I think the post should be formatted in a different way.
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Name/Ancestor/Etc.
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Description for both.
Name: Aegis Scaleworms
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Prongleg Scaleworm
Habitat: Ovi, Drake
Size: 4-6 cm long
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Detritivore, Herbivore (Cryofrond and descendants)
Respiration: Passive (Tracheae)
Thermoregulation: Heterotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Spawning)
The Aegis Scaleworm split from its ancestor, the Prongleg Scaleworms, taking a liking to eating cryoflora, and spreading to Drake. Their chitin has taken a grayish-cyan hue. The front lower appendages have become like mandibles, and have a serrated edge that cuts up food before going into the Aegis Scaleworm's mouth.
The antennas of the Aegis Scaleworm have grown in size into flat chitinous paddles.
It is used for two main purposes, mating and camouflage. During their mating season, the male Aegis Scaleworm will rub these paddles together, producing a chirping noise like a cicada or a cricket. After this the females will use theirs to chirp in response. The two will use their chirping to hone in on each other's location, usually a small puddle of calm water.
The Aegis Scaleworm also uses their larger antenna for camouflage. They can fold their antenna over their back, giving them the appearance of an everyday stone or part of a cryoflora they are resting on. The Aegis Scaleworm love to eat cryoflora, and help to spread spores of them. Their favorite is the Tabletuft.
Other than that, the Aegis Scaleworm is like its ancestor.
Name: Bobiiroll (Maradona messi)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Chambered Bobiiro
Habitat: Iituem Temperate Beach, Iituem Temperate Archipelago Beaches, Iituem Plains Archipelago, South Darwin Plains, Martyk Temperate Sea, Iituem Temperate Bay
Size: 24 cm diameter
Support: Hydraulic Skeleton (Fluid, Oil, Air-filled chambers)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Detritrivore, Filter Feeder
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm (Basking, Sweating)
Reproduction: Semi-Sexual (Gamete Cell), Asexual (Spores)
The bobiiroll split from its ancestor, spreading to the north, and returning to the land. They are usually found on beaches and near waterways, but can sometimes be found further inland. They are still much like their ancestor, the chambered bobiiro. On land, fauna will occasionally kick or roll the bobiiroll around playfully. This allows the bobiiroll to spread cells that grow into new bobiirolls. They also spread spores when they are popped or trampled on.
Like their ancestor, the bobiiroll is photosynthetic, but it has also become detritivorous, picking up bits of detritus and water as it rolls along. It has a complex network of chambers. These are filled with water, oils, and air. By manipulating what chambers are open or closed, the bobiiroll controls its movements. If it gets too hot, it can eject some of the warm water in its chambers to cool off. If threatened it can eject a puff of air in a predator’s face, startling it, and possibly scaring it off. If it absorbs too much water, it will burst, spreading its spores. If it dries out too much it will absorb air until it bursts, spreading its spores as well.
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Bursting, as a way scare off predators, does not always work. But the Bobiiroll has another thing going for it. It just isn’t that good to eat. It is tough and rubbery and about the size of a kickball. It does not provide much nutritional value at all.
Other than that, the bobiiroll is like its ancestor.
Elkhorn (Pteraramus nautolimax)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Elahpekomlap bubblehorn
Habitat: Soma Temperate Archipelago Beaches, Ramul Subtropical Beach Archipelago, Soma Temperate Sea, Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Jujubee Subtropical Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Ramul Subtropical Coast, Russ Subtropical Coast, Sparks Subtropical Coast, Steiner Subtropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Tropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Tropical Beach
Size: 40 cm wide, 12 cm long
Diet: Detritivore, Planktivore, Filter Feeder
Respiration: Active (Gill-like Pores)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Hermaphrodite, Clump of Eggs in Water
The Elkhorn split from its ancestor, the Elahpekomlap bubblehorn, when some became isolated in the Steiner archipelago region. Growing four times as large as its ancestor, the Elkhorn is truly a sight to behold. Propelling itself through the water with the power of the wind. It collects food on its horns, larger horns meant being able to collect more food particles to eat. If not cleaned regularly, particles on the horn will cause the flesh to calcify and die off, forming small holes that eventually heal.
Like the E. Bubblehorn, the elkhorn can propel itself through the water backwards to escape predators, using a siphon and two nearby chambers to pump water in an alternating fashion. It can curl up its enormous fan horns if it needs to get into small spaces. When curled up, the elkhorn can use them for swimming. When fully unfurled, the horns stretch 40 cm across.
With the siphon pumps giving it enough speed it can propel itself out of the water with its horns unfurled, and into the air for a short while. While it is gliding, the horns of the elkhorn will pick up all manner of detritus, plankton, and other things that the elkhorn will clean off of its wings and eat after it dives back underneath the waves.
The elkhorn migrate from the temperate waters of the Soma sea to the tropical waters around Steiner. They do this by resting on the surface of the water, and holding their horns up to catch the wind, like sails. Along the way forming groups called navies.
Other than that, it is like its ancestor.
Name: Magentree (Quinacripine spp.)
Ancestor: Stoutplage
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: Wallace
Size: 1-10m tall
Support: unknown
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: unknown
Thermoregulation: unknown
Reproduction: Sexual (Two Sexes, Fruit, Miniscule Flowers)
The Magentrees grew to ten times the height of their ancestor, the Stoutplage. Like their ancestor, its trunk still consists of several chambers of food storing cells around a central hollow tube. Montane varieties are short, squat and stretch across arid and herbaceous environments with its waxy leaves. Meanwhile the ones found on the beaches have longer thinner trunks and produce larger fruit.
==Reproduction==
Its method of reproduction has undergone some changes from its ancestor. It takes nearly 5 years for the Magentree to reach maturity. It will continue growing until it reaches maximum height. Magentrees live for 25 years.
At the top of the Magentree are male leaves shaped like paper airplanes. These leaves fall off, gliding in the air and releasing a cloud of gametes, called pollen, behind them. The leaves on the lower section of the Magentree are female, and when the male leaves fall, the tips of the female leaves open into small minuscule flowers. The pollen from the male finds its way to the female leaf. The female leaf starts to produce a small fruit on the underside of the leaf that will fall off to the ground. This fruit will be eaten and digested by herbivores, allowing the seed to spread. If everything goes well, the seed will grow into a Magentree.
The male leaves will continue to glide until they finally hit the ground. They have the possibility of growing into a new Magentree. These new Magentree are male-only, and do not produce fruit.
==The Leaves of the Magentree==
A special note should be made of the leaves of the Magentree. While the female leaves do not fall off, the male leaves at the top do. They each have a center groove that the one above them rests on. When they fall, they follow the groove for the first few moments. The leaves are shaped like a paper airplane, allowing it to glide long distances as it spreads. Different species of Magentree use different shapes of leaves, using the best shape for their situation. There is so much variety that the shape of the leaves can change from one Magentree to the next.
| QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 21 2023, 08:46 AM) | ||
Can you please leave useful comments instead of emojis? This is spam. |
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Love them, can’t really find anything wrong with them.
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Love them, can’t really find anything wrong with them.
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Name: Slugger (Gymnosaliankas pistos)
Ancestor: Common Oceanscooter, Drakescooter
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: Sparks Tropical Beach, Steiner Tropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Subtropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Tropical Mangal, Steiner Subtropical Mangal, Russ Subtropical Coast, Sparks Tropical Coast
Size: 16 cm long
Support: Endoskeleton (Cellulose)
Diet: Herbivore (Twinkiiros, Pioneer Twinkolemon, Pioneer Twinkorn, Pioneer Twinkoshroom, Pioneer Trunkiiro, Pioneer Twinkoral, Buoy Twinkoral, Joined Twinkoral, Platebranch Twinkoral, Pioneeroots, Marbleflora), Coprophage, Scavenger, Photosynthesis
Respiration: unknown
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Spawning, Two Sexes
The slugger is the result of the common oceanscooter and drakescooter reproducing in the same pool of water. That both organisms had the same ancestor, the seascooter, produced some genetic abnormalities that by chance proved beneficial instead of an instant death.
Like the ocean scooter, the slugger is more adapted to aquatic life. The toes have grown a patagium extending back to the tip of the tail. They have the beginnings of a support skeleton, a U-shaped rod of flexible cellulose. Its muscles and tendons attach to this rod, allowing them greater speed in the water. By flapping its limbs it can produce an undulating motion which is very effective underwater.
However, like the drakescooter, it can leave the water and crawl onto shore. Like the drakescooter, the slugger has a throat pouch that can be filled with water. It uses this so that it doesn’t dry out on land. It can also use this water to slowly dissolve its food. While waiting for food to digest they will rest on the beach. Along with twinkiiros, they also dine on squaphaneer, slaesosaur, phlinch, and nixie dung as well. It will eat almost anything.
Like both of its ancestors, the slugger has a series of spikes that deter predators by creating an electric current through them. They are used as warning calls to notify other Sluggers of an encroaching predator, such as a Phlinch. They will shock predators that get too close.
The slugger will crawl onto land every spring and spawn in pools of water. They then crawl back to the ocean. Sluggers mature rapidly, in a manner of a week once fertilized. They live for two to three years.
Fun Fact: Its excrement helps to build the wonderful sandy beaches of the Steiner archipelago.
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| QUOTE (colddigger @ Apr 20 2023, 08:05 AM) |
| Says replaced it's Phoenix grass Missing a word? |
It’s replaced it in its range. The phoenixtails range is not 100% of the Phoenix Grass range.
That’s what replaced in range means right?
| QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 19 2023, 10:27 PM) |
| So, why do they replace the Pheonix Grass?... |
They don't replace it, not fully. The Phoenixtail is better with spore dispersal. Phoenix Grass released spores continuously. The Phoenixtail releases them when it is most advantageous for their dispersal.
Name: Phoenixtail (Comafenix marinum)
Ancestor: Phoenix Grass, Ashkalatongrass
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: Jeluki Subtropical River, Jeluki Subtropical Riparian, Jeluki Bayou, Clarke Subtropical Beach, Javen Tropical Beach, Ichthy Swamp, Ichthy Tropical River, Ichthy Tropical Riparian, Terra Swamp, North Terra Tropical River, Terra Tropical Lake, Terra Tropical River, Terra Tropical Mudflat, North Terra Tropical Riparian, Terra Tropical Riparian, Terra Palus, Cube Tropical River, Cube Tropical Riparian, Koopa Subtropical Beach, Wright Bayou, Wright Subtropical Riparian, Wright Subtropical Mudflat, Wright Subtropical River, Pipcard Bayou, Pipcard Subtropical River, Pipcard Subtropical Riparian, Pipcard Subtropical Mudflat, Kenotai Bayou, Kenotai Subtropical Mudflat, Kenotai Subtropical River, Kenotai Subtropical Riparian, Bardic Swamp, Bardic Tropical River, Bardic Tropical Riparian, Bardic Tropical Mudflat, Jindy Tropical Beach
Size: 1.2 m tall
Support: unknown
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: Passive
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Asexual, Cylindrical Spores in Water
Phoenixtail has replaced its ancestors, the phoenix grass and ashkalatongrass, in its range. Phoenixtail resulted from generations of spores from phoenix grass and ashkalatongrass cross pollinating with each other. Eventually, these underwent a series of reduplications of its genome. This is a condition called polyploidy, in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of chromosomes. Phoenixtail is tetraploid, which means that it has four copies of its chromosomes. However, due to this process, the phoenixtail is sterile to the phoenix grass and ashkalatongrass.
The phoenixtail stands as a tall set of dark grass-like stalks. At the end of these stalks are a bulb, capped off with long thin hair. The bulb is the spore capsule, and as the phoenixtail grows, this bulb gets bigger, longer, and heavier. The bulb weighs down the stalk of the phoenixtail, causing it to bend and droop over. When the long hair coming out of the bulb makes contact with water, like the surface of a river or pond, it will untwist, opening up the spore bulb. The spore bulb opens up and long thin strands of red, orange, and yellow flow forth like luscious locks of hair. Ensnared on these hairs are thousands of phoenixtail spores. When these colorful hairs get wet, they dissolve, releasing the spores. These spores wash up on the beaches, repeating the process.
| QUOTE (Future Tyrannosaurus @ Apr 18 2023, 09:45 AM) |
 Bubble-throated Eggsticker (Semperiuvenis piscator) Creator: Future Tyrannosaurus Ancestor: Bubble-Throated Anklebiter Habitat: Fermi Archiepleago, Fermi Steppe,Oofle Tundra Size: 120 cm tall males, 40 cm long females Support: Endoskeleton Diet: Scavenger, Marbleflora, Snotflora Males: Omnivore (Alshamite, Stackstalk, Farmphibian, Teacup Sauceback, Mini Kruggs, Krugg, Climbing Korrybug) Respiration: Active (Lungs) Thermoregulation: Ectotherm Reproduction: Sexual, Two sexes, Frog-like eggs The Bubble-throated Eggsticker split from its ancestor. This Saganisuchian differs quite alot from the ancestor. The most notable difference is that the adults don’t die as fast. It stopped cannibalizing each other as young, which caused them to be more plentiful. Instead of temporary pools, it lays eggs in more permanent pools of water. The females stay in their young, fish-like appearance to save maximum energy for reproduction. They don’t feed themselves when they are adults- the males feed them instead. The males, when adults, stand upright, walking on two legs for better looking for prey. They are capable of eating food as adults now, specializing in small fauna like Kruggs. When feeding a female, it will regurgitate the “Chewed up” food it was grinding with the bony bumps in the mouth, functioning like teeth. They are still deaf, relying on their bubble-throats to impress females. During mating season, the males will be in the pools of water, showing the colorful blue-throat, impressing females. Once it has a mate, the male will pick up the female and travel around. During this time, the male eats a lot of food, while the female is preparing to lay eggs. When the female can lay eggs, the male makes sure it is in a safe environment, and has the females lay eggs all over the throat. The eggs stick to the male, with a sticky ooze, covering the blue colored throat. The females die after laying eggs, using all the energy it had, but the male continues to live on. The male will guard these eggs, constantly being in the water, but occasionally coming out for kruggs. By the time the eggs hatch, the male will die, releasing a heat around it, which speeds up hatching of remaining unhatched eggs. The male provides food for the young Bubble Throated Eggstickers. They are poisonous like their ancestors, and when threatened, will show their yellow bellies. The adults have spots to signal poison before showing the belly. |
I like it. Can't find any glaring mistakes with it.
| QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 18 2023, 12:15 PM) | ||||
Why does the profile image have nostrils on the bill? They breath through the butt nostril... |
Sorry, stray line. Should be fixed now
| QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Apr 18 2023, 10:06 AM) |
| Can you do a profile view of the head to show off its mouth open and teeth exposed? Also the ears seem to be missing. |
Fixed the ear issue, and added a profile view.
Name: Shovelbill (Neodromuflora Kryoftyari)
Ancestor: Shorelance
Habitat: Morokov Subpolar Beach, Morokov Subpolar Coast, Wind Polar Beach, Wind Polar Coast, Voyager Barrens Archipelago, Voyager Archipelago Polar Beach, Darwin Barrens, Darwin Tundra, Badger Subpolar Beach
Size: 30 cm tall
Support: Endoskeleton (Petrolignin)
Diet: Omnivore (Beach Bubbleweed, Rockshellion eggs, Marine Slurpabill eggs, Frabush, Vermees, Scuttlers, Dartirs, Cleaner Bovermid, False Cleaner Bovermid, Flamboyant Fan Bloister, Boneweed, Pioneeroots, Fuzzweed berries, Sunstalks, Marbleflora, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, Stowaway Harmbless, Kakonat), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulatin: Endotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Live birth, Male and Female)
The shovelbill replaced its ancestor, the shorelance, in its range, along the southern coast of Wallace. Like its ancestor, the shovelbill is omnivorous. It has the same wooden spines that run along its back for protection, as well as a skeleton reinforced with petrolignin. Its dominant phenotype has become purple splotches instead of blue, allowing better camouflage among the beach bubbleweed.
The biggest adaptation it has evolved involves its beak. The end of its beak has become spoon or spade shaped, and gives the shovelbill its name. It uses this spoon, sticking its beak in the ground. It grabs everything; sand, pebbles, frabush shells, eggs of the marine slurpabill and rockshellion. It will swallow all of it whole. What the shovelbill can’t digest, it regurgitates back up later.
The shovelbill is still social, like its ancestor, forming groups of 5-6 called “meanders”. In addition to using the sun and moon to navigate, they are able to use the magnetic field lines. Like the shorelance, the shovelbill are crepuscular, sleeping together in groups.
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Name: Frabush (Cochlearubus kornus)
Ancestor: Marine Fraboo
Creator: HethrJarrod
Habitat: Badger Subpolar Coast, Morokor Subpolar Coast, Raq Subpolar Coast, Blocks Subpolar Mangal, Vivus Subpolar Mangal, Wind Polar Coast, Colddigger Polar Coast, Xeno Subpolar Coast, Martyk Temperate Sea, Iituem Temperate Bay, Elerd Temperate Coast, Bone Subpolar Mangal, Martyk Temperate Mangal, Elerd Temperate Mangal
Diet: Filter Feeder, Planktivore, Detritivore,
Size: 50 cm long
Respiration: Active (Gills)
Support: unknown
Thermoregulation: unknown
Reproduction: Sexual, Metamorphosis (Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult)
The frabush split from its ancestor, the marine fraboo. Like the marine fraboo, the frabush doesn’t lose the gills that it has in its larval stage, allowing it to live underwater. The frabush has an advanced life cycle which goes through egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The adults produce hundreds of eggs in nutrient sacks into the water. These eggs hatch into larva which filter-feed and consume detritus on the seafloor. The larva will bury itself in the sand and turn into an immobile pupa stage. It is at this point things diverged from their ancestors. Unlike the marine fraboo, the adult frabush never fully develops legs. They instead anchor the shell into the sand, almost like roots.
Instead, the adult frabush is a sessile filter-feeder. It will poke its branched head out of the sane, and just sway there in the current, feeding on anything it catches. If it feels threatened, it can quickly retreat its head back into its shell under the sand. If the predator is too quick, and is able to take a bite of the frabush, it is able to regenerate as long as the shell underneath the sand is not damaged.
Name: Slaesosteiner (Slaesaosaurus steinerum)
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Magnificent Slaesosaurus
Habitat: Sparks Tropical Beach, Steiner Tropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Subtropical Beach Archipelago, Steiner Tropical Mangal, Steiner Subtropical Mangal, Russ Subtropical Coast, Sparks Tropical Coast
Size: 2 meters long
Support: unknown
Diet: Carnivore (Helmethead Uksip, Uksor, Grubnub, Scaled Diveskunik, Crested King Limbless, Polar Ukback, Xatakpa, Rosy Scylarian, Ruberarian, Schutzhund Scylarian, Burrowing Quid, Slender Seaswimmer, Sanddigger Seaswimmer, Bubbleweed Seaswimmer, Seafin, Squaphaneer, Nixie)
Respiration: Active (Gills)
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Sexes
The slaesosteiner split from its ancestor the magnificent slaeosaurus when a group of them decided to remain in the warm waters of Steiner year round. It is still an ambush predator, its dark coat blending in with the dark volcanic sand. It waits until prey passes by and then snatch them up, even chasing them onto the shore if it needs to.
Unlike the magnificent slaesosaurus, the slaesosteiner does not have as elaborate a mating season, with fighting. Slaesosteiners still craft piles of flora on the beach, but they do not change color. They then bellow as loudly as possible, with the loudest most impressive attracting the females. Slaesosteiners mate for life and are monogamous. They will have 2-3 pups every three years. It takes about a year for a pup to mature and leave their parents in order to find a mate.
| QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Apr 15 2023, 06:48 PM) |
| Could the kissing thing not just be how they fuse temporarily? |
? A bit confused by what you mean temporarily.
| QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Apr 15 2023, 05:15 PM) | ||||
Many species of mites are microscopic. Thrips and no-see-ums are nearly microscopic. There are microscopic and near-microscopic freshwater crustaceans, such as the spiny water flea. This suggests that this sort of look and small size are very biologically plausible. If you wanted something that looked like a "spiny microscopic bug", this is fairly easy to do. If you wanted a stubby, hairy "buggy" look, like a carpet beetle larva, some kind of ciliate-esque organism would be appropriate, perhaps from a Bruhlio (although I can't see the image now). |
That's what I'm winding up doing.
The original idea was to combine it with another organism... but that didn't work out
(new one is the WIP thread).
Its kinda an homage to the Urshowad as well.
Disgnathus (Disgnathus doritus)
Ancestor: Cilios
Habitat: Marine, Abyss Zone, Midnight Zone, Twilight Zone
Jujubee Ocean (Abyss Floor), LadyM Ocean (Abyss Floor), Mnid Ocean (Abyss Floor),
Jujubee Ocean (Midnight Floor), LadyM Ocean (Midnight Floor), Mnid Ocean (Midnight Floor), Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Floor), LadyM Ocean (Twilight Floor), Mnid Ocean (Twilight Floor)
Size: 100 µm Long (not including antenna)
Support: Exoskeleton (Mucosal)
Diet: Detritus, Consumer (Smaller cells)
Respiration: unknown
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Binary Fission
Disgnathus split off from the Cilios genus group. Unlike other Cilios, it secretes a mucosal layer of proteins over its cilia on one side of its body. This side will be called the top of the Disgnathus. The cilia on the bottom of the Disgnathus are not coated with this hardened mucus.
Disgnathus has two long flagella in its front, which have tiny barbs along the edges. These barbs hook onto detritus and smaller cells on the seafloor and sweep it toward the Disgnathus’ oral groove.
Like its ancestor, Disgnathus reproduces by binary fission. When two Disgnathus meet, they kiss each other, exchanging genetic material. They then both go off, and encase themselves in a mucus cocoon. Inside the cocoon, the mucosal shell dissolves and the Disgnathus undergoes binary fission, making two, then four, then eight, until the cocoon bursts open.
| QUOTE (MNIDJM @ Apr 15 2023, 10:55 AM) |
| @HethrJarrod I'm sorry but I'm rejecting this as it currently is. This is way too meta of an entry, as its sole purpose is to recreate a species that was purposely decanonized, and does so in a way that is unfortunately less plausible than the previous entry. Please refrain from making submissions that are an attempt to just correct out of game decisions, especially without permission. |
I plan on continuing to work to make this entry work. Not because of the ancestors but the image of a spiny microscopic bug is cute.
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