NESLife V (Part 2)

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Toxiwurm: tidepool and freshwater filter-feeder.
Genetic diversity: very low (cloning).
Description: small tubular animal with basic musculature to enable swimming and crawling out of water, limited desiccation resistance, mild poisonous nodules, extendible cilia for capturing plankton, and a simple internal digestive chamber.

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Species Name: Chthon Wurm
Ancestor Species: Toxiwurm
Selective Pressure: Competition for resources
Primary Mutation: A single Toxiwurm mutated in a grotesk way. Now from below the "head", the organism splits into four independent tails. dexterous, flexible limps allow the Chthon Wurm to manipulate the world around it as it sees fit. Waving the "legs" above it allows the Chthon to capture particles and push them towards its mouth.
Secondary Mutation(s): mouth relocated to centre of tails.

Species Name: Fossoratsightus
Ancestor Species: Fossornatus
Selective Pressure: Mikri-Oura sight in Mikri-Rich areas preventing catching
Primary Mutation: Eyes
Secondary Mutation(s): improved circulatory system.
Notes:
Primary Mutation:
A set of 6 eyes, following the symmetry pattern, but overlapping in order to provide limited depth.
Secondary Mutation:
In order to allow less energy to be used, a more efficient circulatory system evolved.

Thankyou guys!!! I will update as soon as Terrance posts his evolution

@Daedwartin, your evolution is very similar to Iggy's (Fossornatus +vision, differing on the extras). Its not impossible that both will find a niche, as the Fossornatus is currently doing very well. Just want to make you aware of the competition!

Can you answer my question ?

Sorry erez I missed that -but, I don't want to get into twenty questions. I will say there should be (at least) a niche for a version of the horsehockytu with a hardened protection, due to how many horsehockytu are being sniffed out and scooped up by Fossornatus jaws.

EDIT: Umbrafugis are doing very well in certain areas yes, they have very efficient plankton trapping limbs. But they are more complex and slow growing. They can't burrow at any stage of their life.

Umbrafugis (a.k.a. Shade Chaser): motile oceanic filter-feeder.
Genetic diversity: moderate (cloning/hermaphrodite).
Description: small cylindrical animal with a porous bony framework, thin fleshy cuticle, specialised internal reproductive organs, multiple primitive eye-spots, and multiple large sweeping limbs. Limbs have a mixture of specialised cilia branches, used both for swimming and for trapping plankton, with small digestive chambers at the base of each limb.

Species Name: Lapis vivius
Ancestor Species: Umbrafugis
Selective Pressure: Interspecies competition, radiation
Primary Mutation: Acidic cells and Filtering cells.
Secondary Mutation(s): Loss of eye-spots and limbs in the adult form etc. Formation of an hardened adult form with sticky acids at one end to attach to hard rocks. Sexual larvae proliferate.

The Lapis vivius in a way brought the Petrosa line back to the rocky lands, settling down on the rocky undersea and continuing its old lifestyle. Or perhaps not so. The Lapis vivius no longer feeds purely on plankton but new cells able to filter extremely fine particles directly off the sea have allowed a new food source for the Lapis vivius. While plankton stuck in the organism will be digested, now a whole new variety of food particles (including bacteria and smaller) allow the Lapis vivius to live happily on its rocks for practically as long as there are other living organisms in the area.

One thing the Lapis vivius retained from its ancestor is a very lively larvae that swims across looking for other larvae to mate with while feeding on plankton and growing to nearly the size of Umbrafugis. Eventually two larvae fuse together into the Lapis vivius and land upon a stony ground to build a new adult organism. The two forms lifestyle allows for one side to survive in hard times for the other.

While the once rocky body is somewhat retained, the lack of true stony cells like the ancient Petrosa forced the Lapis vivius search for a new type of protection, this time it is the appearance of complex deadly proteins released by the Lapis vivius when it is broken.

So, you killed off all of my Toxiwurm's descendants? Nice try, but that's not stopping me.

Toxiwurm: tidepool and freshwater filter-feeder.
Genetic diversity: very low (cloning).
Description: small tubular aatumnimal with basic musculature to enable swimming and crawling out of water, limited desiccation resistance, mild poisonous nodules, extendible cilia for capturing plankton, and a simple internal digestive chamber.

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Species Name: Toxiwurm subterraneum
Ancestor Species: Toxiwurm
Selective Pressure: Lack of diversity, low population
Primary Mutation: The cilia strengthen to become tendrils, used to bury its eggs under the sea floor and capture plankton better
Secondary Mutation(s): Small (nonpoisonous) spikes appear on the skin, increased sexual activity

The Toxiwurm, having outlived all of its descendants, now faced a predicament. Only a small population survived, and although its deadly aftertaste reduced its predators, there was still the problem of readily available Toxiwurm eggs. One of the creatures developed stronger cilia, and it used them to bury their eggs underground, out of the reach of predators. This allowed a much larger amount of eggs to survive to the point where their poison developed, and caused a population boom. The increased population enabled the Toxiwurm family to have a much greater genetic diversity, and it began to flourish. A minor note is that during this period, the remaining Toxiwurm began to evolve spikes, eerily mirroring its lost descendants.

How is the circulatory system more efficient Daedwartin?

Lord_Iggy said:

How is the circulatory system more efficient Daedwartin?

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@Iggy, lacking your biological knowledge, I think I'm going to have to be lenient with people when they ask for generic upgrades. I'll think of something...

I suppose having a ton of internal cilia to circulate water (sort of like a sponge) would make sense. Keep in mind that the Fossornatus is basically a Tremulus with a shell around it, so even its 'internal' organs are technically exposed to the outside environment, albeit indirectly.

Species name: Foramus
Ancestor: Terras
Selective pressure: Dessication during neap tides and other long intertidal periods or if the individual is at the upper edge of the intertidal zone, grazing
Primary mutation: The bulk of the Foramus' mass is below ground with only the photosynthesising stalks extending out. Once the amount of stored water in the Foramus drops below a certain level specialised cells withdraw the stalks into the main body to resist further dessication and stymie grazers.
Secondary mutations: Long tap roots run down to permanently damp areas to provide a guaranteed water source. These roots can also grow back towards the surface to develop into another body, creating a clonal colony.

Silvaetus NOOOO! You were too precious for this ugly world. They never understood you, they never could. R.I.P.R.*



(Still time to slip in before update?)

*Rest in paleontological record

Algeroth said:

Silvaetus NOOOO! You were too precious for this ugly world. They never understood you, they never could. R.I.P.R.*



(Still time to slip in before update?)

*Rest in paleontological record

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I am sorry about the Silvaetus. RIPR indeed But I really wanted to do realistic mass extinctions this time around.

I am attempting to update NESCraft today, so yes indeed, you still have time to post an evolution! Still waiting on @Terrance's promised evolution also...

Bah, procrastination!

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm going to update TerraNES this weekend, so no evo from me.

Dude, it takes 30 seconds!

No evolution from Terrance = Faster Update from Daft, if we want to look at positives.

Yeah, do I really want to make an half-assed evolution which would not only have low chances of survival due to half-assedness, but also slow Daft down in his updating and forcing him to draw something to appeal to my half-assed contribution as well as include the half-assed creature in the write up and having to write stats? Thirty seconds of my time = something like, thirty minutes of daft's? I respect him more than that.

That's cool, it did take you 3 days to say you weren't going to bother though.