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Please put "work in progress" in the title so it's clear at a glance this is a work-in-progress.
There's not an official rule in the Alpha timeline yet about what makes something allowable for a work-in-progress submission, but this still seems too small for a work-in-progress submission. The first incarnation of the Dockshrog submission, for example, was much more developed than this.

I posted this during work and got pulled away

Okay i think it's complete

Oops I forgot the number in the title.

I still can't seem to do full edits on mobile.

I suggest using the desktop site even on mobile. Mobile sucks.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: Y
Realistic additions?: Y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: Y
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?:
What changes?:

• External?: Coloration, wings, legs, buoyancy
• Internal?:
• Behavioral/Mental?:

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Y

Habitat:
Type?: 1/2
Flavor?: 2/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y ( 40 cm -> 60 cm)
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Transition Rule?: Y ( Omnivore -> Scavanger)
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Y
Capitalized correctly?: N
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?: N/A

Status: Approved

This.... this creature has to be the weirdest (plausible) one i've seen from this timeline.

Also, I noticed that the support section isn't formatted correctly.

I recommend not approving this organism yet. There's some oddities about how it uses arsenic, as well as various typos. I'm going through it now.

There's a typo: "Pioneer Roots" should be Pioneeroots.
"how much nutrients": "how many nutrients", or "how much energy".
"odd looking Wing": "wing".
"Flora and carrion" "flora", as well as that other instance.
"underbrush, it" The comma should be changed, perhaps for a colon.

"species," The comma should be a colon.
Arsenic-based poison seems unusual in lifeforms. The closest I can find from a quick check is Chinese bracken ferns hyper-accumulating arsenic and chickens tolerating arsenic-based medicines.
If it doesn't eat hyperaccumulators, such as specialized flora, how would it obtain so much arsenic from its environment? Is it locked to places with especially arsenic-rich soil?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK23101...20anion%20state.

Everything living in the yellow soil areas is likely passing basic arsenic through them right now. Luckily arsenic doesn't accumulate super readily in living things, and gets passed out of them after a few days whether eaten from dirt or from plants living in said dirt. But this isn't working with basic arsenic, it's using it as part of a larger compound, I was thinking maybe it could break down into arsine gas among other things but ambiguity in organic chemistry leaves it open to more things.

I can add this information if people prefer specification that arsine is included, and reference to arsenic distributed in sulfur soils.

I'll fix the typos, thank you.

This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 7 2021, 07:37 AM

The yellow soil could be due to oxidized ferric oxides, not sulfide ore deposits, as you seem to suggest. It's not out of the question the soils could be high in sulfide (judging by my limited geological knowledge), but the soil being yellow wouldn't necessarily be a clue.

Specifying the occurrence of arsenic and how it uses it would help.

That's a fair point.
I thought I saw somewhere that yellow was due to sulfur, but even if that were true the actual sulfur and arsenic levels would vary quite a bit.

The more successful forms would be located in areas where the soil is rich in sulfur and arsenic, becoming less successful as the young accumulate and build their arsenal more slowly when there is less raw material in the environment.


I'll add the information about arsine and environmental influences in a while.

This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 7 2021, 08:17 AM

The "yellow = sulfur" thing was apparently explicitly true in earlier weeks, but it is unclear if it is still true now / yellow may mean sandstone instead. There were no indicators that things changed, and any post that may have existed specifying on the old forum is gone.

Arsenic is found in sandstone environments too, it's pretty much found everywhere in various concentrations.

But I still agree that their success should vary on environmental concentrations.

The Chickenpear also brings more into the biosphere and increases it's bioavailable presence in the surrounding soil as time goes on.

Making some more things that use it is sounding interesting, maybe a tree that uses it as an insecticide and drags it up from deep underground.

"" The rate of this accumulation is reliant on the available arsenic in their local environment, this leads to variations in how toxic the species is from population to population. However, their accumulation of the element leads to an increase of bioavailable arsenic in the area for future generations as they die or shed it back into the top layers of the soil. ""