Previous thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/6085624/Rules: Add one alteration per evolution, save in .png, don't evolve a creature if you were the one to evolve it last, link/reply to the creature you are evolving from.A massive extinction event has occurred, a series of meteor impacts devastates the surface and raises the global temperature sharply, leaving plenty of space to be inherited by new life.
>>6127036>>6117799>>6117798The gradated mesoshrimp is a small, more densely-armored crested shrimp with especially beautiful colouration which it uses to impress mates. That extra armor cos in handy because, being smaller, it's easy pickings for larger relatives and other predators. Luckily, it is also fast, and surprisingly fierce.
>all but one shark species died outnooooooo :(
>>6127206The oceans are a bit of a nightmare right now anyway iirc. Just think, anon: that one species of amphibious land-shark can now eventually recolonize the ocean and diversify to fill all niches with fancy NEW sharks.
>>6127036These sharks have replaced their grabber with two teeth in an attempt to hit the gaps in >>6127046's armor
>>6127036>>6117794Some of the descendants of the tall-tailed eye-slug grow truly tremendous upon the land. While when they are young they may be preyed upon, a fully-grown behemoth of this species dwarfs any other extant organism and has so few potential predators that it can lay flat until covered up by dirt. When thus buried, they resemble a forest of 'eye-leaves' shaped like great staring olives grows up across their back, with the greatest globes at the center; at the apex of their grove is a single towering 'tree' made of the long, stiff tails of these beasts, which always tilts and twists towards the sun to suck up energy. Their young often dwell upon their back for safety during these times, and some of them move with the when they eventually get up and move around.
>>6127046The terrestrial variants of the mesoshrimp develop scent glands repurposed from waste glands near the base of the leg furthering their social abilities and facilitating pack hunting. The scents draw in other shrimp for the hunt and mark territory and establish familiarity among individuals
>>6128043You can't see it super well but the glands are green near the leg.>>6127650Since the neighbors of the slug trees are most likely their own offspring they evolve long vascular tentacles that they can link together to share resources. It's such an effective strategy that they begin sharing with any individual they can reach, forming large colonial structures that may one day evolve into one super organism.
>>6128044It didn't post my image
>>6127232The most aggressive lineages can take on even packhunting mesoshrimp, but only be increasing land-mobility and scything bite-force.
>>6127036>>6118722These golden terror-jellies become nightmares of the shores and shallows, fishing about with their long, flytrap-like arms form the water's edge and also opportunistically clambering up to steal carrion or gobble up smaller land-animals.
>>6118734Some footed blungs develop heat resistant shells, changing their color, they return to the ocean and find sanctuary and transportation in the form of the tall-tailed eye-slugs. These giant creatures help the dark footed blungs reach new feeding grounds, and helps spread their offspring. This relationship is largely parasitic, as the added weight burdens the carrier, eventually resulting in death.
>>6117784Sandrus' grow long hairs along their thick upper appendage, these stick out of the sand while they rest or hibernate, allowing the creature to sense abnormal currents in the water. They use this to help identify prey or nearby slug trees. In both cases their hibernation ends abruptly, to stay aware until prey is close enough to reach, or to migrate to a slug tree where they can gorge themselves on dark footed blungs. Afterwards they return to shallow waters to hibernate once again.
>>6123096Toxic sand slobbers are quite successful in this new world, their bodies are poisonous to all creatures, and they have been the quickest to adapt to the heat. They use their new tentacle-tongues to sense sources of decay, corpses which they quickly envelop in large groups, once they've covered a body it's nearly impossible to remove them. In the sea they become the tail end of tree slug convoys, feasting upon the remains of dark footed blungs, their young, and even the young of tree slugs.
>>6118727Crowned Flhipers are named for their extendable "mouth-net", which when fully projected resembles a crown. They use this to capture larger swaths of nutrients. These opportunistic jellies gather loosely around tree slug colonies, feeding off the scraps that other species generate.
>>6122938Toothed Sand Slobbers might be the only creature to actively predate on Toxic Sand Slobbers, as they are the only creature that can safely consume them. They do much of the same thing that their cousins do, but they use their spikes to puncture the body of their competition, and then consume them along with their catch. Often times they become lost, lacking adequate navigation abilities, cannibalism among this species is common.
>>6127036i have no idea how to link earlier thread but not alot of options of what this could be.with the evolution of "flowers" proliferates genetic material more rapidly making benefical mutations spread in the population quickly.this species prefers to grow in the shallows keeping its eyes out of the water along most of its less resistant skin the eyes cannot support themself outside of the water as separate branches fusion was a necessity.next part we have the intestinal trunk supporting its crown of "leaves" with its earlier evolved waxy cuticle protecting it from the Environment being useful against the hostile emissions its water bound relatives.then we have at the base "flowers" the most rapidly evolving part of any creature due to there necessity genitals, structures similar to leaves "petals" serve as a invitation for reproductive assistance with its shape and size subtly attractive in a dance of co evolving instincts, such as opening there petals when seeing signs and physical traits of there preferred pollinators
>>6129854>anus flowersI dig it
>>61299031 2 3>>6129903here are more but i am to tired to write there descriptions
>>6128386Some of them shift their swimming postureto be more crown-facing, and their crown-maw grows longer as well when fully-extended. They become ambush predators
>>6129854To aid in identification and pairing with their "partner" species, many of pollinators undergo something not unlike sexual selection: those pollinators who have the most recognizable crests, coloration, and patterns can reliably and quickly get certain trees to open up their "glowers", for speedy and successful food acquisition. They thus adopt increasingly garish structures and colors so they can be rapidly identified and invited in.
>>6129916right to left >jacked septic eye pretty standard only real switch up was the eyes flattening, lengthening to floating pads on the water surface catching beam directly into the eyes for concentrated light does very well during dim weather and night, stores extra energy in one intestinal root as a "tuber" taking life slow and steady >jacked red rocket eyessmall and fast growing focused on reproducing as fast as possible even actively pollinating other members of its species or passing creatures to carry the material.>secreting red melons/pumpkin Engorged trunks either slowly secrete the genetic material over its spread out openings for its reproductive glands broactcast spawning for its respective lower trunk or it simply sprays over any feedind pollinators coating them in the stuff as it increases the chances of another melon reciveing the material without it simply being consumed,then we have its most eye catching feature its hardened thin stem perfect for cutting through water turbulence and keeping its eyes away from herbo-carnivores while gazing down on any nearing creatures to secrete upon
>>6127036>>6117379Uninhibited by any sizeable predators after the climatic shift essentially purged the ocean of sizeable predators, some latticefish become latticeWHALES, growing uninhibited as they swim and bob about absorbing sunlight. Their eye-fins allow them to steer towards light, while their central eye around their "hips" serves as a central coordinating point for directionality, especially at night, when they steer by the stars.
>>6127036>>6117379Other latticefish stick much closer to their ancestral lifeways and lightweight, small-sized body-plan. They actually reduce their rigid lattice still further, filling them with choroplast-filled air-sacks to help they bob like buoys as they soak up sunlight. As newborns, these structure and their wing-like eye-fins actually allow the to float on the breeze to disperse further from their parents, and even to populate inland water-bodies.
>>6131555Storing up nutrients and soaking up more sun is the name of the game for spawning circulating oxygenated fluid in tissues with a mess of musculature that sets the stones for energetic swimming and size
>>6128391alot of small teeth is perfect for sifting sediments, ripping flesh and gripping ground
>>6128361As a further adaptation to parasitism, some of their descendants' bottom nub becomes encased in an increasingly sharp and pointed secondary shell, from which they can extrude a raping, tongue-like organ to lap up blood and dead tissue, or use in tandem with heir sticky feet to help anchor themselves.
>>6128386The four eyed Flhipers can see in multiple directions to easier spot prey and predators
>>6132754Since this lineage is already being pressured by predators who cannot be assed about their toxins or warning cooration, some lineages dispense with both in favor of a more cryptic color scheme and sharper senses. Their ancestral blues and gelatinous inner tissues show through a translucent waxy cuticle now.
>>6128391And what poison-proof predator lineage could precipitate such transformations as >>6132754 and >>6132848? Why, the rocket-slobber, of course! These guys are unlikely ape-predators of the deeper ocean at this point, prying up parasitic blungs like >>6132515 and >>6128361, sifting the soil for larvae of >>6128045, but most enthusiastically of all hurtling themselves, propelled by a stream of violently-ejected waste-debris, at any passing golden flhipers or latticefish. These pigs of the sea will eat ANYTHING.
>>6132860*apex-predator
>>6132754Warning colors are not working atleast downwards so they simply swim higher in the water column with a more complete bell, how it survives? counter shading sort of working to fool simple eyes.
>>6132848Crowned Crypto Sporidium Flhipers, wider mouthparts perfect for catching really anything that could be called food on a already beautiful hard to find creature.its offspring are not miniature versions of itself but more freeswimming less directional upwards, makes infant mortality not as much of a issue with lower reproductive cost for Underdeveloped Flhiper Offspring U.F.O
>>6133927With improved eyesight and longer mouth-tendrils some of these CCS Flhipers are able to target young of >>6133924 and even the lower-flying offspring of >>6131569, turning their anti-predator camouflage into a predatory asset.
>>6117781>>6127036Pouched centaur-rats use their loose and saggy skin-covering to protect their developing young, who grow underneath a paunch-poncho that forms during their gestation, and which they eventually must eat their way out of once ready to emerge. This does not seriously harm the mother, who will regrow their pouch again next season.
>>6132515be it undulating swimming or puttering along the sediment with its limbsDark sure footed is becoming more and more regular slowly moving up water system on land limited by the availability of food and chemical differences, a general push to moving out of habitats of (>>6132860) by latching onto prey animals
>>6132860ramjet based movement is not the most effective when force cant be applied evenly resulting in more uncontrolled propulsion flipping pancake way, plates of the mucal materials form touching lumps that allow for flexibility but can be straightened out to interconnect allowing for a even transfer of kinetic force, the so called Rocked rocket-Slobber
>>6136213Some of these inland dark-blungs adapt to ever mroe time on land with smaller head-tendrils usually kept folded neatly in their shells when not being sued, thicker, padded 'feet', and a longer, hardened proboscis-tongue; this last is key to their new lifestyle, which involves tapping and leeching nutrients out of eyeball-trees and even the occasional inland latticefish.
>>6129854To escape harassment, and survive the attacks they must suffer, some lineages of shallow-water eye-trees become fully terrestrial, with their protective cuticles reaching down to the ground. They develop more lenses and bulbs to absorb and storage energy, so that they can more likely survive parasitic-predation.
>>6127046wider base of legs with a bulkier limb body segments to counter balance the front heavy body structures makes terrestrial living easier even with the constant river or lake visits makes charging out of the water towards prey less of a banana toppling
>>6136679Wider feet allow for more stability on land.
>>6136470Water is stored in underwater sacs, allowing them to colonize further inland.
>>6138762Thick-lipped 'anus-flowers' can be stored safely underground only to push through upon sighting a pollinator, and can ALSO be used to push away or even bludgeon blungs.
Here's an update on the state of play, too.
>>6140274nice hows the enviroment doing?
>>6140653Good question. Threadjacker?
>>6140781Threadjacker isn't here anymore it seems, so we should decide these things together.
>>6117569Flanged Beakalopes are somewhat amphibious ominvores, able to leave their shallow watery homes to hunt on the beaches. They prefer to casually graze on the many green eyed plants, but won't hesistate to feed on other creatures foolish enough to approach them, which of there are many. Constant attacks encourages them to continue the growth of their calcified spikes, ensuring that anything that does take them down might surely die in the process.
>>6117782Armored beakalopes rarely leave the water unless they're starving or pursued by aquatic predators, while they prefer coasts they often get pushed away due to their defensive nature. The armor on their body continuously grows until it burdens the creature too much, which eventually kills it. While it is alive it is one of the toughest prey items to kill.
>>6131681Groping tasting tentacles allow the scrubbing sand slobber to accurately navigate itself towards plentiful scavenging grounds, although sometimes this backfires and leads them to dangerous stretches of ocean floor.
>>6132515Inevtiably many of these creatures are either hunted or shaken off, either way they end upon the ocean floor. Some of them continue to survive, even if vestigially, reverting to their earliest methods of nutrient absorption, the sand. The most successful eventually have longer and stronger 'tongues' which were once used on live bodies, now used to soak up more from the sand and to root themselves deep, as to make it harder for predators to tear them out from the earth.
>>6141214robust digestive tracks, anchor spikes on shell, steady motile lips all for the purpose of swallowing and sifting sand for nutrients digging down where no predators currently hold domain
>>6140271more Grazers pushes evolution for height to minimize damage to the eye photosynthetic organs but that in its turn necessitates adaptations to not fall over such as longer fins under the soil and sand to anchor
>>6141214In some descendants of this blung lineage, a strengthened tongue becomes a primary locomotive organ, with reduced "wings" at the back mainly used for quick bursts of swimming and in free-floating larval stages; as adults, their small-but-strong "legs" used to help turn and anchor while the tongue bores and drags a streamlined, hardened shell.
>>6138724A fused upper jaw with extremely rugose underside, coupled with a sharply-tipped and highly-flexible pair of prongs underneath, allows some packs of these incraesingly larger-bodied, more-than-"meso" mesoshrimp to better grapple, poke, and prod at the larger and more well-defended herbivores like >>6141203 and >>6141207.
>>6141203As with several of their extinct cousins, this lineage of beakalope has learned that increasingly-dangerous predators sometimes necessitate speedy escape. Though rear-mounted spines are a good last ditch effort, the best defense is push air and/or water out of their rear-mounted breathing ports and into the face of an offending animal, while the extra propulsion and rapid evacuation of their innards helps speed their getaway sprint.
>>6144903Throm Beakalope does run most of its strength is in its backlegs for powerful jumps or devastating back kicks even if its a major increase in energy expenditure and weight. spikes curls forewards for a sort of "knuckle" run presenting a tough surface that regrows with time making run all around more effective even if loud on hard surfaces.Head spikes serve the purpose of identifikation there vision is not the best but the clear contrast the sun creates create a distinct shadow silhouette where size thickness and curve serve as important health indicators.
>>6128359Tube-eyed terror-jellies are ambush predators that prefer to hide in the environment, using their long eyes to poke out and search for prey. The 'prongs' on their eyes move independently, and help them get a better picture of their surroundings.
>>6128043The niche of small, opportunistic scavenger-predator is open in many places, where centaurrats have not yet picked it up. Even in places where they have, a highly-social, neotenous variant of mesoshrimp, the chibishrimp, gives them a run for their money.
