Lamarckian Evo Game

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Here are the current inhabitants of the world:
On the sea-floor:

  • Undergreen
  • Exam
  • Spearworm
  • Sting Stalk
  • Lobe worm
  • Under-Smeller
  • Sloshers
  • Verdant Crawlers

In the shallows:

  • Chevron-face
  • Legga-Liggo
  • Slimpel
  • Body-Shell

In the open sea

  • Freaus
  • Squik
  • Swisher
  • Berry
  • Hydropod
  • Drifting nettle

On the softer shores

  • Hix

The stalked plants have diversified into multiple species, many of which are far larger and taller, and some of which have gotten purchase on the softer parts of the world, like the sea-floor and beaches. While these new plants aren’t able to displace the original algae, they are an alluring new food source or obstacle on the soft, flat algae mats

Also, a new creature has emerged:

Name: Elpike
Ancestor: Slimpel
Evolution/Adaptations: Gained a set of hydraulic organs for support; The siphon is stronger, the gills can moisten themselves, the eye has gained a lens, the setae can feel air vibrations, and it is now a metre long
Other Changes: The elpike is more terrestrial, and spends most of its life on land. Some have also moved into the softer beaches where the hix are

@doomlightning @Deathwake @fralegend015 @UndyingHazard

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name: ratchet
ancestor: swisher
evos/adapts: internal skeleton, skeletally supported beak, size, better night vision, counter-shading, fins, and carangiform swimming.
other: being from 4 inches (10 cm) to 10 feet (three meters!) long ratchets are the apex of their time.

name: lunge
ancestor: slosher
evos/adapts: the suction feeding apparatus has been adapted into simple lungs, it has gained stiff legs, and the abilities to leap out of the water and not desiccate. they hunt by leaping out of or into the water and grabbing prey.
other: size 2 feet or less than a meter.

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Name: Amirigo
Ancestor: Hix
Evolution/Adaptations: Skin scales; The conch is covered with a layer of skin, inside it contains a symbiosis of simple algae, the muscles of the arms / tentacles are stronger, it is able to absorb water faster and its senses are able to sense light intensity
Other Changes: The skin scales help retain water in the body and also being transparent, penetrating the light into the algae living inside the light, helping it to survive longer out of the water and without external food for longer and be more protected from Predators. Its color is now similar to that of algae

Name: cluck
Ancestor: Drifting Nettle
Evolution/Adaptations: Stomach; Its venom is adapted to prevent blood clotting, its hooks are stronger for attachment to skin, it is able to smell chemicals and the arms / arms are shorter.
Other Changes: It now feeds on the blood and life of a parasite and is similar to the life of a tick: when it finds prey, it jumps on it, inserts its arms into the body of the animal and sucks the blood until the stomach fills up and then releases and rests until the next round.

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@Deathwake
The ratchet has 8 adaptations (the limit is 5)

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Darn I will edit it.

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Name: Terra-Shell
Ancestor: Body-Shell
Evolutions/Adaptations: added pheromone glands; the exoskeleton now envelopes the entire body except the tentacular mandibles, the head segment is able to rotate, the legs have 3 digits, the upper tentacles now are longer and have 1 claw on their tips, it has a chambered stomach.
Other Changes: it lives more inland near the zones of Elpike, it stays mainly in the tidial zones, is omnivore and occasionally preys on Elpike. It uses the pheromones to comunicate.

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Name: walker-shell
Ancestor: terra-shell
Evos/adapts: eggs that can be lain in ponds, more estivation resistant shell, internal fertilization, small blades on the mandibles, stronger legs, and better vision.
Other: spends almost all of it’s time on land, using it’s grinding mandibles and stoumach to eat land plants, and reproducing in both ponds and estuaries.

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Name: Verdant Shoreworm

Ancestor: Verdant Crawler.

Adaptations: The skin has become thicker and tougher to better survive the rough waves of the shallows, it has also developed a simple nerve cord to provide support and act as an anchor for muscles. It has developed some simple teeth inside of it’s mouth so it can feed on the plants in the shallows and carrion.

Other changes: They inhabit the shallows rather then the sea floor, and have become opportunistic omnivores that feed on both plants and dead animals.

Name: Greater Nettle

Ancestor: Drifting Nettle.

Evolution/Adaptations: The greater nettle has developed a siphonophore-like caste system consisting of; a large central float zooid which possesses the shell and float, reproductive zooids which form a ring around the float and release gametes into the water, and feeding zooids which consist of shell-less individuals possessing the four tentacles of there predecessor and mouthparts.

Other changes: The greater nettle can grow up to three feet long and has become an apex predator of the open ocean.

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Hatchet
Ancestor: ratchet
Evos/adapts: advanced camouflage, burst speed, better smell, extendible neek, and, giant blade-like protrusions on it’s beak.
Other: hunts in reefs and kelp forests with ambush tactics. 3-7 feet (1-2 meters) long.

Megalobracidae
Ancestor: hydropod
Evos/adapts:giant armored gills, size, use of the gills to filter feed, suckers and blades on the arms, and better senses.
Other: lives in pods of less than 8 adults, filtering plankton. Shell is 3 meters across in the largest specimens, with 3 more meters in length from the extended arms. (Three meters is about 10 feet).

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Name: Aqua-Walker
Ancestor: Terra-shell
Evolutions/Adaptations: added bouyancy bladder; The claws of the upper mandibles are bigger, the last segment is larger and thinner than the rest of the body, it has a more complex brain structure, the heart is double chambered, the sensory stalks are longer,

Other Changes: it moved to the sea floor, is a predator, is able to swim for medium-distances using his tail and the bouyancy bladder, is able to sense animals that hide under the sea-floor, and uses the upper mandibles to dig it out, it also occasionally preys in open sea.

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Here are the current inhabitants of the world:
On the sea-floor:

  • Undergreen
  • Exam
  • Spearworm
  • Sting Stalk
  • Lobe worm
  • Under-Smeller
  • Slosher
  • Verdant Crawlers
  • Aqua-Walker

In the shallows:

  • Chevron-face
  • Legga-Liggo
  • Slimpel
  • Body-Shell
  • Lunge
  • Verdant Shoreworm

In the open sea

  • Freaus
  • Squik
  • Swisher
  • Berry
  • Hydropod
  • Drifting nettle
  • Ratchet
  • Cluck
  • Greater Nettle
  • Hatchet
  • Megalobracidae

On the softer shores

  • Hix
  • Elpike
  • Amirigo
  • Terra-Shell
  • Walker-Shell

While this ecosystem is quite stable, a calamity has come: A great volcano has erupted, covering the sky in dust. This will have severe effects for the ecosystem, and many creatures will go extinct. How will they adapt to this world?

Also, a new creature has emerged:
Name: Smiler
Ancestor: Elpike
Evolution/Adaptations: Gained a blade on the siphon; The siphon is longer, the foot is faster, it is smaller, its jaws are serrated, and it can enter torpor
Other Changes: It now scavenges dead animals, in addition to herbivory

@doomlightning @Deathwake @fralegend015 @UndyingHazard

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Name: tachybracidae
Ancestor: hydropod
Evos/adapts: to adapt to the changing climate and scarcity the tachybracidae has shrunk and specialized for speed over defense. Weaker, more hydrodynamic and less resource intensive shell. Higher powered jet propulsion. Intelligence. Suction feeding apparatus in the beak allowing it to eat anything less than a 5th it’s size. Better hearing.
Other: tachybracidae travel in schools. 2-10 inches/5-25 cm, averaging 6 inches/15 cm.

Name: matchet
Ancestor: ratchet
Evos/adapts: to adapt to the scarcity of prey the matchet has shrank and become more of a generalist. Book lungs to survive in anoxic or poisoned waters. Camouflage. Large fins for walking and swiming. Better smell to find food. Calcified bones. Soft tissue over the beak.
Other: 4-8 inches/10-20 cms. Lives on the seafloor.

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Name: Burrowing Shoreworm

Ancestor: Verdant Shoreworm.

Evolutions/Adaptations: The burrowing shoreworm has developed a slower metabolism and the ability to enter a state of suspended animation during harsh times, often burrowing itself using small claws on the front most pair of limbs. It also developed a simple intestinal tract to get more nutrients out of food, as well as cup eyes that enable it to detect simple shapes.

Other Changes: it has primarily become a scavenger, feeding on dead or dying animals but will also feed on algae if it is available. It burrows itself under a thin layer of sand close to the shore when entering a state of suspended animation to conceal itself from predators.

Name: Vent Drifter.

Ancestor: Greater Nettle.

Evolutions/Adaptations: It developed high pressure and temperature tolerance, and developed a symbiotic relationship with chemosynthetic bacteria that convert chemicals from hydrothermal vents into usable energy. It has also developed thermosensitive cells on it’s feeding zooids so it doesn’t get too close to the hydrothermal vents.

Other Info: It’s much smaller then it’s relative the greater nettle, growing a maximum of a foot in length. and exclusively lives around deep sea hydrothermal vents.

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Name: Hichix
Ancestor: Amirigo
Evo/Ada: Adipose tissue/Blubber; With the help of the Blubber and the conch extensions: it is able to create stems for its symbiotes, its metabolism is slower, Branchiostegal lung / Gills have lashes that help filter air, stronger legs allow it to move faster on land and hooks are converted to radula
Other Changes:In situations where there is a lack of energy source, it is able to go into a Hibernation, which is why it is larger in order to optimize food consumption and storage.

Name: Marsh
Ancestor: Sting Stalk
Evo/Ada: Mucous glands; The arms are longer and wider, the arms are split into 8 parts, it has parts attached to the conch, the receptors are able to feel vibrations more sensitively and the arms are able to fold into the mouth.
Other Changes: It now stands upside down, sliced with the help of sticky mucus in the arms of a type of mesh that catches marine snow, particles and sometimes small creatures.

Name: Marry
Ancestor: Cluck
Evo/Ada: Chitin teeth; The stomach has a muscle that helps to pump the prey’s blood to the body faster, the conch is flat, the hooks are stronger for attachment, the body is smaller and the venom has stronger anticoagulant venom.
Other Changes: He stays on the prey longer, sometimes a lifetime until the prey dies

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Name: Venchet
Ancestor: machet
Evos/adapts: this small animal is a common filter feeder. Filter feeding apparatus, intelligence, speed, electroreception, biolumenecence used in advanced countershading, and finnaly the convertion of the lungs into a swim bladder.
Other: this benthic rachiform (decendant of the ratchet) lives in a similar way to the tachybracidae (I.e. in the open sea), though with different prey and relatives. They travel in pods and flee from predators, using their electroreception to detect predators and freinds, and to tell them apart. They are 3-9 inches, which is about 6-20 cms.

Name: Reachet
Ancestor: ratchet
Evos/adapts: a giant and diverse clade of apexes and other large hunters. Size, beak specialized for killing, swim bladder, thumniform swimming, smell and internal fertilization.
Other: lives in a similar way to sharks. From 8-25 feet, or 2.5 to 8 meters long. Uses speed and strength to take down huge prey. Mostly lives in the open sea, with smaller species living in the shallows or reefs, or even sea floor.

Name: Steptchet
Ancestor: machet
Evos/adapts: to take advantage of the large amount of shore dwelling life the stepchet adapted more for the shore. The respiratory system is more advanced. Specificity the air goes in one of a pair of dedicated orifices, into the book lungs, and from there to the throat, and then is exhaled, making it a one way tract. This tract can be used to form a roaring sound. The fins have advanced into four simple legs. The skin has become capable of not imidiately drying out, and the covering on the beak is filled with muscles. This derived rachiform also has a derived neck.
Other: quite obviously they live on beaches. About a foot or two long (30-60 cm).

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Name: Terra-predator
Ancestor: Terra-shell
Evolutions/Adaptations: added sound producing organ; gills can moist themselve, the upper mandibles claws are bigger, the sensory hairs are grouped in the legs, is bigger in size, has eggs that have a hard shell.

Other Changes: preys on most land dwelling animals, uses the sound organ and pheromones to comunicate, it can reach 85 cm in lenght and 50 cm on height, the egg shells make it able to lay eggs on land.

Name: Swimmer-Shell
Ancestor: Aqua-Walker
Evolutions/Adaptations: added an electroreceptor organ to the sides of the body; the body is separated into 3 segments: the tail segment, the abdominal segment and the head segment, the tail segment has stronger muscles, the abdominal segment has 6 limbs wich are tiny to reduce drag, the sensory stalks are shorter to reduce drag, it has 2 hearts.

Other Changes: it now hunts mainly in the open sea and occasionally on the sea floor.

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Here are the current inhabitants of the world
On the sea-floor:

  • Exam
  • Sting Stalk
  • Lobe worm
  • Verdant Crawlers
  • Marsh
  • Venchet

In the shallows:

  • Slimpel
  • Body-Shell
  • Burrowing Shoreworm

In the open sea

  • Freaus
  • Squik
  • Tachybracidae
  • Matchet
  • Marry
  • Reachet
  • Swimmer-Shell

On the softer shores

  • Hix
  • Walker-Shell
  • Smiler
  • Hichix
  • Stepchet
  • Terra-Predator

In the depths

  • Vent Drifter

Many species have gone extinct, but still many have evolved. Even after the calamity, many great predators have evolved. Almost all biomes have been uncovered by animal life, and there are many types of creature. Furthermore, the plants have also become far more efficient, and now dominate the land and sea even further, a development that could spell the end for the primitive algivores

Also, a new creature has emerged:
Name: Frowner
Ancestor: Smiler
Evolution/Adaptations: Gained an internal womb to keep eggs; The jaws are stronger, the foot is more able to go over obstacles, it can stick to stones, and the head is able to turn
Other Changes: It has moved away from the shore, further inland

@doomlightning @Deathwake @fralegend015 @UndyingHazard

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(By the way the venchet lives in the open ocean.)

Name: titanochet
Ancestor: reachet
Evos/Adapts: with the extinction of the hydropods the ancestors of the titanochets had lost a food source, and with the extinction of the megalobracidae they had a niche to take to lesson the load. Filter feeding beak brissals. Calcified parisite-proof scales. Lives birth. Intelligence. Subsonic hearing. And finally another heart chamber.
Other: the titanochets live in flocks and practice parental care. 20-50 feet/6-15 meters long.

Name: thalasicaphantom
Ancestor: tachybrachidae
Evos/adapts: with the extinction of their larger relatives this critter took that chance and ran with it, until it managed to become even mire dangerous than a reachet. Full internalization of the shell for greater maneuverability and pressure resistance. Hyperthick myelin sheaths on the neurons to give the abilitiy to think at inhuman speeds. Night vision. Spines on the tentacles. Size. The ability to mimic sounds.
Other: lives in the deepest depths during the day, eating marine snow and the creatures that eat it, but comes up at night to hunt the surface dwellers it’s bioluminence and mimicry to hunt, attracting the creatures of the survive water down to where their predators will let them eat in peace. Once there they impale them, cuts them to pieces, and swallows them. 4-15 feet or 1-4 meters.

Name: Snachet
Ancestor: stepchet
Evos/adapts: internal fertilizations, extendible neck, size (2-4 feet or about a meter), better legs with defined digits and hips, water proof scales, shell coverings.
other: lives farther inland, hunts by striking with it’s mouth, by extending its neck.

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Name: Shelkior
Ancestor: Swimmer-Shell
Evolutions/Adaptations: Added a second brain; increased neuron density, increased synapse connections that each neuron can create, the exoskeleton is harder, the sensory stalks fully ritired inside the body making 2 cavities(sensory cavities), the electroreceptors organs have an higher concentration of electroreceptors.

Other Changes: It’s brains are better able to recognise patterns wich help them evitate the thalasicaphantom, it also puts it’s brains to sleep alternativelly, when one brain is sleeping the other is awake.

Name: Skalletara
Ancestor: Terra-predator
Evolutions/Adaptations: added muscles around the gills that make them able to do active respiration; the upper mandibles are retractable, it has an higher concentration of photoreceptors in the eyes, it now does internal fertilization, the legs are longer, it has more segments.

Other Changes: the number of segments have increased to 5 segments, the longer legs make it able to run faster, it can out run the other land dwelling species, and it’s exoskeleton is too hard for other predators to damage, it truly is the apex predator of the land.

Name: Tyruno
Ancestor: Terra-Predator
Evolutions/Adaptations: has muscles around the gills that make it able to do active respiration; has more segments, the upper mandibles are shorter, is tinier, the lower mandibles have stronger muscles, the males exoskeleton is reddish.

Other Changes: it became herbivore, and it uses the lower mandibles to rip off parts of plants and bring them to the mouth, and the upper mandibles are instead used for defence. It’s segments increased to 10, each segment is 4 cm long, it also is 7 cm tall, the males reddish exoskeleton is used to attract mates. After a female has been fertilized she will dig under the sand and lay her eggs into the hole and then cover it with sand.

Name: floor-scavenger
Ancestor: swimmer-shell
Evolutions/Adaptations: has an organ that produces chemicals to break down food; higher concentration of chemoreceptors in the sensory stalks, has a slower metabolism, it is hermaphrodite, has a thicker exoskeleton.

Other Changes: it lives on the sea floor waiting for corpses of bigger animals that fall. Once it finds a corpse it will remain near it forming a temporary comunity until there is nothing left to eat from that corpse, it’s slow metabolism make it able to stay a long time without eating.

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Name: Spiny Shore-Crawler

Ancestor: Burrowing Shoreworm.

Mutations/Adaptations: The Spiny Shore-Crawler has developed a cartilaginous skeleton for better muscle support, a thicker, more desiccation resistant skin. And a row of venomous spines along it’s back and sides for defense.

Other: It can clamber up onto the softer shores like a mudskipper giving it access to more food sources and it can grow up to half a foot long.

Name: False Flower.

Ancestor: Marsh.

Evolutions/Adaptations: it has developed glands on the inside of it’s arms that release a smell to lure other creatures to it, it’s tentacles have become flatter and petal-like to better ensnare prey and stronger nematocysts to subdue them quicker.

Other: It primarily inhabits the shallows where there’s more food for it to capture.