Interbiat, Kuraimingaku, juvenile Flunezen, Kehaida, Dracisketter, Gryphler, Ringtailed Ketter, juvenile Velocitoon, Quail Raptor)
The woodsalcon is one of the smaller of the falcophreys. It lives above temperate and montane obsidian forests, feeding from the canopy or from the ground in areas where the trees are sparser. Its smaller size can be attributed to its choice of tree-dwelling prey, which in turn require it to be able to extract itself when a failed hunt results in it being caught among the branches. It cannot always bring its prey into the air; if it must dive too deep into branches to exit immediately, it will fold its wings shortly before impact to avoid damaging them on the branches.
The woodsalcon's coloration allows it to blend in with obsidian leaf litter when it nests on the ground. It always nests near a clearing or at the forest's edge so that it may enter and exit its nesting area freely. Juvenile obsiditrees make up most of its nest protection deep in the forest itself, but near the edges and in patches clear of obsiditrees, it may live among tubeplages and thickets of crystal brambley. Its tail bears unseen stripes inside the "slots" of the visible pink marking that glow green in ultraviolet light.
===Coastwoodufo===
(Falcotherium sheatherii)
Habitat: Dixon Tropical Woodland, Dixon Tropical Rainforest, Javen Temperate Rainforest, Javen Tropical Rainforest, Javen Tropical Woodland, Jlindy Tropical Beach, BigL Tropical Beach, Clarke Temperate Beach, King Tropical Beach Chum Tropical Beach, Elerd Temperate Beach, North Darwin Tropical Woodland, Darwin Tropical Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Woodland, Vivus Temperate Rainforest
Size: 70 cm long
Diet: Carnivore (Teacup Saucebacks, Beachcomber Snoot, Burrowed Snatching Boble, Quail Raptor, Kakonat, Dixon Hookphlyer, juvenile Opportunity Shrew, Umbral Sphinx, juvenile Stink Shrew, Interbiat, Stowaway Harmbless, Harnejak, Chasing Twintail, juvenile Vibrant Manestrider, Gundiseater, Hikahoe, Montemsnapper, Twinpaw Twintail, juvenile Shadow Buttpiper, Vivusian Barkback, juvenile Fat Lizatokage, Scrambled Shrew, Kehaida, Jongfoll, Burrsnapper, Shrubrattus, Barkback, Vermisnapper, Scrub Barkback, Robynsnapper, juvenile Barkbuck, Eggslurping Sorite, Roofback, Snapperbeak Hookphlyer, juvenile Phlice, Serpungo, juvenile Sealyn, Fansnapper)
The coastwoodufo hunts over forest clearings and flies along beaches bordering forested biomes, scanning for prey that expose themselves in these areas. It has blond, champagne, and black color variants across its range.
The dark stripes on the coastwoodufo's tail glow vividly teal under ultraviolet light. To the eyes of a jewel-eyed sauceback, the green stripes are actually the darker ones. The coastwoodufo nests under juvenile obsiditres within the forests and among fuzzpiles, puffgrasses, and coastal goth trees along the coast.
(Scientific name note: Named after Sheather because he suggested calling this lineage “flying saucers” and this one is a ufo)
==Underswooper==
(Falcotherium megalotis)
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Boreal, Darwin Temperate Woodland, Vivus Boreal, Vivus Alpine, Darwin Alpine, South Dixon Alpine, Verserus Alpine, North Dixon Alpine
Size: 80 cm long
Diet: Carnivore (Teacup Saucebacks, Hikahoe, Gnarbolonk, Quail Raptor, juvenile Neoshrew, Grovecrystal Krugg, Bloodback, Swiftsnapper, Barkback, Shrubrattus, juvenile Oviaudiator, Spineless Toadtuga, juvenile River Hikahoe, Montemsnapper, juvenile Opportunity Shrew, Nectarsnapper, Scrambled Shrew, Phouka, Chasing Twintail, Gryphler, River Scrambler, Interbiat, Eggslurping Sorite, Twinpaw Twintail, Kuraimingaku, Burrowyrm, Kehaida, Vivusian Barkback, Pikashrew, Brookside Leisterpom)
The underswooper takes advantage of the wide spacing of trees in the obsidian forests to hunt prey on the forest floor. It also hunts in the alpine tundra, a biome not occupied by other falcophreys. It has very large ears so that it can hear its prey. Its dark coloration allows it to blend in among obsidian flora and leaf litter. The underswooper is a better twilight and masonlight hunter than other falcophreys, as it can see better in the dark.
The underswooper's tail is just green and has no ultraviolet markings. It nests among fallen branches and under juvenile obsiditrees.
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Behold, an absolute monster of a submission. This generation is so big in part because there needs to be space to break stuff like this up should things not work out.
Ah, I forgot subgenera weren't announced here.
Subgenera are a submission format that allows a large number of redundant species to be submitted in a single entry. Each species within functions as an independent entry as far as the submission rules, ecosystem page, dynamic page lists, cargo table, and Sagan Bot are concerned, but they occupy one readable wiki page and just a single submission slot. This helps account for megafauna bias so that little guys, rabbit analogs, and mesopredators can spread more realistically. Each entry must be effectively like its ancestor but in a new location, occupying a similar or identical niche.
Subgenera are a submission format that allows a large number of redundant species to be submitted in a single entry. Each species within functions as an independent entry as far as the submission rules, ecosystem page, dynamic page lists, cargo table, and Sagan Bot are concerned, but they occupy one readable wiki page and just a single submission slot. This helps account for megafauna bias so that little guys, rabbit analogs, and mesopredators can spread more realistically. Each entry must be effectively like its ancestor but in a new location, occupying a similar or identical niche.
I'm making an absolute monster of a submission to test the new subgenus system. Nearly every biome on the supercontinent will have at least one species of sausophrey by the time I'm done.
I have just one more left to draw to complete the submission. Any suggestions for poses, etc?
I have just one more left to draw to complete the submission. Any suggestions for poses, etc?
I think Ovifan is making a species kinda like that
You use really thick lines.
You use really thick lines.
Hypothetical Deltarune/Sagan 4 crossover. Perfect pacifist route described. I might elaborate more / turn this into a legitimate fic later, but I have never really done dialogue for dr's characters, so...
There is a large room that contains nothing but a hard drive containing a backup of the Sagan 4 wiki at the end of Week 26. There is a door in the southwest. A fountain is opened in the northeastern part of the room. With nothing else to work with, the world that forms is a rough copy of Sagan 4's week 26 ecosystem with darkners based on various extant species. Kris and Susie end up here somehow, and Ralsei is close behind.
Lancer and others aren't here because I forgot about them, but they;'re also just not in Kris's pocket.
There is a large room that contains nothing but a hard drive containing a backup of the Sagan 4 wiki at the end of Week 26. There is a door in the southwest. A fountain is opened in the northeastern part of the room. With nothing else to work with, the world that forms is a rough copy of Sagan 4's week 26 ecosystem with darkners based on various extant species. Kris and Susie end up here somehow, and Ralsei is close behind.
Lancer and others aren't here because I forgot about them, but they;'re also just not in Kris's pocket.
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