It appears that the previous surveys of Drake Tundra we not as extensive as previously thought. It appears that the Burncumferance is not as capable as assumed and the previously barren flora landscape was the result of a prolonged drought in the region keeping the number lower. New surveys have revealed a greater preserved diversity that has recovered considerably. As such, the following species are now no longer considered extinct:
Purple Poison Shrub
Dreidalbulb
Snohawkworm
Warf Gossalizard
Tundra Plyent
Burroskunik
Snow Puff
Xidhorchia
Windbulb
Pink Phlyer
Mini-Flower Ketter
Toxplage
Toxplage Ketter
Tundra Orbibom
Taloned Phlyer
Woollycoat
Polar Spade-Leaf

Looks good now.

OviraptorFan Welcome to the team!

Please repost your species in the Organism Submission channel

Cube67 Welcome to the Sagan 4 team!

Please wait to submit this until Disgustedorite's elaboration submission is posted to post your submission, but you are welcome to post other submissions.

Thistle and Rose Welcome to the Sagan 4 team!

While we are still working out the issues with your submissions ancestry, we can't allow it just yet, but there's no reason you should be allowed to join and work on others.

I'm not sure about it being on Ramul. For certain species it makes sense to skip a biome, like if we had an airborne reproducing beach species spreading to a neighboring islands beach, or a species bypassing a river, but this one is bypassing the Soma Temperate Beach, Soma Tropical Coast, and Ramul Temperate Beach. It doesn't have as active of a reproductive method as the Bangsticks, and even that one is partially listed as in the troposphere. It should probable do the same as the Gargantuan Obsiditree, with the spores being aeroplankton

Looks like you meant to list Shortfaced Thornback instead of Shortfaced Sauceback

It’s time once again for a species challenge! Since the last challenge ended in a tie, I feel it’s only fitting that the next challenge be...

TAG TEAM: pick any *two* macro species with a least a phylum difference and develop a symbiotic relationship between them. The more complicated and interesting, the better. Only two species are allowed, so as to not clutter the submissions. You’re allowed to have them be within a broader relationship complex, but only two will be counted, so pick the best.

All submissions must be in by generation 163 ends, and every entry must indicate it in either the body of the topic or in the subheader. I will put up a poll in the forum for us to vote on. The winner gets a badge, the option to pick the next contest, and bragging rights.

Still working on this?

Didn't want to add it to the temperate areas?

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Electini are considered a DMRM (Dissimilatory Metal-Reducing Microorganisms). DMRMs are microorganisms that can perform anaerobic respiration utilizing a metal as terminal electron acceptor rather than molecular oxygen (O2), which is the terminal electron acceptor reduced to water (H2O) in aerobic respiration. The most common metals used for this end are iron [Fe(III)] and manganese [Mn(IV)], which are reduced to Fe(II) and Mn(II) respectively, and most microorganisms that reduce Fe(III) can reduce Mn(IV) as well. But in Electini they specialize in Manganese. In simple term they "eat and breathe" electricity from heavy metals.

Now this paragraph is exactly what I was looking for for my rustcells. I may have to copy it in a minor way.

Hello everyone, this thread is meant for addressing the necessary retcons of species that have had issues in the past.

please post all new submissions for Retcons here

Beach Cheekhorn (Maxillacornu litorcapra)

Creator: MNIDJM, Nergali
Ancestor: Long-Horned Quilltail (Buccaceros longhornus)
Habitat: Jaydoh Temperate Beach, Jaydoh Desert
Size: 2 m Long
Diet: Herbivore (Pioneer Retigroenx, Lanternbranch bulbs, Fuzzpalm berries, Jaydoh Goth Tree, Kack Tower nuts)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Fur)
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Genders, Pouch and Milk

The '''beach cheekhorns''' split from their ancestors and have since moved to the beaches of Jaydoh. They have developed a rupicoline lifestyle, inhabiting the various rocky cliffs and coastal dunes that make up much of the coastlines they call home. To facilitate this transition in habitats, their feet have evolved wider hooves with rough pads underneath them, traits that make them better adapted to climbing steep slopes and similar surfaces.Their quills are significantly thinner and more needle-like compared to those of their ancestors, as the result of a general lack of active predation in the region they inhabit. Without many predators to worry about, the need to spend extra resources on larger, more thorn-like quills has decreased, and as such they have not been selected for. Despite their more fragile appearance, the quills are still quite capable of serving as painful deterrents should the need arise. One of the few actual threats to them, the [[Hook Tusked Waxface|predatory waxfaces]], are one such reason to retain these quills, though such encounters with them are rare. Cheekhorns tend to avoid venturing into waxface territories, and even when they do, the waxfaces tend to prefer different prey, and will only hunt cheekhorns on quite rare, opportunistic hunts. They are now a more generalized herbivores, feeding on the various shrubs and other flora that grow upon the cliffs and rocks, typically out of reach for most other non-flying species. They supplement this diet by licking the very rock bluffs themselves, attaining a source of salt as they climb up them. The instinct to climb has become so strong in them that they will readily scale up any available surface their feet can gain purchase on, be it rocky outcropping or a small tree, all in the pursuit of food, minerals, and if threatened, safety from danger.

Consuming a variety of low-growing vegetation and ground fruit, as well as the occasional fallen nut of one of the many [[Kack Tower|kack towers]] that dot the coastlines, the beach cheeckhorn has inadvertently managed to help spread the more indigestible nuts and seeds that manage to survive the trip through their gastrointestinal tract. In particular, the hardy nuts of the kack tree have benefited the most by this method of dispersal, and have since become quite plentiful on Jaydoh Island. Nowadays thick patches of kack tower forests can be found wherever beeah cheekhorns thrive. In return, the cheekhorns benefit as well, as the trees provide them with sources of shade, freshwater in the form of dew, as well more nuts for them to feed upon.

Like the [[Long-Horned Quilltail|long-horned quilltail]], young cheekhorns are born without hooves, instead bearing milking claws that give them somewhat of a resemblance to their distant ancestor the [[quilltail]]. With these milking claws, young cheekhorns will grip onto the backsides of their mothers, holding onto them tightly as they go about grazing upon the cliffside vegetation. Their hooves begin to come in around 6 months after birth. Once they have fully come in and they have reached a sufficiently large size to walk on their own, they will begin to climb the cliffs and such themselves, though will continue to nurse from their mothers until they are about a year old.

Cheekhorns are crepuscular, being active mostly during the dawn and twilight hours, during which they can take advantage of the cooler air. When sleeping in the shade during the day, one member of the herd is always awake in order to keep guard, a task that is rotated amongst the members from time to time. They are still quite social and will travel in large herds across the deserts and beaches. Males will fight over females by knocking their cheek horns into each others sides or swiping their tails at one another. Most the time, however, they don't actual hit each other and instead the whole display is mostly for show.

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QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Feb 2 2021, 06:30 AM)

Somehow, that rock looks even prettier. Alas, Mason's life is extinct; perhaps you would have loved painting its rocks. I made some really good rocks for Mason.

Never say never...

Fixed

The Greencrest might be fixable with a supplementary image to elaborate on the shell-body distinction

Oh dip, I’m on the road and just realized I posted my WIP pic. I’ll post the full pic later.

Subterradron (Speluncadendri wallaci)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Cavedron (Speluncadendri cavedron)
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Water Table, Vivus Water Table, Electro Limestone Caves,Neo Limestone Caves, Sparr Limestone Caves, Darth Lava Tube Caves
Size: 7 cm Tall
Diet: Symbiotic Lithovore (Cave Rustmold), Detrivore, Photosynthesis (Dormant)
Reproduction: Reproduction: Asexual, Bulb Budding

The Yannickian-Bloodian extinction event was one of the most devastating events in the geologic timescale of Sagan IV. A dramatic increase in global volcanic activity triggered a near global glaciation event, and wiped the slate clean in nearly all regions of the planet. The Vivus volcanic region was no exception to this devastation, and nearly all life, save for the hardiest microbes, went extinct. And yet the cavedron, the last surviving member of an entire kingdom of life, clung on. While most all populations were indeed killed, a tiny sliver held on in the water table. As they exchange gas through cutaneous respiration, and while they could survive in an aquatic environment, they have to go through drastic changes to survive. Thus, replacing their ancestor, the subterradron has, from these humble beginnings, become an extremely successful species and a staple of the entire Dixon-Darwin-Vivus subterranean ecosystems.

Much like their ancestor, they are provided nutrients by the cave rustmold in exchange for their spores being spread and thanks to their success, they have allowed the spread the cave rustmold and the clingerpede to all environments they occupy. The cave rustmold also break down the minerals in the cave walls, allowing the subterradron to use them for nutrients, in exchange for the waste products that they produce. They are able to cling to wall and ceilings because of modified tentacles that burrow into the rock, then inflate at the bottom. They wait for a clingerpede to eat them causing the bulbs to be ingested. These bulbs are now indigestable by the clingerpede, and are expelled in their waste. These contain both the subterradron embryos and spores cases for the cave rustmold.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate

To help it’s pronounced Gam(as in gamete)-er-gate

Yeah the Gut Majurums replaced WAAAAY too many species, especially since it doesn't live in any of their niches.

Please post your submissions in this child forum and not in this thread. If your organism is approved, one of us will add it to this thread.

Please put the generation number in the thread title.

Sting Cells (Pungifili spp.)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Sting Cell
Habitat: Global (Sagan 4); All aquatic environments
Size: 0.5 - 1 μm string width
Diet: Cytovore
Reproduction: Fission

Hailing from an ancient lineage, the sting cells are one of the most unique forms of life native to the planet. They are the smallest form of life known to have arisen on Sagan 4, adapting to existence as a cellular endopredator. As an endopredator that hunts by inserting part of itself inside its prey and absorbing from the inside out, they have greatly simplified their cellular structures, allowing them to exist at a size small enough to fit into their prey. They are generally at a width of roughly 0.5 - 1 μm, small enough to force their string through the cellular pores, though their length can be drastically variable depending on how recently they have fed. They use chemoreceptors to search out potential prey cells, searching for ones large enough for them to force their strings through pores in the cellular membranes. Once they have successfully captured their prey, they will force the majority of the length of their string through the cellular pores, destroy the central nucleus, hijack the cell to make all the necessary macromolecules it needs for survival and produce more copies of their genome, before draining the preys and repeating the process.

Not having to rely on internal mechanisms to generate a sophisticated internal makeup allow them the latitude to simplify their genetic structure. They have no centralized nucleus; instead they have clusters of redundant copies of their genomes that are contained in a nucleotide region spanning the entire length of the cells. This simplified composition has come at the cost of most of the sting cells complex organelles, as they have now grown dependent on their prey’s cellular mechanisms to manufacture most macromolecules. Reproduction is done through fission, where then end of their cells will begin to fray at the ends, eventually splitting into independent cells. They are extremely diverse, with each species being prey-specific. They are found in all potential aquatic environments, from deep sea vents, to polar coasts, to rainforest puddles, to desert oases.

Integrated Species
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Sting Cell

We good to go?

Would you be more comfortable if i put a slight elaboration on the term in the description? I feel like it's a more accurate term to explain how it works than just predator.

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As a endopredator that hunts by inserting part of itself inside its prey and absorbing from the inside out, they have greatly simplified their cellular structures, allowing them to exist at a size small enough to fit into their prey.