NESLife VI

[Lord_Iggy]

It is a great picture of human evolution.

 

[filli_noctus]

Iggy, I'm considering making an addition to my submission for this turn to improve its respiration. The justification would be that more oxygen (or hydrogen, I forget what gas you theorised would be used for respiration in this environment) would be required to take full advantage of the Tearer's more energy rich diet. Just wanted to check that it wouldn't be too much in conjunction with the diet change and tail morph. For reference here is the submission.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Animals inhale hydrogen, and exhale methane.

Your current description seems good, although the Zeph does not have a mouth (it has an external digestive system, rendering a mouth purposeless). As your current evolution is just modifying the Zeph's hunting habits and reshaping an existing body structure, the evolution of more complex respiratory systems could be an acceptable addition to the Tearer.

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

I think almost everyone is assuming the creatures are a lot bigger and more functional than they actual are.

Could you perhaps pull up a sprite of something from earth to give us a scale? I dunno, draw a cat!

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

About the eyes problem, i encourage prospecting evolution's to include infrared sight, such as that of the Spinseer and Thrasher before the great extinction. Infrared visibility would not be restricted by 'gloomy' seas and are more likely to find prey who are physically camouflaged.

 

[filli_noctus]

Animals inhale hydrogen, and exhale methane.

Your current description seems good, although the Zeph does not have a mouth (it has an external digestive system, rendering a mouth purposeless). As your current evolution is just modifying the Zeph's hunting habits and reshaping an existing body structure, the evolution of more complex respiratory systems could be an acceptable addition to the Tearer.

Thanks, update added, I hope the idea comes across OK.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I don't draw the organisms to scale, and I agree with you LI. Lots of people are assuming that their organisms have digestive tracts, when they only have them when the stats explicitly state that they do. The original feaster was literally an acoelomate with no internal body cavity that could squirm around and ooze digestive juices onto its prey. If you never evolved new traits, then you still have these ancestral traits.

It is true that many people are trying to evolve cool, flashy evolutions, when they'd be much better served by making boring, simple evolutions. However, if no one at all is making boring, simple evolutions, then there's nothing better to outcompete the flashy, inefficient evolutions, so they'll thrive anyway. That's the funny thing about evolution- it's not about being great, it's about being good enough.

Anyway, for general sizes:

Zebedida range from about 2 cm long, to 3 meters in length.

Maves range from about 0.5 cm long, to 3 cm long.

Orata range from 0.5 cm to 15 cm long, with the Padiped being roughly the size and shape of two fists held together, thumb-to-thumb.

Curata range from 0.1 cm to 5 cm long.

Filtrara can vary massively, as many of them lack specialized tissues, so they vary from microscopic (<0.01 cm) to vast, clumped colonies. The motile descendants of the Sinker don't get bigger than a potato (15 cm diameter) while some species of Galasvi can form a large conical structure up to a meter in height and two in diameter.

Indigestibilia, being colonial, are very hard to measure in size. A single leaf may be 1-2 cm in length, while the tallest Sky-Stealers can reach a meter in height, like a small bush. In the ocean, tangled masses of Freefloater can form huge, diffuse structures filling cubic kilometers of space.

Sporida vary widely, with some Growers being microscopic algae, and others being up to 20 cm in diameter. The longest Strippers can grow up to five meters long- while they are theoretically unconstrained, biomechanical and predatory limitation usually keeps them from reaching ludicrous sizes.

Tonuda vary a great deal. The Zeppu is a marble-sized (1 cm diameter) lump of photosynthetic material attached to a 4 cm diameter balloon. Ankus, Tenkus and Prikipus can be up to 1 meter in height, the former two being lighter than air, but anchored to the ground. The remaining terrestrial plants vary from 5 cm to 2 meters in height, with Ventus and their descendants tending towards the smaller end, and Toilotils and their descendants being consistently larger.

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

I bet you evilly laughed as people missed out giving the initial creatures digestive tracts.

It is almost a shame you killed off the start of creatures, we have nothing from the earlier forms to start a new branch from. One would have thought they would have survived somewhere on the planet.

I imagine the Zebpig to be about fist sized.

 

[Daedwartin]

Animals inhale hydrogen, and exhale methane.

Your current description seems good, although the Zeph does not have a mouth (it has an external digestive system, rendering a mouth purposeless). As your current evolution is just modifying the Zeph's hunting habits and reshaping an existing body structure, the evolution of more complex respiratory systems could be an acceptable addition to the Tearer.

Oxygen would probably be extremely fatal to this world...

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Oxygen gets rapidly converted into metal oxides (by reacting with metals in the crust, or in solution in the ammonia oceans) or frozen water (by reacting with atmospheric hydrogen) in Lambda's atmosphere.

 

[talonschild]

A pity; oxygen for fire would come in handy in a few billion years.

 

[Patchy]

How many more evolution posts until you start updating Iggy?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I'm writing an update right now. But I think we have 9 right now- we've been consistently at around that level of participation since mid-February.

 

[Nintz]

Wait, wait!

I'll get an organism in right now!

 

[Nintz]

Maves are neither flying fish, nor flies.

Heh. When I evolved Protlaepish and Ith, flying fish were exactly my thought.

Organism: Tashe
Ancestor: Skyborn
Selective Pressure: Lack of available food due to primary sources' extinction.
Mutation: Higher efficiency to ensure that what food is available is used well. Primitive mouth and digestive tract to successfully process food.

 

[Patchy]

Heh. When I evolved Protlaepish and Ith, flying fish were exactly my thought.

Organism: Tashe
Ancestor: Skyborn
Selective Pressure: Lack of available food due to primary sources' extinction.
Mutation: Thin, hard, razor-sharp "claw" on the organism that allows it to easily break shells off of the various primitive bug species. This will allow them to survive (if not thrive) in a changing world.

EDIT: Sorry for the rushed application. Wanted to try and get the Maves line to stay alive. Don't want to lose them.

You know that would probably be real helpful if they actually hunted bugs. Or if bugs existed in the first place...

 

[Nintz]

*sigh*

Curata/Orata.

What do you think of those as?

 

[Terrance888]

They don't have mouths.

They vomit their stomach acids on their prey, then slurp it back up by rolling around the dissolving fluids.

 

[Patchy]

Not to mention that they are on land and thus to far away to be reached as the maves have to stick near the water to survive.

All of the terrestrial species are currently either too far inland or too close to the ground for your species to realistically hunt them without getting beached and dying.

 

[Patchy]

Lots of people are assuming that their organisms have digestive tracts, when they only have them when the stats explicitly state that they do.

It is true that many people are trying to evolve cool, flashy evolutions, when they'd be much better served by making boring, simple evolutions.

Here is a hint on where you might want to take your evolution to keep them around longer.