NESLife VI

[Lambda Ignaceae]

Organism: Zebpight
Ancestor: Zebtacka
Selective Pressure: Salination of environment.
Mutation: Lungs. As the Haskone Sea continues its retreat, it is more a large salty marsh than sea. The Zebpight can haul itself around this brackish environment, drinking in the salty moist air and yet thrive. Greater oxygen exchange allows a higher state of activity, so everything is just a little bit more urgent with the Zeppight; Breeding, hunting, fighting etc. With it's nephridium, the Zebpigh's ability to absorb what little is water available is impressive. Recycling the water it already has rather than lose it as waste gives it a significant advantage over those that are increasingly struggle in this harsh environment.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Guys, lets try to turn Lambda into a hot-house planet!

 

[Patchy]

I assume Iggy made the world colder since he is basing off of ammonia and not water, thus different temperatures are needed to create an environment for life as the freezing and boiling points for ammonia are different.

 

[Terrance888]

Naw. It reminds him of his home.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Patchy is entirely correct!

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Organism: Vine
Ancestor: GroundGrabber
Selective Pressure: Lack of available sunlight because of Taller trees.
Mutation: The Groundgrabber, instead of travelling along the ground, instead use tall trees as support, growing around them, tightly weaving around the "Trunk." The Vine, as it grows, slowly kills the Horod, absorbing it for nutrients, all the while using it as support to reach sunlight higher up. Eventually, the Vines have completly absorbed the Horod, leaving a hollow tube of vines, upon which other vines may grow.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I've updated the stats!

 

[Terrance888]

Organism: Grower
Description: A flat mass of photosynthetic cells with highly-specialized tissues for mass-reproduction and energy storage tissues.
Niche: Mass-reproducing primary producer.

Organism: Stripper
Ancestor: Grower
Selective Pressure: Overcompetition among other Growers and Plants, Inefficient use of Sunlight
Mutation: Development of Complex Carbohydrates and use to form Kelp-like stripes of growers, rising into the sunlight. The heart of the Stripper, as well as a long band on the bottom, features growth cells. While the stripper's heart grow laterally, making it taller and longer, gravity helps bring nutrients down to the bottom, where new colonies are made and jettisoned.

 

[Patchy]

Lovely naming choice Terrance. Although it would have made more sense for a Grower to evolve from a Stripper.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

Organism: Pivot
Ancestor: Waltzer
Selective Pressure: Continued predation while re calibrating spring limb.
Mutation: The Pivot, quite aptly named, has evolved it's spring like limb to have extremely strong but thin, regrowable pincers, at the end of it's spring limb. They use this to latch onto other species, floating or otherwise, to give them movement, and simply spring off whenever attacked, escaping and leaving behind whatever prey it had been escorted by previously to the attacker. Wherever they land, they can reuse the pincers to try grabbing onto any new species that is nearby, while they recalibrate their spring ability.

 

[Grandkhan]

Organism: Packer
Ancestor: Burster (Global Ocean)
Selective Pressure: Competition for food from Hobonia, Maves, and Orta
Mutation: The Burster, with its increased size, is able to catch prey of somewhat large size, frequently more than it can eat. The Packers now organise in groups of up to ten, cooperating on bringing down larger prey animals and sharing the meal. In this way, they are more efficient hunters and less food that the packers catch goes to waste.

 

[Masada]

@thomas.berubeg

The ground-grabber lives in the Intertidal zone, not on land.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

It's possible that he meant the Ground-Grasper, but that's for thomas to decide. At any rate Masada, you've got yourself to blame for the confusion. I expected this would be the end result of your giving two closely related but different organisms nigh-near identical names.

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

Could you please create a tree of ALL life thus far?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I've had to reorganize the tree a few times, so I couldn't easily layer everything together, and a lot of new evolutions go over the space of old evolutions. I'd have to manually take apart every turn's picture and reassemble them... I don't think the end result would be worth the time I'd have to put into it.

The key is that I haven't saved the sprites for the extinct species in my main image file, so I'd have to recover them manually from past updates. It's doable, but it would probably take several hours, which is much longer than it would take to click on the links on the front page to look at each successive update.

 

[filli_noctus]

Organism: Watcher
Ancestor: Hunter (Plassidian)
Selective Pressure: The spread of flora on the southern landmass has naturally reduced the amount of light reaching the ground, making it harder for a visual predator to locate it's prey.
Adaptation: The Watcher has more efficient eyes than the Hunter, allowing it to hunt more efficiently in the lower light conditions of the spreading forests. A secondary advantage of superior eyesight is the ability to hunt succesfully in darker, cooler locations - reducing the rate of dessication and increasing the amount of time the watcher can remain on land.

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

I've had to reorganize the tree a few times, so I couldn't easily layer everything together, and a lot of new evolutions go over the space of old evolutions. I'd have to manually take apart every turn's picture and reassemble them... I don't think the end result would be worth the time I'd have to put into it.

The key is that I haven't saved the sprites for the extinct species in my main image file, so I'd have to recover them manually from past updates. It's doable, but it would probably take several hours, which is much longer than it would take to click on the links on the front page to look at each successive update.

Challenge Accepted! Note the time!!

 

[Masada]

It's possible that he meant the Ground-Grasper, but that's for thomas to decide. At any rate Masada, you've got yourself to blame for the confusion. I expected this would be the end result of your giving two closely related but different organisms nigh-near identical names.

I'll grant there are grounds for potential confusion in this case. The other half a dozen instances where this has happened however... Really, is it to much to ask that people take that one extra minute to fact-check their 5 minutes of effort?

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

Rough First Attempt.02

Everything that has existed ever!

 

[Grandkhan]

Wow. Bravo, Lambda. That can't have been easy. Props to you, sir.

I just noticed, every species with an eye has gone extinct along with all of its descendants.

Have we completely wiped out visual species on the planet?