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[Magmacube_tr]

You know.. Increasing reproduction means needing to eat more in order to fuel it. On top of brains needing more to eat. And they live longer, so they end up self-competing and draining the sea dry of food.

He is creating The Shellfolk. Again.

Ugh... INITIATE PROTOCOL NUTCRACKER!

Yeah. So the prey either need to evolve in response or die.

It will be you who dies right after. But alright, let's plunge that way again.

[TricMagic]

You know.. Increasing reproduction means needing to eat more in order to fuel it. On top of brains needing more to eat. And they live longer, so they end up self-competing and draining the sea dry of food.

He is creating The Shellfolk. Again.

Ugh... INITIATE PROTOCOL NUTCRACKER!

Yeah. So the prey either need to evolve in response or die.

It will be you who dies right after. But alright, let's plunge that way again.

The ice age is literally about to kill them cause they have no cold protection. Let them die.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

1. Tunneler Yarom: Evolve cold resistance.
2. Speciate Tunneler Yarom:
  a. Create specialized rooms underground for storing food.
  b. Lose exclusive carnivory and gain the ability to eat algae.
3. b. Become able to digest the algae spires themselves.
SS: a. Develop a system of simple communication using vocalizations.

[notquitethere]

[SS]  Speciate Pear-ly Megalocod
1. Calcify cartillage in jaws to give stronger bite able to eat things whole without tasting
2. Intensify acidity of digestive system for breaking down hard stuff turtle shells, bones, domes, etc.

Speciate Spireater Elecod
1. Cover in keratin fur to keep warm in ice age
2. Layer on blubber for warmth and calory storage and move to Uch Shallows

Speciate Remora pancod
1. Evolve ovipostor for injecting eggs into prey (or under shells, say) and send to Bir Shallows
2. Evolve tendrils to allow better latch onto prey

Speciate Lungenose Dropseal
1. Improve brainpower, focusing on stalking behaviour, for snatching eggs and taking young
2. Evolve razor pincer on the hooked claws, primarily for snipping back sails, legs, flippers etc...

[Knightwing64]

FOOL, CAN YOU NOT READ, I HAVE MADE THEM EXTREMELY ADAPTIVE, THEY WOULD ADAPT TO THE COLD AND JUST MIGRAT TO GREENER PASTURES

[Magmacube_tr]

FOOL, CAN YOU NOT READ, I HAVE MADE THEM EXTREMELY ADAPTIVE, THEY WOULD ADAPT TO THE COLD AND JUST MIGRAT TO GREENER PASTURES

Yes, they survived the icy spell, and can simply speciate away too. But there will be a moment in which you will drain all prey and die.

You are an apex predator. Your existence depends on an abundance of prey. Any event a little bigger in scale than this single-turn cold spell will unmake you.

I suggest speciating to different niches and strata to at least preserve your evolutionary progress. So if you go extinct, you won't lose everything. Also, it will be interesting to see what sort of stuff covylossals could radiate into.

[Crystalizedmire]

But there will be a moment in which you will drain all prey and die.

You are an apex predator. Your existence depends on an abundance of prey. Any event a little bigger in scale than this single-turn cold spell will unmake you.

Which is why, as my duty of being prey, that I survive and remain an easy target of food.

[flazeo25]

Isn't one of the covylossal biggest weakness is it's that too large now, that cold wrecking havok on prey population and it's lack of own cold protection means it's food to sustain it too much. Risking itself to exintinction.

[Crystalizedmire]

1. Lavaskin Hexturtle develops sharp teeth and does not bask nor clean other creatures. It takes bites out of other creatures(This shouldn't get rid of my chloroplasts because it has self-replenishing chloroplasts and there are other mixotrophs in the biome thus absorbing their chloroplasts)
ss. Earful Hexturtle develops a larger cerebellum(controls muscles and balance, helps movement)
2. Grazing Hexturtle speciates:
    a. Develops hearing
    b. Develops hearing, send to Bir Shallows
3. Bellynest Hexturtle speciates:
    a. Develops hearing
    b. Develops hearing, send to Bir Shallows

Wait, I change ss to Tailed hexagonbaga  develops a larger cerebellum

[Magmacube_tr]

Isn't one of the covylossal biggest weakness is it's that too large now, that cold wrecking havok on prey population and it's lack of own cold protection means it's food to sustain it too much. Risking itself to exintinction.

Yea, it eats too much. It is too adept at what it is doing.

[Knightwing64]

This is why I made it adaptive

[flazeo25]

Bump it's not to adapative.

[Magmacube_tr]

notquitethere
1: Speciate Pear-ly Megalocod
  A: Stronger jaw
  B: More acidic stomach acid
2: Speciate Spireater Elecod
  A: Keratin fur
  B: Blubber and send to Uch Shallows
3: Speciate Remora Pancod
  A: Injecting ovipositor
  B: Latching tendrils
SS: Speciate Lungenose Dropseal
  A: Improve brain to be more cunning
  B: Nose pincer from nose claws

Knightwing64
1: Sapience (gotta make this choice again, huh?)
2: Increased fecundity
3: Resistance to senescense
SS: Develop brain (Are you trying to create some sort of cthulhoid, great-old-one expy or something?)

The Canadian Kitten
1: Internal fertilisation for Colossal Dropalina
2: Speciate Piranha Dropbass
  A: Cold resistance
  B: Carapace and send to Bir Shallows
3: Cold resistance for Ornate Dropbass
SS: Better brain for Ornate Dropbass

TricMagic
1: Amphibiousness for Diegonic Cuttlecovy
SS: Otter fur for Diegonic Cuttlecovy
2: Speciate the above
  A: Spread to Bir Shallows
  B: Remain in Uch Shallows
3: Speciate the above
  A: Spread to Eke Shallows
  B: Speciate in Uch Shallows

flazeo25
1: Move venomous stinger to tentacles, and move tentacles to nape (The crushing tentacles are the sensitive tentacles, they are one and the same)
2: Ovoviviparity
SS: Fix stomach acid
3: Speciate the above
  A: Blubber
  B: Blubber and send to Bir Shallows

brangerlon (A very strange way to use your actions...)
1: Speciate the Domedweller
  A: More toxins (hmmm...)
  B: Solve racism
2: Back fuzz to venomous spines for 1A
3: More toxins for 1A (...)
SS: More toxins for 1A (aight)

Blood_Librarian
1: Insulating resin for Burrowing Krillgore
2: Torpor to cold adaptation for Migratory Shrimpgore (I have an idea)
3: Nests made of insulating resin for Cleaning Killgore
SS: Speciate off of Pelagic Handfish Whalegore and send to The Midnight Zone

Crystalizedmine
1: Sharp teeth and lamprey-like behavior for Lavaskin Hexturtle
SS: Better balance and coordination for Tailed Hexagonbaga
2: Speciate Grazing Hexturtle
  A: Hearing
  B: Hearing and send to Bir Shallows
3: Speciate Bellynest Hexturtle
  A: Hearing
  B: Hearing and send to Bir Shallows

FiveBalesOfHay
1: Cold resistance for Tunneler Yarom
2: Speciate Tunneler Yarom
  A: Construct hoarders
  B: Omnivory
3: Algea spire digestion for 2B
SS: Primitive speech for 2A

[TricMagic]

I'll note that I'm getting out of the sea to the island. Becoming Seals who spend their time on said shores for safety. (Though suppose that would be Beaching Behavior speciation.) Just gather up in masses to keep warm with their fur, completely out of reach of other predators when sleeping or resting. No more running the fish race trying to survive outside feeding times. We're going above it all.

[notquitethere]

That was my strat with the Yunus in the last game. But there are predators who can go on land in this game so I'm not sure how effective your seal plan will be. My predatory Lungenose Dropseals have lungs and are already called seals...