I'm just making a quick check after having been summoned.

While the new coloration doesn't quite look like feathers, it at least looks like something natural. While I believe it would be better if it had some faint lines going down its body to suggest feathers, this is already sufficient for accuracy.

You still need to remove the A166 on the tail, though, unless you want to make that a colorful display structure. It's improbable, but there is a moth whose patterns look just like a Hebrew character (letter), so it's theoretically acceptable. If so, you'll need to put the actual A166 elsewhere.

Please align the template (at the top) with the standard template, and standard template order.
There are some conspicuous spots of the leaves that aren't colored in. Now, this could be excused as indicating shiny leaves, as rendered in a watercolor style (e.g., Generation II Pokémon art), but if so, the description should make a note of its shiny leaves. The leaf on the lower right, though, has too much white coloration to allow the stylistic excuse.

Unless its stem is white, that should also be colored in. It's not out of the question it could be white (e.g., like a whitebark raspberry or paper birch), but since this is likely to be misinterpreted, it should be pointed out in the description.

There's a little puff of some sort in the right side of the picture. That should be erased.

"Burrowing further underground to evade predators" suggests intentionality in the direction of evolution. With the possible exception of octopi, which have weird genetic activity, this is a misleading portrayal of evolution. While some plants can indeed self-bury using seed awns that twist with temperature changes, "burrow" is misleading. I recommend, "The Moleroot is descended from a population of Quillfences whose tubers grew unusually deep underground, which better protected them from predators.)

If nitrocycle microbes are like the nitrogen-fixing microbes of legumes, they actually get nitrogen from the air. (This could use a more thorough check: I'll have to come back later.)

You'll need to elaborate on the mechanism of the shoot springing straight up. This isn't totally impossible, but it is improbable, particularly given the fact it's being developed all at once.

You don't need to highlight additions. They can be added without distinguishing them from the original description.

The natural plants which are black, as pointed out in the link, are nonvascular: mosses and liverworts. Ophiopogon is comparable insofar as it is is vascular and has black foliage, even if its photosynthetic pigments are the same as normal green vascular plants. The point of bring this up was not to suggest that any one of these real-life black plants has physiology that can be lifted more-or-less unchanged for blackflora. This lineage is particular, with its elaborated physiology, makes that especially unworkable. I brought it up to suggest that the photo- pigmentation of blackflora isn't so improbable as to be "whimsy", such as in the manner of aliens that use large seeds as natural wheels.

Just a cursory check....
How garish. That's probably intended, though.
"bodies ability: "bodies' ability".
There's no need to capitalize habitat type names. That's only needed for individiual habitats.
"Cotten Candy": That's a typo.

Just a cursory check...
It's surely an ectotherm, so you can list that.
Please put the scientific name directly after the common name. There's no need to put it in the next line.
The first sentence is so small that it is better to put it in the same paragraph as the second paragraph.
Ther's a conspicuous empty space after the second paragraph.

It seems to crawl along the ground when young, and then lift itself up into the sky from there.
A plastic bag lifted up into the sky does not contain water, and water is heavy. A 20 cm-long plasmoid full of water is probably too heavy to be lifted up into the air very much in virtually all habitat conditions and seasons, which is surely the standard assumption for a global genus. The easiest solution is drastically reducing the size of the plasmoid to get a high altitude, or mildly reducing its size (say, 15 cm long) for much lower, shorter flights.
"ground avoiding": "ground, avoiding".
"otherwise it": "Otherwise, it".
"look for" Unless it has eyes, using "seek another tree" is better.

On an unrelated note...why not get an avatar? It seems you've had plenty of time to get established in the community here and find an avatar for yourself. It's like a user's face.

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I think a metabolic pathway that already exists is less whimsical than a black photosystem that doesn't exist at all in nature.

Apparently, black plants are very rare in nature, but not nonexistent. The cultivar (admittedly not natural) of Ophiopogon planiscapus, a grasslike species used in landscaping, might be most comparable to most blackflora. Black beard algae are another example, although they are actually a kind of red algae and so probably photosynthesize using blue light.

Just a quick check...

Well, now the Moleroot has a very short description.
It still can't use iron as a source of energy. I recommend looking over previous feedback on how to give it a strong but biologically plausible association with iron.

Plants (or "flora", in this case) generally can't "escape" predators. That's why so many plants have passive defenses, like poisons or tasting bad. It would help to instead say that its tuber is a bigger proportion of its biomass, and it's deeper underground now, which makes it harder to dig up (although I don't recall if the Quillfence actually had any herbivores eating its tubers at time of evolution).

I'm not quite over my backlog, so this is just a quick check.
Putting "A166" on the tail makes it seem lik a natural marking, particularly since "A166" is so stylized.
It's odd that it doesn't have any protective hairs for intake holes so large and numerous. Admittedly, the diversity of parasites and pathogens on Sagan 4 is vastly lower than on Sagan 4, but surely dust and grit would still be an issue.
Although its lineage has feathers, this doesn't seem to have feathers at all. It looks too shiny and smooth, almost like it's made of shiny plastic or metal. I recommend toning down how well-defined and bright the highlights are.

I'm not sure how it can be represented on the wiki, but it's impressive to see submissions get this variable. It's like a circa 2005 Neopets CSS "sparkledog" Lupe (wolf Neopet species), but a big alien eel.
(Yes, I continue to be unavailable for now and the near-future.)

I'm making a quick check on organism updates since I was away.

Can you trim the image to focus on the organism?

I specified the exoskeleton. I wasn't actually sure about that earlier, given some Kruggs don't specify exoskeletons, and as things with exoskeletons go, they can get very big on land.

It's an omnivore because it scavenges, and scavenges more often or reliably than, say, a cow or a deer would. I think I figured it would eat things like the gristly pieces in between the ribs of a roast chicken, if that helps. Otherwise, it can be listed as a detritivore, like a roly-poly (pill bug).

A lot of organisms have been posted while I was very busy with other things. I don't have time to thoroughly go over them all at the moment, so I'll just do a quick check of the most obvious things.

Personally, I think the poem should be added after the description in a sort of "textual gallery" for the organism, whether directly (with a read-more) or by a link to an attached page. However, given there was a pretty long narrative excerpt for the Larlap, I suppose there's some precedent for nonscientific textual portrayals in a desription. If you want to have the poem before the description, I recommend including a four-line excerpt from the full poem, and putting the rest after the description.

You seem to mean "sentimental bait".

The 3 ranges and 3 flavors should be pointed out elsewhere, not in the habitat listing.

The juvenile seems to be drawn in a drastically different style from the main sample. I recommend putting the art for the juvenile in supplementary art if you don't want to re-draw it.

Make sure you split the paragraphs. It's okay to have half-paragraphs, but it looks unsuitable when the entire description is a mega-paragraph.

The "&" should be an "and".

I'm back (at least briefly).

"The Bristlekrugg are" (Plural error).
"mandibles, that allow" The comma should be removed.

Clearly, Bristlekruggs are white, so pointing that out in the description does seem superfluous.

I recommend merging the paragraph starting with "These bristles" with the paragraph starting with "The Bristlekrugg".

"behavior; grooming" should be: "behavior: grooming."

"await the young bristlekruggs". You mean, "wait for the young bristlekruggs".

I recommend merging "They will feed[...]" into the same paragraph as "after drifting[...]".

"decent first meal..." The ellipsis should be replaced with a comma.

You'll neeed to fill in that conspicuous white space near the bristle on the rear.

Can you smooth out the black bristles into the grey parts so they blend in better?

That they wait for the bristlekrugg eggs to hatch suggest they develop and hatch very quickly. The wet, warm conditions of the archipelago probably helps this.

The description suggests populations moved to the temperate habitats only because nesting space was scarce. Is it worth marking as "uncommon" in temperate habitats, or is it pretty common there anyway?

"it's ancestor": "its ancestor".
There are some grammar issues, but I'll have to get back to this later. Sometimes, I check Sagan 4 only briefly, and cannot provide sufficiently lengthy feedback.

"hard time,": A colon is needed here.
*not*: This should be in italics.
"live in tundra": I believe this should be "live in the tundra".
"completely extinct including": There should be a comma after "completely extinct".
"mega carnivores": Did you mean "very large carnivores"? I say this because there are mesocarnivores and hypercarnivores.
"carniasials": "Carnassials" is the correct spelling. Since this is such a specialized term, I recommend adding more context for its meaning.

What sorts of bones does it crush? It does have wooden teeth. Some species as of late have developed extra-hard, rock-like wooden teeth. The Mohs hardness of bone (judging by human bones) is 5, and a quick check suggests hardwood floors (without coatings) have a Mohs hardness of roughly 5.5. (https://metallicepoxy.sg/blog-post-12-pros-cons-of-hardwood/) Logically, plents' wooden teeth would be equivalent to some kind of hardwood, but since it's using its teeth for something so demanding, it could be worth specifying.

I'll have to get back to this later.

Theoretically, pupation could help them survive winter in the subpolar or temperate climates. Some butterflies do this.

"Pupa develop under the sand or mud of the bodies of water they live in. If in a cryobowl it is just at the bottom of the bowl." These sentences can be merged.
It's good to see more small, insectoid local species. I'll have to go over the habitat list later.

"full grown": "fully-grown".
"should protect[...]" Do you mean to say that Giant Tamows' armor makes it difficult for Tyrannical Vonnegonas to attack compared to their other prey species, but it does not give Giant Tamows full protection?
"on alter": What do you mean? Is this a stray word?

While the hind right leg does suggest three toes, it's still not obvious. Both horses and ostriches are large animals which have fewer toes than their ancestors, although this could also be a cursorial adaptation. You could probably textually clarify toe number with a brief description of adaptations in its feet and legs for such an immense size.

Does it have fewer toes now?
"no longer on a floating island" This needs a comma. However, I also recommend it be eliminated entirely if it doesn't relate to the rest of the sentence.

The description says they are "scalemail-like", but the artwork simply suggests shaggy hair. That's what I initially concluded from looking at the image. I'm not sure how it could be like scalemail. Does that mean they're in overlapping rows of short, dense porcupine-like quills? Making the hair-rows shiny to suggest they're like rows of metal spikes could work.

"much to big": Much too big.
"large amount leaves": Large amount of laves.
"server": serves.
"its tail[...]their" This is a pronoun mix-up, as is "like their ancestor[....]it consumes daily".
"gives birth": give birth.

You might be going for a diversifier badge with these Adorned Tamow descendants. You might have one already, given you founded the project and probably made loads of descendants for only one species when there were fewer species to work with.
"Up to 2 year": Up to 2 years.

Grammarly might help you catch basic typos.

In retrospect, I'm not sure if it made sense for its ancestor to use PHB. A quick check suggests only microbes make it in real-life, and use it as a storage molecule. I guess it would need to be discussed whether that needs to be retconned or is an acceptable, subtle piece of whimsy. It's certainly subtler than Flamebacks, which literally emit fire like a Pokemon. (Admittedly, that was Generation 151.)

You could say "pieces of smooth bark", I suppose.

Male Alaskan moose are, on average, 4.6-6.9 feet tall, but one individual shot was 7 feet, 8 inches. It doesn't make sense to list the height of an Alaskan moose at 7 feet, 8 inches, as that was so exceptional. If it is typical for them to be stunted, because the majority live in beach habitats, then surely the average height for the species would be substantially shorter than the maximum.

There are several "it's" errors in this description.
"Minikrugs": "Minikruggs"
"Like their ancestor[...]mothers". I recommend merging this sentence.
"150 cm long" should be "1.5 m long".

They have big ears for a large herbivore. Is it to compensate for their black armor and fairly thick-looking fur insulating them too much?

These are big for burrowing animals.
A polar bear is technically a burrowing animal, as the females dig maternity dens. Female polar bears are 5.9-7.9 feet long, or 2.4 meters. However, it's possible snow is easier to dig through than soil. A wombat, which is more conventionally a burrowing animal, is about 1 meter long.The extinct wombat relative Mukurpina, which had some limiting digging ability but didn't burrow, is said to be the size of a black bear. The size of an American black bear is 4.5 feet long, or 1.3 m long.

I recommend adjusting the art to give it bigger front paws that look more suitable for digging, making it smaller, clarifying that its burrows are just pits in the ground sheltered by vegetation, or that it co-opts other organism's burrows and somewhat expands the entrances.

"PHB bioplastic coating"
It's not out of the question living things could naturally create plastic (that is, plastic-like polymer) substances. Cellophane bees (genus Colletes) make a substance that resembles cellophane, which is like the material of a plastic bag. With that being said, you'd have to elaborate on why waxes, oils, and waterproof coats wouldn't work, spell out "PHB" and why it works in this case, and make at least a vague mention of how it arose.

"it's surface": Its surface.
"is ancestor": Its ancestor.
"The clusters[...]" This sentence is too long. You'll need to split it.
"numbers, megasporangium": "numbers, with megasporangium".
"it's base": Its base.
How can bark grow in sheets? Is it like paper birches? Or are you simply talking about fissures in the bark?
30 m does seem tall for a tree that grows on beaches, particularly one that's noted to be become stunted when it lives on the beach. You could elaborate on the typical height of Contorted Vollypoms living on beach habitats. I figure the height given in the template would be a population average for an adult Contorted Volleypom, so if the majority of Contorted Volleypoms live on beaches, but beaches make them stunted, the template's given height of 30 m may be too tall. I did a quick search on plausible heights for beach trees of similar environmental tolerances: knowing the data for a beach plum (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/njpmcpg13391.pdf) might help.

The capitalization of "flesh fairy" is inconsistent in the description. Some people capitalize species names an others do not, but it should be consistent within the same description.
"The feathers around its face" Some words are missing here.
"by it evolving" "evolved to", "to track scent faster", and other uses of "to [change in evolution]" suggest purposeful direction in evolution, which is misleading. Descent with modification allows populations to gradually change over time and become adapted to changing environments: it's not like a Digimon or a Pokemon evolving to become stronger. I recommend, "[pointing out physical change], which helps it [achieve physical function, e.g., improving its hearing]".
"burrows in" That burrow in.
"The life an adult": The life of an adult.
"large targets such as" This needs a comma.
"zero in" is very informal. I distinctively recall having the wording for a sentence in one of my earliest submissions, the Turnip Limbless, being changed due to being too informal.
"this almost always" this is almost always.
"of th prey. This being". These sentences should be merged.
"danger either directly": This needs a comma.
"proving to the female his right to mate" Wild animals don't really have "rights". One option is, "Fighting occurs either because a male gets frustrated at a female's disinterest in mating with him". Another option is, "Fighting occurs either because their mating rituals consist of ritualized but intense-looking physical confrontation". You could also have males simply be more aggressive, even towards potential mates. This has some precedent: roosters sometimes wound hens while mating with them, and male sea otters are characteristically aggressive to female sea otters. Male bedbugs' attempts to mate with female bedbugs are so brutal it's created selective pressures for resisting it.

It's good to see you again, Jlind11.

The text formatting of the description is very odd, like it was written on a Notepad document with words fitting the window's margins. Can you fix that?

EDIT: Interestingly enough, a greeting to a returning member was my 1,000th post. That may have been what brought me to "Nomad" status. (The organism titles seem based on number of forum posts, though I don't know the exact numbers for each.)

" highly irresistible" "Irresistible" is an absolute term.

Interestingly, if pheromones are the only way males locate females to mate with, any mutation allowing for resistance to the luring effect of the pheromone would be hard to pass down genetically. It's like the femme fatale fireflies (Photuris) eating the males of other firefly species by imitating flashes of light.

Unless they come up with some other method of finding mates, even a mutation that lets a clone-male escape getting eaten by his clone-mother by entering a deeper torpor would be hard to pass down unless the male becomes a tree and makes clones itself. Oh boy...this is a dystopian kind of worm, where these punk-worms serving The System eventually become The System even if they escape or fizzle away into (genetic) irrelevance.

You'll have to be more clearly distinguish the diet of the males and females in the template.

There's more, but I'll have to come back later.