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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.

This post has been edited by HethrJarrod: May 29 2023, 03:17 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?

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

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?

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.

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?

Actually, in the ancestor the five armed form breaks off from the adult and then latter splits further into five unicellular organisms. So I think Hethr's kind of right, its ancestor is quasi-fauna. it actualy reminds me of a sponge with a planula larva