Garlic breath is a bit of a weird phrasing choice.

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This is a list of other world builder projects and inspirational sites to help you get excited about Sagan 4 when you have creative block. Plz post if you find more.

Future is Wild
http://www.thefutureiswild.com/flash/index.html

Alien Planet
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/alienplanet/splash.html

Darwin 4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_4

Extraterrestrial
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/chan...traterrestrial/

Epona Project
http://www.eponaproject.com/

Epona Art
http://home.comcast.net/~stevenhanly/Epona_Art_Page.html

Natural History of an Alien
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_of_an_Alien

"Contact" Alien Conference
http://www.contact-conference.com/

Cosmic Safari
http://www.es.com/products/digital_theater/cosmic-safari.asp

After Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Man:_A_...y_of_the_Future

The New Dinosaurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Dinos...ative_Evolution

Man After Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_After_Man...y_of_the_Future

Speculative Dinosaur Project
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Spec/Index.html

Christian Scheurer's Spore Art
http://www.christianlorenzscheurer.com/htm...PORE_index.html

Avancna's Paleo Art
http://avancna.deviantart.com/

Abiogenisis's Xeno Art
http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/

Xenobiology Forum
http://z11.invisionfree.com/Hypothesis_Project/index.php?

Snaiad and Stuff
http://www.nemoramjet.com/projects.html

Xenoscience Blog
http://worldsofpossibility.blogspot.com/

Devonian Sea Simulator
http://www.geocities.com/christiandarki/fish.htm

Neocene
http://www.sivatherium.h12.ru/englver.htm

Cal State World Bulders
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/

Future Words Wiki
http://futureworld.wikispaces.com/Index

Venus Beasties
http://www.wetanz.com/holics/raygun-bestiary.php

yty2000's Alien Art
http://yty2000.deviantart.com/

Furaha
http://home.casema.nl/gertvandijk/

Biological Factors in the Evolution of Intelligence
http://www.molvray.com/sf/exobio/index.htm

Hypothesis Projects v2
http://hypothesis-project.sytes.net/index/

Tons of Creature Concept Art
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109977

Speculative Evolution Forums
https://specevo.jcink.net/index.php

ChumZar's Evolution Project
http://projectevo.forumsland.com/

The Universe: Alien Faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1RSZDtm8Zw

National Geographic on Extraterrestrial Life, Circa 1980
http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?topic=13687.0

Microbe Wiki
http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/MicrobeWiki

For those who can't afford Adobe Photoshop and are tired of MS Paint, there is a FREE program called GIMP. It works on Mac or PC and is as good or better than Adobe Photoshop. Many of our Sagan 4 team memebers use GIMP so if you have any questions about it ask it here. Good luck and happy Gimping!

GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/


Helpful Tutorials Sagan 4 team members made.

Flisch's Coloring Tutorial for Photoshop
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=415.0

Huckbuck's Guide to Coloring for Macromedia Fireworks
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=810.0

LadyM's Coloring Tutorial for GIMP
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=774.0

Hydro's Coloring Tutorials for Photoshop
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=1234.0

Soma's Tutorial for GIMP / MS Paint
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=2054.0

Ramul's Tutorial for GIMP
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=2149.0

Yannick's Planet Tutorial
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=2954.0

How to Draw a Feather - By Vivus
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=4293.0

Making a creature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 - By Elerd
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=4458.0

Drawing Tutorial - By KingAcer
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=4466.0

Hydro's Transparency Shading Tutorial
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=4975.0

Darkov's Tablet + Photoshop(GIMP) Tutorial
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=5561.0

Building Blocks Sprite Tutorial
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=5723.0

Elerd's Simple Eye Tutorial
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=6111.0

Tutorials by Randis Albion (Not a Sagan 4 Team Member)
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=6460.0

Legs by Elerd
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=6758.0

Vector Tutorial by Gec
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=7524.0

AnguaNatalia's Shading Tutorial(s)
http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=8685.0

Please post requests for tutorial in this thread. Also, please help with making the requested tutorials.

Please do not use this thread to ask for tutorials on how to post species to sagan4.

QUOTE (Vivus)

Very exciting news! Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime

QUOTE (blitz)

A rare all female ant society that reproduces by cloning is discovered. Wait, what?

QUOTE (blitz)

Bacteria found in stratosphere

QUOTE (Vivus)

Second Genesis: The search for shadow life

QUOTE (blitz)

Ants have livestock??

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (Oviraptor) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29537188/ This is like the discovery channel show that was on where they showed the checken embrys that they altered to give them teeth, or scales, or a longer tail. http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=1687.0

QUOTE (Darkov)

I didn't saw the brain, can you see the brain?

QUOTE (Building Blocks)

how big is it

QUOTE (MNIDJM)

I'd say 1-2 feet. Maybe 3.

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (Darkov) I didn't saw the brain, can you see the brain? Maybe its in the opaque part.

QUOTE (Darkov)

Its head is transparent, so it can see true it with its inside eyes. That's very strange.

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

Fish With Transparent Head Filmed Found this on Space Oddity’s Blog. Its so cool i had to post it here.

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Largest snake 'as long as a bus'

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

QUOTE (Maineiac) BUMPITY BUMP! when is the Magrathea dude comming back? I felt like visting today. Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossils Reveal Mammals That Hibernate Or Burrow Less Likely To Go Extinct Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution? Evolution In Action: Native U.S. Lizards Are Adapting To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants Evolutionary Process More Detailed Than Previously Believed, Study Shows New Species of Climbing Fish from Remote Venezuela Shakes the Catfish Family Tree As Super-predators, Humans Reshape Their Prey At Super-natural Speeds

QUOTE (Vivus)

Some Interesting articles on Newscientist website: https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg17924052.500 Here some recent ones off it: Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom The following article made me wonder whether we could have had our own sagan based sugar nucleic acid SNA (Saganose Nucleic Acid): Was simple TNA the first nucleic acid on Earth to carry a genetic code

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

The feathers in amber is awesome!!

QUOTE (Neoskel)

QUOTE (Hydromancerx) The feathers in amber is awesome!! Except that they sound a lot more like down feathers than actual transitional feathers.

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (Neoskel) QUOTE (Hydromancerx) The feathers in amber is awesome!! Except that they sound a lot more like down feathers than actual transitional feathers. Well maybe they came of baby chick dinos when they were molting to their adult feathers.

QUOTE (Blarg)

Or maybe they just came from birds.

QUOTE (Neoskel)

QUOTE (Blarg) Or maybe they just came from birds. Which is what i meant by 'just down feathers'. Seriously, some of these guys jump the gun a lot.

QUOTE (Blarg)

Exactly. I mean, the scientist called them "feather-like." They weren't just SIMILAR to feathers, they WERE feathers. Specifically, the downy kind you see on baby chicks.

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Evolution Of New Species Slows Down As Number Of Competitors Increases Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes New Zealand's 'Living Dinosaur' -- The Tuatara -- Is Surprisingly The Fastest Evolving Animal Don't Stand So Close To Me: A New View On How Species Coexist Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes New Light Shed On Hybrid Animals Royal Corruption Is Rife In The Ant World Which Came First, Social Dominance Or Big Brains? Wasps May Tell Tree Of Animal Life Has Branches Rearranged, By Evolutionary Biologists New Fossil Is World's Oldest Plant-Eating Lizard Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased in Amber Pronghorn Thrive in Wolves' Shadow Mystery of Alligator Movement Solved Lizard mothers can trigger different color patterns in their offspring. First 'Rule' Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex

QUOTE (BioCat)

How weird. You have to wonder how common these floods are so such a behavior could evolve.

QUOTE (NinthMusketeer)

-Mutation ocuurs in one of many fire ant colonies that lets that colony do this -Flood comes, kills all other colonies -The one colony that survived reproduces and the trait is now present in the whole population

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (BioCat) How weird. You have to wonder how common these floods are so such a behavior could evolve. I would think seasonal. They have 2 seasons wet and flooding.

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Living Raft of Fire Ants

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

'Junk DNA' Can Explain Origin And Complexity Of Vertebrates Bats Use Magnetic Substance As Internal Compass To Help Them Navigate Masters Of Disguise: Secrets Of Nature's 'Great Pretenders' Revealed Zoologists Challenge Longstanding Theory That 'Eyespots' Mimic The Eyes Of Predators' Enemies Mysterious Sea Creatures Found In Antarctic Waters Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants? Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs New Meat-eating Dinosaur Duo From Sahara Ate Like Hyenas, Sharks Shrews Are Highly Sophisticated Predators Scientist Discovers Some Mammals Can Smell Objects Under Water How Did Huge Dinosaurs Find Enough Food? Did Bacteria Aid Their Digestion? Pygmy Dinosaur Inhabited Tropical Islands In Britain's Prehistoric Past Bug's "Bird Poop" Disguise Decoded Early Bats Flew First, Developed "Sonar" Later Sea reptile is biggest on record

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Recovering From A Mass Extinction Crocodilians Bypass Their Lungs To Improve Digestion Lizards And Salamanders May Use Lungs To Hear Beaked Whales Actually Hear Through Their Throats Conspicuous Social Signaling Drives Evolution Of Chameleon Color Change New Species Of Giant Elephant-shrew Discovered A Difficult Youth Is A Good Thing For A Fish EDGE Amphibians: World's Weirdest Creatures Just Got Weirder Scientists Look At Those In Evolutionary Race Who Don't Make It 'Out Of The Gate' Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs Two 'Noses' Are Necessary For Flies To Navigate Well Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-term Success Giant Fossil Sea Scorpion Bigger Than Man 'Time-sharing' Tropical Birds Key To Evolutionary Mystery Ancient Lion With "Bolt Cutter" Jaws: Best Killer Ever? Where Elephants Tread, Geckos Thrive, Study Finds Video: Ancient Croc Unveiled Parasite Makes Ants Resemble Berries Bull-Size Rodent Discovered -- Biggest Yet Ants, Acacias Break Truce When Wildlife Threat Drops Blind Cavefish Can Produce Sighted Offspring Squirrels Use "Snake Perfume" to Fool Predators Whales Evolved From Tiny Deerlike Mammals, Study Says "Zombie" Roaches Lose Free Will Due to Wasp Venom Dinosaurs Had Supercharged Breathing Like Birds New Mammal Fossil Sheds Light on Teeth Evolution Birds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic Field Tropical fish can live for months out of water Record-size spitting cobra found in Kenya

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

A little bit.  It's been awhile since I looked at it and I think with the gamma ray burst coming everyone might need some inspiration. Save the Spiney Sauceback. Dino Bones Tell of Cannibalism Galore Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks at Risk? Bat Bugs Evolved Fake Genitals to Avoid Sex Injuries Moonlight Triggers Mass Coral "Romance" New Mammal Fossil Sheds Light on Teeth Evolution Dinosaurs Had Supercharged Breathing Like Birds New "Mini" Dinosaur a Step in Bird Evolution Path Water Spider Spins Its Own "Scuba Tank" Sharks Have Genes for Fingers and Toes Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From Multi-species Study Cambodia's National Animal Is "Real," Study Says "Nonexistent" Flying Fox Discovered  <-- These are more editorials against scientists "knowing more" than "ignorant peasants," instead of evolutionary ideas for Sagan.

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Predation Linked To Evolution, Study Suggests  DUH! New Species Of Bacteria Feeds On Natural Gas Do Migratory Birds 'See' The Magnetic Field? Three-way Mating Game Of North American Lizard Found In Distant European Relative Beyond A 'Speed Limit' On Mutations, Species Risk Extinction Genes From The Father Facilitate The Formation Of New Species Appendix Isn't Useless At All: It's A Safe House For Good Bacteria Driving Force Of Evolution? Evolution Of Proteins Linked To Species' Metabolic Rate A Gene Divided Reveals The Details Of Natural Selection Some Tropical Birds Depend Completely On Army Ants To Flush Out Prey Sea Cucumbers Fast Track Organ Regrowth By Healing Their Wounds Why Sex Chromosomes Evolve So Rapidly Herding Aphids: How 'Farmer' Ants Keep Control Of Their Food Benefits Of 80 Million Years Without Sex Dawn Of Animal Vision Discovered Burrowing Mammals Dig For A Living, But How Do They Do That? Fluorescence In Key Marine Creature Discovered When Animals Evolve On Islands, Size Doesn't Matter Evolution: When Are Genes 'Adventurous' And When Are They Conservative? How Poisonous Plants Protect Themselves From Their Own Weapons New Study Suggests Many Unknown Microbes in Soil Parasites Might Spur Evolution Of Strange Amphibian Breeding Habits Dinosaur From Sahara Ate Like A 'Mesozoic Cow'

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

Natural Selection At Work In Dramatic Comeback Of Male Butterflies What Determines The Speed At Which Birds Fly? One Species, Many Genomes Fruit Fly Gene From 'Out Of Nowhere' May Change Ideas About How Genes Are Formed Mystery Of Mammalian Ears Solved Orangutans Communicate As If They Were Playing Charades Evolution Is Driven By Gene Regulation 'New Continent' And Species Discovered In Atlantic Study Birds Learn To Fly With A Little Help From Their Ancestors Female Hyenas Avoid Incest By Causing Male Relatives To Leave Home Elephantnose Fish 'See' With Their Chin Super Spiders Make Bolder Birds New Light-sensing Ability Discovered In Disease-causing Bacteria A Genetic Trigger For The Cambrian Explosion Unraveled? Migrating Squid Drove Evolution Of Sonar In Whales And Dolphins, Researchers Argue 'Alien' Jaws Help Moray Eels Feed New Species May Form WIth A Little Help From Immune System Parasitic Battles Can Involve Gene Transfer That Aids Evolution Females Promiscuous For The Sake Of Their Grandchildren Prehistoric Reptiles From Russia Possessed The First Modern Ears New Light Shed On Hybrid Animals Stuck With A Weak Mate? Species Compensate To Increase Viable Offspring Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?