Algae-17 grows small spikes to dissuade predators to eat it.
I'll record that as
Cyanos acri, learning biology has left me with something of a penchant for binomial nomenclature...
"Acri" is latin for "sharp".
Anyway, the Phagos phago and the Phagos Shlurpi are now extinct, outcompeted by the Phagos Shlamboi and the Phagos Schwim.
The surviving of the Phagos genus must still roll.
Chart modified to reflect this. Extinct species are denoted with <slant brackets> around their name.
I'm unable to access it?
It's a Google sheet chart. I may have messed up the settings (not likely) or your browser might be throwing a tantrum about Google. Have a static image.
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I see you got the reference. ("Natural selection" in your sig, hint hint...?") Thank you!
The Phagos shlamboi scrape by, but by very little! If this continues for too long, the Shlambo will be extinct!
Not so fast! (literally.) With all these various adaptations the algae are developing to defend themselves, it's becoming harder to catch them. This should favor the Shlambo's dormancy, no?
And the first ninja-ing of my new forum career!
Here is the Phagos genus evolution tree:
I'll do the Cyanos later.
Oh, blueturtle, I take it that <> means extinct? Nice, but Phagos shlurpi is not extinct yet, as the Phagos schwim have not fully out competed the Shlurp just yet, by virtue of numbers.
Aww, but you said it was extinct a while ago, superceded by the
P. schwim! Eh, word of author is final. I'll change the marking.