Looks like the ferns might be in a bit of a danger
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Mutation 1: Gills become stiffened like in Mudskippers so they do not stick together when coming out of water, and it helps to trap some air within them when out of water, thus increasing air breathing time.
Mutation 2: Have a second version of Hemoglobin called Cathodic Hemoglobin like in Hoplosternum littorale, where the oxygen affinity increases with decreasing pH, in order to ensure sufficient oxygen to tissue under low oxygen and acidic conditions.
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Mutation uno: Sporohytes grow towards the sun on whatever they can anchor themselves on eventually reaching a part they can no longer grow because they have nothing to sit on. (they only anchor on the bark itself and arenβt vine like so the moss just grow into a spot as it reaches for the sun, and of course basically ends right beneath the crown of branches of the fern)
Mutation dos: Longer vertical growing Spore launchers to increase chance of successful spore reaching a Gamophyte and continue the life cycle again.
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Wonβt you eventually need to evolve phloem and xylem to reach higher heights?
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Mutations: Larvae that survive long enough to reach a certain size will hang around adults for protection, shoaling/social behavior
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By the way has cannibalism emerged yet in this water world?
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I hope the event next round isnβt a bad oneβ¦
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I mean itβs still up to RNG I think?
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Is it my time now?
- Spore capsule stores more reserve materials.
- Upgrade regeneration ability
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Do you plan to eventually develop seeds or stay true to the fern form?
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I want to reinvent the wheel, not recreate it. 
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As in you want ferns to stay the META?
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Round 10!
Report 10 - Round 10
4.5m years post-bathycrash
Central Pangean Uplands - False Spiders, Visitor Roaches, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma
βHimalayanβ Uplands - Visitor Roaches and Ferns
South African Karoo Highlands - Hydrobryum, Ferns, Radiodontomimus
Siberian Traps Uplands - False Spiders, Visitor Roaches, Ferns
Western Laurentian Belt - Hydrobryum and Ferns
Eastern Australis Highlands - Hydrobryum
Central Mangroves -
West Mangroves - Pelagotoma
Northern Mangroves -
Eastern Mangroves -
Central Pangean Sea - Plankton, Pokilos, Archea, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma, Radiodontomimus
Western Laurentian Shelf - Archea, Plankton
Gondwanan Archipelago - Plankton, Pokilos, Lingula, Radiodontomimus, Hydrobryum, Pelagotoma
Tethys Seaway - Plankton, Pokilos, Lingula
Karoo Basin Sea - Plankton, Pokilos
Open Ocean - Plankton, Archaea, Pokilos, Lingula
False Spiders/Tryatleast: Camouflage
POP: 7
FA: 10
Visitor Roaches/Dumbthriver: Better salt digestion
POP: 7
FA: 10
Radiodontomimus/UndyingHazard: Complex brooding social behavior
POP: 8
FA: 10
Clarkina Pokilos/Anthropocenian: Stiff gills and alternative hemoglobin
POP: 8
FA: 9
Pelagotoma/aah31: Salt Digestion and movement to the mangroves
POP: 6
FA: 10
Plankton: Long tentacle-like extensions
POP: 8
Ferns/Doom: Spore capsule stores more reserve materials and upgrade regeneration ability
POP: 10
Hydrobryum/Cha: Sporophytes grow towards the sun and long spore launchers
POP: 10
Mesogastra: Round suction teeth and larger size
POP: 6
FA: 10
Minimal changes to the biosphere have been detected, the swimming gastropods have started to get larger but still are discrete within the greater biosphere. Pelagotoma have made a slight recovery and have begun to return to the land areas. Although the dry lands still lack the arthropods. Herbivores have begun to digest salt as hydrobryum are slowly becoming mainly a sea food source.
The various animals of the flooded world have begun to radiate into the niches once occupied by their greater predecessors. The echo of a biosphere once rich in biodiversity still remainβ¦ Although far on the horizon, there are stranger things to be seenβ¦
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M: Digging underground homes to rest in.
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Mutation 1: Mucous secretions like Walking Catfish and Mudskippers to keep more moisture on skin and gills and prevent desiccation when on land, increasing air breathing time.
Movement: Move to West Mangroves.
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Didnβt expect round 3628800 already.
Movements: Move in to other mangroves
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I wonder if all rounds will be a factorial from now on?
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Probably only every 10 rounds
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