Didn’t doom ask us to halt submissions?
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Pretty sure, hence I haven’t done things to equal out the herbivore biota
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That’s fine, I updated everything properly. I hope there will be no more problems and you can keep adding more.
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Piceaome
Norway spruce - Sugar pine - Ginkgo biloba
A species of pine with the fruit of ginkgo encouranging animals to eat these fruit to spread the seeds which prove to yield more energy if fermented altough it is slightly bitter in taste, this could come from the fact the needles when decomposing causes the ph level to decrease the optimal chances of rival species living there and actually encourage the growth of the young of Piceaome, which often makes forest of these species dominated by adult Piceaome and any small plants that can endure the low ph in the soil. Interesting note is that the Piceaome reaches 77 meters in height and sometimes pushes above this in rare cases. The seeds are rather thick and can endure a long while inside the stomachs of most animals which allows them to being seeding upon being defecated out from the animal, this can also lead to them spreading far and wide. They do also possess pine cones but these are often found in younger speciemen who cannot afford growing the fruit of the adults of the species.
Size: 68-77 meters
Cornucantatrixsaurus
muttaburrasaurus - Einiosaurus - Jaxartosaurus
living on open fields the Cornucantatrixsaurus walks in herds reaching respectable sizes and males even becoming larger to compete with each other they play elborate songs to show their authority and when two males display against each other with no one backing off their being to push and shove each other and occasionally using their feet and horn to push the other with force and during breeding season the dominante male will sire all children in the center of the herd there will exist the rare outliner in the outside nests and outsiders from other herds often try their luck which often replaces the old male as all is expected to have a herd for one year before being shoved off their thrones. They can stand on two legs or all four, often running on two and tackling and fighting on four it also depends on the induvial some simply walking on all fours some only on two. They lay 15-27 eggs in their nests and are taken care off by the mother until they reach one years old which they’ll join the herd or set out to find their own, however despite their horn looking like it can defend itself it is rather just for mating and nothingelse but on larger males this display can be used as an impaler due to the angel off the horn however this is rare and often these males are not selected due to a problem in their songs.
Size: based of muttaburrasaurus size.
(Do not feel forced doom these are just me having fun making creatures feel free to ignore them lol)
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Maybe thread for posting various fictional creatures (not necessarily related to this project) would be cool then, I don’t know.
Edit: I accidentaly put space before comma 
(Now removed)
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I can’t believe I just realised they’re in Nordic languages
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Yup, was using google translate and the normal Latin and Greek I would use for names were boring, at least for the first few creatures. Irish didn’t quite fit, so I ended up going with Norwegian and then just rolled with it for all the others
Edit:
Tbh, at this point I’d just submit this in a new post when you finish it. That way it’s more likely to be seen that it’s updated
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leaf dragon
common name: leaf dragon
#1: leaf sheep
a: leaves
b: plant mouth
c: plastid stealing cells
#2: yellow spotted salamander
a: legs and head
b: cells capable of allowing chloroplasts to reproduce
c: blood
d: high melanin concentration
e: meat mouth
f: lungs
g: eyes
h: leg structure
#3: olm
a: retention of gills into adulthood
b: regenerative capabilities
c: central body
d: hearing
e: sense of smell
f: electroreception
g: lateral line system
#4: true crab
a: ten legs
b: exoskeleton
c: hemocyanin
d: antennae
description:
the leaf dragon is a very long, mostly aquatic salamander that covers itself in leaves with thin chitin walls as an eft for both protection and energy, as most things looking to eat the leaves will be disinterested in eating an eel with legs, and most things that eat meat will be disinterested in the leaves. as an adult it covers itself in an extremely segmented version of a crab’s exoskeleton that allows it to wiggle to propel itself underwater while still remaining protected from predators.
the exoskeleton is only present in adults and once it grows in a leaf dragon will stop growing until it gets removed. due to the presence of leaves the exoskeleton grows in with several hundred to a few thousand small holes in it to not cut off circulation to the leaves, which get their ‘stem’ extended so the leaf is starting just above the surface of the exoskeleton. despite their name, the leaves aren’t the only area these decapedal eel salamanders use to photosynthesize, as photosynthesis is also carried out in the dermis and cuticle.
leaf dragons do not start their lives having chloroplasts, instead they are born as black or dark gray, chloroplast-free, efts and must eat plants with the mouth from their leaf sheep component to get any form of plastid, though this does mean they could get any type of plastid consumed with the slug mouth and adapt to a mixotrophic niche centered around the kind of autotrophy said plastid uses, and meat but it would take several generations and the existence of the plastid for this to work.
leaf dragon efts typically gain chloroplasts that can reproduce within their cells after around a week of living. after they gain said chloroplasts they replicate them in white blood cells modified to have no purpose but replicating their chloroplasts so they can be eaten by the leaf, skin, and stem cells where the chloroplasts will stay until the salamander dies, as the skin cells typically regenerate before the cuticle does, due to the cuticle growing from the skin
adult leaf dragons typically live in freshwater with lots of light and lots of prey. with their advanced senses of smell and hearing, eyes, lateral line system, electroreception, and camouflage, they have the stuff to be an apex predator, however, as they are still the size of an above average olm, they have many things that eat them.
leaf dragons typically have 10 legs, 1 set of lungs, and 3 pair of gills, one pair of eyes, purple blood, two antennae, green, black, greenish gray, or dark green skin and gills; however they can occasionally have more than ten legs, though generally due to getting one of the latter segments cut or torn off and causing an error in the regeneration process. leaf dragons with more than ten legs typically don’t produce offspring with more than 10 legs, but their offspring are significantly more likely to grow more legs than they lost when part of their lower torso with legs is cut off .
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Lettånd
Lettånd
Chimeric Parts: Dollocaris + Glow Worm + Hummingbird Hawks Moth + Water Strider
Description: Throughout the tropical rainforests of Chimarion, glimmering creatures fly through the canopy, seeming to flit in and out of existence like tiny little spirits of light. These are lettånd, an entirely arthropodian chimera that acts as an almost invisible pollinator for a wide variety of plants. Its fairly large wings (in comparison to its body size) are perfectly clear, and in flight it flaps them so fast it creates the optical illusion of invisibility.
When they are not pollinating a plant, they may do a fly by of a plants leaves, ripping off small pieces as a snack on the go. The only time they ever really stop moving is when they sleep during the day, hiding themselves away high in nooks and crannies in the canopy, or when they land upon the surface of the water every night to feed a socialize.
Here, they truly seem like mystical fairies, especially in groups, as they land upon the waters, appearing out of thin air and spreading glowing threads all around. They create nets between their forearms to sift for plankton, little lines that fish for the zooplankton and other small critters, the only meat of any kind in this organisms diet. During this period, its small, armored carapace glows and flashes intermittently like the twinkling of a distant star, different series and parts of the body flashing to communicate a multitude of things to its neighbors, such as locations of various flowering plants and perilous areas of the river.
Their communication is not a sign of intelligence, however, and they are incredibly simple minded creatures. However, due to their near complete lack of threats outside of when they sit on the rivers surface, and the sheer abundance of resources such as food available to them at their small size, it only benefits their species for such communication to develop, and so it was requested by the original creator and has yet to be lost.
Diet: Plankton, Various Flora (mostly leaves), Nectar
Size: 10 mm wingspan, 5 mm body
Environment: Tropical Jungles and the surface of their waterways
Other: Sticky Threads (and their use as netting), Abiity to glow at will, clear wings that beat so fast it creates illusion of invisibility, giant eyes, tough carapace, grasping arms, Water Strider legs
Boblebad
Boblebad
Chimeric Parts: Antlion + Grouper + Giant Amphibious Centipede + Immortal Jellyfish
Description: Spending most of its life beneath the calm current of freshwater environments, this aquatic predator digs conical depressions in the riverbed and tunnels into the bottom, with its head facing outwards. To feed, it rapidly begins cycling water into its mouth and out its gills, creating a powerful localized whirlpool effect. When prey gets close enough, this creature will lazily snap its jaws shut, pumping potent venom into its prey or even swallowing smaller prey items whole.
Though they spend a lot of time feeding this way, when prey learns to avoid the area of their pits they are more than capable of extracting themselves from the soil and rapidly swimming around even venturing up onto and across the land in search of a new location for it to construct another pit. During this time, they act as a small to medium sized aquatic pursuit predator, but prefer to perform ambushes on land where they are less agile.
During late spring and early summer, individuals will mature into their final stages of life, each body segment of this creature metamorphosing into a complete, adult specimen, with the two formerly finned legs becoming wings and its main body losing armor and elongating in a strange form of asexual reproduction. After they complete their transformation, these adults fly around and mate with other adults, making sure not to mate with those who came from the same specimen as them through pheromones. During this time, they do not eat at all, and in fact lack a mouth.
Upon mating, the eggs are each placed individually in many different locations just under the surface of the soil near freshwater shores. These locations are also covered with a small amount of leaf litter. Upon hatching, the 3 inch larvae rapidly seek out a shallow submerged area to construct their first pit, using it to feed as they grow to their full larval size.
The parents, however, are not done here. No, upon completion of mating and placing the eggs, each adult will find a secure place, such as a nook in the rocks or roots just above the water line. They will then activate the dna stored deep inside their cells, reverting their bodies back into a genetically identical clone of their previous larval stage, but younger, as if they themselves had just newly hatched. Which they may has well have, and in fact exhibit the exact same behaviors.
Due to this incredible ability of age reversal, the population of these creatures is constantly spiking, and only those slain by other organisms will ever truly die.
Diet: All Fauna that it can fit into its mouth
Size: 3-6 feet in length as fully grown juveniles, 6 inches long with a 1 foot wingspan as an adult
Environment: Any Freshwater Environment
Other: Creates localized Whirlpools, potent venom, great swimmer and burrower, large jaws, can breathe above and below water, splits into multiple adults when mature, adults revert to more juveniles after breeding and laying eggs, pheromones
Rovdyret
Rovdyret
Chimeric Parts: Sundew + Venus Flytrap + Cobra Lilies + Pitcher Plants
Description: This beautiful, predatory bouquet can commonly be found in dimmer regions of the tropics where producers that rely upon direct sunlight tend to be lacking. Around its base is a wide array of various broad leaf types for collecting sunlight, and then the next layer up contains dozens of thin, tentacle like sundew leaves covered in their sweet nectar. These are followed by a layer of angled Venus flytrap traps, which themselves are ringed around a group of several large, slightly tilted pitcher plants. The final layer is composed of several tall, relatively thin cobra lily heads, bending and twisting in the wind like an actual serpent.
All in all, this photosynthesizer is the bane of all bugs in the tropics, luring them in with a wide variety of enticing scents and flavors before killing them with an even greater arsenal of deadly traps. And simply chewing away at the plant won’t work - its giant, extensive root system and large rhizome allow it to completely regrow its entire body at an incredibly rapid pace, even after being completely incinerated by intense flames.
An interesting weakness of this plant, however, is that very same heat. While the surface portion of this plant does incredibly well in the heat, and in fact cannot withstand the near year round freezing temperatures of the planets poles, dying if it attempts to grow there, the roots are quite the opposite, thriving in and seeking out cooler areas underneath the soil such as submerged rivers, but being completely unable to live anywhere with a soil that is too warm or where it receives too much sunlight, such as the grasslands or the desert.
The rovdyret has many ways of reproducing, including fragmentation of special, smaller, scale like leaves called gemmae from that form just atop their main leaves, black seeds that form from thin, brightly colored flowers that appear on stalks between and above the cobra lilies in the center of the plant in the summer and spring, and asexual spread of the plant through the roots or from plantlets forming where older, larger leaves touch the ground, though the ones that appear from this last method usually don’t grow quite as large as their parents due to more limited resources. The seeds and gemmae can be spread by a strong wind, by larger animals brushing up against the plant, or by insects attracted by the nectar who then managed to get away with an unexpected package.
They are not usually consumed by many of the common species of herbivores in times of plenty due to causing minor stomach troubles, but are large enough to occasionally be nipped at by medium to small herbivores, and devoured by all in times of scarcity.
Diet: Photosynthesis, Organisms of all kinds that are small and unfortunate enough to fall prey to it.
Size: 3-10 feet (height and diameter usually roughly equal
Environment: Woodland areas, Particularly common as jungle undergrowth but any moist, non-polar terrestrial environments with low sunlight will do, such as temperate forest floors
Other: Sundew Arms, Flytrap Mouths, Cobra Lily Heads, Pitcher plant bodies, ability to completely regrow from just roots, water storage, sweet lure, gemmae, seasonal flowers, seeds, asexual reproduction, heat and cold affect different parts differently
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I was like huh weird å, ä and ö is in there then I read and was like oh that’s just one of the Nordic languages (quite taken a back as I never expected that)
@doomlightning (to help you finding that pine u mentioned)
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yes
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I think he was referring to the fact that the project needs cold weather trees anyway so you might as well use the plant
Edit: NVM I just blind you already did
Speaking of plants, the Rovdyret is a plant, but it’s currently listed under chimeric animals on the website. Just figured I’d mention it
I’ll have three more chimeras submitted by some point later today
Edit 2: I also think the Sprouting Crab counts as a plant, but that’s a lot more iffy
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the sprouting crab lives most of its life as a plant with blood, so i’d say it’s a plant with animal life stages, since in the moth stage it just mates with a tree and then dies, and in the crab stage it only ever eats to stave off the sprouting long enough for it to get far enough from its parent tree that once it sprouts it won’t compete with it.
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Just because of their existence I added a definition of what is a chimeric plant and what is a chimeric animal.
I thought of them as animals because it has less in common with animals than plants. Blood isn’t exactly the best solvent for starch and I guess cellulose wall isn’t a real part of this creature.
Therefore he answers as an animal
cellulose is what the sprouting crab uses as its cell walls. it’s just supplemented with a little bone iirc. when i said the whole tree except the fruit and some parts of the flowers, i meant the whole tree except those parts, including the cell level stuff.
eukaryotic radiotrophic algae time
sea onyx
common name: sea onyx
scientific name: gemma marinebris (gem of the dark sea)
#1: diatom
a: frustule
b: nitrogen fixing plastid
c: gametes
d: pyrenoid
e: chromatophore
f: some of the striae are bigger
#2: acanthamoeba
a: pseudopods
b: cyst stage
c: bacteriophagy
d: phagocytosis
#3: Spongia officinalis
a: melanin
#4: Chlamydomonas algae
a: flagellae
b: eyespot
c: contractile vacuoles(for if the water gets too fresh)
description: the sea onyx is a greenish black, motile, unicellular algae that utilizes both pseudopods and flagella for movement, and uses chlorophyll alongside melanin in its chromatophore to better shield itself from radiation and to allow it to use ionizing radiation for energy.
a sea onyx in an environment with little or no light will eat bacteria enough to fully fuel its metabolism, whereas one in an environment with light will eat any bacteria that stumble into its pseudopods while mostly relying on photosynthesis for energy, and when there are no bacteria around and no light to eat, or in other unfavorable conditions, a sea onyx will enter its cyst stage, fully retreating into its frustule and lowering its metabolic activity as much as possible, and thickening its cell membrane
sea onyx frustules have five to 30 large holes in them for their pseudopods, and occasionally gametes as well, to come out of so they can move around and keep their frustules longer. the small holes are much more plentiful as they are used for gas transfer and obtaining minerals.
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I updated and added everything.
including the location of the crab-tree.
I put the sea onyx in Chimera Protista, because it is more suitable there.
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basically just an upgraded but also downgraded version of my chimera world war species
mixotrophic salamant
name: mixotrophic salamant
#1: yellow spotted salamander
a: chloroplasts
b: body
c: blood
d: regenerative abilities
e: bone tissue
#2: red fire ant
a: venom
b: castes
c: eusociality
d: exoskeleton
e: wings in young queens
f: reproductive material storage organ, to allow the salamants to not become naked mole rats
#3: spongia officinalis
a: motile cells [1]
b: reproduction by budding
c: filter feeding cells
d: cell re-specialization
e: cancer resistance
#4: potato
a: plant caste
b: production of all necessary nutrients in plant caste
c: nutrient storage and reproduction organ
d: nightshade poison
e: ability to use cellulose and make starch
f: c, but repurposed for being eaten by the salamants
description:
the mixotrophic salamant is a species of salamander that uses an exoskeleton made from chitin, cellulose, and bone to defend itself, and is eusocial, having four castes. in order of largest to smallest: plant, queen, soldier, and worker. the plant caste ranges from 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide to 2 feet tall and taking up an entire field. the queen caste is 4 times larger than the warrior caste, which is 2 times larger than the worker caste. a young queen will typically have a pair of wings, low body mass, and large, dark green wings, to maximize flight time and allow her to fly to other salamant colonies to collect gametes before starting her own colony.
upon starting a new colony a queen salamant will lay 5 to 18 cellulose, calcium carbonate, and chitin walled spherical cells, which, after 1-2 days will sprout and start photosynthesizing, and after 2-3 weeks be a fully grown meat potato plant, which produces two separate types of potato in two separate areas, and has up to 3 hearts per plant, excluding the potatoes. the two kinds of potato it makes are: A: a meat potato rich with everything a salamant needs, and B: a regular potato, but with blood and a very thick cuticle made of cellulose, chitin, and bone. typically the plant potatoes have a single nerve cluster each, which they use to keep track of the seasons with their photoreceptors and start being really toxic when the parts that aren’t made to be eaten get nommed on, as well as to direct the ‘hyphae’ that are mostly used to allow shelled potatoes to know when the season has become spring so they can sprout. every member of the plant caste produces at least 5 potatoes, and they all stay connected by the roots until separated, meaning a big enough field of them could be far smarter than a human, but think far slower due to a fully decentralized nervous system
all castes of salamants have venom consisting of nightshade poison and fire ant venom. in most castes it’s injected with the mandibles or a stinger, but in the plant caste it’s injected with small, hollow spikes of chitin resembling sharpened ant legs.
salamants have minor shapeshifting abilities and cell re-specialization, which means while they can’t move hard tissue cells with their own cytoskeleton, they can make them not hard tissue cells and then move them, and they can move all their soft tissue cells around their body, which heavily supplements their regeneration ability, allowing a small enough piece of salamant with no circulation(it has to be thinner that 1mm) to grow into a whole salamant if not eaten, but not allowing a salamant with no heart to grow its heart back due to a need for blood circulation and no blood circulating. any other organ but the parts of the brain that make the heart beat can be regenerated as long as they’re kept wet while doing so, as salamants have a strong immune system due to having cells that eat any intruders lining their blood vessels.
salamants can replace their food intake with using as much of their surface area as possible to eat things smaller than their cells, but they typically can’t last long doing this, as they still get slightly less energy than they use in most waters, algae blooms excluded, meaning that eventually they will have to find prey or meat potatoes to eat if they want to continue surviving.
if left un eaten long enough the plant caste’s meat potatoes will expand to 5 times their original size with a hollowed out area in the center full of egg yolk and grow a cuticle made of the same stuff as the underground ones, before sending a single nucleus into the yolk so it may grow into a member of the queen caste. this is only done to make sure that a colony doesn’t die out even if all the salamants are dead but the salaplants are alive.
powers up regen ability to not only be able to regenerate all the extremities, but also all of the brain except the stem and medulla oblongata as those parts are required for cardiac function and lack of them will cause death. ↩︎
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If you haven’t seen the drawing I made for the project, I think it would be right to share it here as well
2 days left to the close of the sumit
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parathesian warship
name:
#1: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
a: hydrogenic photosynthesis in absence of sulfur
b: chloroplasts
c: eyespots
#2: hammerhead worm
a: regeneration abilities
b: tetrodotoxin, but not on the outside.
c: mouth and intestines
d: hearts
#3: Elysia chlorotica
a: leaf zooid
b: algae eating zooid on the ends of tentacles
c: locomotion appendage
d: chlorocruorin
e: hemolymph
#1: Portuguese man o’ war
a: zooids
b: pneumatophore
c: gastrozooid
d: tentacular palpon
e: gonodendron
f: body plan
description: the parathesian warship is a fully aquatic, mixotrophic animal that uses many single chambered hearts to move around chlorocruorin bearing blood within and between zooids. it uses hydrogenic photosynthesis to fill its pneumatophore with hydrogen gas, while using oxygenic photosynthesis in its leaf zooids to allow survival in anoxic waters and give more energy. as a way to keep in hydrogen gas without making explosions pop the pneumatophore, the parathesian warship takes every molecule of oxygen that hits the inner membrane of the pneumatophore out while actively putting hydrogen and helium gas in the pneumatophore.
parathesian warships are omnivorous, eating algae with slug-like zooids on the ends of some of their tentacles, and meat, plants, and detritus with their gastrozooids. they also have leaf zooids with tiny pneumatophores on the ends going all the way down the tentacles connecting their algae eating zooids to their main bodies to increase area used for photosynthesis.
parathesian warships commonly have sea onyxes as symbionts, providing shelter, nutrients, CO2, and N2, and getting protection from UV, glucose, bioavailable nitrogen, and oxygen in return. due to needing to supply their symbiotic sea onyxes with CO2, parathesian warships with them will be far bigger and have far thicker tentacles, while also being dark green to black in color everywhere but the pneumatophores, which are always a vibrant grassy green.
typically a parathesian warship will have at least one circulatory zooid, which has a slightly denser nervous system than most of the zooids, and uses multiple large single-chambered hearts to move blood across itself, using tubes full of hemolymph to move around nutrients, oxygen, and CO2, allowing parathesian warships to get far bigger than a Portuguese man o’ war. they also always have one sensory zooid which allows them to see in black and white using seven rudimentary eyespots made of eyespot containing cells, allowing them to see land and avoid it by moving their algae eating zooids away from it while pointing their sails away from the shore.
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Killer-Ott-Ox
Musk Ox
- Incredibly Long Fur (40 Inches)
- Large and durable horns
- Live In Packs
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
- Extreme Hair density
- Social
- High Intellect
- Webbed Feet
KIller Whale (Orca)
- High Intellect
- Strong Jaw
- Strong Muscles
- Strategy
The Killer-Ott-Ox is a highly intelligent and powerful amphibious predator for their size. Their Immense amount of fur both protects them from the cold waters of the planet, as well as the mountainous regions and arctic regions of the planet. They are often seen protecting their young in the middle of a circle of adults, and use hunting strategies to hunt down, ram, and bite prey. Truly a formidable predator for their size.
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