That's an interesting chalk-like style.

It's unusual for something so large to have a shape like that. I did some research on tree ferns and cycads, which are sort of similar. Exceptionally tall cycads seem to reach 20 m, and this is twice that size. Could you liken it to a real plant with a similar shape in its description?

With all these super-large flora, I'm tempted to make a (long-delayed) batch of flora extra-small just to be contrarian.

"their exoskeleton have grown"

This seems to be using the singular "they", which doesn't make sense. It would be best to use the representative "it". (e.g., "A lion uses its claws to pin down prey.")

"Reproductive wise," Reproduction-wise.

"serve as funnels that help to funnel" Using "funnel" twice is awkward, though it's not strictly necessary to remove.

"these opening" (Into these openings)

"have evolved blood. Sort of." This is rather informal. "have evolved a sort of blood" keeps most of the phrasing, but is more formal.

"etc..." There's only one "." in "etc.", and only one period at the end of a sentence, so it should be "..".

"This substance is a yellowish tinge in color"
"Yellowish" and "tinge" are redundant. "This substance is yellowish" or "this substance has a yellowish tinge" is better.

Cobloglobin is a synthetic compound, so it's odd for it to exist within a natural organism.

In any case, since it doesn't exist in nature, I recommend adding a little more detail about how it came to exist in this organism.

Try looking at these sources on coboglobin:
http://www.xenology.info/Xeno
/10.4.htm
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/que...n-clarification
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/que...-an-alien-blood

"liquid, gas". The comma should be a period.
"mall size". That's hilarious, but a typo. You meant "small size".

"bundle several" should be "bundle of several".

Out of curiosity...where are its primitive hearts in its body?

" in its more deadly distant ancestors." Did you mean: "as in its more deadly distant ancestors"?

Can you elaborate on its detritivory? Detritivory existed in the Groveycrystal two ancestors back. It would be strange if it regained detritivory unchanged, and just as effective in the Grovecrystal. (although it's unspecified how effective it is)

In an planet where flora take on unusual shapes, its unusual to see something nearly ordinary in shape and color.

"microbiome" refers to a microbial biome that lives inside the human body. You mean "microhabitat".

The description, while functional, is a little small. Can you give more information about its heat-releasing mechanisms? That seems the most interesting aspect of its physiology.

Perhaps the impossible or deeply improbable details could be patched over with data from each error-ridden organism's ancestor, where it makes sense. (e.g., if the ancestor laid eggs and live birth, and the descendant's description mentions live birth but not eggs, the data can be fixed so it exclusively reproduces live birth, not live birth and eggs)

I suppose that megafauna with erroneous sizes can be given the same sizes as their ancestors, or perhaps 25% bigger, to establish they've gotten bigger without being such a massive difference it would substantially alter implicit ecological connections.

P.S. This belongs in the Wiki Clerical Errors thread. I'd merge it myself, but I lack that power.

Depending on lifestyles, it might be possible to save at least some of the quids by proposing they can digest at least some food. through their hind ends, like sea cucumbers. Some sea cucumber species have anal "teeth" to prevent animals, such as pearlfish, from going inside its bodies.

If any quids primarily eat half-buried in sediment, having eyes far down on its body and having some digestive capability through its anus would make the most sense.

A modern shrew with a hairless tail? What an abomination. (That's a joke. The Great Leotam and Leemalla and probably a few others already have very furry tails.)

The joeys breathing through their skin is interesting, but I'm not sure how plausible it is. Mammals generally cannot do that, not only because their skin is too thick, but because of their high metabolism. On the other hand, bats are capable of some gas diffusion through their wings---something I learned just after a quick search for this organism. The joeys probably have even more vascularization of their skin than the bat of the study. On the other hand, the description suggests the gas exchange is such they need only surface for air "periodically", instead of just doing unusually high levels of gas exchange through their skins. That the babies seem to be good swimmers and have no indication of being largely inactive might mean they have a metabolism higher than, say, a turtle (some are capable of unusual methods of breathing) or frogs. If the joy performs gas exchange of some sort like an epauletted fruit bat, it seems having a hairy body would impede that.

How does it detect embryos that have dramatic shifts in tissue placement? It's not like it can see inside its womb.

Ciliated larvae? That's interesting. I did a little research, and I can't find examples of that in either fungi or plants, but demosponges (soft sponges with skeletons) have ciliated larvae, as do some protists. I'm not sure how plausible that is, but its lineage is already several layers of weird compared to its closest Earthly comparisons, either lichens or photosynthetic sponges.
It's hard to believe these are crystalflora. (Yes, "true" crystalflora, descended from the Binucleus Crystal Shrub.)

EDIT: While this is a very strange "plant", that it can move around of its own power at all is unusual. (If "free to move about" means it can move the arms itself, rather than them being moved around in the water, as I initially assumed) Specifying that it doesn't move under its own power, or moves like real-life examples of "moving plants" (e.g., dodders seeking out prey or touch-me-nots) would help clarify the concept.

" cave floor easily." that should be: "cave floor easy".

It's interesting to see these very isolated cave organisms from once-photosynthetic ancestors take up new lifestyles.

Wait, hold on. The scaly-foot snail does have a shell partly made of iron pyrite. This needs only a description editing.

I could re-draw the flunejaws' and grubnubs' knees, provided the art has a fairly simple style.

Perhaps some of them had birdlike limb arrangements? The conspicuous "knee" of a bird is actually its ankle.

It would help to have diagrams of the correct Spondylozoa knee arrangements, relative to knee/ankle arrangements of real animals.

"Octthermas" should be "Octhermas".
"Consist pyrite" should be "consist of pyrite".
"inidividuals" is a typo; you meant "individuals".
Does the Yellow Cushion count as a plant for the sake of classifying the Golden Magnekite as a "herbivore"? It is certainly a very strange "plant" by now. The last in its lineage to still use photosynthesis, the Superstickyballs, was from Week 14, Generation 93...and it's Week 26 now. I figure its lineage has been without photosynthesis for a lot longer than most nonphotosynthetic plants of today, if not longer.

For comparison, Monotropa uniflora is a nonphotosynthetic plant in the Ericaceae family. The earliest evidenceof the Ericaceae (heather family) was from the Late Cretaceous about 90 million years ago, and it's been more than 137.5 million years since the Superstickyballs' time. ("more than" because the present Week isn't over yet, and I don't know how many millions of years it was during Week 14 when the Superstickyballs showed up.)

...ah. I just got the reference from a quick Internet search. It's the one of the three Magi that gave a gift of gold. At first, I had assumed it had something to do with Malchior, a villain-of-the-day from Teen Titans, who was a dragon that disguised itself as a soft-spoken wizard and gained Raven's trust, or perhaps some other cartoon character.

"While the diamiarm usually digest the spores produced by Maineiac Water Table's flora." There should be a comma after that.
"much more different" Surely you meant "much different" in this context? Unless you're comparing it to to other descendants which have differing levels of...difference from their ancestors, "much different" is appropriate.
"to a more primitive state" That sounds a little like "evolving backwards", which is impossible. Certainly, organisms can have atavisms, but it's good to be more precise in your wording. Earlier organisms are not necessarily more "primitive"; the word has some negative connotations. The ancestor of the dodos, which could fly, wasn't superior to flightless dodos.

I like how variable the Maineiac Water Table is getting on the macro level.

" outskirts of these volcanic cavern fringes." Aren't "fringes" and "outskirts" redundant in this sense? Why not be more specific?
"rouge population" It's yellow, not rouge. You meant "rogue".
"gasses"
"octthermas" Octhermas.

This is a very creative use of the Water Table environment. I didn't even know about volcanic aquifers until now, and I knew very little about water table interactions with magma. (I knew about geysers, of course, but my knowledge was incomplete.) Blending water table organisms with the hydrothermal vents somewhat may allow for a greater variety of organisms.

I also like its new body shape and drastically different color.

Would it help to suppose plents generally have green blood for the same reason green-blooded skinks have green blood? The green-blooded skinks still have hemoglobin, but their blood is green from a breakdown product of cells thought to protect them against malaria. (Other species. can have greenish blood or use of the pigment, for the same reason.) Or should they use chlorocruorin?

The Xenowasps genus groups, as they are widespread and some of their members drink blood, could have a mosquito-like role in spreading malaria-like diseases. (Historically, the Bloodbee could have done this, and it's possible the mucus-eaters of the Xenobees genus group could spread disease similarly.) Xenowasps, Xenobees, or their ancestors spreading diseases probably wouldn't have been the cause of plents having green blood, but their widespread status now may discourage plents from evolving away from the green blood trait where they co-occur.

At the time you posted it, I believe I was very busy with urgent, time-consuming Real Life Things.

Wow. That's a bloody picture. These are horrific shrew murderers, and it's actually inspired another Seashrog Horror Movie Villain from me. (Though it's far down on the list of organisms I plan to develop.)

I like the lineart of the nest, the shading, and the feather and fur details.

"The berries are no longer waterproof, because they don’t need to be." Does it provide them some advantage to remove that function? Certainly, living things can hold onto useless traits; kiwis still have (very small) wings, and most population of the common dandelion do not reproduce sexually, but they still make pollen. Are the waterproof traits selected against for the sake of making more water-absorbent seeds? That could be an advantage in dry environments.

That's nice flora. I like the shading.

Does it really make sense it should live in the plains, too? To use the Joshua tree as an example, the Joshua tree only lives in desert areas and a little of the western mountains of the state of California. It doesn't extend to the plains, not even the northern plains of the U.S., which are cold and dry compared to the other plains of the U.S. Even its historic range, which was less patchy, is still limited to those areas. This doesn't even seem to be a highly adaptive, weed-like generalist, like the dandelion or the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). To use something which wasn't spread by humans as an example, the horned dandelionhorned dandelion doesn't spread much into the "plains states" (northern and southern plains next to the "desert states".)

While browsing the Sagan 4 Alpha wiki, I noticed the Snowsculptor Janit was still listed as extant. However, in the Week 24 ecosystem page, it wasn't there. In the Week 26 ecosystem page, however, it is listed. The Snowsculptor Janit is from Week 21, Generation 139, so logically it would be in the Week 24 ecosystem page. This discrepancy doesn't seem to be discussed anywhere else.

If there are any other clerical errors of unclear solutions, here's the right thread to discuss it.

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.

That's true. I somehow misinterpreted the shell at first. I can make a fixed version by painting over the Greencrest art and updating the description to elaborate on it having an expanded soft body.

Is this an exercise on misinterpreting a single species, or building a new species off a misinterpretation of a previous one? The following is the latter. I may have gone overboard in the sheer intensity of misinterpretations.

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Wrong Xenobee Descendant

It reproduces through protrusible, tongue-like extensions of the cloacal walls, typically tucked behind "lips". It uses its small mandibles to eat leaves, as a supplement to its diet of nectar.

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Wrong Whipswarmer Descendant

It has a very laterally flattened, lentil-like body, with one black eye each on either side of its face. Its many tail-hairs give it an unpleasant texture, deterring predators from eating it.

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Wrong Meiouks Descendant

Its large eyes are embedded within their transparent bodies to protect them from harm.

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Terribly, Terribly Wrong Xenowasps Descendant:
Their long, narwhal-like tooth is used like a snake's fang to inject venom when they sting. Their moist, yellow chemoreceptive patches give them a keen sense of smell. They guard nests of meat slurry, preserved with plant sap that solidifies to a honey-like consistency; the following product is called "meat honey".* The long hairs and claspers on their rear ends are important in mating. Much like lovebugs, they can fly while mating.

*Yes, I know about vulture bees, but I'm going for as many misinterpretations as possible for that one.

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Terribly Wrong Roygus Descendant, Did You Even Read the Description

Using acid secreted from pores on its tongue, it hollows out small brown rocks to make a home. It grasps prey using its large tongue and starts to digest them with its acid. Its four-pointed growths are gills, and wave gently in the slow-moving streams of its habitat. It spawns through a small hole it makes at the the top of the rock it lives in. Though its outer skin is green, its inner tissue is grey. This organism is delicious with a soft, smooth texture.

Is this a suitable sketch for a re-draw of the Greencrest?

It's meant to have a greatly elongated body outside of its shell. (something like a shipworm) Its pattern of stripes, which help it blend in with the faint stripes/color gradations of the Gomboc Roj's shell, could be mistaken for segmentation at first glance.

As for the Bloodbee...a description clarification that the pink end is the mouth is the only thing needed. I think I originally didn't know Xenobees (non-genus-group at the time) all flew with their rumps first.

" Fruiting Glog fruit" There's a missing comma after that part.
The description, though incomplete, is interesting in how poetic it is.

The rock and crusts are as beautiful as ever. It's interesting to see this relic become widespread again.