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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[USEC_OFFICER]

Just how deep are these shafts?  I've got an idea.

Fairly deep. Around 100 meters? (Not very good with distances.)

[Evergod41]

use comparisons then

[Armok]

just grow a damn copy of the thing so we can see what it is!

[Evergod41]

Hey, while all this is going on above the sea level, what is happening under the waves?

[FuzzyZergling]

We've eaten it.
All of it.

[USEC_OFFICER]

While you are figuring out what to do, you have taken the time to replicate the DNA you stole. The creature is short and small, with 6 legs and a pair of wings. The head of the creature is small, with no eyes, but two large antenna, which it uses to smell out prey. Its mouth is make for crushing objects, and has a long proboscis, which leads you to assume that its prey has strong shells, with fleshly insides. The body of the creature is long, the two wings attached to the top, and the six legs at the bottom. The first four legs are similar, though the back two have evolved for jumping. The wings aren't very big, and it probably couldn't have sustained flight, but short bursts of flight to escape predators. It is otherwise unoticable, and the size of the brain, and other factors, leads you to assume that it is some sort of domesticated animal, and therefore not capable of making the stone doors or throwing the missiles at you.

In short, it is a domesticated creature.

[Evergod41]

A grasshopper/mosquito/ant/beetle thing kewl.

Make one our crab dudes with the crusher mouth, and start eating away at the earth around the boulder...

[Flagrarus]

So...we have all the DNA of all the creatures in the ocean, and we can't even get past a stone door?

Make a large crab creature and give it 2 mantis-shrimp claws. Here's an excerpt from wikipedia on mantis shrimp claws

Smashers, on the other hand, possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear (which is nevertheless quite sharp and still used in fights between their own kind); the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. The inner aspect of the dactyl (the terminal portion of the appendage) can also possess a sharp edge, with which the animal can cut prey while it swims.

Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g (102,000 m/s2 or 335,000 ft/s2) and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start,[7] about the acceleration of a .22 calibre bullet.[8][9] Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface.[7] The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 newtons that are caused by the impact of the appendage against the striking surface, which means that the prey is hit twice by a single strike; first by the claw and then by the collapsing cavitation bubbles that immediately follow.[10] Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

Emphasis added.

We wouldn't have the bubble, of course, but we could still punch the door down with this thing!

[Evergod41]

That plus the rock eating mouth

[Flagrarus]

That plus the rock eating mouth

Too bad there's no animals that explode ( that I'm aware of )...

[Evergod41]

there is a type of ant that we could adapt into exploding

[USEC_OFFICER]

there is a type of ant that we could adapt into exploding

But we don't have it yet.

So...we have all the DNA of all the creatures in the ocean, and we can't even get past a stone door?

We almost did, but nobody gave them any orders to continue. (They all assumed they died from the missiles.)

[Evergod41]

and now they are?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Still waiting for orders.

[Aklyon]

there is a type of ant that we could adapt into exploding

speaking of ants, would we be able to do anything if we had a bunch of army ants?