Plankton in general. I wanted to leave it vague to peopleโs imagination.
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Since this includes multiple kingdoms of life if plankton was chosen how would one mutate it?
According to Wikipedia
Plankton includes organisms from species across all the major biological kingdoms, ranging in size from the microscopic (such as bacteria, archaea, protozoa and microscopic algae and fungi[4]) to larger organisms (such as jellyfish and ctenophores).[5] This is because plankton are defined by their ecological niche and level of motility rather than by any phylogenetic or taxonomic classification.
Would Plankton in this FG exclude or include Sea Jelies and Ctenophores?
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I mean itโs not like anyone chose to play as plankton anyways
I wonder if FG Plankton could evolve to become like Spongbob Plankton?
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well theyโd need sentience, which it would take a while to do
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they could still end up looking similar I guess
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I wonder what will happen in Round 3?
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We know something unusual will happen but not exactly what.
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Round 3
Report 3 - Round 3
1m years post-bathycrash
Central Pangean Uplands - Trigonotarbids, Roaches, Moss, Springtails, Nematodes
โHimalayanโ Uplands - Roaches, Ferns, Springtails
South African Karoo Highlands - Moss, Ferns, Nematodes
Siberian Traps Uplands - Trigonotarbids, Roaches, Ferns
Western Laurentian Belt - Moss, Springtails and Ferns
Eastern Australis Highlands - Uninhabited
Central Pangean Sea - Plankton, Conodonts, Archea
Western Laurentian Shelf - Archea, Plankton
Gondwanan Archipelago - Plankton, Conodonts, Lingula, Nematodes
Tethys Seaway - Plankton, Conodonts, Lingula
Karoo Basin Sea - Plankton, Conodonts
Open Ocean - Plankton, Archea, Conodonts
Trigonotarbids/Tryatleast: Faster Speed
POP: 5
FA: 10
Roaches/Dumbthriver: Longer body size and better camoflauge
POP: 6
FA: 10
Nematodes/UndyingHazard: Larger size and efficient respiration
POP: 9
FA: 10
Conodonts/Anthropocenian: Spikey proliferations and extended mouth
POP: 3
FA: 5
Springtails/aah31: Heightened Camouflage
POP: 8
FA: 10
Plankton: Heightened Reproduction rate
POP: 3
Ferns/Doom: Spore Capsules
POP: 10
Moss/Cha: Sporing by contact with water, animal parasitism for propagation.
POP: 10
Lingula: No significant changes
POP: 3
FA: 3
Severe changes to the biosphere have been detected, a large die-off has sprung within the oceans due to a lack of plankton. Diversification of niches may need to occur for aquatic animals to survive. Life on land hasnโt gone through as much trouble, although plantlife is slowly combating their insectoid predators. The first medium-sized animals may evolve soon.
Probably.
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Is there enough time to evolve teamwork?to make the dream work?
As in colonies or tribes of my genus
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M1+2: Stronger Jaws and Modified Digestive system to enable eating plants
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Mutation 1: Two spikes become slightly larger than the rest located closer to head, akin to early proto-horns. These slightly larger spikes/early proto-horns are for extra defense, more complex mating behavior, and aid in the growth and dissemination of Algae/Plankton.
Mutation 2: Not all Algae/Plankton cells are not directly digested, and instead start to be put into a few pockets of the skin for sugar production. This minimizes the amount of Algae/Plankton needed to be eaten for survival.
I hope these changes are not too much, and help with the Plankton coming back.
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Hm so you are going the planimal way?
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Not intentionally. I want to make sure my species does not go extinct. Since Plankton seems to be needed for my species survival, I needed to do something to make sure the Algae population comes back.
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Iโm not sure how could algae even go 100% extinct considering they are one of the more successful lifeforms on this planet
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Trilobites at their peak numbered in the billions (similar to plankton) in the paleozoic era and diversified over 25k species. Yet theyโre extinct. Also you have to realize this is practically the aftermath of the KT extinction event but cranked up to 11.
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I know, but it seems a bit hard to believe a group this dominant could ever be completely eliminatedโฆ
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Iโm pretty sure Algae is a catch-all term kind of like โFishโ. So if you look at it in the sense of multiple families converging on each other it makes more sense.
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Right. If algae went extinct I suppose something would come and replace it relatively quick considering the immense niche potentialโฆ
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