Phytophage
Evolved From: Xerophage
Genes Added: 1x Plant Eating, 1x Swimming, 1x Gills
Genes Removed: none
Description:
The Phytophage is the product of tens of millions of years of natural selection acting on Xerophages in a world that has steadily grown more competitive, and more dangerous...
Rask quietly flicked his eyes between the aquarium before him and his diagrams. The various genera of Clinger and their Thoraxenia hosts were definitely one of his favourite symbioses, although the tangled webs of the Kleptotrons and Aerotrons definitely made a decent contest of it.
Before him...
Cavalier
Evolved From: Clinger
Genes Added: Exoskeleton, Filter Feeding, Mass Reproduction
Genes Removed: none
Description:
Cavalier larvae drift passively on the ocean currents, using feathery structures to collect even smaller plankton and to traverse great distances while expending minimal...
Don't forget that there is already a reason to prune unnecessary genes, which is that there is a metabolic cost to maintaining traits that don't provide a benefit, so a species that is more streamlined than one that has a bunch of genes which don't provide it any immediate benefits!
Thoraxenia - Lord_Iggy
Evolved from: Slugster (Era 5)
Genes added: 1x Symbiosis (Auxiliary Stomachs), 1x Scent Detection
Description: Faced with ever-increasing predation, the Slugsters which survived best were those which had some ability to resist predation. Thoraxenia is descended from one...
A small convention was gathered in a medium-sized orbital station, resembling nothing so much as a glassy marble, its interior a green swirl of gardens stretching hither and thither with no particular regard for gravity.
Rask stood on a small platform, a smallish penguin who asserted his...
Rask watched the perpetual twilight through the sealed biodome. An energetic field repelled all unauthorized outside contact, reducing anything that got too close after ignoring the first repulsion into a fine cloud of ash, a fine way of keeping a totally sterile barrier between his...
The first great predator of the nascent inland aquatic plants would not be an animal... but would instead be one of their own.
Kleptotron
Evolved from Falgetron
Genes Added: Saprotrophy (You could call them parasitic tendrils for consistency), Transport Tissues
Genes Removed:
Description: In...
Harpazo - Lord_Iggy
Evolved from: Dissolver
Genes Added: Harpoon Organ, Gas Exchange
Genes Removed:
Description: The Harpazo's most significant development is a series of heavily-vascularized, interior channels extending out of its mouth. These internal channels greatly increase its ability to...
Vorzord
Evolved from Crawlzord
Genes Added: Burrowing, Scavenging
Genes Removed: None
The Vorzord has evolved to tunnel and push its way through the soft, muddy bottoms of the sea floor, keeping the mass of its body beneath the surface to avoid predation. Its fourteen tentacles stretch out...
Xerotron
Evolved from Algaetron
Genes Added: Mucous Production, Cryptobiosis
Genes Removed: None
The Xerotron is a descendant of the Algaetron. The long photosynthetic coils of cells produce a coating of mucous, which provides two benefits for the organism. First, it is mildly discouraging to...
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