QUOTE (Nergali @ Jun 20 2021, 01:42 PM)

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Jun 20 2021, 01:04 AM) Anyway, the changes to those species in the redraws seem a bit large. Could you justify some of the changes / explain why they were made? Nergali Quite simple. One, I was trying to make them more naturalistically colored, and two, I was trying to make them more resemble the overall look of the rosy scylarian, that way it made more sense that they evolved from it, rather than the original ones being seemingly more drastic in terms of changes.

Approved

It is a new genus, I just didn’t post that part yet.

Aossi (Anthousai ailill)

Ancestor: Srugeing (Tumescaeus volatilis)
Habitat: Maineiac Boreal, Maineiac Temperate Woodland, Maineiac Temperate River, Maineiac Temperate Riparian
Size: 10 cm Long
Support: ?
Diet: Juvenile: Omnivore (Sugary Minicrystal, Microswarmers, Flovars, Floatfilms, Prongangels, Swarmerkings, Whip Swarmers, Chainswarmers); Adult: Nectarivore (Sappy Pinknose), Carnivore (Cloudswarmers, Mistswarmers , Minikruggs, Vermees)
Respiration: Juvenile: Semi active (gill); Adult: Semi-active (gill lung)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Eggs into water

As the [[srugeing]] continued the process of becoming gradually more adapted to aerial life, new niches opened themselves up to be filled, allowing for a diversification in species. One such species is the '''aossi''', an organism specializing in high sugar diets. Compared to their ancestors, the aossi are much better suited for a terrestrial lifestyle. While they still retain a larval state that is reminiscent of the ancestral [[gilltail]], they now spend longer out of the water as adults, growing a comparatively leathery epidermis layer that allows for moisture retention. They are also able to support themselves with a more rigid internal chitin endoskeletal structure called a gladius, in a manner similar in setup to that of terran cephelopds. This structure however in entirely internal and rather thin, resting directly between the dermal and epidermal layers of their skin, save for the skin on their tails. This structure is rather primitive and does not form until immediately prior to their emergence from water.. They are in their adult stage now for the warmer seasons, totaling up to 5 months. They will remain as larvae for up to 4 years, before they begin the process of maturing into their adult stage. This allows the aossi to keep their predators to a minimum, as both they and their ancestors are often opportunistically feed upon by mountsnappers, sormsnapper, and corvisnappers.

The aossi gets their main source of nutrients from the various small fauna that they hunt. Their hummingbird-like flight technique allows them to easily maneuver as they pick up the small insectoid fauna of the greater Maineiac woodlands areas. This flight technique comes at a cost, as it is extremely energy intensive, requiring the aossi to take frequent rests and to eat the equivalent of up to their entire body weight in calories every day. Adding to their flight burdens is their prehensile tails. These tails are needed to allow the aossi to grip to orbioflora branches to roost, but these also act as a drag on their flight. In order to help supplement these extreme energy costs, they feed on the sugary food sources available in their environment, mainly the sappy pinknose. Lacking a tongue, they instead have developed a fold within their stomach and throat, which they regurgitate up when they are within a sappy pinknose. This partial gastric eversion in may was both looks and functions like a tongue, granting the aossi the ability to lap up the sugary mucus and spore berries. the sappy pinknose has adapted to take advantage of this behavior, as the aossi are not the most efficient eaters, they will carry off spore berries on their bodies and in their droppings, allowing for the further spread of their food. Thanks to this feeding method, the aossi has actually allowed the proliferation of the sappy picknose to the environments that the aossi lives in, finding the abundant drooping orbion relatives fantastic hosts. The can now be found all over the woodlands of Maineiac. Even with the energy source of the sappy pinknose, they have shrunken dramatically in size compared to their ancestor, as their diet can not fully support organisms much larger than them.

The mating practices of the aossi have become more elaborate, due to ever increasing mate selection pressure. The males have developed increased coloration patterns to stand out for females. Aossi eyesight is not well developed, and so they must rely on this coloration distinctions to stand out among the foliage. When a male is accepted, the mating pairs will search for calmer bodies of water, usually within the riparian regions of the Maineiac river system, where the female will lay her brood, typically between 100-300 eggs, which the male will fertilize and then abandon. Fertilization will usually occur in anywhere between 40-95% of the laid eggs, with factors such as calmness of the standing water and fitness of the male contributing. On rare occasion, another male may come along and attempt to fertilize the eggs as well, attempting to capitalize on the possibility of there being remaining viable unfertilized eggs. If they do so while the previous male is still present, it will usually result in a "fight", which amounts to the males circling one another until one expends too much energy and gives up. These fights have been know to lead to the death of one or both of the males, as they will burn through enough of their reserves to collapse from exhaustion. This adds an extra evolutionary pressure on energy regulation, as the male with the better abilities to conserve energy will be the one most likely to survive, and thus pass on their genes.


A typical female Aossi

Generation 164 A isn't a requirement

Am I good to review this?

Coolsteph Can I get your usual review on this?

OviraptorFan Do you have more to do, or am I good to review?

OviraptorFan Do you have more to do, or am I good to review?

OviraptorFan Do you have more to do, or am I good to review?

OviraptorFan Do you have more to do, or am I good to review?

Good to review?

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?:
What changes?:

• External?: Claw Growth, Coloration
• Internal?: Hearing thru Jaw Bone, Loss of Echolocation
• Behavioral/Mental?: Herding, Male fighting

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Yes

Habitat:
Type?: 1/2
Flavor?: 2/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: N (1 m -> 3m Tall)
Exception?: Low Competition

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

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

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: Diet expanded to other flora

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: Ancestor needs it listed

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Y
Other?: N/A

Status: Approved


I can't accept the genus change for the Grabnub, the radical changes to the species means they're too different.

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?:
What changes?:

• External?: Smaller, More branches
• Internal?: N
• Behavioral/Mental?: N/A

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: N

Habitat:
Type?: 2/2
Flavor?: 3/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y (56 m -> 28 m Tall)
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: N/A
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A

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?: A bit small, but good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Y
Other?: N/A

Status: Approved

Yeah it looks good

That's something we'll have to address later. For now, I'll accept it

Anything else needed?

Anything else needed?

Anything else needed?

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jun 5 2021, 07:03 PM)

Since it's long, long past the point at which any Tripodician buildings would remain, I can't make a landmark for them. Should there be a "Sophont Archaeology" topic?

There 100% should be a thread about this, but I moved it to the Science channel

So, we have a lot of maladaptive species that are poorly adapted for Polar regions, such as unexplained ectotherms. As such, I am giving them until the end of Week 26 to be improved or moved out of the polar regions. Any species left will be wiped out.

Here is the current list of maladaptive species that are on the chopping block:

Tileback
Rolling Flune
Tonboswarmer
Tilepillar
Pewpa
Drake Uktank
Flippskima
Morphous Swampbean
Elahpekomlap Bubblehorn
Bipedal Uktank
Chromanke
Crystank Shell
Crystank Flasprout
Crystank Walker
Luroot
Spitting Lizalagarto
Shortfaced Thornback
Voracious Anklebiter Thornback
Thumbwalker
Billdeka
Duramboar
Cryorasher
Bubble-Throated Anklebiter
Farmphibian
Shellear
Gushlych
Karybdos
Gliding Gushstrider
Spinebacked Probeface
Mountain Pedesorm


As well as the full list announced, there are some species that need elaboration on whether they are at risk of dying to the polar purge:

Bloody Nose Cotingo (elaboration)
Ringtailed Ketter (elaboration)
Squat Limbless (elaboration)
Violet Cadovermi (elaboration)
Wind Shrubite (maybe)
Snowsculptor Janit (elaboration)
Drakescooter (elaboration)
Festive Uktank (Basking?)
Sum-Humgrove (elaboration)
Lurcup (elaboration)
Seaplane Tonboswarmer (elaboration)
Cochliabite (elaboration)

Then I'll re-accept it

It's about 700 sq miles, so roughly a size between Singapore and Guam

Coolsteph Islets

Creator: MNIDJM
Week: 26
Habitat: Soma Temperate Coast

The Coolsteph Islets are a small collection of low island limestone outcrops that are the remains of the eastern seaside cliffs of the extinct Coolsteph Island. They can be found throughout the Soma coast, but by far the largest collection can be found 5 km off the western shores of Ramul. They are low elevation, rarely reaching higher than 30 m above sea level. They have provided a refuge for many ancient lineages that once inhabited the Coolsteph ecosystem, allowing them to not only survive, but survive long enough to establish a foothold on Ramul. The largest islet, Isla Coolsteph, has an area spanning 2330 km^2. Matted with fields of [[Darwin Thornshells|darwin thornshell]], [[boomstick|boomsticks]], [[fuzzweed|fuzzweeds]], and [[Eeyore Stalk|seeyore stalks]], Isla Coolsteph had some of the last stable populations of large herbivores such as [[hopketter|hopketters]] and the [[shaggycoat]] descendant species. The other islets in the surrounding archipelago maintain little to no large herbivores, as they are fairly lacking in surface freshwater, though even these islets support not just flora, but various small organisms that feed on them as weel as populations of [[Magnificent Slaesosaurus|magnificent slaesosaurus]] ans scooters breeding in the shores. Geological scans of the surrounding oceans and landmasses show that these islands were more common going back to the earlier centuries after the loss of Coolsteph. Scans further show that the north western shores of Ramul have limestone deposits consistent with those found in Coolsteph, leading to the theory that Ramul has in fact merged with a few of these low islands. Whether this merger allowed for the survivors of Coolsteph to reach its shores, or if island hopping lead to the seeding is as of yet undetermined

Location or largest islets:

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jun 2 2021, 03:33 PM)

I like the goat pupils and patterning. "Jaydoh island" Should "island" be capitalized here? "beech cheekhorns" Beach cheekhorns.

Fixed.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Jun 1 2021, 03:06 AM)

MNIDJM OviFan has expressed that he is still working on this, and there are still potentially some outstanding issues.

If that's the case I'll desubmit it

OviraptorFan If you are not finished with a submission, make sure to leave WIP somewhere in the title