NESLife VI

[Patchy]

Time to branch out the Os line a bit

Organism: Os-Spina
Description: An armored, motile, predatory organism with a cartilaginous longitudinal core and crushing, trilateral jaws.
Niche: Armored, crawling, burrowing Inedible-specialized herbivore.

Organism: Os-Puer
Ancestor: Os-Spina
Selective pressure: The radical changes in geography have caused natural selection to favor those that can adapt quicker to the changes.
Mutation: The Os-Puer have the ability to exchange their genetic information between individuals so that their offspring will be a combination of both parents. While they haven't evolved long enough to develop specific genders it should only be a matter of time.

 

[Nailix]

Organism: Scenter
Ancestor: Popper
Selective Pressure: Inability to truly defend itself from predators.
Mutation: The Scenter has evolved small tangled vines that sprout from all over the organism. These vines, not only providing a hiding place and shelter, let off a sent that attracts the Ma'wi, Dawie and Mawie feasters. While they attract these predators the sent that attracts them also causes their appetites for such organisms to decrease causing the Mawie family of feasters to coexists with the Scenter as it provides them with shelter and ambushing ability for other prey that might swim by.

 

[Terrance888]

OOC: I'm pretty sure that even bacteria and young eukaryotes can exchange genes and use "complex" reproduction. So I dunno how this will work overall with our current budding lifestyles.

 

[Patchy]

OOC: Basically what I want is sexual reproduction. I don't want to push how far i can evolve in one update though.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

You know what would be interesting? To branch off of this NES at a point where intelligent life develops and have different NESs based off of this.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I am debating whether I would do that, or whether I would just treat it as a mass extinction event.

 

[tuxedohamm]

Spoiler :

Organism: Pedagogue
Description: An armoured omnivore with 10 articulated legs for swift locomotion and two primitive stalked eyes.
Niche: Visual armoured, crawling omnivorous generalist.

Organism: Arigogue
Ancestor: Pedagogue
Selective Pressure: Competition for resources near tidal shallows.
Mutation: Body armor becomes more adapted to avoid desiccation. Improved vision allows the Arigogue to find Shooteroids and Tiders located in the occasional liquidless Arisian tidal zones and shorelines.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Spoiler :

Organism: Pedagogue
Description: An armoured omnivore with 10 articulated legs for swift locomotion and two primitive stalked eyes.
Niche: Visual armoured, crawling omnivorous generalist.

Organism: Arigogue
Ancestor: Pedagogue
Selective Pressure: Competition for resources near tidal shallows.
Mutation: Body armor becomes more adapted to avoid desiccation. Improved vision allows the Arigogue to find Shooteroids and Tiders located in the occasional liquidless Arisian tidal zones and shorelines.

Just one question, how exactly would the Arigogue's get to the shooteroids if they are buried? I mean, you could eat the roots on top that are above the ground, but they would grow back quickly.

EDIT:

...mass extinction event.

Someone is feeling cheery...

 

[Patchy]

Edited out the pheromone part. Realized that the Os line does not have noses yet, or eyes, or ears, or limbs... Yeah they got a long way to go.

 

[tuxedohamm]

Just one question, how exactly would the Arigogue's get to the shooteroids if they are buried? I mean, you could eat the roots on top that are above the ground, but they would grow back quickly.

Wouldn't expect the Arigogue to reach the root system itself, but even you mentioned that some of the shoots would have to spread above the ground to absorb sunlight.

 

[Nintz]

@Iggy-

Would it be possible to have intelligent life evolve from the Filter or Sunfeeder branches, if it were logical in some way, shape, or form?

 

[momo1000]

Spoiler :

Organism: Polypu
Description: A gaseous sac with a photosynthetic skin and specialized reproductive cells.
Niche: Hovering primary producer.

Organism: Rangipu
Ancestor: Polypu
Selective Pressure: Cluttering of ocean surface, predators eating their undersides.
Mutation: The Rangipu have developed larger gaseous sacs to float even higher over the sea. To fight desiccation, they have increased ammonia-retention in their cells, and their longer tentacles reach down into the ocean to absorb ammonia. This adaptation also allows the Rangipu to spend some time over land as they can retain the ammonia inside of them.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

@Iggy-

Would it be possible to have intelligent life evolve from the Filter or Sunfeeder branches, if it were logical in some way, shape, or form?

I think intelligent plant-life is not impossible, but I don't know how it would evolve or even operate in an intelligent way.

 

[Nintz]

I think intelligent plant-life is not impossible, but I don't know how it would evolve or even operate in an intelligent way.

This is a curiosity question, more than anything else.

 

[Grandkhan]

Organism: Shellipu
Ancestor: Polipu
Evolutionary Pressure: Risk of desiccation when the tides are low.
Mutation: The Shellipu has grown transparent, 'water'-proof protein coverings around its photosynthetic tentacles and balloon, which traps fluid in and prevents it from evaporating and desiccating the Shellipu. The protein-coverings are transparent, allowing light to get through to the photosynthetic cells below the covering. The gas-sac has also grown larger to support the extra weight.

 

[Daedwartin]

@Iggy-

Would it be possible to have intelligent life evolve from the Filter or Sunfeeder branches, if it were logical in some way, shape, or form?

i think so. we are evolving life on a methane breathing, ammonia swimming, moon orbiting a gas giant that is farther out then the earth.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

@Iggy-

Would it be possible to have intelligent life evolve from the Filter or Sunfeeder branches, if it were logical in some way, shape, or form?

It's theoretically possible, but the onus is on you to make it happen in a step-by-step manner. The trick is that photosynthesizers and other passive lifeforms generally operate on very low energy budgets, while intelligence as we know it requires fairly complex and energy intensive brains. There are, however, alternative modes of intelligence that could possibly exist.

 

[Daedwartin]

It's theoretically possible, but the onus is on you to make it happen in a step-by-step manner. The trick is that photosynthesizers and other passive lifeforms generally operate on very low energy budgets, while intelligence as we know it requires fairly complex and energy intensive brains. There are, however, alternative modes of intelligence that could possibly exist.

ahem, to qoute Gregg's fans*:legion up
or geth up.
as a whole, the species is intelligent, but individuals are as dumb as rocks.

Spoiler :

*if the Ree suddenly screw your life up, i am not to blam. Hee~ey

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

While we are on the topic of theoreticals, how exactly would one go about establishing a hive-mind capability?

Always loved legion from ME2

 

[JohannaK]

HIVEMIND INTELLIGENCE!