New species: Ophipoda scorpio
Old species: Ophipoda pulmocaudi
Changes: O. scorpio’s most visible alteration is its tail, which has folded back into its cloaca, to protect it. The antennae of the tail have fused together and stuck to the outer body, forming a flexible hollow ovipositor/excretory organ/weapon, with 4 claws at the tip. This is also the channel through which air leaves the lung. It wheezed in some individuals, and so their second antennae became simple pinpointing ears. Another change is that the first pair of legs have been adapted for grabbing at food, having pincer-like feet unsuitable for walking. The third pair of legs are lost, but the lubricated shoulder cup is not, and has adapted to have more nutritious lubricant for their offspring to eat. All feet, including the grasping limbs, have claws of bone at the end of each toe. They are stronger, broader, have stronger jaws, but have shortened to around 7cm long due to the energy demands of these adaptations.
Behaviour: Parental care has increased, with young now living on their parent’s back until they are too large to do so. This leads to the cannabalistic tendencies turning to weaker adults, generally during pregnancy and their child’s growth.
New species: Iomubae dexus conpter
Old species: Iomubae teris dexus
Changes: I. dexus conpter has gained broader leaves, which end in a collection of small, light, mini-leaves. These mini-leaves can break away and blow on the breeze onto other individuals, and can conjugate into a new individual. The mini-leaf then blows away, carrying the zygote to a new place, and providing nutrients and photosynthesis while it grows
New Species: Respa Charus
Old Species: Respa
Changes: Charus has evolved a simple, mineralized skeleton that structures it’s limbs to allow for faster movement and stability, with the effect of less flexibility. Charus has evolved small teeth on their tentacles to rip up their prey. Charus has grown to be about 5-6 cm on average. They have become more carnivorous.
Behavior: Charus use their superior speed to hunt anything except other Respans, which they can not discern from themselves. When their young are born, they move into the water until they are fully grown. Then, they move onto land for the rest of their life.
New Species: Respa Medus
Old Species: Respa
Changes: Medus has become longer, and their legs have become wide for drifting on top of pools to find food. They are extremely flexible. They have grown to 4 cm. They have become more herbivorous.
Behavior: When their young are born, they move into the water until they are fully grown. Then, they move onto land for the rest of their life, except when they are getting water plant food.
New Species: Sovies Uniom
Old Species: Commus Sovis
Changes: Uniom has mixed with the sehakisus, and now the workers have jaws and the claws, while the queens have evolved the eyespots. Uniom’s hypnotizing fumes can also be used as pheromones
Behavior: nothing new
New species: Necrohomo ergomorph
Old species: Grevacodia crebratectus
Changes: N. ergomorph has become far more intelligent due to competition. Its grevacods have also become larger, and are able to grip things and crawl along the continental shelf, which they have migrated to. It has also gained a venomous fang, derived from the dissolver organs and skeletal element, which is the front of a new, sub-cerebral mouth-fistula. Its original mouth is fused shut, with the buccal chamber becoming a storage pouch. They also have a single cup-eye on the top of their head. It has also compactified its body into an ovoid shape, and grown to around 2cm long.
Behaviour: N. ergomorph is able to use bones and other found objects as simple tools, and can also communicate through touch. However, their range and tool use is limited by their aversion to change and new things.
Burgeon, there isn’t much competition on the seafloor. The seafloor-dwelling species are spread pretty thinly AFAIK, so there isn’t much of a reason for it to gain that much more intelligence. The Grevacods are definitely spread out, w/ each of them having a set territory and a few gibbus that live there. The species that aren’t grevacods only come down to eat a little bit, and the Grevacods with their Gibbus usually don’t have a hard time chasing them off. So, some level of intelligence is allowed, but not to the point that it can use tools. Perhaps it has adapted a new strategy because of this intelligence?
G. crebratectus is social, and therefore will live closer together than if they were asocial. This will also allow more ways to screw eachother over, requiring more intelligence, unlocking even further methods of screwing eachother over, and leading to runaway intelligence. Also, I’ve edited it so they have moved up to the shallows, so there is more competition.
While Grevacodia Crebratectus does touch, they don’t actively search for ways to screw another Grevacodia over, mainly because they haven’t evolved such a high amount of intelligence. Besides, Grevacods have ample food on the bottom of the ocean. This is mainly because many of the Surav worms are still R-selected, so there’s no real reason for competition. Occasionally, territorial squabbles occur, but this is mostly because of a Grevacod blindly moving around. So there’s no real reason to develop such a high amount of intelligence. There may be some brain development because of the more frequent Arruptior attacks, but nothing too high.
N. ergomorph has moved to shallow water, which has less life above it and so less dead things in it. They have also become predatory because of this, and so will have more competition, and more reason to rip eachother off.
There are many more Iomubae here, though. They could develop herbivorous inclinations, although more intelligence would be pretty good. However, I also want to keep the game at a steady pace instead of racing through evolution, because as a species gains sapience, we start a new stage in the game. I don’t want to rush through, basically, because we haven’t even voted if we go to land or stay in the water.
Can’t we just say that 2cm long sea creatures won’t affect the world, no matter how smart they are? Earth already has octopodes, whicha are quite smart, but cannot do anything on a global scale.
You never know. If they spread far enough and breed a lot, they could definitely change something, especially at the scale we are looking at. Perhaps decrease evolution just enough so that while they cannot use tools, they can make stratagems that are too complex for their Grevacodian ancestors to understand?
But they couldn’t. They are intelligent and social, and almost certainly devote much care and attention to their young, reducing their rate of reproduction to the point that it would be nearly impossible to expand away. Also, some human-like species on earth stayed in one place and never migrated, so it is reasonable to say that a living meatball 1/90th of the size likely won’t either.
Ok, I suppose it’s allowed. You make a good case, Burgeon. Also, because you added the aversion to new things, I wholeheartedly approve N. Ergomorph. I’ll probably post later today.
New species: lovag giganticus
Old species: lovag
Changes: giganticus had evolved into a bigger size (40cm)
(No visual changes)
New species: páncélozott tengerpart
Old species: páncélozott levegő
Changes: tengerpart has evolved has evolved back muscle appendages and his front fins have become stronger to sustain his weight
It also started emerging in thuneeran hortebeaches
(Sorry for the change of fin colour)
New species: tüskésfej ánuszfarok
Old species: tüskésfej ánuszfarok
Changes : anus boy ( i like to call him) has evolved h much sturdier skeleton and more musclie body
Lovag is more than doubling in size. I would seriously recommend you to bring the size down, but if you don’t then I will accept it, although Lovag Giganticus may not be able to survive as well.
New Species: Flatus Wasuf
Old Species: Respa
Changes: Wasuf has evolved extremely muscled back legs, with which it uses to hop around. It has changed to a dark brown-black coloration for attracting mates. (It is hunted by Charus)
Behavior: Wasuf hops around on land eating teris and other land plants. Wasuf’s offspring are born in the water, but leave as soon as they are born.
