They could develop a skin membrane whi h allows them to manuever in air.
Edit: I just realized that they could “swim” in the air, even if it would be less efficent than in water
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Ancestor: sandworms
Name: rockworm
Adaptations: due to predators (mainly cats) they developed a toroidal structure for vibrating thier teeth to dig into asteroids and use them as armor, glue adjacent secretions to keep asteroids from falling off until they need to be removed, secreting lead so as to not have to deal with it in thir nervous systems, 2X size
Habitat: inside several tiny asteroids ~3-5 meters
Ancestor: juniper
Name: worm juniper
Adaptations: Acidic roots so as to cause less damage to the rocks while still getting nutrients, better organized thylakoids for more glucose production, roots excrete glucose as well an anticoagulant so the rockworms don’t cut off bloodflow to their roots and the plants not get water.
Habitat: rockworm
description: juniper tree with high iron content and red sap due to intaking blood from the rockworms
Ancestor: rootmoss
Name: worm rootmoss
Adaptations: better chemical reactive system (CRS) to avoid chemical excess and drought, true vascular tissue, acidic roots for dissolving rock, longer roots to intake rockworm blood
Habitat: any rockworm
Damn the cats are really after eating well, if they are eating six foot long sand worms that line their burrows with iron secretions
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and they are ambush predators too
Ancenstor: Copepods
Name: Aereopods
Mutations: better water retention, long hair-like structure on their legs allowing them to better paddle in the air. Bigger amounts of eggs produced.
Habitat: Air
Description: Free aereo protein that eats aereodiatoms
Ancenstor: Membranous rabbit
Name: Filtering rabbit
Mutations: A long and flat tongue which they use to collect aereo plankton and for termoregulation. their forelimbs become long and the last finger is elongated allowing for an higher surface of the membrane used for flying. Their hindlimbs are elongated and folded in a position similiar to the one they would take before jumping to reduce drag, they end in big claws and have more mobile joints. Bigger size. Better sight to spot predators.
Size: 3 m
Habitat: Air
Description: Giant filter feeders which evolved to use their tongue to catch aereoplankton, they travel in groups of 5-6 and when a predator comes close to them they use their hindlimbs to defend themselves.
Diet: aereoplankton
Ancenstor: Junipers
Name: Nectar Junipers
Mutations: More nectar produced by their flowers, Stronger roots.
Habitat: Asteroids and Needlebridge Islands
Description: junipers that evolved to produce more nectar to attract pollinators.
Ancenstor: Vampire bats
Name: Nectar Bats
Mutations: long dexterious lips, longer nose similiar to a short trunk.
Size: 5 cm
Habitat: asteroids and needlebridge islands
Description: vampire bats that adapted to eating nectar, they use their long dexterious lips to suck it out of nectar junipers and use their nose to locate plants with nectar.
Diet: Nectar
Ancenstor: Blue-Tounged Skinks
Name: Sticky-Tongued Skink
Mutations: Larger body, the tongue secretes a sticky substance and is longer. Their hind legs are more muscled and end in webbed extremeties which they use to jump and paddle throught the air while they use their forelimbs for better maneuverability.
Size: 1,4 m
Habitat: Asteroids
Description: They use their long tongue to catch prey.
Diet: carnivorous
Ancenstor: Vinegaroons
Name: Neotenous Vinegaroon
Mutations: Neoteny. Their limbs end in graspers allowing them to stick to the surface of asteroids, they produce a sticky surface to reinforce their burrows. Their anttenae develops chemoreceptors at its tips and their tail becomes retractable
Habitat: needlebridge islands
Description: Vinegaroons that remains in their juvenile form in order to allow for bigger populations in the same area.
Diet: carnivorous
Ancenstor: Hoatzins
Name: Hoatmonkey
Mutations: Smaller. Their wing claws remain when they are adults, allowing them to better manuever in the tree branches.
Size: 45 cm
Habitat: needlebridge islands
Description: Hoatzins that evolved to be smaller for better maneuverability in the canopy. They live in groups of 200-240 individuals.
Diet: Herbivore
Ancenstor: Isopods
Name: Air Isopods
Mutations: extension of their exoskeleton at their sides allowing them to manuever in air, better chemoreceptors in order to sense food and their back legs become very sensitive to vibrations allowing them to hear predators throught them.
Habitat: asteroids, needlebridge islands and air.
Description: Isopods that evolved to better traverse the expanses of air, using their sensitive chemoreceptors to find food. They live in groups of 50-100 individuals.
Diet: omnivore
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Nice submissions Frale!
I will say, willow, I do like the idea of the unique ecosystems being formed on the Rockworms rocky armor
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just like pre-agriculture humans, cats will eat the biggest thing they can kill so they would most definitely eat a giant worm.
Ancestor: rockworm
Name: large rockworm
Adaptations: 60 meters long, 3 feet wide, soft shell it can shed so it doesn’t die from the asteroids cutting off bloodflow
Habitat: inside little meteors
diet: polar bears
Ancestor: European rabbit
Name: rockworm rabbit
Adaptations: stronger legs due to more nutritious diet, iron rich fur, bigger
diet: worm rootmoss, worm juniper leaves.
Habitat: any rockworm
Ancestor: worm juniper
Name: vampiric juniper
Adaptations: no more stomata due to worm blood, bigger and redder due to hemoglobin, 20x leaf count, acquires CO2 solely through worm circulatory system, gets rid of O2 solely through worm blood.
Habitat: rockworm, giant rockworm
description: a dark red tree with sturdy red wood, dark brown leaves and muscles around it’s vascular structures, its blood red sap can be used as an anticoagulant, its leaves are completely smooth on both sides and red on the underside, its main use by it’s host is an energy source as well as a respiratory organ.
Ancestor: large rockworm
Name: giant rockworm
Adaptations: 80 meters long, 11 meters wide,
Habitat: inside small meteors
diet: rockworm
Ancenstor: Red-tailed Hawks
Name: Packhunter Hawk
Mutations: bigger. Bigger talons and beaks, stomach pouches allowing them to store more food.
Habitat: Asteroids
Size: 90 m
Description: Hawks that hunt in groups of 10-15 members, they use their numbers to hunt filter rabbits. They lay their eggs in asteroids and protect them, and migrate to different asteroids when prey decreases in the area.
Diet: Carnivore
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ancestor: worm rootmoss
name: hemophilic rootmoss
adaptations: no more chemical contact with outside environment due to hemoglobin allowing better gas transfer
habitat(s): large furless creatures with blood
ancestor: giant rockworm
name: titan eel
adaptations: sail like protrusion from the top and bottom of it’s body that go through the rock exoskeleton to increase mobility and allow hemophilic plants to have more space to grow, specific organ for producing excess blood
diet: ponds
description: a giant rocky eel like worm that has a symbiotic relationship with several kinds of plants to give it more energy as well as less of a need for respiratory organs
ancestor: kystalians
name: electrokystalians
adaptations: produces excess electricity using excess mitochondria that are modified to break down their atp on the carbon nanotubes running through them to discourage titan eels from eating their homes as well as producing carbon nanotubes to allow safe transportation and use of the electricity which are embedded into their frustules in a way that allows them to communicate with bonded electrokystalians so that if in danger they can use their wires to create opposing magnetic fields thus scattering them and they can create cooperating magnetic fields to bind to other electrokystalians easier but sometimes causing a stray aerospear to get coated in electrokystalians thus stopping it from growing
diet: the SUN and drowned aerospears
description: a species of kystalian that has the precursors to the most efficient type of nervous system due to titan eels eating their homes along with them and as a result binding and unbinding with each other easier and sometimes dragging a partially submerged aerospear to it’s doom
ancestor: aerodiatom
name: aerospear
adaptations: due to the ability diatoms have to connect their frustules these aerodiatoms have started sending their gametes to the end of the stick to elongate the nanospear
diet:the SUN
description: a subspecies of diatom that has polarized iron crystals in it to for a magnetic field which it uses to attract their gametes to the ends of the stick these sticks if bundled together would make a good wood substitute if not for the fact that they crumble rather easily which is their main downfall but also their main method of producing more aerospears and due to the lack of a nervous system, muscles and, flexibility sometimes these single digit micron wide spears get submerged these spears also float using the air currents like their ancestors
new species template
ancestor:
name:
adaptations:
diet:
description:
habitat:
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Minimum description template is just ancestor, name, and description btw - the other stuff in your template is beneficial, but thought I’d mention it isn’t necessary so that others realize that.
Anyway, on to what you actually posted;
What is/what does Hemophilic Moss do? I vaguely understand it is on the Titan Eel’s, but not much else as there is no description for the most part.
Rocky eel: good
Electrokystalans: WAY too much at once. The maximum you could do for a single evolution would be give them electrical shocks and explain how they got them
Aerospears: Not quite sure I understand. They fly via magnetics and elongate themselves by using budding reproduction off of their fronts? If so, how did they get magnetic flight, and how do they retain the ‘spear’ shape while budding? (If I was wrong about this please explain again)
it is a symbiotic species of rootmoss that gets all of its carbon dioxide from the blood of any sufficiently big short furred or furless organism that being anything wider than a boa and 3+feet long and it has no holes for gas exchange with the external environment and instead uses the blood of the organism to aquire CO2
for the electrokystalians it’s actually just the carbon nanotubes that are new and it uses a lot of extra mitochondria with the nanotubes running through them to produce the electrical current so not much new stuff for that
for the aerospears they elongate using their magnetic gametes combined with their magnetic fields and float using the air currents
and for the template i made the most complex on i could think of so the players could just delete parts they don’t need
edit: @TwilightWings21 i fixed the descriptions of the organisms so they are easier to understand and make more sense from an evolutionary perspective
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Ahh okay, for the electro guys I was thinking developing electricity would be a big leap, but extra mitochondria makes sense.
I’ll update the sheet in a bit
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ancestor: Jumping cats
name: Leaping cats
adaptations: Slightly different hip structure to accommodate for larger back leg muscles used for more powerful jumping. Slightly larger size. More fur patterns.
diet: Meat
habitat(s): Asteroids
ancestor: Jumping cats
name: Gliding cats
adaptations: more skin that stretches between their front and back legs to allows for more control mid flight.
diet: Meat
habitat(s): Asteroids
can you post the list again because it is above the middle now
ancestor: aero copepod
name: worm endopod
adaptations: lungs are replaced with an organ for pulling the red blood cells into their bloodstream, eyes acquire fully transparent lids that are fused together to prevent eyes scabbing over
diet: internal parasites of the rockworm
description: a partially vampiric copepod species that ended up as part of the immune system of some rockworms via a 1 inch wound between their rocks
habitat: inside giant rockworms
ancestor: vampire bat
name: manta bat
adaptations: wings have been modified to be able to move like a manta ray to prevent just staying in place when trying to fly
diet: blood
description: a vampire bat that moves it’s wings like the sides of a manta ray to allow more efficient movement
habitat: the air, asteroid caves, and occasionally rockworms.
ancestor: electrokystalians
name: stone cells
adaptations: multicellular due to a mutation in the fission genes, frustules are directly connected with each new on after the initial cell using a face of the connected frustule to build their frustules, slight specialization with only certain cells able to produce gametes and primitive photoreceptors
description: a multicellular species of kystalian with a magnetic field that is very strong for their size and influence the direction of their daughter cells magnetic fields with their own and reach 15 cells before being able to reproduce
habitat: water, air occasionally
if this asteroid belt doesn’t have a magnetic field we gotta give it one to preserve the atmosphere
It would have already lost its atmosphere because there is no gravity to hold it togheter
it says it has one in the post at the top
That’s exactly my point .
there have not been any extinction events either also if the atmosphere got blown away or dispersed the water would evaporate causing a new atmosphere also there needs to be gravity for large asteroids to form large asteroids would also have gravity
ancestor: rootmoss
name: ballmoss
adaptations: increased rhizoid rigidity, grows in a remotely spherical shape, leaves can suck moisture out of anything exept when bloated because of too much water intake, rhizoids form a fully opaque layer under the leaves, rhizoids deposit water in the ball which the moss uses to survive temperatures so hot it loses more water than it gains
diet: air moisture, sunlight
description: a species of rootmoss that is an empty sphere that the space inside is used for string water for hot climates
habitat: anywhere that they won’t be pulled by large asteroids
Irrelevant, the atmosphere wouldnt exist to begin with if this were to follow real world rules.
No, the atmosphere would just fly away and the qater would turn to ice.
Irrelevant, the gravity wouldnt be strong enough to hold the gasses.
There is no need for a magnetic field.
the gas got there so there is enough gravity to hold it there but no magnetic field = lower and lower oxygen levels which means every animal would have to photosynthesize and every plant would need a closed circulatory system and a way to transport CO2 along with a 1:1 CO2:O2 ratio in it’s sap
No there isnt, it has been stated specifically that the place is 0 g (it also wouldnt be an asteroid belt). If oxygen levels were decrasing then an extinction event would have happened before the game started which eould have killed everything, as such no evolution.