First thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2024/93614781/#p93651974Choosing not to hijack another thread because the mods will probably not be too pleased (I think it only worked / went under the radar for the original thread because it was already about evolution games, so it got traffic from people who play evolution games). I'm not the original hijacker, but I'm keeping the same rules: Go evolve, one alteration at a time.Cladogram attached; if you evolve from something in the first thread, please specify which one you're evolving from. After that, reply to your chosen ancestor for each evolution.
Evolving from >>93652672This one has developed a larger head and more pointy bits
>>6085624No one knows where he came from. Everyone knows he's a fat faggot. Darx is the only member of his species. He's carnivorous, capable of parthenogenesis, and extremely greedy.
>>6085917Only one change at a time, please.
>>6085624oh hey someone continued the evolution game i started after the 7 day autosage on /tg/ killed itwhen i get on my pc i’ll post a screenshot of (You)s on my original post to prove my identity as the guy who started this and get internet clout on a slowboardanyways i’d post a evolution if I had a good image editor on my phone
>>6086006I'm actually op of the thread you hijacked, lol.This board seems a bit slower than /tg/, I hope it doesn't turn out it's super popular during Australian lunch breaks.
>>6086011that means we’re friends now
>>6085624Its been a good few months since the last evo game hereAnyway he gains the ability to raise himself up more allowing him to use the first four legs for things other than walking
We're all evolving the same single creature?>>6085956
>>6086368All species should evolve from the first one (see the linked thread) or from one of its descendants, yes.
>>6085678They shed the extra weight from their rear end and develop a couple more spikes on their front feet.
>>6086006not sure if tripfagging is necessary to prove who I am across devices or if post IDs are just based on IP but here we gogonna post on my pc shortly
>>6086551they develop cool patterns on their skin to help them hide better>>6086614testing IDs
>>6086617oh so as it turns out IDs are IP basedok then
>>6086006>>6086614uh shit lol i forgot to post proof that I was the guy who hijacked the thread and started the gamemaybe i should organize my shit
>>>/tg/93665360>>/tg/93665360 (idk correct amount of arrows for cross-board quoting)some eeleyes get longer
>>6086617Using their small size they've begun to populate crevices and caves, as a result their bodies have darkened in order to blend in better with low light environments.
>>6086043Hard calcified patches form along the species vulnerable back.
>>6086653The eye stalks of the eeleyes eventually become longer as well, they each act independently, and by bending and twisting their stalks they can easily see anything around, above, or below.
>>>/tg/93651974 These mindless filter feeders quickly had no need for their eyes, in it's place is a large mouth that's always open. As the creature's body contracts and releases water is expelled from it's end, allowing it to perpetually scour the ocean for food.
>>>/tg/93652672Stabilizing extensions of the posterior--loosely-muscled, semi-rigid fatty lumps, really--provide a counterbalance which allows for faster turns, and serve as a sort of 'disposable' body part which can be sacrificed to a predator.
>>6085678It has grown several short horns made from the same material as its teeth on it's head
>>>93657152To help with the hunt they have grown dorsal fins which allows them to turn faster in the water
>>6086993Some of these creatures have adopted an ambush strategy, slowly skidding along the sandy ocean floor until something swim above them. As a result their body has darkened to blend in better.
>>6086752In order to evade predators even more, their eyes become larger and more focused, even allowing for a slight amount of nocturnal vision.
>>6086838The neck of the hornheads slowly elongate, thick muscles line it allowing it to be swung around with significant force. In combat the hornheads use their spiked head like a morning star.
>>>/tg/93652845To hide better in the sand these creatures develop four hard appendages on their underside, they use these to dig holes and trenches to hide in.
>>6087647They have external ears to better hear predators
>>6086684By smoothing out their backs they fit in even smaller crevices and caves
>>6087796Some evolve redundant, disposable 'earlets' at the tip of their rearmost organs, along with duplicate neural tissue. These muscles, half-brained, basal-eared rump-lumps can now alert the main body to danger, even when it is sleeping or otherwise occupied.
>>6087649This specialized means of long-reaching assault proves incredibly effective, leading to further exaggeration of the adaptations involved.
>>6089121Is these get dropped off as an escape strategy, do they count as their own life form? That's cool.
>>6089130To prevent their necks being targeted they grow even more spikes
>>6088554In some environments the rockcrawlers can live their whole lives underground, eventually these specimens developed antennae to easily navigate their pitch black habitat.
>>6089121A random mutation caused one of these creatures to grow an eye on each of their rear appendages, this eye is connected to the same neural tissue as the ears above, as a result the 'brains' of these appendages have grown larger and denser. This mutation proves to be effective, and the gene is propogates rapidly.
>>6091696The spikeheads are very successful, over time the abundance of energy allows them to grow longer, thicker legs, which they use to cover ground quicker.
>>6089121Slashy arms for harvesting plants.
>>6093281Some spikes on the head develop into a grabby claw.
>>6087750Longer telescopic eyes for seeing better, allowing them to look around while buried under the sand.
>>6086695The calcified patches become segmented for more protection, while still maintaining mobility.
>>6085624Small skirting along on flaps smoothly living on what little there is in the Environment one of the simplest lifeforms thus perhaps most numerous in this world of a few lifeforms
>>6085624>smooth>squishy >moist >unbothered >low nutrientsfloating freely sucking in liquid in there engorged digestive tube for the worlds first stomach expelling liquid at stimulation to increase survival chances dodging attacks if possible.not worth alot as food due to the liquid content along with slight transparency not casting a to solid shadow
>>6093621Around them, never relax.
>>6093648with the bifucation comes more control in response to stimulus both in intake and outake often resulting in a sudden spin or backflip or combined for unpredictable motions raising survival odds from the initial attack of predators
>>6085624existing in this world as the only true Photo synthesizer this great pair of ball eyes
>>6085624photosynthesis means you have energy but you still need nutrients and materials for cells and mucus so its intestines and membranes work thats why it expands beyond the skin flesh
>the bacteria in the ocular fluid are photosynthetic nowyeah sure let's go with that>captcha is "gay 2 jn"
>>6093516mobile spikes for grabbing are quite heavy slimming where they can and where not stumbling on internal secretions a bit lighter then water to balance it out.they tend to snatch up the free floating fetus looking things in the water putting selective pressure on head/neck flexibility and movement
>>6093877>Now it plays host to symbiotic bacteria living in all that extra, immune-suppressed ocular fluid. They supplement nutrients and vitamins in those cold deep waters, and the Oculus provides a stable environment for them to reproduce in.from last thread i just dont trust stuff we have not evolved ourself opens the opportunity for flesh "plants" and mushroom like algea when a few cancer cells escape the body >verification not requiredno captcha
>>6093880Fair enough. Reminds me of that time on Sagan 4 they realized nobody had actually evolved any trees to live in the forests so all the browsers were turned into grazers. Instead of...adding trees, I guess.
>>6093884>Autothat sounds hilarious also reminds me of the reason why hooves exist with the mixed ecosystem of grass and trees and how there have been "false" horses like how there are false crabs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8n20hD5W0&ti was never around for Sagan all i know it had a few crystals and mixed art mediums or well styles
>>6093514there is a rich harvest of eyeballs and floaty things to be had if you can grab them
>>6093540hard parts act as support of movement bracing the weight against the ground and standing up and nicely protects from attacks
>>6093878some gasnecks get an extra spike on their neck, and their rear feet get a claw each
>>6093262Their limbs become reduced to further aid in squirming around small spaces.
>>6093828The body shrinks and withers, now merely a sort of 'bulb' to store reproductive organs and materials for the photosynthetic eyes.
>>6093621Some grow still more simplistic, reducing unnecessary extremities and even internal organs until they become almost transparent.
>>6093908A membrane stretching between the limbs of this omnivorous opportunist allows it to better grapple, restrain, and consume moving targets.
>>6093540A larger tail to act as counterweight comes with the potential for better balance
>>6093860This guy has a branching anus like some sort of fucked up backwards star-nosed mole. The hemorrhoidal protuberances have a lot of blood vessels to more efficiently absorb nutrients from the water.
>>6094015They undergo decephalization (losing the head and brain and all sensory organs) and are basically now just floating stomaches. They are truly pathetic creatures, however they need very little food, and can reproduce quite rapidly
>>6093828The eye balls divide into 8 segments, in order to better trap light.
>>6093878More powerful muscles grant greater control.
>>6093939Armored limbs grant greater battle power.
>>6094370The first set of legs is repurposed to a fang like structure, much like the fangs of spiders. Also if anyone wants to evolve off this and clean up the fangs a bit go for it, Im no paint master
>>6095026Redid this with more a pincher style, whoever evolves off either of these first gets to pick which one is canon
>>6094253One group of blungs reevolves several root like limbs and adopts a sessile lifestyle
>>6095032why not both? cousins
>>6095035Cause I can only make one change per the rules but if people want to evolve off both go for it
>>6094366The segmentation continues until photosynthetic eye-organs group like grapes upon its stalk., each capped by a lens that specially focused and metabolizes light energy in its surrounding gelatinous material.
>>6095037These guys flatten out and begin floating along the surface to collect light. The flat body leaves less dangly bits for predators and keeping the two sets of 4 eyes allows them to roll over when one set begins to dry out in the sun
>>6095037The eyes become specialized, with two remaining round and being used primarily for sight while the other six flatten out, becoming useful both as "leaves" and as "fins".
>>6095026The second set of legs is also moved closer to the mouth. Now it has a jaw!
>>6095201Hind legs also become armored.
>>6095057Some streamline further, and develop they ability to inflate or deflate their eyeballs to help remain right-side up as they flip and turn to sun themselves.
>>6095033Their stalks strength and lengthen, while two of their tendrils become integrated into their digestive disposal and reproductive structures, sprouting out waste and genetic material.
>>6095316it’s beautifulalso the last two blue spiky neck vaguely sauropod-looking guys evolved from the third most recent one in that evolutionary line rather than those two being sequential steps (you can tell by the latest one lacking features that its alleged predecessor had)
>>6095255increased armoring means less skin area used for respiration some countered by fragile flesh flaps behind the eyes
>>6095197>more connective muscle tissue to stabilize the specialized body parts and utility as both eyes and fins
>>6093279Some of these encephalized tails do not merely serve as sentries or as decoys, but actually fall off when developed to a certain degree, developing nubbin-limbs with which to crawl into tight spaces. There, they pupate into a living womb or egg or sorts, giving rise to fully-formed examples of the species. In this way they serve as a intercalary form, permitting the main body to cotnineu traveling about, foraging and gathering mass to produce more of these curious fruiting bodies.
>>6093786These especially acrobatic organisms begin to engage in elaborate daredevil behaviors around predators as a method of courtship, and develop increasing garish colours as a method of display: pink membranes, and technicolor organs to flash as a means of attracting attention.
>>6093281Subtle changes in posture and spike arrangement are coupled with noticeably more robust limbs in one spikehead lineage. It's not as large or powerful as gasnecked cousins, but its forelimbs can deliver an eviscerating upward kick, and its headbutt is still devastating, while its neck is a dangerous thing to attack with even armored jaws. Most importantly, though, it can now run away far more effectively than any other legged prey-item.
>>6095469Fixed and updated!Are you planning any environmental epochs or extinction events?
>>6094196A tail fin allows for eel-like swimming.
>>6095308They develop pigments in their skin that lets them stay under the sun. They tend to develop a "preferred" side that they will keep towards the sun, only switching to cool off.
>>6085624These predators develop a more robust neck and advanced eyesight to aid them in their hunts.
>>6095533Sometimes the cloning process goes awry, and this guy grows an entire other guy from his ass, sometimes even two. It's pretty inconvenient until they fall off, but the mutation often goes unexpressed, and for such a simple creature it's not TOO energy-intensive, so it persists latently.
>>6095615forgot image
>>6095616oh no now we have rat kings
>>6095561the next dubs GET in the thread starts an extinction event; anything before that post will go extinct and species have to adapt to the changing conditions to survive before the next trips GET in the thread, or the first dubs GET after at least 15 species adapt to the changing conditions, at which point everything before the extinction event announcement goes extinct
>>6095502Mating preferences result in larger and more colorful crests
>>6095695Also this thing is slowly turning into a nightmare. I like it a lot
>>6095695Oh, and I imagine he can retract the crest into the armor but I didn't really know how to draw that with my paint skills.
>>6095594These guys begin to inhabit the tidal areas of beaches. The bottom set of eyes gradually atrophies away and the overheating/drying out problem is solved by being submerged for half the day by the tide. The connecting muscle for the vestigial bottom eyes transitions into grasping appendages for anchoring themselves to the ground so they don't get swept away by the tide change and they develop spiracles to better intake oxygen when out of water. Sorry if that's too many changes at once but the water to land transition takes too much for it to be done one at time by multiple people and the land needs some kind plant analogue before the fishies can get up there.
>>6093994The limbs atrophy completely, this thing rejects society and returns to worm
>>6095313The sessile blungs begin to absorb calcium from the water and what they eat and form a shell to protect themselves form predators. To counteract the lack of area for nutrients to diffuse into they also develop large fan like appendages to act as a net to catch sea snow and small animal to munch on
>>6095689before this happens I might as well test if dubs are enabled on /qst/ or if this board somehow has GETs disabled (would be odd if they were as this board doesn’t really have the kind of rabid low-functioning autism /v/ has)>>6095822>>6095833>>6095844>>6095855>>6095866
>>6095936ok good GETs are enabled herethis means I can tie sudden events to when in-thread GETs happeni’d advise against mass rolling for GETs to manipulate this unless you make sure to contribute an evolution with each post so the janny (assuming singular since this is a slowboard) doesn’t send you on vacations
>>6093279The appendages develop into long whip-like antennae.
>>6095601This bug-eyed specimen may look goofy to a human, but as its tail elongates, spouting a secondary set of flukes to propel it faster and further towards the distant quarry its massive eyes behold, those unblinking eyes and elongated scything jaws become the face of maritime terror.
>>6093525With the doll-eyed hypercarnivores taking the to spot of the marine food chain, those organisms best able to spot them before they are spotted, and to hide themselves, have a selective advantage. These guys can retract their tentacle-like eyestalks into their striped, shaded bodies and lay flat and still until danger passes.
>>6086742A steady diet enables these filter feeders to prosper. Though most of this new species remain quite small, some can get quite large. Most importantly, they all get more hydrodynamic and simpler in structure, optimizing for a lifestyle of constant motion and consumption.
>>6096346more mouths=more filtering
>>6096331Bigger, thicker claws make it easier to dig but harder to swim.
>>6096388Dubs get. The extinction event begins, I guess...
>>6096388checkedtime for an extinction event>>6096420Due to the mass production of oxygen created by the eye plant thingies that have yet to get any kind of formal taxonomical names, there is now an increasing amount of oxygen in the atmosphere/oceans, meaning that creatures must adapt to the changing, oxygen-containing environment or go extinct.
>>6096444>>6096053A dark-coloured variant of the whip-tailed bud-rat linage adapts by modifying one of its tails into an oxygen-processed pipette. It now breaths almost exclusively through this channel, which can also detect toxins and dangerous scents, such as those of predators. The other tail remains as a sentry-style sensory and processing organ focused on scent and hearing.
>>6095695>>6096444These guys develop spiracles to intake oxygen, the crests stay because the females like them a lot so they remain as a signal of a fit mate. The increased oxygen allows them to begin to rapidly increase in size like the large arthropods in our own timeline. The armor keeps them from drying out on land and the increased oxygen means they don't suffocate on land so they transition to a terrestrial lifestyle, snacking on the eyeball plants. I would like to suggest the name Squilla Cristata for this guy which is latin for crested shrimp
>>6096467Same guy I just cleaned up the outline a bit
>>6094252The hemorrhoidal eye-bulbs which survive this apocalypse do so be developing a harder, thicker outer shell to endure a wider variety of conditions, including dry spells. Their protuberance becomes more akin to a stalk or trunk, with a pronounced pore for gas exchange and waste expulsion, while its blood vessels can now draw nutrients from wet soil.
>>6095861>>6096512The shelled blungs deal with the excess oxygen by further encasing themselves, allowing them too cut off the supply oxygen when it becomes too much. They also begin using their feeder tentacles to wrap around the anus eyeballs to digest them slowly like coral do on earth at night. Which is really cool if you don't know about it but corals will actually fight with each other when the light and temperature is right.
>>6096444checking my own trips
>>6096388Of course this little instigator has to survive the apocalypse she triggered. This species' descendants continue to tunnel through soil, chowing down on the 'root systems' of the stalked eye-bulbs and even the muscular 'foot' of the shelled blungs.
>>6096591Oh shit, what do the trips mean? Instant extinction, no survivors? Or do we still get fifteen organisms?
>>6096633we're at 5/15 minimum evolutions before the mass extinction to cull old species actually happensso your double dubs haven't doomed most of the species created in the thread
>>6086653The eeleyes use the new oxygen to create inflatable detachable air sacs to hopefully trick predators away from them
>>6095505The front pair of eyes becomes inverted, now sitting inside their "arms" and acting as primitive lungs and/or pneumatic "bones". As a trade-off, their eyesight heavily degrades.
>>6095594The bottom eyes get twisted to the top so it can get more sunlight.
>>6095860Increasing levels of oxygen slowly forces the rockcrawlers to migrate to more hypoxic areas, the slower individuals eventually fall behind and succumb to toxicity. As a result these scaled worms become lengthier to slither faster. Without any adaption to process the high levels of oxygen, these creatures cannot venture out of the deep sea and underground homes.
>>6096367These creatures develop a network of veins connecting their mouths to a new organ, as well as their rear. Their mouths send excess oxygen into it's veins when expanding their bodies, this gas is stored in the organ, then when contracting this oxygen is forced back through the veins and out their jet cone. This adaption not only helps expel excess oxygen, but allows for more powerful bursts of movement.
>>6094015Due to a mistake in embryonic development two of these creatures have now been fused into one. One of the "brothers" is used as a lung while the other is used as a stomach.
>>6095559These spikeheads migrate to higher altitudes to escape the climate change. Over time the constant exposure favored the specimens that were more resistant to the gas, eventually even gaining energy from it. These new spikeheads have a distended belly to make space for a large rudimentary lung.
By my count we can save three more. Any takers?
>>6097507im doing these guys rn >>6094019i'd also like these guys >>6087564 to be saved so we have another sea predator, but i already evolved itthe gas necks >>6094367 also seem like a slam dunk
>>6094019Some of these small scavengers adopt a new strategy, they spend most of their time in or near tide pools, waiting for easy prey and sometimes diving underwater to find a meal. This constant exposure to water as well as oxygen favored mutations that could make use of this energy source on land as well as in the water. The skin of these creatures become porous, allowing for easy exchange of gasses on above and under water.
>>6087564The dark bodies of these ambush predators remain, but outside of their youngest and smallest life-stages, they hardly need it. Their cousins' death and the abundance of eeleyes provides them the opportunity to become an oceanic apex predator.
>>6097507At least 3. As specified in >>6095689, the extinction actually happens with the first dubs GET after the threshold is reached.
>>6087564These guys go all in on the ambush strategy with a change of coloration and a slight body shape change
>>6093609Sometimes, simplicity wins. with the addition of a lateral line organ that can metabolize oxygen (and some similarly-functioning intake/outtake pores along that skirt, these basal little buddies continue to thrive in oceans, rivers, and lakes. They're otherwise utterly unchanged.
>>6098387cute little guys
>>6096326The big eyed purple "sharks" develop gills to breathe the oxygen underwater.
>>6094015Instead of growing even more simple some use their transparent skin to aid in communication by developing three different colored organs that can light up to pass on messages, The downside is that this makes them more visible to predators
>>6095540>acrobaticdeliberate or a side effect of simple creature lifestyle put a extreme pressure towards really anything to survive there feeding openings and main method of evasion splitting further.but all of this just the daily going on's the day to day, its not important whats important is the fact the extraneous frankly unnecessary pigmentation is actually great with reacting with oxygen instead of other tissues, acting as a barrier that needs constant replacement meaning it becomes a GREAT if not the perfect fitness marker for the current natural disaster along with there general state of health and diet.
>>6098454Can we evolve a post-extinction evolution yet, or are we still evolving existing species from before the cataclysm only, until we get dubs/trips again?
>>6100254The extinction event is pretty much just going to purge old species aster the next dubs post is obtained; pretty much everything evolved after the extinction event's start post will be unaffected.Feel free to further evolve species that were evolved after the post-extinction event.
also1d6chan page when?
>>6096512Some of these hemorrhoid trunk things find that the various creatures lurking in the soil are much more nutritious than the soil itself. This subspecies has turned its trunk into a webbed shovel-like appendage, scooping up handfuls of dirt in order to find prey such as >>6096612 and >>6096903. Coincidentally, this perturbance of the soil makes it softer and more comfortable for their less predatory cousins, the >>6096512. Their shell also becomes calcified, making them poor swimmers but harder to eat for >>6098467.
>>6099115They have started to travel in schools so that while the chance of a predator noticing them is higher the chance of it noticing any of them SPECIFICALLY is lower. Also, their bodies develop square backs so they fit together more compactly.
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>>6097488With the gasnecks extinct, the open niche is acquired by certain alpine spikeheads. Their guts grow more distended as their body-size increases, and their upright-held necks and heads become more and more elaborately defended.
>>6096909The bloated gasballs are supersized filter-feeders known for heir habit of bobbing about and expelling gametes an and offspring once each a year, in great collectively that resemble tryptophoboa-inducing collections of abandoned beachballs with groping feelers and puckering, chitinous orifices across their bodies. These orifices also collect the gametes of their fellows at such times... As well as consume some of their vast swathes of microscopic young in an early filtering process.
>>6101011CHECKEDTREEBRO GET THE FUCK OVER HEREalso I think everything evolved after the start of the extinction event should be separated by a vertical line from the pre-extinction event species so we can use extinction events to separate eras of the game
>>6101019
>>6101021niceso I guess the currently extant "clades" are, in clockwise order:>simple blue things>transparent things>gasballs>armored crested things>water squirrels>spikenecks/gasnecks>purple evil things>eeleyes>eye plants
>>6101021Some interesting cladistics going into Era 2...>six relatively basal/primitive lineages have survived, four descended from those who early one developed distinct organs, one exceptionally similar to the prime ancestor of all these organisms, and one quite distinct-looking and almost 'devolved' (to use an unscientific colloquialism) in its lack of distinct head, though with very novel and highly-derived feeding, propulsion, and reproduction>eight separate lineages have emerged from the earliest legged ancestor, making that weird little guy the most successful single progenitor of Era 1; of these, two resemble rodents superficially, one resembles snakes or worms, three resemble fish (especially sharks), and one is a many-legged armored superpredator, and the majority are carnivores, creating the impression that these are the charismatic megafauna of the world>arguably the most derived lineage are those five lines derived from the "eyeball fish", including three lineages of photosynthetic 'animals' with varying degrees of motility and sensory capabilities, and a sifter/scavengers which stirs and filters earth; their most derived cousins, still more closely related to these beings than any others, are essentially a crustacean-analogue and a flappy eel/slug, which blur the line between carnivore and herbivore by preying upon their own green-eyed kin>>6101030Great minds think alike, lol
>>6100034fun fact this fella has 3 Eyespot or eye analogs connected to a primitive sensory system with the "eyes" being those 3 spots not really hidden by the transparent flesh with 2 of the being on different faces of the pump instead of the greenish 3 eyestalk looking things that are actually its mouths.making it a little internal tangle
>>6101011Polished up the art of this gal.
>>6098387Slightly more floppy and flappy actually barely noticeable until put in direct comparison.mostly just smoother motions keeping it simple and firmly in its niche but taking advantage of oxygenation without changing too much
>>6101052interesting, also checking those timestamp hexesSince this thread is clearly successful, what should the 1d6chan wiki page for this game be called?There's two obvious options:>WTWEGB'10? Evolution Game (based on the OP post)>Threadjacker Evolution Game (based on sup/tg/ tags)Vote now; if there's a tie then I'm favoring Threadjacker Evolution Game because it's less of a mouthful than a 6+ letter acronymhttps://strawpoll.com/B2ZB9NEVpgJ
>>6101073Why dont we come up with diffrent name and pitch them in thread see what sci-fi or Latin stuff someone could toss up
>>6101206I’ll consider this if enough different poster IDs agree upon a fancier name to call this but as a working title we can just use Threadjacker Evolution Game for now
>>6101061In sparsely predated waters the floppers have scarce need for their vestigial eyes, and so they become smaller over generations until they're gone. They use this extra energy to pursue flappier pursuits.
>>6096523Patches of sea floor where the 'sharks' regularly hunt become havens for the shelled blungs, as scraps of nutrition are steadily supplied to them. This species of blung develop stronger and longer 'arms' to scour the water and sand around them.
>>6096523
>>6099115Their light producing organs grow denser, allowing for brighter colors to be produced. When predators are attacking them the organs flash white quickly, which causes disorientation and temporary blindness.
>>6100809The squareback jellies sometimes end up in massive 'super schools' that comprise of over a hundred individuals, some groups are so large that the jellies can live out their entire life cycle in the pack. Predators often rely on remembering the routes these creatures take, as they are an easy meal despite tasting pretty bad. Jellies that lived in these large packs ended up with soft tentacles that were useful for multiple purposes. Creatures deeper within the pack would use these appendages to push back against neighbors pushing into them too tight, this reduced the number of deaths from crushing. Another use came into play on the outer rim of the super schools where danger from predators was the highest, the 'arms' are used to wrap around and hold onto their neighbors, this helps prevent them from being separated from the pack even if they are bit.
>>6101073I'm fine with Threadjacker Evolution, desu.>>6101334>>6101336Ironically, some of the most sedentary shelled blungs give rise to the most motile, as their strong arms are adapted into fins-like stuctures. They're not terribly graceful but it's enough to escape predators who try to prey them open, to to congregate where food and mating opportunities are better.
>>6097512The porous, amphibious 'water squirrels' were the major impetus for armoured and especially motile shelled blungs, using their more developed digits (especially a single long, curved, semi-flexible wrist-claw) to pry open and probe inside the carapaces of well-defended prey,
>>6101021>>6101034These are cool pictures by the way, and a very fun write up to read with my coffee.
1d6chan thread is up.https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Threadjacker_Evolution_Game
>>6102129fuck I meant articleAnyways, these crustacean thingies (>>6096612) get sharper claws to enhance their ability to pierce through some of the hardier prey species.
>>6102139The rugose apocalypse-instigator developed a ridges/spiked carapace to fend off >>6100668
>>6100668In an attempt to avoid their prey's spikes (>>6102844) some hemorrhoid trunk things replace their shovel-like appendage with a spiky protrusion of tier own to stab with from a distance, often working together with their shoveling family members and sharing the kill
born too early to explore the starsborn too late to explore the worldborn just in time to witness the apocalypse crab-plant eye hyperwar
>>6096512Their roots become much longer, allowing them to draw more nutrients from the soil at the cost of making them truly immobile in their adult life stage. To compensate for this immobility, they have developed a "sperm cannon" that allows them to inseminate each other from a distance.
>>6103391it took 4 weeks for the first obviously phallic creature to be madethat’s longer than I expected
>>6101055The lower set of head-spikes form a proboscis useful for sucking the eye-juice out of the green eyeball creatures such as >>6103391.The lung increases in size and develops a dedicated breathing orifice (actually a malformed secondary anus). Having such a large organ between their legs inhibits their top speed, but their new favored prey is immobile, and they are still faster than the >>6096471, so the gain in endurance is well worth the loss in speed. They are still easily caught by the >>6098467 though.
>>6103401desu it's earliest ancestor(>>6093860) was pretty dick-shaped too, >>6103391 just happens to be dick-shaped AND have an actual dick of its own
>>6103401Nature is healing.
>>6103404i'm vetoing this shit out of spite for that enormous dick-anus thing, especially with the fucking veins(?) on italso because I think it's evolving too much at a time; evolutions should be way more gradual (the original thread's OP asked for it >>6085956)
>>6096844Some begin to accumulate a thicker, broader 'coat' of photosynthetic lenses across their posterior, serving to store nutrients and moisture so they can sun themselves on beaches and outcroppings.
>>6103606I think those eyes are starting to look like leaves now
>>6096921Infection becomes an issue among this species, if one of the 'brothers' becomes ill it often spells the death of the other. Over time these creatures evovle new cells on their skin that produce an antibacterial slime coat, which helps prevent sickness as well as making them slippery for predators.
>>6100034Subtle discolorations over generations begin to favor brighter and more purple varieties of the gummies, as this appearance helps fool the primarily purple predators of the ocean, mostly at a distance.
>>6101018Gasballs that live their lives close to the ocean floor often consume more minerals than their higher floating siblings, over time this diet allows them to grow a flexible yet durable layer over their skin, which they use to deter creatures looking for an easy meal.
>>6096467>>6096471The crested shrimp develop a more sophisticated mouth, their shelled mandible claws become longer and more dexterous, albeit less protected. They use these to reach farther into the water, and to secure their prey more efficiently.
>>6101735Water squirrels often find themselves in competition with the crested shrimp, however their small size and skittish scavenger mentality always meant avoiding a direct confrontation. In certain areas without many hunting grounds the pressure forced out docile water squirrels, and soon only the more aggressive ones remained. These fiesty water squirrels travelled in packs and would find tide pools with few crested shrimps and then work together to chase them out. For a long time these turf wars always ended with casualties on the water squirrel side, the survivors adapted with better defined musculature and feet well suited to quickly manuevering on rocks and sand. Packs of these creatures can now sometimes take down a crested shrimp, using their leg muscles to jump onto their armored backs and then stabbing them with their wrist-claws.
>>6103565Fine, I'll circumcise it back to its original sizeThis thing is >>6103404 but with only the proboscis, no dick-lung
>>6103679The mega-mucus brothers, like an earth hagfish, produce so much slime that they simply clog any predator's throat.
>>6103687A hooked tail allows the Gasball to anchor itself to a more sedentary Shelled Blung (>>6101334) or Green-Eye(>>6103391)
>>6103685With the Gummies' mating ritual being a dangerous dance around a predator, it is inevitable that a lot of Gummies would be swallowed, and that some of the swallowed would object to that sort of thing.This Gummy has converted one of its mouths into a sucker, allowing it to lodge itself in a predator's throat, where it can then wait until the next time the predator opens its mouth so it can escape. It also sometimes eats the predator's food scraps with its other two mouths.
>>6103712A dedicated breathing orifice and gas-storage chamber do indeed develop, just... less suggestive to certain species of Terran extraterrestrials.
>>6096451These stealthy 'rats' are constantly weaving between predators, avoiding dangerous areas and migrating to safer feeding grounds. Without much in the way of offensive power, they sometimes have to go without eating for days or weeks before they find safe pastures. This subspecies formed large lumps on their back, which are filled with fat and water when they are healthy.
>>6103685explodes into many variants vastly different or quite extremely similar variants along the sea floor, as low nutrient simple lifeforms with a fast maturation rate alongside with the mutagenic effect of oxygen even with pigmentation encourages genetic instability only curtailed by predation.>1Slower moving variant often seen tumbling along the currents course correcting with jets of water or slowly skirting along the seafloor cycling water through its shared stomach, its odd appearance that informs it lifestyle is a continuation of the bifucation or more correctly polyfurcation or trifurcation, conjoining into a radial form>2Practically Sessile only moving under duress or from being ripped away by the currents. Spends all its time siphoning detritus out into its expanded digestive system wrapping around its "stomach" to gain as much out of what little can be found. Note its eye stalks on a constant swivel forming a near 360 field of view, when its forced to move it can contract its looping organs around its cavity deflating into a little tube, quite like its ancestors seemingly literally disappearing for many predators jetting away in a constant burst like a balloon>3. near identical to its ancestor except for its curled up back end and thicker organs, consumes much larger bits of food then all the other more then you would imagine would fit inside earning it the nickname "big chug" sometimes literally just swallowing sand or only surviving due having 2 extra mouths not clogged up after a illadviced meal >4discrete but much more noticeable when moving, a undulating active swimmer comparably to all its ancestors and relatives with hydrodynamic protrusions radially along its front.>5Skinny body Beady sensory organ-ed, cutting away all the unnecessary energy and developmental costs towards more advanced behavior crammed into small package that is able to cram inside of small crevices and holes in the environment away from predators and towards hard to reach food.>6bloated Speed freak moving forwards and front flipping violently and sometimes barrel rolling to be cool, doing what has worked so far since literally the second generation of its whole evolutionary line
>>6103721it just works! but with redundancy at the main cup makes a safer seal more possible, along with a repeat of the same earlier organ structure down the body for some course correction and moving along the surfaces such as along the inside of a predatoror just on a rock, while they can be used to ingest food they are less effective as it bypasses organ length.
>>6103714the Brothers share everything but all this excess lube makes it hard to move even if food gets stuck on the mucus surface, so they develop ridges to "scoop" forwards and nubs to steering controlling movement
>>6103391More sessile, sedentary members of this lineage grow bigger and taller, and also become more armored along their prolapsed 'stalk', forming a thick waxy cuticle that protects them down to the ground.
>>6103712There exists a niche for a mid-sized herbo-carnivore, not yet occupied by rat-squirrels or the larger cousins of these gracile 'eye-piercers'.
>>6098363These 'sandshark'-looking creatures develop broad, muscular heads and larger, stronger mouthparts to pop reinforced gasballs and to crack shelled blungs
>>6098467Good luck to hose acrobatic daredevil swimmers who try to anchor inside the mouth of this small, fast oxy-shark, whose visual acuity and speed allow it to pinpoint and strike even twirling, whirling prey, and whose specialized mouthparts are designed to keep those it captures from escaping its mouth un-impaled upon its spiny, backwards-facing 'teeth'.
>>6102139bigger claws for more scopping and growths upon the eye stalks to better protect the areas stuck under sand
>>6101728Team work makes the dream work, stronger "mouth" parts more motile limbs thriving on the growth of "plant" life
>>6101055The lung increases in size and develops a dedicated breathing orifice (actually a malformed secondary anus). Having such a large organ between their legs inhibits their top speed, but their new favored prey is immobile this gain of endurance makes hunting/grazing much more efficient over larger areas
>>6100668Uneven growth apparent crates these things called spikes can apparently kill or harm predators/herbivores acting as a deterant more so when suddenly twitching
>>6105645QM already vetoed giving the local fauna giant veiny airsack dongs.
>>6105221The abominable Conk Snunker has discovered that its powerful suction is perfect for coaxing the seed and waste from >>6105307's cloacal opening, thus giving it a free (if utterly revolting) source of sustenance.
>>6105648It can now retract its tail and deflate its eyeballs to make itself less assailable for predators.
>>6096839Elegant, lightweight but fragile moved like a marionette but also endless energy in this Environment so long as there is a sun, muscles wearing out and needing to regenerate is a issue being the few times its not moving constantly.evolution continues on the path already set more internal bladders and hydraulics playing in the light, body separated in segments
>>6105712It grows two more normal-shaped eyes for seeing things.
>>6105703may not be the most stylish of creatures but they exist peacefully even if confusingly what direction they are pointing in, inside of there environment consuming small particulates and equally as small creatures, cycling water through its digestive loops with some small valves, for propulsion the tail curling is slow swimming with preference to jet backwards/forewards with stomach vents or turning with its more traditional ancestral twin "mouths"
>>6101034do you think the next event will be the great oxidation where all dissolved metals suddenly start rusting in the seas forming most of the ore deposits
>>6101055Due to overpopulation some of the spikeheads move past their alpine homes and seek out even colder environments, eventually settling in boreal forests and to a lesser extent taigas. To cope with the bitter temperature they sprout spiky semi-hard 'fur' on their backs.
>>6104779The useless nubs on their rears become useful tubes used for respiration, a series of fleshy flaps line the interior, these are used to block off the passage from unwanted substances.
>>6105320The motile growths on their flank are useful for counterbalancing themselves while running, which helps them reach new feeding grounds before anyone else. These restless 'tails' can also act to communicate rudimentary emotions to each other.
>>6105645These spikeheads are much more territorial of their feeding grounds, their slower movement means that it takes them much longer to relocate, and sometimes being driven out or turned away isn't an option. As a result they commonly fight their cousins and even members of their own species, this constant fighting exposes a weakness, their exposed lung. Eventually bony spikes sprout from their body and curve inwards to protect their stomach area.
>>6106001dude I already said that I vetoed the dicklungs because they’re fucking retarded and also because they broke the “no over-evolving things in a single step” rulecome on be more original
>>6106057Oh I figured it was fine since the post I replied to wasn't called out. Honestly though it's a lot less suggestive than the one you vetoed.
>>6106073it’s still evolving from a species that was retconned out of existence
>>6106096Wait but it evolved from >>6101055 which wasn't retconned. It's >>6103404 that was erased.
>>6106100yeah as if the dick copypasted from the now ret-gone creature is doing that claim any favorsfuck it, new ruleno giving things huge dicksor dick-anusesor dick-lungsor anything that belongs in /d/
>>6101336The Shelled Blung develops bristles on its arms to protect themselves against the Sans Sharks (>>6105329). When the Sand Shark approaches, the Blung will flail its arms wildly, and if they hit the shark the bristles will break off and stick themselves in the shark's skin.
>>6106143That's just all sea cucumbers, sea anemone, salamanders, frogs, catfish,mosquito larva, along with several hundred aquatic species or more, several worms aquatic and terrestrial, turtles do it when hibernating and hunting in the case of snapping turtles and in high enough concentration so can also pigs, mice, rats and most mammals as a ancestral trait due to how intestines are structured.Also to be fair it was less of a dick then what it was based on trying to sanitize it, more the rib Crest of a frog or bird with a opening where it ends to act as a breathing hole tried to sanitize it but still doing what would make it good at breathing but put on backwards due to the wonky body shape
>>6106276I think there’s a meaningful difference between those species (which are like that because of millions of years of evolution) and what’s happening in this thread with someone clearly giving the spikenecks obviously phallic-appearing body partsbesides not all evolutionary changes have to be so suddenly visible from the outsideyou don’t need to suddenly give a chreature a huge schlong just to indicate that it breathes better
>>6106703its a very visual medium so not alot to do that would make it unique i guess. if i redraw it to stuck it right behind i would still need to curl it up like a lobsters tail so its not vulnerable. expand it into like a spiders abdomen still dick ish. if i put a dot on areas pointed towards the viewer on the body it still all looks like dicks just not veiny that would make it more obvious, when that would bring more blood contact with the environment to intake oxygen. one hole instead of two bit unlike the avatar dire horses but the torso proportions are sort of backwards. and on beaks i sort of just gloss over it not thinking about it and excuse it due to how rapidly RL birds beaks can mutate to adapt to food sources with darwins own examples with Finches, as its just basically a growing nail and a bone under it would be one of the easiest parts to adapt or randomly mutate.eh i probably will figure out something already took a hour to look stuff up and i could not be half assed to rewrite what i already wrote now about 40 minutes ago >>6106001thought this one was really neat basically the ribcage but external in a creature that probably dont even have ribs internally
>>6106765have you considered just using a mouth/nostrils to breathe instead of putting some breathing hole somewhere stupid
>>6106907tbf, that sounds less fun to me, too.
>>6097517To compensate for their vestigial eyes they gain porous patches of skin along their fins, these are used for breathing as well as tasting. Along the insides of these holes are special cells capable of identifying small particals in the water.
>>6105330Some oxy-sharks inherit a spotted pattern from a more cooperative lineage. These spotted variants often form packs to take down large or dangerous prey.
>>6105329Thick folds of dermal layers form on the heads of this family of sand sharks, allowing it to endure the spiny thorns of the bristled blung.
>>6107134The uppermost fin begins to serve more of a sensory role, and the forefins are often swept over areas as they approach to identify carrion or hidden prey. Their head shrinks slightly as these appendages take on some of the role once taken by its brain.
>>6105760Are we approaching our first pollinator relationship??
>>6105329Losing access to one of their main food sources (the bristled blungs) this subspecies is pressured to hunt outside the waters. They often wait under layers of sand in tidal zones, throwing themselves onto land once they detect prey near them. Over time exposure to the air forces them to grow strips of elastic skin on their sides, capable of sucking in water for breathing and even holding it inside to be used on land.
>>6106155That full fan reemerges in a strange case of back-evolving a similar trait through a different mechanism. The fin-like tendrils brachiate mid-way up the length to allow for more stinging, flailing, grasping fronds.
>>6096903Hunted becomes hunter as some snake-worms develop muscularized, keratinized tails to stab and scoop out the eyes of their spikiest predators. They then nestle down to lay eggs and brood in the exoskeleton, and their offspring consume the remaining flesh of their home's former occupant and, eventually, their parent. The adult never leaves the 'skeleton' after laying eggs.
>>6105707Given >>6107209, perhaps it's not surprising that the planet shortly thereafter sees its first (?) pair of eyelids.
Good time for an update on the state of play?
>>6105212Two of the mouths become grabby and feathery to better sift through detritus. The third mouth remains the same and is mostly used for locomotion
>>6105977They grow even more fur to deal with the cold. These "neckbeards" also have a more saw-like jaw, which allows them to tear the bark off of trees and eat the wood inside
>>6107216The upper eyelid becomes calcified, allowing the eye to be fully protected when closed
>>6107158The upper fin elongates even further, becoming something almost akin to a lure. The tip of the feeler is less porous than the middle because prey keeps biting onto it and that's no fun.They also develop a skin flap between their forelimbs that makes it less likely for prey to slip past their jaws.
you guys ARE aware that everything so far has been underwaterand that there aren't any trees or anything that can be considered plants besides the eye thingiesright?
>>6107640they probably are not aware, but underwater mountains and "alps" could be fun, and we are finally getting more tree like atleast on the outside plant animal things
>>6107640Nah we've had dudes walking and breathing on land for eons.
>>6107640Several other entries had led me to believe land was being claimed, but perhaps those are simply then higher and sunnier patches of water. The distinction on an alien world of unknown gravity and atmospheric composition is purely academic.
>>6107769The original posts involving legged creatures mentioned that they were just walking on the seafloor>>6107774 is right
>>6107779I'm confused.>>6096467>they transition to a terrestrial lifestyle>>6097512>on land as well as in the waterAlso mentioned as amphibious in >>6101735>>6097488>lung>migrate to higher altitudesNot stated explicitly to be living on land, but having lungs implies it needs air wouldn't it?
>>6107818I think OP is saying that while anons have written that in, he's soft-locking this era to amphibious or near-coastal lifestyles at most.
>>6107819That makes more sense.
Are we also locked out of plants?
>>6107818Lungs are just gills in a sack often gills inside of a swim bladder like some crabs have pockets of water they carry on the inside to act as a exchange surface with air to water to gill.We do have atleast one plant/anomalous slightly species that is best adapted for the beaches if they are not rock or solid mountain with that eyeball flat leaf twisted worm.>>6107829Nah we are inventing plants from a universal ancestor I cheated a bit and said the animal is photosynthetic internally instead of algea perhaps its instead free roaming cells in the fluids and some in the walls
>>6103606by forming bumps or "ribs" of the tougher skin material makes moving along on its twisted body alot less painful and minimized water loss from the skin and the ability to not be swiped away by the waters immediately non-consentually
>>6107819Technically nothing stops you from going to the surface but there's fuck all to eat up there
>>6106155This subspecies of shelled blung can use excess energy to grow smaller versions of itself on their bodies. These will eventually grow to overtake their 'parent' blung, but are a good deterrence for predators.
>>6107167The full-fanned blungs are successful at driving away predators, however this causes their vicinity to become prime land for lesser blungs to occupy, causing overcrowding. Growing thick roots and a taller stem, these shelled blungs tower over the others, allowing it to feed before the others while also offering a sort of protection to the blungs below it.
>>60983872>>61013101similar but not the same. 1 a more advanced species with a power to flop and flapper through the water and over sediment 2 a more primitive species with such things as a "front" and disgusting primitive eyes but both guided towards a simpler superior mobile form
>>6107321The photosynthetic adaptation no longer serves much purpose, given their dredging feeding strategy and propensity to completely withdraw their photosynthetic organs, so many cease producing chlorophyll.
>>6105201The fat deposits follow a somewhat-parallel evolutionary process to the 'tails', which originated in the same way, and the development of intercalary forms in their extinct cousins like >>6095533. When the 'lump-rats' acquire enough material from foraging and maintain the nutrient levels of their humps long enough, they become womb-like chambers, eventually pierced by the fangs of their 'budding' offspring, who then continue to develop until they can open their eyes and forage for themselves. Only when they resemble miniature adults do they chew their way out, and the humps reseal.
>>6105712Some 'latticefish' devolve increasingly long, strong tails, which they use to anchor themselves to rocks or other organisms in shallow tidal zones, where they can really drink in that sunlight. Once comfy, they only uncoil their tails to fight off predators or to make migrations away from overcrowded areas or harsh climatic events.
>>6103714The mucus changes to become a foul tasting minor irritant to even further discourage predators
>>6108738It grows longer eyestalks to peek around corners
>>6108895The pseudo-fangs on its tails develop into venomous stingers, which they use to protect themselves from predators.
>>6105639they get a bit shorter to squeeze into more hiding spots
>>6100958Some eeleyes become specialists in attacking, consuming, and storing poisons, irritants, and other chemical agents from other organisms, such as fang-tailed lumprays (>>6109325) or purple mega-mucoids (>>6109172). They take on warning colorations to let various shark-alikes know they're not to be trifled with.
>>6100958Some non poisonous Eeleyes roughly copy the appearance of their family members to trick predators into thinking they are too dangerous to eat
>>6109324Short pseudotentacles help this creature move around solid surfaces quicker.
>>6108738>2Soft strings of cells hang from this species underside, catching and absorbing free floating nutrients.
>>6108738>1By filling it's body with sand these slimes can filter feed primitively, this also causes their body to take on some of the color and texture of the ground.
>>6101732Additional arm-fins allows them to swim away from predators faster.
>>6107209As the shelled 'plants' shield their eyes with a bony layer, keener vision become necessary for adult snake-worms to find an abandoned shell for it's young.
>>6107209Some snake-worms give up on living in one type of shell and move on to another. Patches of shelled blungs can grow to become useful cover for a worm raising it's brood, that is if you can avoid or tolerate the stinging bristles. A pointed head assists these specimens in weaving through the sand to create safe paths inside nests of blungs.
>>6110126In some species, the large, wing-like fins dwarf the main body' where the organs are housed, while smaller fins are mainly used for steering and crawling about when the fins are retracted, such as to squeeze into a small space to hide.
>>6110119It develops a shiny cuticle, similar in appearance to gold, which might seem highly conspicuous, and it is, but that's good because these little guys are highly poisonous
>>6110502one step closer to Pastafarian supremacy
>>6110345The 'feet' which they use to crawl become thicker and stronger, allowing them to navigate over rougher terrain and overall move faster on the ground.
>>6110345Blungs with aerodynamic shells have a much better chance at escaping predators, or at least outpacing the blungs behind them.
>>6110502The poison forms a slimy layer on small 'hairs' lining their eye stalks, this acts as a delivery system during physical contact.
>>6110502These flops store their toxin in a sac and release it from a rear flap when threatened.
>>6112041It turns out using your eyes as a primary weapon is dangerous. They shrink and become more filimented in some lineages, losing some of their visual acuity for greater protectedness. The extra pseudo-hairs at least make them more Sensitive to the feel of things they poke and prod at, as well as things like water currents.
>>6112041To decrease some of the risks that come with using their eyes as a weapon some flops develop additional light sensitive spots that are unfortunately less effective as actual eyes
>>6109325Lump rats sometimes stick with their cloned brethren, forming packs that are capable of taking down larger prey. These packs are centered around the strongest individual, who is given food by subordinate members so they can continuously produce offspring. Aggressive lump rats with extra claws out compete the more passive ones.
>>6109325Their tails lose their detachable capability, instead thickening with muscle over their life span. These strong venomous weapons are so deadly that lump rats in close proximity commonly kill each other over small territorial scuffles, so it becomes necessary for them to spread their numbers thin, becoming mostly solitary hunters.
>>6107334A chitinous casing grows around their sensory appendage's tip, eventually forming a sharp point. This tail also sees an increase in the density of the neurons controlling it, allowing it to function and 'think' independently from the main body.
>>6107334Vision centric parts of the brain are cannibalized by their scent/taste sensory system. Eyes shrink and are replaced by porous sensory tissues, eventually disappearing entirely.
>>6112542The tail develops a secondary set of eyes that helps the creature aim when stabbing prey. It has to be careful with its tail, as it has a completely separate nervous system, and is just as likely to strike its owner as it is to strike prey.
>>6110502flap surface becomes slightly resistant to abrasives they sometimes feed on flipping up sediment with these edge pseudotentacles consuming the organic particulates
>>6110124develops a central cavity gulping in sand cleaning it then spitting it out, and a healing immune response where irritants are isolated and collected on the outer surface in a mix of flesh and mucus, to say something its not pleasant to eat or find in the first place
>>6110121regulating flotation becomes important when your feeding method involves such delicate strings and lack of energy expenditure, so instead of exhaling gasses when you are done with them they collect under a special pocket of skin that keeps water out for the most part
>>6109503wider body for the wave motion sort of makes it more effective, and the lures continue adapting becoming more effective by looking more closely like the main body with protuberances as eyes and body markings
>>6109324and peeking around a corner it does in a way, by a single grippy protuberance they take the eye lids of of the dead calcified pointy things (>>6107321)and simply live in them protected from above from predators not aware or thinking about it simply instinct to hide
>>6112030The shape of the shell and placement of the ancestral anchor-point shift in some descendants of this line to be more hydrodynamic for forward momentum.
>>6101061Some of this cute and flappy little fellows mimic the coloration of their less-edible cousins. Two distinct lineages emerge, emulating the poisonous gold panflaps and gritty green panflaps, respectively. Neither is actually toxic or gritty, but their enemas don't know that!
>>6113210Some develop the ability to "spit" out the stored irritants both to get rid of them and deter enemies/predators
>>6113445continues on the path with patterning converging towards there target species and smell, for the greenish ones it helps them blend in with the environment while the golden becomes more striking and noticeable
>>6112335stinging cells on the body offers some defense to the body, 3 prehensile protrusions around the eyes outgrowth on there pusedo tentacles increased odds of eyes surviving attack
>>6112537bigger more durable spikes are needed as they wear down and break with age and experience but it means you also need stronger backlegs to manage them when moving
>>6109499backwards facing claws and spikes in one direction is perfect for digging and forcing there way trough the ground all with just som bumps and a bend made it possible
>>6112528Living in packs means they no longer need to bear sole responsibility for their children while foraging. Some of these social lumprats consequently do not keep their offspring attached to them for as long, but rather drop them off in communal spaces while they're still half-blind 'lumplettes', to be watched by others in the group. it's a lot less weight to haul around.
should we sort of do a event now? and collect up the species we have or do i need to do something world changing?
>>6115248Good question. Threadjacker?
>>6115248>>6115429Yeah I'll think of something next time someone gets dubs
>>6113205It develops long stinging tentacles, which is useful both for defense and for offense
>>6114729The legs become even more developed as the creature transitions to a bipedal gait
>>6115788Now with longer arms to easier grab things
>>6107999By holding their tails aloft with increased muscular and allowing internal fluid dynamics to inflate certain eye-leafs, some ribbed see-slugs can absorb more energy for photosynthesis. Twisting their tails to and fro and dilating their 'pupils', they can achieve an ideal angle with which to lens in as much heat and light as they can get into their body's specialized processing organs.>>6116306Oh shit, rat-rex got dubs!
>>6116319The knobs on its underside become longer and more clawlike to help it stay anchored on shores
>>6116306Its backside develops a large, muscled base, which helps with balancing and extends the reach of the stinger claws, as well as stores extra nutrients
>>6116350Those tails remind me of Kazooie
Is this the end of Era 2?
>>6116971yeah sure I guessas for that extinction event, anything posted between now and the next thread getting to 30 images posted will survive, the rest gets culled
>>6116971>>6117186Need to decide what the environmental change is that causes this extinction.
>>6117188ohuuuuuuh a series of meteor impacts strike the planet, making everything warmer
>>6117195i am currently working on evolving a extinction event
>>6108946Chemosynthesis by using oxygen generated by it and from the environment, oxidizes Sodium out of the water for nutrients along with potassium making the environment around it generally hostile building up alkalies strong bases that can neutralize acids but is as equally corrosive.>>6117195lets make the water hell so we can force them up on the surface or deeper
>>6116350The centaurrats are so strongly-built that they have an easier time moving about on land than many other animals... But adjustments are till necessary, between the lesser buoyancy and the lower nutrient yield sin those early surface environments. Their forelimbs shrink until they move about on a quadrupedal knee-crawling stance, and the size and complexity of many body-systems decreases.
>>6105986And what are those centaurrats hunting? Why, the TRULY alpine jet-bootied beakalope! "Alpine" here meaning "you climb so high up on an oceanic mountain that you crest out of the water and have to adapt to breathe air, but also you get swole from having a monopoly on plantlife"
>>6117379good ideaalso now might be a good time for more plant life than just eye thingy descendants
>>6117714oh problem is how evolution works but also i think peeps are working on that turning them more leaf like and most of them are becoming more sessile as time goes on, also think its charming its very uniquely us
>>6117558The centaurrats develop a second layer of loose, dry and waterproof skin, almost like a plastic bag around their body. The space between the inner layer of skin and the outer layer of plastic-like membrane is filled with air, which both helps with thermoregulation and serves as a backup supply of oxygen.Also, the "body bag" doesn't have an opening for the butthole, so whenever the rat shits it all just kinda collects in a sort of "flesh diaper" at the back. When the rat dies, the skin will eventually rupture, and surrounding organism will be subjected to a horrific chemical attack, one last surprise "fuck you" to any purple shark looking to get a bite.
>>6117569The Beakalope's spikes become wide plates that defend its neck from the >>6117781's venomous stingers.
>>6107165When the going gets tough, these guys can now go to ground and subsist off the resources they stowed away in their large humps. These little NEETs can hibernate for as long as an entire year, safely tucked away in the tunnels they dig in the sand.
>>6116349Longer spike roots mean taller bodies, allowing these plant/animal hybrids to outcompete their neighbors by blocking out the sun in some areas.
>>6103695The scary shrimp begin to incorparate their exoskelton into their bodies, forming the beginnings of a true endoskeleton. This allows them to become a little larger and move faster, leading to them taking on a terrestrial fast moving predator niche. It uses its long mouth parts to stab between the armored plating of other terrestrial animals such as >>6117782
>>6117798woops
>>6117799Oh and feel free to disregard this since we're just supposed to add one thing at a time but since it already has social behaviors through the crest I imagine they're pack hunters.
>>6105760>>6105307The sessile, waxy-cuticled 'eye-trees' that survive best on than are those with strengthened, thickened stalk-armour and thicker eye-jellies that can better retain moisture and resist desiccation.The suckers who follow of course must crawl on their suckers rather than float freely, necessitating a shift in their body plan; this is in turn mirrored by the 'spout' placement on the eye-trees, By this point, the spout only really even exists in this line as a way to feed purified, sugary water laced with reproductive material to the suckers, and they can aid in tree reproduction.
>>6115786motile stinging pads for hunting of smaller member of its genus snatched up and externally digested
>>6115786a pocket on its surface forming a divot increases the surface area to absorb nutrient particulates into
>>6112027Some footed blungs take to amphibiousness, using their stronger feet to escape the harsh oceans and their shells to retain moisture in the hotter climate. As they take to this terrestrial lifestyle, their legs strengthen, while their wings/fins weaken and become more useful for prey-capture.
>>6118734we have invented the tentacle snail
We have 13-17 more evos before the extinction event cuts off all the old lines. Let's fill 'em in, lads!
