Topic: Evolution (Read 4264 times)

Doubloon-Seven · « **Reply #45 on:** January 29, 2018, 07:44:00 pm »

Colotes Vergrandis, the Smiling Lizard, develops a resistance to the toxins found within the Nightmare Shrimp, being as they are a significant portion of the Lizard diet. This will allow them to eat more shrimp, an in addition gain access to a more exclusive food source.

darkwarlock3 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 29, 2018, 08:11:39 pm »

The scavenger scarabs evolve smell vision, this let's them tell the difference between creatures, even making ambush less effective against them, could be the start of something more advance for the future

Roboson · « **Reply #47 on:** February 01, 2018, 08:14:54 pm »

As time goes on, the world begins to change. The water level is slowly dropping in your marshland habitat, and you must soon make a choice: migrate towards deeper waters, or journey out into the open air. The next evolution may determine the entire future of your species, and only those who can survive in this changing world will survive. Even now the changing effects are highly apparent, algae and plankton, which were slowly becoming more and more scarce, are now in short supply. Large swaths of kelp forests have been devoured by swarms of scarabs and even larger trilobites. Truly your species has quite outgrown this quickly shrinking area.

Walking Polyp

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The bottom of the bog has been transformed by your species over millions of years. It now has a deep subterranean tunnel system composed of calcium carbonate. Layer upon layer of tunnels were stacked upon eachother as they sank deeper and deeper into the mud. Your reverse coral reef now protrudes deep into the earth, and will be the last area to dry up as this marsh drains of moisture. It is here that your species, lacking a real need to see reliably, began to navigate by smell. They found the tunnels to smell quite rancid as they were full of hexopods, but being able to smell large predators gives you an advantage. Still, the muck covered burrowing lizards still manage to devour a fair amount of your species due to their improved vision, speed, and size. Many have started slithering through your tunnels in pursuit of a meal! Under the stinky smokescrean stench of rotten hexopods, it is quite difficult to gain advanced warning of impending danger.

EVENT: Your species gains a strange mutation! The size and shape of your species is fluctuating incredibly! Choose to triple either the length or width of your species in addition to your normal evolution.

Snapping Trilobite

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As food becomes more and more scarce in this strange world, seen through your specially adapted heat vision, those which can find and secure food best reproduce most. This leads to your species developing paddle-like appendages near the feet. This allows a strange gliding motion through the water as your many legs kick one right after the other, pushing you along at a steady pace. From the higher vantage point, the backdrop of ambient heat becomes easier to understand and the heat signatures of other creatures stand out vividly among an an otherwise grainy gradient. It is actually because of those other creatures your trilobites fair so well. The tiny blue slugs don't give off enough heat for your specie's weak eyes to pick up on easily, but the scavenger scarabs and nightmare shrimp swarm food rich areas, causing them to light up like a beacon. Its only a matter of time before trilobites appear and bully their way in for a meal.

Nightmare Shrimp

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Despite decreasing food supplies and decreasing water levels, your species continues to grow exponentially. Finding food is relatively easy using your rudimentary sound detection. The swarming scarabs and hulking trilobites which now swim like behemoths through the water, make obnoxious amounts of noise. Simply following the sounds of their consumption is enough to locate decent amounts of food. Your species begins developing antennas which give them enough electroreception to identify predators which greatly assists them in avoiding them. However, as their main predator develops resistance to your poison, they become more voracious in their pursuit, leveraging faster speed and vision against your electroreception detection system. In the end, a fair number are devoured, but at this point you reproduce faster than being consumed. Oddly enough, kelp crabs have started eating your species as well, though they are terrible terrible hunters and are quickly deterred by your ability to detect them and poison. Still, your species must grow more cautious now as predators increase.

Scavenger Hexopod

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This is truly the golden age of the hexopod, and there is no end in sight for the glory of the endless horde of these tiny cephalopods. They quickly spread to every shrinking corner of the marshland as they are driven to wander during adolescence. They coat some areas completely, forming large overlaying mats of writhing tentacles and disgusting bodies. They are by far the most common sight, but now that they are so populous, conditions have worsened and their disease ridden bodies are starting to fail them in more than one way. Some larger predators are desperate enough to take a bite now. The disease is more likely to cause them to vomit up your remains, but it doesn't take long for predators to understand you're not good to eat.

Lesser Sardine

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The sardines quickly become one of the largest populations in the shrinking environment. Their swimming ability is increased several fold as their musculature increases. This makes them incredibly nimble and quick, as well as allowing for more sustained swimming. Occasionally they will dart out of the water as a last ditch effort to escape prey, however with being the fastest species in the area, this is actually more dangerous than just swimming away. Despite decreasing water depth in these marshlands, your species manages to grow significantly and avoid predation. This is due largely to sight and speed advantages. However, ambush predators still manage to occasionally catch you.

EVENT: Your species gains a strange mutation! Your scales grow into strange and unusual sizes. Gain an additional mutation involving scales.

Scavenger Scarab

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Your species changes quite strangely during this era. While many species are working to gain new senses, your species actually combines two! You had the most rudimentary of vision systems, capable of only telling if it was light or dark, but now your vision sensors are put to work processing smells. This creates an incredibly trippy view of the world around you as smells are converted into visual representations based on quality and quantity. The system is still very rudimentary, but it still is useful for tracking down food to some degree. It helps identify large competitors and nearby prey, but is more of an art than a science to correctly interpret the blur of colors and brightness that comes from this synesthesia.

Smiling Lizard

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Life for the smiling lizard becomes much more difficult during this era. While they gain resistance to the Nightmare Shrimp's poison (Bivaydyzine), the shrimp gain the ability to detect your individuals which wait in ambush. Those ambushers are much less successful than the individuals which give active pursuit to their prey. Some have burrowed directly into the tunnel system beneath the bog and pursue prey there. These desperate individuals found a dark cramped world filled with five legged rotten creatures, but occasionally a tasty morsel can be spotted and devoured. Your species begins to switch from eating mostly difficult to catch shrimp to easier walking polyps. However, this could cause you to lose your burying ambush behavior if the situation does not change soon.

crazyabe · « **Reply #48 on:** February 01, 2018, 08:29:49 pm »

Scavenger Hexopod develope (Extremely) simple lungs, useless as a long term replacement for the gills they normally breath with they are still useful for short amounts of movement over land.

darkwarlock3 · « **Reply #49 on:** February 01, 2018, 08:41:00 pm »

scavenger scarabs: they evolve pheromones excretion, this allows the scarabs to mark areas they been and even mark breeding grounds, other creatures capable of smell will know when they are in the area

Kilojoule Proton · « **Reply #50 on:** February 01, 2018, 08:58:01 pm »

Doomed to do a dodo dance if they continued living as pelagic fish in mere puddles, the lesser sardines have become increasingly adapted to land, developing very porous lungs and breathable scales. This permits them to breathe air for extended periods provided that they can keep their scales and skin moist. Perhaps burrowing in the mud near ponds will become a useful behavior for those waiting out dry periods?

Shadowclaw777 · « **Reply #51 on:** February 01, 2018, 09:09:09 pm »

The snapping trilobites over their generations, realize this was a screwed situation in the underwater and they sought to leave for clearer pastures. They have developed a oxygen-breathing organ on the underside of their protective shell, that allows them to go to lands that aren't filled with waters. They move past the murky waters, looking for new oxygen-filled lands. Seeing if the kelp or algae, or other prey seems to be abundant on this brave new world.

Maximum Spin · « **Reply #52 on:** February 02, 2018, 01:20:14 am »

The Walking Polyps, somewhat surprisingly, triple in length! They also develop the ability to secrete a water-retaining mucus that both keeps them hydrated in dry surroundings and helps turn dry soil into a reasonable facsimile of benthic mud, enabling them to continue tunneling even in the changed climate. Soon their vast network of tunnels will expand across the planet, ready to snatch prey from any location at any time! Probably!

Happerry · « **Reply #53 on:** February 02, 2018, 05:46:11 pm »

The Abominatius Shrimpicus, better known as the Nightmare Shrimp, have been put under noticeable amounts of stress over the past ages. Food is growing scarcer, the water level is lowering, competition is rising... and not only are predators more desperate but the biggest predation threat has evolved to be immune to their poisons and has been switching from ambushes to just chasing them down and eating them. As such, as time passes, the average speed of the Nightmare Shrimp has been rising as they develop a tail that provides better aquatic propulsion, increasing their ability to swim.

Doubloon-Seven · « **Reply #54 on:** February 03, 2018, 04:28:46 pm »

The Smiling Lizard, seeing its prey walk onto the sparse, marshy land, tentatively begins to follow. It develops primitive lungs alongside its gills, and uses its legs to walk out of the water standing proud. Its preexisting legs, in addition to new lungs, will allow it to walk about on land and have access to the water to breed and feed there, as well.

Roboson · « **Reply #55 on:** February 04, 2018, 03:48:11 pm »

Year after year the water level lowers bit by bit. In the spring water rains down from above and flows through streams into your lake, but when the rains stop and the creek dries up, there the water slowly fades away. As the hydrosere continues, the wide free standing body of water shrinks and shrinks until it is a small lake, many times smaller than its original size several million years ago. The region changes rapidly over this past era. No longer is it one continuous bog, but instead a large dryer area with several small lakes. Every few years heavy rains will connect these lakes through a series of streams or floods. However, the vast majority of the time its a more terrestrial environment with ponds and small lakes being fairly common in the region. As you will soon discover, your species actually exists on a small fairly homogeneous continent. The world above the water line is strange and full of giants. What wonders will you discover in the open air?

Walking Polyp

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Your species carries on in the muddy substrate of the lake you've called home for so long now. As others leave, you decide to stay and wait out the drought. Your species gains an additional excretion ability, allowing them to create a water retaining mucous. This allows your species to spread further into the banks of the pond than ever before. Its rockier there, and the soil is interwoven with some weak plant roots in some areas. While your tunnels expand, they can only go so far, being forever linked to the shrinking body of water. But this is not your main problem, food is your concern now. The plankton no longer floats through the stagnant water like it did in the glory days of this area. Your species is left with a much smaller grazing area, and with only algae and a few pockets of dying sickly kelp and the occasional sardine. In order to combat this, the polyps grow longer and snakelike. The shorter smaller individuals couldn't store enough fat to make it through times of hardship, so quickly the species grows larger. Interestingly enough, this allows for some basic lateral undulation. You begin to notice new creatures occasionally visiting the water and then leaving. A few of the smaller individuals manage to survive and become a minor species!

Snapping Trilobite

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Seeking greener pastures, your species switches out its gills for a set of lungs. These oxygen breathing organs under their protective shells allowed your species to transition onto land, while still voyaging into the waters. This is a very fortuitous advancement because it opened up your species to new food sources. The surface world is filled with woody spiral ferns which have leaves high above the ground. You find it impossible to chew through the tough bark or scale the trunk at this time. Your species does locate some strange cat-tail like plants which have starchy nutrient dense seed pods near the top, and you manage to chew threw the stalk, toppling the plant and bringing the best part into reach. The majority of the world seems to be barren dirt and rock. There are no grasses, to there is little green on the ground to eat. However, animal live is abundant and your species begins to prey actively on a small round insect with branching defensive prongs, as well as a longer amphibious creature. A large beaked furry creature several times your size manages to devour a few of your species!

Nightmare Shrimp

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Given the changes to your environment, only those fast enough to find food and avoid predators survive. There is signifigantly less food in your environment, which has been reduced many fold in the last few million years. What was once a very large lake, is now much smaller. This pond is too small to support plankton and little kelp can survive is the diminished shallower environment. You're left scraping by on algae, and your species is unable to find enough food to support your large population. Luckily most of your predators have abandoned this puddle, and those that have not, can only rarely catch your species. These are dire times indeed for these small crustacean.

Event: Your species body changes strangely! Gain an additional mutation that drastically changes your body shape.

Scavenger Hexopod

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As the pond dries up, it is those with the largest populations which are hit hardest. Your species develops a simple lung so that it may voyage short distances over land. However, this is markedly less successful than other creatures which head onto land. Because you evolved a simple lung rather than replacing your gills, your hexopods are still very tied to shrinking water supplies. A few other ponds are colonized as your species spreads across land, but they have as little food as your homeland. With few options, your species scavenges for food, and manages to find enough to maintain a stable population.

Lesser Sardine

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The lesser sardine population barely grows during this period. Food is incredibly scarce as the pond becomes too small to support epipelagic plankton and they go almost completely extinct as the water fails to return. This leaves the sardines with very little option but to eat algae. That is until strange larva begin to appear. The strange wormy little things wriggle in the stagnant water and you're vision allows you to spot them and devour them to supplement your failing nutritional needs. Your ability to go long periods out of water allows your species to spread to nearby ponds, like several of the other species, but those ponds seem to be sharing the same fate.

EVENT: Your species gains a strange mutation! Gain an additional mutation related to your species diet.

Scavenger Scarab

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The scavenger scarabs go hungry during this era. There is no large food source remaining in the small lake, now many times smaller than it was just a few eras ago. This leaves your species to scavenge for whatever it can, and it is simply not enough to support your existing population. Your species begins marking areas with pheromones, but given the small size of your habitat, there is little to mark. Without finding more food soon, your species may quickly face extinction.

Event: Your species mutates in strange and unpredictable ways! Pick two colors and gain a mutation related to growing a new external body part.

Smiling Lizard

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Your species develops longs to use alongside its gills, and finds this to be an unpleasant situation. Your gills will often dry out, forcing you back towards the water despite your species being perfectly capable of breathing nothing but air. Given time, it is likely your gills will fade away completely as those individuals who lose them are more free to roam and be successful. Or perhaps your gills will improve some mechanism which will allow them long periods without use. Only time will tell. In your brief voyages out into the dry lands, you see more than any alien species has seen yet. Large spiraling ferns dot the barren dirt which stretches on endlessly. Small woody lumps with just the slightest hint of greenery stand like living rocks in open areas. Small creatures buzz between strange flowers of purple twigged sprouts. They're hard to catch, but you manage to get a few. A large beetle with branching defensive antlers makes up a good portion of your diet. A semiaquatic creature that reminds you of a slug with legs is also fair game. And of course you still prey upon the sardines and nightmare shrimp which are now fish in a barrel. You manage to lose several individuals to a very large hairy predator which only has two limbs and a sharp predatory beak. For now, going back to the water is fine because there is shrimp and sardines there, but if those water dry up or those prey leave, you could be facing a serious dilemma.

crazyabe · « **Reply #56 on:** February 04, 2018, 03:53:18 pm »

Change overcomes the Hexopods, as they develop the muscular systems of their tentacles, allowing them to move faster and further both in and outside water.

Shadowclaw777 · « **Reply #57 on:** February 04, 2018, 04:05:04 pm »

The snapping trilobite, knowing that the birds with large beak are killing off and eating some of their species, over generations develop longer and longer range of heat vision that can more discriminately determine live things in the ground that they can eat or birds in the sky or ground that might be nearby that try to eat some of these trilobites, and they can cuddle away.

Kilojoule Proton · « **Reply #58 on:** February 04, 2018, 07:07:27 pm »

The Lesser Sardines' pectoral fins improve, now containing joints and bones and improved musculature. They are better able to scale obstacles on land and burrow now.

Also, metabolic by-products from digesting the larvae have begun staining the scales of the Sardines to their benefit, turning them earthy tones and granting them some measure of camouflage.

Happerry · « **Reply #59 on:** February 04, 2018, 08:34:56 pm »

As the Nightmare Shrimp face increasingly smaller living areas and dwindling food sources they soon start showing some startling adaptions in the name of survival. First off, as they have less and less room to run away from predators they undergo an unusual change in physical structure as their two front limbs greatly enlarge as well as forming serrated edges along their inner sides. Thus the Abominatius Shrimpicus have grown twin Sword Claws to ward of rivals and to stab predators with. As well, their reproductive process has also changed, as the Nightmare Shrimp have started laying Eggs into the bottom or edges of their ponds and lakes, where the eggs can hibernate until they sense that conditions are good for hatching.

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