A bit to extreme in my Opinion, but meh, it works. I'll start diving for an evolution to try and get the Areo-sphere back into the game. hmm, turn the toxic atmosphere into advantage? so many interesting chemical reactions to play with...
In my opinion, it was far less extreme than it could have been- you'll note that the majority of marine life got through largely intact. Also, the atmosphere only remained toxic for a few centuries.
RIP in peace Zeppu. Epoch III - XIII, I doubt we'll ever see a more successful organism.
Well, success has many definitions. The Zeppu was certainly a successful organism, and it did last somewhere between 100 and 200 million years largely unchanged.
It's nice to see all the new faces around here. Welcome to the NES Forum!
Seconded! Welcome various Paradoxians, and any others who've stumbled upon our little subforum!
Organism: Leuton
Ancestor: Jargo
Selective pressure: Increased predation by the Clicker in local feeding waters
Mutation: The Leuton is smaller than the Jargo, and has developed a stronger tail for longer range swimming. The Leuton forms packs that are composed of one male and a couple of females the male will travel many miles to find its own pack, thus leading to increased diversity in the gene pool. The Leuton packs travel huge distances to find large feeding grounds, where they work as a pack to hunt. This is mainly to escape Clickers, which regularly attack Leutons and their prey however, due to the pack nature of the Leutons, they can simply leave a few stragglers behind whilst the fittest of the pack escape.
Organism: Ventris
Ancestor: Padiped
Selective pressure: The mass extiction event has caused natural selection to favor those that can adapt quicker to the changes.
Mutation: The Ventris have the ability to exchange their genetic information between individuals so that their offspring will be a combination of both parents.
OOC: If I recall correctly we still have no organisms that reproduce sexually and there is no excuse for that by this point in the game.
Vector's don't reproduce sexually but do engage in horizontal gene transfer that passes to the next generation, potentially allowing for greater genetic diversity than sexual reproduction.
Actually IIRC there was a sexual species a while back but it bit the dust during a mass extinction.
Correct. The one sexual species got wiped out. Last update, Vectors evolved, with a viral method of gene transfer. Now, this turn, two different organisms seem to be developing sexes, although I'm not sure that Shynka knows that the Jargos are currently an asexual species, so a jump to heavily differentiated genders and social behaviour would be a pretty huge change.
I was in the process of writing an analysis of the movement of the continents when my blasted browser decided to crash 90% of the way though it. I can't be bothered to type the whole thing out again right now so I'll leave you with the abridged version.
Okianus moving south east and Eddoria moving west while Graderia's southern movement causes Plasidia to rotate around Lambridia, uplifting the smaller plate.
Temporary recreation of supercontinent probably imminent, may get inland sea if Eddoria moves quickly enough to allow capes of Plassidia to contact Eddoria end Okianus.
Westward movement of Eddoria may create new Haskone salt lakes. Okianus-Graderian collision likely if current speeds maintained.
Mountains at Lambridia-Plassidian boundary likely to reach new heights.
Graderia most likely candidate to be first to break free of supercontinent but outside possibility of new landmass being uplifted in Sejessian Ocean.
Hmm, you're paying close attention to the shifting trends!
Speaking of continental drift, in order to better model the movement of continents around the poles, I've started using
GPlates to model continental movement. Here's what I'm working on right now!
