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Claysoar (Gladiobeccus aureumpectus)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Zykemet
Habitat: Dixon Chaparral, Dixon Veldt, Dorite Tropcial Savanna, Drake Veldt, North Ovi Tropical Scrub, North Talon Tropical Savanna, Orpington Tropical Savanna, Orpington Tropical Scrub, Orpington Veldt, Ovi Chaparral , Ovi Hot Desert, Ovi Tropical Savanna, Ovi Vledt , Ovi-DIxon Hot Desert, South Ovi Tropical Scrub, South Talon Tropical Savanna, Talon Hot Desert, Talon Tropical Scrub
Size: 40 cm Long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Heterotherm (Basking, Muscle-Generated Heat)
Reproduction: Sexual (male and female, live birth)

They claysoar has split from its ancestors. Extending its ancestral cartilaginous rods past the initial edge of the wing, they were able to break the membrane's shape into a slotted wing, reducing drag when catching warm thermals, and by darkening its wings into a near black it was able to increase the heat absorbed during flight. With these, it was able to soar across the ocean into Ovi, finding a land devoid of its Spardi at the time of arrival, it would have to rely on scavenging to survive. Taking advantage of its wings, it was able to fly long distances with minimal energy in the search for its next meal, in a way not too dissimilar to vultures of another time and place.

Unlike those vultures, the Claysoar can take full advantage of the carcass it found. While the very edge of the lateral mandible tears chunks of flesh, it can use the ventral mandible to counter the motion to tear flesh regardless of the weight of the carcass, adapting the front-most bottom teeth for that very task. When encountering bone or armor, the middle sections of the mandibles are specialized in cracking bone armor or exoskeleton, and the innermost section can grind the remains down over its open mouth, squeezing every last juicy drop of meat.

As a result of its feeding behavior, when it closes its mouth the ventral and dorsal jaws close over the ventral mandibles, creating the distinct appearance of a claymore, from which it gets its name and which it will use when threatened, swinging its mouth like a large broadsword to make its claim for the carcass. For many, the sight of its distinct coloration is enough of a warning sign, its golden chest visible in the sky long before it makes the landing.

The very same gaudy pigmentation doubles as a mating display. While most of the markings act as indicators of health, marking the edge shape of the wing, the curvature of the wing rods, and the shape of the backbone, and those are shared among males and females, the colorful head crest is exclusively male.

As they make their seasonal migration north to south to stay in the warm regions, they will find themselves sharing a much smaller space in Talon & Dixon, where they will inevitably encounter each other, fight and squabble for food and mates, though mostly using the health indicators to visually assess each other without violence. Towards the end of summer, they will pair up, flying together to the northern regions where they will build their nests and give live birth, taking turns to feed and guard the young, which will be fully independent by the end of spring.

This post has been edited by Jarlaxle: Feb 14 2023, 04:31 PM

Just for fun, here's an earlier version of the above prior to feedback, when I was adment on having it chew out its wing slots.



RIP wing nibbler, in my heart you will always be the real Claysoar we chewed along the way

This post has been edited by Papainmanis: Mar 17 2022, 07:57 PM

That's an interesting, colorful design.

"passed the initial" past the initial.
"chunks of flash" and "tear flash": Flesh.
"front most": front-most.
" over open mouth" over its open mouth.
"it's feeding" "its feeding behavior.

I think I'll give a full review once it's submitted.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ May 21 2022, 04:13 AM)

I think I'll give a full review once it's submitted.

Don't tease

Click to expand

(Unless there's a working process to deliver).

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ May 20 2022, 11:13 PM)

That's an interesting, colorful design. "passed the initial" past the initial. "chunks of flash" and "tear flash": Flesh. "front most": front-most. " over open mouth" over its open mouth. "it's feeding" "its feeding behavior. I think I'll give a full review once it's submitted.

This just appeared on the beta wiki. We should probably start Gen 21.

While I have now edited a page to fix a typo to mark the wiki as active, it seems Disgustedorite made several edits yesterday. That should be sufficient.

Coming soon: They're in the dirt now. "Shrew" and "mole" forms.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Feb 15 2023, 12:17 AM)

Coming soon: They're in the dirt now.

There is no escape. /j

What kinda species could my gallopett, pachiwamba, scutestar become?they all have one thing in common: they either just landfalled, or are now ready for complete land life. Pachiwamba and scutestar are island fauna but gallopett lives in ovi

It looks like you don't have ideas for any. Try to come up with some ideas to get feedback on them. You could figure out new niches for their descendants, like new diets.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Mar 23 2023, 01:13 PM)

It looks like you don't have ideas for any. Try to come up with some ideas to get feedback on them. You could figure out new niches for their descendants, like new diets.

Alright so I decided something like this:
1. Fully terrestrial Gallopett
2. Semi-Terrestrial Skittlebow (Scurrybow)
3. Fully terrestrial Scutestar
4. Pachiwamba that branch out into several niches
5. Anchorleaf preparing for trees
6. Plesiosaur Spardquillas
7. Flightless terrestrial Spardquillas
8. Larger Ziwamonga
9. Freshwater terrorstars


I'm quite sure you reviewed most of these

Perhaps you should be approaching species ideas more as "X that eats Y or lives in Z" and working out adaptations from there, rather than every species being an Important Evolutionary Step.

Scurrybow (TBA)
Creator: Future Tyrannosaurus
Ancestor: Skittlebow
Habitat: East Dorite Reef, Dorite Subtropical Beach, West Dorite Tropical Undersea Meadow,
Dorite Subtropical Undersea Meadow, Dorite Tropical Beach, Talon-Ovi Tropical Beach, Dorite
Subtropical Woodland, Dorite Watershed
Size: 20 cm long (head to anal tail), 8 cm tall body, 6 cm wide body
Support: Soft-Bodied (Hydrostatic Skeleton, Hydraulic Muscles) Exoskeleton (Keratin)
Diet: Scavenger, Adult: Omnivore (Landasticker, Puddleface Wormoss (Larvae), Symbiomats, Clawed Grapplebun, Tidal Leafstar, Carpetesta, Quataetar, Thikasticker, Skittlebow, Flop Ribbon, Spardiflies) Young: Omnivore (Continentadoras, Coinstacks, Dorite Coinstacks, Rooted Leafstars, Warmbuns, Bristlebunnies, Phantomstars, Filterbunnies, Swarming Roufos)
Respiration: Semi-Active Lungs (Adults); Gills (Young)
Thermoregulation: Mesotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Female/Male, Live Birth)

Split from its ancestor, the Scurrybow has significantly become better at terrestrial life. It evolved even more adaptations for land, like the external gills becoming lungs. These lungs are extremely primitive, requiring to be moistened still. The external gills can fully curl up now, unlike the ancestor. It still secretes mucus like the ancestor, but the mucus is aided by the presence of keratin exoskeleton. The Scurrybow evolved scales around the face from the keratin microscales covering the Skittlebow’s external gills. The scales around the face are for display, with females and males having different colors to identify the sexes. Unlike most adaptations occurring on terrestrial fauna on Sagan Beta, the Scurrybow developed a keratin exoskeleton for preventing itself from drying. With these adaptations, the Scurrybow is able to stay on land for five hours, when not moist. When it is moist, the lungs can capture oxygen from the air and allow it to stay much longer. In a moist climate, it can stay on land for 12 hours. In order to get water and keep the lungs moist, it must consume water using the mouth. This is so the body’s exoskeleton, due to being made from keratin, isn’t damaged and mushy.

The Scurrybow took advantage of the ancestors’ vascular veins and developed a primitive “heart” to pump blood throughout the body. This allows the Scurrybow to move on land much quicker than its ancestor. The young have semi-active lungs, allowing them to be on land if they really wanted. But being less developed as the adults, the young can’t stay on land as long. It sheds old skin and exoskeletons, until it becomes a fully developed adult. When the young transition to adults, they will go through shedding similar to that of a terran butterfly and cocoon. This takes place in soft dirt, that the young dig on beaches, to avoid as many predators as possible. To further be on alert of spardis, the Scurrybow has compound eyes that are very efficient at detecting things like Spearing Spardis, with the eyes pointing up constantly. It has a 360 degrees view around it, due to the eyes being both on top of the head.
The young of Scurrybows are mostly benthic, but are capable of “jumping” by launching themselves with the anal “legs” on the back. Voracious, they eat most small fauna and flora commonly found around in Dorite Sea. In order to protect themselves from predators, the young will sometimes go on land.

What do you guys think of the Constricted Paneltopede; I feel that the description is in a postable state but I want to see what you guys think about the art



Constricted Paneltopede (Tenuventer Myrmeciformes)
Creator: Primalpikachu
Ancestor: Paneltopedes
Habitat: Talon tropical rainforest, cloud forest, monsoon forest
Size: 5 cm long (adult female) 1-4cm (juvenile/male stages)
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: omnivore (living and dead flora matter, juvenile asterplents, juvenile gillroot puddlefaces, wormworts, juvenile and male wormferns, juvenile/amel Constricted Paneltopedes), Photosynthesis
Respiration: Passive (Tracheae)
Thermoregulation: ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Male/Female, eggs)

The Constricted Paneltopede, due to a mutation in the formation of their body segments, has fewer segments and females have a very noticeable wasp waist; this petiole segment offers the female Paneltopede significant flexion and maneuverability regarding its now expanded gastor. Furthermore, the final segment of the gastor is formed into a small, sharp sting, which the Paneltopede uses to defend itself and to subdue prey. However, the advent of the petiole comes at a great cost: the Constricted Paneltopede is unable to ingest solid matter; thus, it must predigest its food externally. This is done by regurgitating digestive juices onto the prey and pasting it with its manibles. The panels of females are severely atrophied on the Constricted Paneltopede, severely hindering photosynthesis; as such, it has now taken up omnivory to sustain itself.

The Constricted Paneltopede lives mainly on the forest floor; males never make permanent homes, using their panels to parchute down to the floor in search of their mate. Females are more secluded, living in self made burrows and only leave to collect food for themselves or their young.
Using the sting at the end of their gastor, the Constricted Paneltopede can inflict a mortal blow with great ease thanks to its maneuverable gastor.

Adult Males lean towards a more herbivorous diet and are able to photosynthesize better than females. Adult Females require an omnivorous diet in order to produce eggs and to feed her young. Females hunt in an opportunistic manner, using their jaws and sting to kill their prey quickly. Once subdued, a female will drag their prey back to the nest where it will be eaten or fed to the young. When fed, juvenile Constricted Paneltopedes secrete a sugar rich liquid which mothers can drink as well.

The life cycle of the Constricted Paneltopede is rather complex. Beginning life as male juvenile, they are rather wormlike in appearance. Until they are an adult, they will be fed by their mother. If the individual is destined to be male, they will grow membranous panels and take on a slightly arboreal life style, gliding around in search of females. If the individual is destined to be female, however, she will undergo a metamorphosis that causes her to grow larger and form the petiole and atrophied panels.

When it is time to mate, the adult males will parachute down to the surface, searching for a female by using their antennae to find her scent; once one is located, he will enter the burrow and mate with the female. At this point, the male is usually killed and used as his children’s first meal.

This post has been edited by Primalpikachu: Jun 4 2023, 06:51 AM

Name: Cryochalice
Creator: HethrJarrod
Ancestor: Cryosteeple
Habitat: Drake Orpington Temperate Beach, Drake-Ovi Polar Beach, Ovi Temperate Beach, Drake-Ovi Polar Coast, West Ovi Temperate Undersea Meadow, Drake-Orpington Temperate Undersea Meadow
Size: 10 mm
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin), Endoskeleton (Silicon rings)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Consumer (<8mm in size)
Respiration: Passive Diffusion
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Spores)

The cryochalice evolved from a group of cryosteeple that mutated, combining their fronds into a single edge, forming a distinct bowl or cup shape. This shape helped it survive on the beaches. It helped it retain water so that it would not dry out, even during the hot part of the day.

The ability to store water also helped the cryochalice become carnivorous, small organisms, usually around 8 mm or smaller would get trapped in its bowl, giving the cryochalice a suprise boost of nutrients. Larger organisms would just drink up the water, oftentimes knocking the cryochalice over. Take out to sea with the waves. The bowl shape also helped the cryochalice to slowly spread its reach. It formed a natural shape for a seafaring vessel.

The cryochalice produces spores which rest on the surface of the water inside its bowl. If an organism takes a drink, or a prey is lucky enough to escape, it will carry a cryochalice spore with it. The spore falls off eventually, usually into another cryochalice.