QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 29 2023, 05:26 PM)

And how do members that are forced to leave survive, exactly? Also, how do they gather food when interlinked with the nimbus?

The ones forced to leave…
Well if one falls off, their chances of survival aren’t zero if they’re lucky.
Otherwise a part of the nimbus cloud is physically separated.

Only the Marchessa is interlocked with the nimbus. The others clean the nimbus stalks of detritus, pollen, etc. they bring them to her to eat.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 29 2023, 05:32 PM)

How does it maintain immunity to its own chemical attack?

1. It doesn’t mix the chemicals until the end
2. It uses a special wax coating on the leaves

Updated the art per Cube's suggestion

Updated the art...now with more pores

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 29 2023, 07:09 PM)

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 29 2023, 06:34 PM) I don't think the ancestor produced silk? They still had the silk glands in a few individuals within the population QUOTE As it no longer hunts, its warfarin-silk is useless. Consequently, silk glands are reduced or even absent in most individuals. Since their ancestor was a carnivore they still supplement their diets with meat from dead carcasses they find. In Lizalopes and Pasakerds these were lost entirely, but under the right circumstances the silk glands could find more prominent usage, which seems to be what hethr is doing. Then again the artwork here does not show any sign of the silk producing organs seen in gossalizards that have them, so I got no idea on what is going on.

It's a male. Added supplemental image of female to show spinneret organs.

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 29 2023, 06:18 PM)

I feel like there should be more information about the habits? Like all that is discussed is how this creature attracts mates and avoid predation attempts... Also why does this replace it's ancestor?

It's pretty much exactly like its ancestors otherwise, same diet, etc.
So similar they'll probably wind up competing. The ones its replacing were isolated pockets of Snoronk as well.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 29 2023, 05:28 PM)

Did you see my comment about the positions of the bubbles?

Got the new art for it posted... Hope you like it...

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 29 2023, 05:53 PM)

So why exactly did the species become semi aquatic? What were the main benefits?...

It became aquatic to avoid competition from the Whiskerback. It had pushed its ancestor, the Slurpabill to the beaches, and this kinda completes the process.

Name: Cryostalk Colony
Ancestor: Greater Cryotable
Habitat: Ovi-Drake Polar Coast, Drake-Ovi Polar Beach, North Barlowe Polar Coast, North Barlowe Polar Beach
Size: 10 cm wide (table diameter)
Support: Central Silicon Rods
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: unknown
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Asexual (Budding), Sexual (Spores)

The cryostalk colony, usually just called a cryostalk for short, split from its ancestor, returning to the water, and growing in vertical stalks.
The cryostalk is a vertical colony of numerous individuals. Each section formed as a bud from the one below it.

Each year, the cryostalk will release spores into the water. They will settle into the sediment and grow into a new cryostalk base. During the summer, the topmost cryostalk will break off, and disperse to begin a new cryostalk elsewhere, floating on top of the water like a lilypad. It has even found its way to the Barlowe polar area.

Cryostalks reach full size after a year and can live up to 10 years. Other than that, they are like their ancestor.

Name: Reflectree
Ancestor: Reflectabsorb
Size: 80cm tall
Habitat: Drake (Polar)

You should combine the Volleypoms into a genus.

Looks good to me.

Fixed life cycle per Colddigger’s suggestion.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 29 2023, 08:17 AM)

QUOTE (HethrJarrod @ Apr 29 2023, 05:51 AM) QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 28 2023, 11:37 PM) This is new fauna. Does it satisfy Mni's requirement that it must bring something new to the table that can't be made with any existing group? It’s already fauna. Ancestor is fauna: https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Radiashrub Did you mistake an image of 5 of them mating for an animal?

I think you’re being a bit rude.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 28 2023, 11:37 PM)

This is new fauna. Does it satisfy Mni's requirement that it must bring something new to the table that can't be made with any existing group?

It’s already fauna.

Ancestor is fauna: https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Radiashrub

Name: Radiabush [Thalloradia thamnos]
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Radiashrub
Habitat: Rhodix Vents, Rhodix Trench Floor, Rhodix Trench Zone, Rhodix Trench Slope
LadyM Ocean Abyss Zone, Penumbra Midnight Sea Mounts,Putspooza Midnight Sea Mounts, Rhodix Midnight Sea Mounts, LadyM Ocean Midnight Zone
Size: 1 cm tall
Support: Unknown
Diet: Consumer, Detritivore
Respiration: Unknown
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, (Free-swimming larvae, Starfish-like juveniles, Brood Trees)

The Radiabush has split from its ancestor, the Radiashrub, and increased in size tenfold due to Abyssal Gigantism. It has spread out from the Rhodix vents, spreading all along the abyssal and midnight seafloor of the LadyM ocean.

Unlike its ancestor, its life cycle has flipped. Starting out as swimmers that break off from its parent brood-tree and swims around freely using its flagella. They will gobble up any marine snow that falls. When they mature they group up, exchanging genes and becoming star-fish like, crawling along the seafloor, preying on any cells or marine snow that the bud might have missed. Once they get enough energy, they bury all but one of their arms in the sediment, transforming into root-like appendeges. The other arm will start growing bigger and bigger, growing into a brood tree.

Name: Marduk (Mardukhaber sagiru)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Feluk
Habitat: Ramul Chaparral, Ramul Subtropical Woodland, Ramul Subtropical Beach, Ramul Subtropical Woodland Archipelago
Size: 5 cm long
Support: Muscular Hydrostat, Protoendoskeleton (Keratin Fibers)
Diet: Carnivore (Minizap, Mikuks, Aphluks, Vermees; smaller species of Minikruggs, Mistswarmers, Silkruggs, Cloudswarmers; smaller Marduks), Scavenger
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Eggs in Water)

Reaching Ramul via the seashrog and marine tamow nests, the small feluk grew, and split into the marduk. They developed a brilliant blue pigmentation as a means of sexual display.

The most notable feature that sets it apart from its ancestor is the development of a thin membrane that stretches between the two upper limbs and the tail. This membrane allows the marduk the opportunity to glide from tree to tree, or to pounce on its prey from above. This membrane is held taut with the use of the beginnings of a endoskeleton. This protoendoskeleton is made of keratin, the same material that makes up its claws. This skeleton continually grows and must be routinely ground down.

Its head has elongated slightly and its eyes have moved closer to its mouth. In early marduks, their eyes were awkwardly placed in such a way that the membrane that had developed was covering their eyes, so ones that had eyes further forward were better suited for survival.

Supplemental Side View:



Other than that, it is like its ancestor.

Good job on this one! Can't wait to evolve it next gen

Name: Hyperboreans (Hyperborea spp.)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Photogoliathpseudofoliage, Cryosagania (Photosynthetic Pigments/organelle)
Habitat: North Polar Ocean (Benthic, Sunlight Zone), North Barlowe Polar Coast, Drake-Ovi Polar Coast,
Size: 5-10mm tall
Support: Unknown
Diet: Photosynthesis, Detritivore, Consumer
Respiration: Unknown
Thermoregulation: Unknown
Reproduction: Asexual (Mitosis), Sexual (Nucleus-Sharing)

The Hyberboreans split from their ancestor, when they consumed some cryosagania. Unable to consume parts of the cell, it absorbed the blue-green chloroplast. Like its ancestor did with Photosagnia Luculentus, it formed a symbiosis with the organelle, which did better in the polar regions. Eventually the cyan organelles replaced the Luculentus ones, propagated via mitosis. The Hyperboreans are a pale cyan color. In the winter, they go dormant and are buried by a layer of sediment that they crawl out of in the spring. Otherwise it is like its ancestor.

added the Split/Replaced information

Name: Broken Heart (Lypimenos katakarda)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Wading Heart
Habitat: Dorite Subtropical Bay, Chum Subtropical Coast, Ofan Tropical Coast, Gec Swamp, Ichthy Swamp, Biocat Bayou, Glicker Bayou, Gec Tropical Mudflat, Biocat Subtropical Mudflat, Glicker Subtropical Mudflat, Glicker Subtropical Mangal, Chum Subtropical Mangal, Ofan Tropical Mangal, BioCat Subtropical Riparian, Huggs Subtropical Riparian, Gec Tropical Riparian, Glicker Subtropical Riparian
Size: 1 m long
Support: Endoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Carnivore (Common Oceanscooter, Finback, Ichthypede, Salt Bog Bowlwhorl, Bog Echofin, Naked Fraboo, Incomplete Talúnuisce, Common Fraboo, Clickworm, Pewpa, Gallratworm, Belumbia, Ichthy River Netwhorl, Ichthy Gilltail, Hitchhiker Scuttler, Onamor, Diamond Pumpgill, Sucker Swarmer, Nerius, Rugged Scuttler, Flat Swarmer, Left-Right Scalucker, Floating Pumpgill, Larvaback, Scuttlers, Frabukis, Krillpedes, Miniswarmers, Marine Urpoi, Chum Gilltail, Elegant Emperor Phibisian young, Twinkiiro Gilltail, Spineless Toadtuga, River Hikahoe, Spinemander young, Scuttleball Gillfin, Diamond Pumpgill, Gulperpump, Thornback Waterworm), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Microungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Downy Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Sexes, Lays Hard-shelled Eggs

The broken heart has split from its ancestor in its habitat. It is very much like its ancestor, the Wading heart. Its mandibles have become scooplike, which is perfect for scooping up prey with a mouthful of water. Gaps between the teeth of the mandibles allow water to escape when the Broken heart lifts its mouth out of the water.

The broken hearted form small flocks of mating pairs. These flocks of Broken Heart are usually found near groups of heartsnappers. Like the wading heart, they make their nests in hollowed out logs or a tightly wound ball of river grasses. It is the victim of brood parasitism by the heartsnapper, which lives nearby. The heartsnapper does not make its own nests, but lays its eggs in the nest of the Broken heart. If the heartsnapper egg is rejected from the nest, it will come back and destroy the eggs of the Broken heart. However, as long as the Broken heart keeps the heartsnapper egg in their nest, their nest could not be better protected. This protection allows them to go hunting without having to worry about the nest.

When the heartsnapper egg hatches, it is fed along with the rest of the hatchlings. Heartsnappers that grew up in broken heart nests do not seem to be minded as much by the broken hearts, and they seem to recognize them.

On occasion, due to their close proximity, an unlikely pairing of heartsnapper and broken heart can occur, but no offspring ever result.

Name: Heartsnapper (Ardeasaurus sparaktikos)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Wadesnapper
Habitat: Dorite Subtropical Bay, Chum Subtropical Coast, Ofan Tropical Coast, Gec Swamp, Ichthy Swamp, Biocat Bayou, Glicker Bayou, Gec Tropical Mudflat, Biocat Subtropical Mudflat, Glicker Subtropical Mudflat, Glicker Subtropical Mangal, Chum Subtropical Mangal, Ofan Tropical Mangal, BioCat Subtropical Riparian, Huggs Subtropical Riparian, Gec Tropical Riparian, Glicker Subtropical Riparian
Size: 70 cm long
Support: Endoskeleton (Hollow Bone)
Diet: Carnivore (Common Oceanscooter, Finback, Ichthypede, Salt Bog Bowlwhorl, Bog Echofin, Naked Fraboo, Incomplete Talúnuisce, Common Fraboo, Clickworm, Pewpa, Gallratworm, Belumbia, Ichthy River Netwhorl, Ichthy Gilltail, Hitchhiker Scuttler, Onamor, Diamond Pumpgill, Sucker Swarmer, Nerius, Rugged Scuttler, Flat Swarmer, Left-Right Scalucker, Floating Pumpgill, Larvaback, Scuttlers, Frabukis, Krillpedes, Miniswarmers, Marine Urpoi, Chum Gilltail, Elegant Emperor Phibisian young, Twinkiiro Gilltail, Spineless Toadtuga, River Hikahoe, Spinemander young, Scuttleball Gillfin, Diamond Pumpgill, Gulperpump, Thornback Waterworm), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Downy Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Sexes, Lays Hard-shelled Eggs, Brood Parasite (Broken Heart)

The heartsnapper has split from its ancestor in its range. The heartsnapper is exactly like its ancestor, the wadesnapper, except in one way. It has become a brood parasite to the Broken heart.

Over time, the eggs of the heartsnapper have slowly altered in appearance to more closely match the eggs of the Broken heart. The heartsnapper does not make its own nests, but lays its eggs in the nest of the Broken heart. The heartsnapper will locate a Broken heart nest and lay its eggs alongside those of the Broken heart. If the heartsnapper egg is rejected from the nest, it will come back and destroy the eggs of the Broken heart. However, as long as the Broken heart keeps the heartsnapper egg in their nest, their nest could not be better protected. This protection allows them to go hunting without having to worry about the nest. The eggs will hatch and the hatchlings will be cared for by its adoptive parents alongside the Broken heart hatchlings until they mature and leave the nest. Heartsnappers that grew up in broken heart nests do not seem to be minded as much by the broken hearts, and they seem to recognize them.

On occasion, due to their close proximity, an unlikely pairing of heartsnapper and Broken heart can occur, but no offspring ever result.
The juvenile heartsnapper will often reside near Broken heart groups, which would allow them to find nests easier.

*Artist sketch of Sirrush

Name: Sirrush (Edaciuksip marduk)
Ancestor: Snoronk
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: Raptor Highvelt, Raptor Chaparral, West Wallace Tropical Woodland, Wallace Tropical Scrub, Verserus Highvelt, Dixon Tropical Woodland
Size: 70 cm Long
Support: Endoskeleton (Ossified Cartilage)
Diet: Omnivore (Xatazelle, Desert Tilecorn, Xatagolin, Neoshrew, Rosybeak Phyler, Hedgimal, Binsnoo, Opportunity Shrew, Harndum Prickleshrew, Berry Arbourshroom, Kellace, Sunstalks, Supershrooms, Sapshrooms, Arid Plyent, Crown-of-Thorns Plyent, Pixy Plyent, Hood Plyent, Yuccagave, Snow Windbulb, Scrubland Quhft fruit, Scrubland Tubeplage fruit, Robust Arid Ferine fruit, Common Fraboo, Clickworm, Pewpa, Gallratworm, Brutishelm Uksip, Sapworms) Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: unknown
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Sexes, Soft-Shelled Eggs

The sirrush is very much like its ancestor, the snoronk, replacing it in the highvelts of Raptor and Verserus. Its major difference is the membrane on its upper limbs. Both sexes of sirrush have this membrane, unlike the head crest, which only males have. In males this membrane is used in courtship rituals. During mating season a male sirrush will puff up its throat sac and raise its arms to the sky. is a This throat sac is an expandable pouch which helps the sirrush make simple vocalizations and can be filled with stomach acid to be sprayed onto predators from the proboscis. Raising its arms reveals the full extent of the membrane. It will then flap its arms up and down in an aggressive display. The less intimidating male will back off, and the winner will pair with the female.

The other main use for the membrane is to threaten predators to protect their young. Sirrush are incredibly aggressive. When they notice a threat they will raise their arms, extending the membrane, hoping to intimidate the predator that they are too big of a threat to attack. If the threat continues to approach, they can spit stomach acid at it from their proboscis.

The sirrush also use these arms to steady themselves while chasing after prey. They stalk their prey, sometimes as groups, hidden in the flora, pouncing on them when their prey least expects. If the prey bolts, the sirrush can reach speeds of up to 30 km/h in short bursts.

Some of the smaller sirrush hang out around the nests of pickaxe tamow, hunting the pests found there. They are not attacked by the tamow, but are skittish around them, fleeing if they get too close.

Supplemental Images:


Sketch of throat sac in a deflated and inflated states


Sketch of side view of a Sirrush proboscis

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Species Swap with Colddigger.

I have such a hard time trying to figure it out....
added one...

Borogrove (Megaskimos mimsi)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Terrestrial Emulsecho
Habitat: Time Subtropical Beach, Time Subtropical Mangal, Time Archipelago Subtropical Beaches, Abello Temperate Beach, Abello Temperate Archipelago Beaches, Time Subtropical Rainforest Archipelago, Abello Temperate Rainforest Archipelago, Abello Temperate Mangal, Ittiz Temperate Beach, Ittiz Archipelago Temperate Beaches, Ittiz Temperate Mangal, Nergali Subtropical Beach, Clayren Temperate Beach, Clayren Archipelago Temperate Beaches, Clayren Temperate Rainforest Archipelago, Lamarck Subtropical Rainforest, Lamarck Temperate Rainforest
Size: 1m long
Support: Endoskeleton (Jointed Wood)
Diet: Omnivore (Marbleflora, Vermees, Dartirs, Supershrooms, Sapshrooms), Photosynthesis
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Mesotherm (Basking, Nocturnal)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Sexes, Live Birth


The borogrove evolved when the terrestrial emulsecho became isolated on the Time archipelago. It grew larger, up to a meter in length. It swam from island to island, spreading up and down the coast, even into Lamarck’s rainforest.

The borogrove keep all four feet on the ground, and do not venture into the trees. They have three toes on each foot. Each toe has a sharp claw-like pad that can be used for defense.

Nothing really bothers them, because they are toxic to any predators. They sleep in the daytime, flattened out and basking in the sun. During this time, their photosynthetic ears spread out wide. They are like two bright neon green signposts that say “I am not good to eat.” At dusk they stir from their slumber. They are most active at dusk and night, when they hunt and eat. Its tongue, like the split-tongue jabberwocky, has bifurcated, and it is more prehensile than its ancestor. This allows them to grab food, and snatch prey.

Like its ancestor, the borogrove gives birth to live young. The offspring are then "spit" upon the backs of their mate so they don't fall and must hang on to their parents' backs until they are strong enough to walk on their own. The parents mate for life and both take care of their 2 to 3 offspring. One takes care of the infant, while the other is looking for food. The parent will bring back the food, regurgitating it for them to eat. After a few months they reach adulthood and leave their parents to find a mate.

Other than that, it is like its ancestor.