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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.

That work?

Overwhelming consensus is that this is acceptable, so it now is. Feel free to edit the Sauceback page.

I'll open this up for a vote, but yeah I don't see any reason why this won't be accepted

I'm game with this interpretation. I have a very vague memory that someone described them as having shark-like eggs at some point, or something between a shark egg and a soft shelled reptile egg. I think it was partially inspired by these eggs which look a lot like the thornworms instead of complete practicality.

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Once they have successfully captured their prey, they will force some of their strings 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.

That work?

Should be fixed

How? It’s no longer labeled a parasite, and at this point it’s just a rewording of the new description

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.

Post 80 per generation

Slight changes have been made to bring it in line with the new description of the ancestor.

It’s a slight corruption of बड़ा, which means big.

They actually aren’t. They are fairly diverse in setup, with kangaroos and relatives having head facing pouches, koalas have sideways opening, certain possum species lack them, and the phascogales grows temporary ones. The ones that evolved backwards facing ones tend to be: burrowing, aquatic, or predators. This is a predator that evolved from a burrowed so it makes sense to evolve them. And I based the foot morphology off of the I only example I could find of hoofed marsupials: the Pig-footed Bandicoot.

There is some discussion in the discord about how to retcon some of the behaviors to make the sting cells more in-line with being plausible. The original description was vague, and has gone thru several retcons over the years trying to make it work. It even wasn’t originally a cytovore, just listing “Diet: Other Cells”. So I dug back thru the older gamingsteve entry and the other descendants to try and make something that sounds like a reasonable appropriation of what was intended. It enters the cell, devours it from the inside, uses the hosts organelles to create necessary proteins and such, then when it grows big one of the strings detach.

Like here is the original entry:

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Sting Cell Creator: Yokto Ancestor: Protosagania Size: Microscopic Habitat: Sagan Ociancs Diet: Other Cells Reproduction: fission Sting Cell is a odd looking Cell. In hase no central nucleas but a sting of small clusters within one long cellmembrane. These strings are so small and thin that they can pentrate other cell walls with. Then the cell suck out the content of the other cell it has attacked. When the cell becomes to larger and start to reproduse it simply let go of one of is stringy arms.

The description has lead to a lot of misinterpretations so this is meant to be the final one, and one that makes sense with the other descendants all being fusions

Done

They should be fixed now

It's strictly defensive, since they are losing some mobility in claws the tail can whip at their predators, but first line of defense is running

Approved, unless you want to try and tweak it

Funny you should say that, Nergali had abandoned their rough sketch of it, so I claimed it and finished it

Baṛādohve (Vomeganis imperiosus)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Hemodohve (Vomax rojo)
Habitat: Fly Tropical Shallows, Barlowe (Twilight Floor), Barlowe (Twilight Slope)
Size: Carnivore (Deep Ribbon Gilltail, Floating Pumpgill, South Polar Shardgill, Scuttleball Gillfin, Gulperpump, Diamond Pumpgill, Greater Wolley, Floating Pumpgill, Sardchovy, Royal Scylarian, Sindohve, Sinduhk, Marine Tamow, Seashrog)
Diet: 5.6 m Long
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Live Birth

After thousands of generations living without competition in the Fly Tropical Shallows, the hemodohve carved out a realm for themselves to rule over, gradually gaining the spot of apex predator. Now their descendants have succeeded them as the unparalleled masters of their domain.They are much larger than their ancestor, taking advantage of the open niche, and now the average female baṛādohve can reach sizes up to 5.6 meters in length and 4000 kilograms. Like their ancestors, males are smaller, only reaching about 5 meters and 3500 kilos, though outliers for both sexes do exist.

Baṛādohve live in pods of a few dozen individuals, thought they are naturally transient and individuals will regularly drift in and out of pods. Like their ancestors they mainly hunt the various gilltail species localized in the shallows, but they have expanded to the other inhabitants of the area. They are able to use their collectives to hunt, and will use their groups to corral schools of gilltails into tight, ball formations and will one by one swim directly into them, grabbing mouthfuls of prey. They will occasionally hunt other, larger prey when the opportunity presents itself. such as related Royal Scylarians, the native tamshrews, and even various related members of the Vomex genus. While hunting the tamshrews, their main method is to ram under their floating nests until they splinter, though success is limited and risk of injury from their natural defenses and spears make these more attacks of opportunity.

During mating seasons, females will establish "breeding territories", where they will carve out sections of ocean which can be miles wide and which they raise their young alongside those of their fellow group-mates. Regions with more plentiful food and fewer predators are prime candidates, and non-related females will aggressively defend their territories from other competing females, though blood relatives will be tolerated somewhat. They generally will have 1-2 young at a time, expending their resources into protecting fewer young. They have a naturally small population due to resource availability and habitat size, with the largest global population record reaching ~345,000. This low breeding size and limited populations keep them from overhunting in their habitats, but it leaves them vulnerable to external pressures and disease.

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Original concept by Nergali

Hello everyone, this thread is meant for addressing your species that you believe should be decanonized and replaced. This isn't the same as a retcon, which would be changing something in a submission but still keeping it intact. The species addressed here will be fully removed from the game, and will require an entirely new entry.

Please post all new submissions for decanonization here

Detoxicated Hey, due to inactivity, I am moving this to the graveyard. It's not outright rejected, but if you could fix the issues listed here and resubmit it should be good to go.

QUOTE (Bufforpington @ Dec 10 2020, 12:50 AM)

If there are already bugs that store acids and bases in their bodies, then is it safe for the coastal nectarworms to use it? I'm not quite sure how they'd keep a strong acid/base solution safely contained within their bodies. I would say a buffer solution would make it work, but the conjugate acids and bases produced by the buffer reaction will be too weak to revert back to their original strong acid/base state. Unless, of course, everything I learned in my chemistry class was wrong, and the chlorine and sodium ions can be re-united with hydronium and hydroxide to create HCl and NaOH. If this is possible, then I'd assume that if the nectarworm is faced with a threat that is considered to be life-threatening, it'd activate a response in its sacs that'd transform the ions into acids and bases. To be honest, I think the acid/base defense is a lot cooler than the salt defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle

QUOTE (Bufforpington @ Dec 24 2020, 12:43 PM)

Additional note- I propose adding the Snapperswimmer, Dogelaro, and Snapperworm to the genus Setauris. The genus Fluvius is way too big and with everyone wanting to break down needlessly massive genera, this could be a good opportunity.

Same, if this is accepted I'll do so.

Here is a list of all the claimed spots for generation 154:

• Disgustedorite
• MNIDJM
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed
• unclaimed

These are based on Mesonychid (carnivorous ungulate), Chaeropus (which are hooved marsupials), and thylacines.

I could use some more critiques on trying to make their ancestors cellular layout work.