Yes, they researched fossils from long ago.
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you should probably be uploading the images to smth like imgbb and then linking them to here
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Do images on imgbb stay around for long?
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if you tell them to not auto-delete, yeah
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Is link rot insignificant there?
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I hope there isnβt a great dying event soon due to poisoning of oceans from the Hycean equivalent of purple sulfur bacteria.
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Ah, that biota can probably handle this situation.
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So these are like the Francevillian/Ediacaran biota of Hycea?
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Pretty sure these are cambrian level animals at least.
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What did you use to make the graph for the ages?
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It couldβve been MS Paint from what I can see. Simple enough.
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I used paint.net to make the graph.
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I presume you also used it for the pixelart-ish planet graphics?
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Hycea is about to enter a new Eon, soon!
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Also it seems like the planet has already been βdiscoveredββ¦
The 8th chapter.
Chapter 8: Plants
There is another branch of life that exists on Hycea which are referred to as plants. Plants are coloured purple due to bacteriochlorophyll b and the spectral class of itβs star, being a K7V star.
The first multicelluar plants arrived around the Middle epoch of the Archeohycean era. Theyβre referred to as Protopurpurophyta (original-purple-plant), theyβre a algae mat that covers the surface of the sea.
They use photosynthesis to make their own food, so theyβre phototrophs.
Later in the end of the Middle epoch, the clade split apart into algarophytes (kelp-plants) and purpurophytes (purple-plants), the algaraphytes evolved to be an analog to the kelps on Earth while the purpurophytes didnβt change that much in terms of evolution.
The S.D.E., an explosion of diversity led to the algarophytes branch off into the ramaphytes (branch-plants), the eualgaphytes (true-kelp-plants) and the radiphytes (root-plants).
the radiphytes devloped roots to more effectively extract nutrients from the soil, while the ramaphytes evolved to live in deeper enviroments such as the mesopelagic and the bathypelagic.
Also in the S.D.E. are the purpurophytes which evolved into aquaepiphytes (water-flat-plants) which became like water lilies with their lily pads being the source of their energy.
The cladogram of plants.
The Sebyan epoch.
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Will fungi-like organisms also be tackled at some point into the future?
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Yes, similar to it but thereβs already something new.
Chapter 9: The 3rd branch of life
In the Archeohycean, an ambiguous life form emerged, along with plants and animals. These forms eat dead animals and plants, these are the ambiguodokarthites (ambiguous-scavengers) or Ambiguodokarthia,
they are small, white and tall organisms that are heterotrophic, meaning they cannot generate food by themselves, so they eat dead bodies, these organisms have lived since the late Cryozoean.
But since the Hycean and Wenkian, the ambgiuodokarthites spread to many roles, such as being a coral-like form, molds and parasites.
The most prominent of them all are 2 clades, Anthokarthia (flower-barren) and Abyssoanthokarthia (abyss-flower-barren), these coral-like organisms use carbonate shells to protect them from dangers, theyβre common in shallow, sunny and clear places of the sea.
The abyssoanthokarthites live in deeper enviroments such as the pelagic zone and much less vibrant compared to their shallow counterparts.
The rest of them are paraprokarthites (different-in advance) which are parasitic fungi that survive of off early fish, the process is that fish eat plant which is filed with small worm-like creatures that crwal in their early digestive system until they lay eggs when the fish excretes waste and the cycle continues.
The second are conservarakarthites (conserve-barren) which keep the lifestyle of a scavenger.
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I presume the main animal-like lineage will too produce parasites of itβs own at some point?
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I wonder what sort of organisms will utilize silica shells in this world? Will it be a completely new clade of life?
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