#speculativeevolution

[kiabugboy]

Can't remember if this idea has been done before, it's a sphaerocone ammonite with a speculative pair of tentacles that tear off easily, used as distraction for predators.

[natalia-dinodrawer]

Me: "I really like my scifi dinosaur civilitation story but I could use some more female characters. Let's do the high ranks of a military camp females"

*A few minutes later*

Me: "Ok, so now they are lesbians".

[phillipiswriting]

#FictionFriday ... one day late. Alas.

Thessidian Creation, part 3: the first Idylls, and their Art.

The Ennead is slowly taking shape. Last time we got the Sun Mother, the Nine, the Portals, and the Stones; now we get the Idylls and the creation of all plants and animals as their art. 

Worth noting at this point that this creation myth is one told by modern Thessidian Omphalists -- in other posts I give different perspectives. For instance, the Omphalists group fish and whales and ichthyosaurs all together -- not really considering how such animals crossed the (land-based) portals.

Next time: the Idylls draw first blood, and the Nine whip up the first everstorm. 

[indragonsaur]

I decided to do a color wheel challenge on Twitter so I made it

[arcpunk]

RPG-fans, Artists and Gamers... i need ur help!

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

do you have feelings, frank?

That's a hard question. I feel like there are always two things happening simultaneously with me when I feel emotion, and there are some things in here that should probably get special tags to avoid that happening.

@verbalbrainnoise?

[vees-strangeworld-omniverse]

"WARRIORS", CATUSAPIENS, AND THE WORLD(s) OF TALKING ANIMALS (by codagian standards)

(NOTE: descriptions copy-pasted from DA where i normally/originally post my works. any context that is missing here on tumblr can be found on my DA [linked here and on pinned post] )

[also, another rather old yet still good piece of work; actually definitely a couple years old since i can recognise that iconic crayola coloring pencils instead of the fancy faber castells)

so....time to add warriors and other erin hunter books to the strangeworld bestiary.

all of erin hunter's books take place in the exact same type of universe, and the exact same planet of earth (earth-4amar-22003W). before the pukanis actually visited the planet, they run a check to see what sentient life is on there. even if they know for sure what exactly they are, its still worth running a check to see if they'res other lifeform that have that sentience. and boy, there was. lots and lots of it.

as it turns out, all members of amniota (reptiles, birds and mammals) were 100% sentient, and the other animals that arent come pretty damn close (akin to that of parrots and possibly chimps). from what the pukanis have experience on many other earths, it seems that humans on untouched universes often have a difficult time adjusting to the idea of other sentient lifeforms, especially things from other universe. so given that nearly an entire clade of animals on there own home planet is just as intelligent as them, the humans (or twolegs, if we go by Warriors), are already a Contact At End (C.A.E.) situation, only making contact when their world ends and are at high risk of extinction. the animals, on the other hand, seem more easier to make contact with. this is mainly because there have been many case where different species were able to communicate with eachother, and even team up to deal with bigger threats. it also helped that the pukanis are able to turn into any sentient lifeforms on the planet to make things easier. [provided they have an external source that allows them to shift into said sophont species; one of many things that i'm working on...]

the planet also seems to be rife with paranormal activity, mainly with the afterlife. it seems that each group's afterlife exist in there own in-universe dimension only accessible when they are either asleep, unconscious, or are a spirit form. the only thing that doesn't have to be either one of those to enter said "afterlife" are the pukanis and other interdimesional beings, but even then they tend to leave those things alone (after all, the afterlife is a tricky subject to deal with whether it exist or not in a universe/dimension).

now, "talking animal" universes aren't a new thing. a talking animal universe (TA) is often classified as a universe in which the dominate species is an animal that, well, cant talk. these animals, apart from the talking part, don't differ to much from there normal, non-sentient counterpart in other universes. what make this one special is how many talking animal species there are. usual, its only one or two species, or if you're lucky maybe three. this universe? about 20,000 species capable of talking.

ok, now that i've established a universe and setting, i can now talk about the "catusapiens".

catusapiens have been around as long as man has been breeding domestic felines. despite the fact that normal cats in the wild are territorial and typically solitary, there are many catusapien societies,each with there own ways of life.

there are two types of catusapien lifestyles (note-these are the terms the cats use)

the first one on the left is a traditional catusapien, also known as warriors. these cats live in there own societies, mainly either clans or tribes (which while are two different types of groups have some similarities), ran by a leader and contains many members within various ranks and roles in the group. these cats almost always have a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and rely on the land to live and thrive. they usually have a set of teritories if there are multiple clan or tribe living next to eachother. there names are sort of "primitive" and always derived from nature.

kittypets are catusapiens that live a "modern" lifestyle. this name, while used for cats that are the pets to twolegs, is also used for cats that live in a modern codagian society. these cat were either living with twolegs already or where warriors that chose the easier, more relaxed world to live in. many wear clothing or some form of wearable accessories like collars, capes, scarves, etc. while many live like normal people, there are many places where kittypets can live like their traditional warrior lives, but they're often designed so that they still have the kittypet comforts but still have the warrior experience, mainly the clan life, ranks and duties. while most are legal and open to many, there are some who are of course, more like gangs or cults doing illegal activities in the city, and will gatekeep the everloving shit out of newcomers.

[pesterjest]

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[culturecultpress]

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[georaptor28]

Hipodrilo: son anfibios, territoriales y omnivoros de zoheria.

[c-casu]

What is the biggest / most extensive speculative evolution project that you know of?

Probably Serina. You probably already know of it since it’s one of the most famous spec evo projects out there, but in case you don’t it’s a seedworld with canaries as the only land vertebrates. It’s been going on for almost ten years at this point and covers a 300 million years timespan.

It’s been criticised extensively for I think for the wrong reasons. Most of the weirdest clade are derived enough to be plausible, and my only issue with it are the instances of outcompetition, which doesn’t occur too often on Earth (with most of the real world examples being more likely caused by climate change or other external factors).

Here’s the link if you wanna check it out https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/home

Another project that goes quite in depth with its topic is the Yaetuan sagas. I don’t know too much about it, but it should mostly cover the main species’s evolution and development. There’s a book about it and Curious Archives even made a video about it.

Here’s the link for that video along with the link for Curious Archives’ video on Serina

Another quite extensive one is Jurassic impact. Not as famous as the previous ones but still well researched and enjoyable. It’s about an alternative Earth where the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth at the end of the Jurassic. Small dinos, early birds, anurognathids and some mammal clades survived along with crocodylomorphs, choristoderes, and pliosaurs among the others.

Here’s the link to the first post https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeculativeEvolution/s/xT9y0XnxIz

[kiabugboy]

Wyvern agamid

Early sketch and alternate wing ideas

[natalia-dinodrawer]

Today we have been playing Exquisite Biome in Discord. It was a lot of fun and it is quite engrossing to see everyone creations.

Here my creatures:

-A hybrid fish/bird which lives in a forest island.

-A predatory polychaete which use its tail as bait. When females get fertilized they still using their thickened tail to hunt (this time even with more success). At the end, the offspring left their mother and star living on their own.

-An elephant anteater. They eat an specialize type of ant who eat moss and life in waterfalls. Adults use their big claws to climb and open their nests. There is also a high number of intersexual individuals in the populations.

-Beekeeper gecko. They get bees and their larvae to start a new hive. They create a new nest with leaves and spiderweb.

[phillipiswriting]

#WorldbuildingWednesday Fauna of the Ennead: Introduction

It’s about time I post more about the spec-evo side of my writing. On Earth, the evolution of life has been defined by occasional mass extinction events which often form the boundary between geologic periods, such as the Great Dying (the Permian-Triassic extinction event). In the Ennead, such extinction events did occur, but were spread out across nine planets; migration between the Nine, however, was almost always impossible due to a great everstorm blocking the portals. The result is the preservation of ancient species in some planets while others evolve and diversify after their own extinction events, with very occasional mass migrations when Abations briefly opened the portals.

By the present day, TA 2605, each of the Nine feature unique flora and fauna which roughly correspond to different geological time periods of Earth. Eutopos is home to “egg mammals” descended primarily from Permian fauna; Sassan features huge chalicotheres and other Paleogene fauna; Maurya is home to Cretaceous dinosaurs. Other planets have their own unique fauna mixed from many different geologic periods. There is of course nuance, and all of these “Permian” “Cretaceous” etc animals have continuously evolved and continue evolving through the present day.

Xia, the setting of the novel, is closest to modern Earth fauna, with the obvious addition of kites (pterosaurs) and other flyers. Our main characters are familiar with hawks, dogs, cows, bears, squirrels, etc – but they are also familiar with domesticated shield gaur (ceratops), rani (ankylosaurs), and tuskies (diictodons), as well as wild forestwalker kites (quetzalcoatlus) and even sparrowkites (anurognathids).

[charseraph]

heyyyyyy just wanted to check if anyone asked to repost ur art like this? they gave you credit and all but :/ i still wanted to ask https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeculativeEvolution/comments/157f1q2/realistic_elemental_by_charseraph/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Oh huh! I didn’t allow a repost. I’m glad they gave credit, so I don’t mind this specific instance.

Anyone who would like to repost, please ask and credit.

[arcpunk]