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Q&A Semi-Aquatic Ants

Is it plausible for a species of ant that inhabits a mangrove-like marine environment to have their abdomen evolve into a tail-like appendage for swimming to move from tree to tree to forage?

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

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Q&A Marine Animals best suited for domestication?

What marine or brackish water animals would be best for domestication attempts by a semi-aquatic civilization? Bonus Points for those that get me pet/domesticated sharks!

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

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Q&A What is the maximum height for coral?

I have a type of coral that feeds off of bacteria that love bird feces (or something involving a bird species). It grows large rocky spires out of the water to create a habitat for birds. I need to...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

Question biology fauna ocean
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Q&A The Evolution of African Wild Dogs who can float

The 'Before' Picture Imagine if African Wild Dogs developed the ability to float. There is no scientific explanation to how they can float; it's just happened and we do not need to know why. The d...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ambarish Sathianathan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ambarish Sathianathan‭

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Q&A Would it be possible for a non-aquatic species to exhibit bioelectrogenesis?

This is my first post on these forums, sorry if I've accidentally overlooked any rules or etiquette. Please let me know if more detail is necessary or would be helpful. This question is about a spe...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by merry‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by merry‭

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Q&A Skin of Large, Terrestrial Amphibians

I have some large, megafauna level amphibians inhabiting a temperate rainforest with naturally high levels of humidity. Would my large amphibians have any problems maintaining a classic amphibian t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

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Q&A Metal-Feathered Macaw Viability Part 1: How Can It Fly?

More posts from this thread will be linked here: Metal-Feathered Macaw Viability Part 2: Best Wing Shape? Info I'm designing a macaw that has metal feathers, claws, and a metal beak--to be parti...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by FoxElemental‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by FoxElemental‭

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Q&A Can I monitor animal movements from space?

The Earth-like planet I'm working on is the culmination of years of labor by the galaxy's best scientists. It consists of fully artificial ecosystems, and is, for all intents and purposes, like Ear...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How would humans treat dogs that are more intelligent than humans and can speak?

Suppose that there is a species of dogs that are much more intelligent than humans and can speak. The humans know that the animal is smarter too. The only reason these animals can't rule over human...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by michaelpri‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by michaelpri‭

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Q&A Can capybaras spread to Louisiana from Venezuela and populate it in less than 1000 years?

Some hundreds of years ago, all humanity was removed from the Americas. In fact, most humans are gone from the world altogether. In the intervening time, nature has overrun the formerly human domin...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by kingledion‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by kingledion‭

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Q&A What kind of animals are my trolls?

Edit: I've written an answer of my own now, and I'd appreciate it if any of you informed on the subject of evolution could review it, then inform me of its plausibility, via the comments (Of the a...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A How to modify bee physiology to be able to produce firehoney given nectar that is (magically) flammable?

How would fire honey be useful and manageable to a beehive/bee colony? Info In this scenario, bees harvest nectar from a particular flower. The nectar is not only spicy from capsaicin, but litera...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by FoxElemental‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by FoxElemental‭

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Q&A How can I explain the evolution of my giants?

Note: this is not a duplicate of Anatomically correct Giants or What would be the tallest possible height for humanlike creatures in earthlike conditions? because my giants are far from humanoid. A...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Hydras as parasitic-mating, polyandrous amphibians?

This is the second question in a series about my ongoing worldbuilding project, which seeks to explain the evolution and biology of various fantasy creatures. The first one was: Is petrifying visi...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Creating plants that do not rely on photosynthesis but still create oxygen

My planet has an increased axial tilt, resulting in crazier winters and summers and higher temperatures. For most places, the temperature never drops below freezing - even in the winter, but the da...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Xenobear‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Xenobear‭

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Q&A What is the next dominant species?

If humans didn't exist, what species would populate the earth? Would an animal gain human-like intelligence if humans weren't here? What animal would gain dominance?

12 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by CrazySlayaNinjaBear‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by CrazySlayaNinjaBear‭

Question environment fauna
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Q&A What could post-apocalypse humans do about dangerous, genetically augmented dogs?

So, out in Colorado, in the city of Den (population 1600), there is a huge problem. Before the war, a geneticist lab was trying to create police dogs that were stronger and superior to normal dogs....

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by DT Cooper‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DT Cooper‭

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Q&A Create a civilization out of our domesticated animals - The Dolittle plan

Human civilization really took off when individuals started to interact with each other, in language and trade and settlements. The transition from stone age to our space faring civilization of tod...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by LocalFluff‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by LocalFluff‭

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Q&A Optimal species body plan for agility in a complex environment

An integral species in a large worldbuilding project I'm working on right now is based around the concept of extreme agility. The species shall be a megafauna (Is that grammatically correct - "a m...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Could an intelligent worm-like race invent and build computers?

We have a regular Earth as we know it, but instead of humans, there is this worm-like race, intelligent similarly as nowadays humans. Their inner physiology is different from our worms (and not imp...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by TGar‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by TGar‭

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Q&A How could a human and an animal swap minds?

I am writing a novel, in which the main character has their mind transferred to a wolf body, losing all thier memories in the proccess. My current explanation is that the state of every neuron in ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Ryan Krage‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ryan Krage‭

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Q&A How could an animal run fast using blade-like feet that sink into spongy ground?

In my fictional planet, forests grow not on soil, but on vast spongy mats of fungi. Traditional Earth-like feet would struggle to get grip on the squishy ground, so most megafauna taxa have feet li...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A A world with no carnivores

I have, what I hope to be, a fairly simple question. I am designing a planet where there are no carnivores. Assumptions The creatures would all be very complacent and would feed and live in v...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by unknown‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by unknown‭

Question biology fauna ecology
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Q&A What would be the ideal terrain for promoting the evolution of blade feet that sink into the ground?

So, in my last question, I asked "How could an animal run fast using blade-like feet that sink into spongy ground?" The premise was that on my planet, forests grow not from soil but from spongy, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Is a food chain without plants plausible?

Suppose there was a world on which evolution and natural selection took an odd turn and never produced an organism that could be considered a plant by our modern definition, but which still produce...

13 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Frostfyre‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Frostfyre‭

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Q&A How would a sentient planet work?

I'm trying to develop a planet which has somehow developed sentience. By sentience I mean more of an animal intelligence than being a person. So far I've got a couple of ideas: It's actually a sp...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Puchoh‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Puchoh‭

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Q&A How long would it take for an array of introduced alien fauna to form functional ecosystems on a near-future "Dead Earth"?

Imagine that, in the near future, pollution, overpopulation and war leads to a massive extinction where almost all chordates, some invertebrates and many plants are wiped out. Small, resilient plan...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Is a Reflecting-Oven-Jay actually feasible?

As discussed here: How would a Reflecting-Oven-Jay Evolve? The Reflecting-oven-Jay This is a small African predatory bird with a perfectly smooth set of wings with an area of ~100 cm2, so ...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Tim B‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Tim B‭

Question reality-check fauna
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Q&A How would a big cat evolve to climb on and jump between ruined modern buildings?

So, in a post-apocalyptic setting, when humans have gone extinct and their cities fell into ruin, I was wondering what animals might evolve to conquer the ruins of our cities. Notice: I know that ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Is there any plausible way that my fictional island could be inhabited by animals from African and Indonesian origins?

Okay, now this question is a bit random. But, I'm planning for a possible book project about a 2019 expedition to an undiscovered island. The island is near the northern tip of the Ninetyeast Ridg...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A What kinds of animals does insular dwarfism affect and how large does an island need to be to escape it?

I've been wondering about insular dwarfism, and would like to know if it only affects certain animals (Since some animals grow larger upon colonizing an island, often due to the absence of predator...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A How could a species survive on just luring in and eating humans?

In a question about mermaids, it was proposed that they might have evolved to look like humans to lure them in and prey on them. How could a creature survive on a diet of nothing but lured-in huma...

21 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Joe‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Joe‭

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Q&A Reality Check: What sort of jaws would a venomous and omnivorous creature have to carry a human in its mouth?

A book that I'm currently writing called Surge features an enemy faction called the Degenerates that are heavily inspired by the Scythians (Indo-Iranian horse nomads that ruled the Eurasian Steppe ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arbiter Elegante‭

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Q&A What aquatic creatures would survive a large-end mass extinction?

I want this world to have two things, typically on the complete opposite end of geological timescales: Land fauna is incredibly "Young" - Pretty much nothing larger than a "large" insect (Some li...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Andon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A What evolutionary advantages would limiting cells per organism give?

My previous question was how to classify a domain (now superdomain) of duocellular life named Duotorusa. Anyone who has taken high school biology know that all life on earth are divided into th...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A What is the best apex predator to thin the zombie herds?

A global epidemic of H1Z2 virus has rendered 95% of the population into zombies. The zombies have lost most of their frontal and temporal lobes so the following capabilities are either severely de...

18 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Green‭

Question fauna zombies
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Q&A Animal life on a planet orbiting a red dwarf

I am envisioning a world around a red dwarf star. The planet has violent and accelerated (due to higher geological activity) plate tectonics and has a magnetic field about 75% the strength of the E...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A How would two Jackalopes fight each other?

Considering a world with Jackalopes. These half-rabbit half-antelope creatures stand a little over 2 feet long when fully grown and have horns like a deer growing 1 to 2 feet in length. Like deer...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Kallmanation‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Kallmanation‭

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Q&A Snake with a head on both ends

What sort of biological challenges and modifications would it take to create a snake with a head on both ends? Assume that said snake is created by a deity and thus some complicated evolution path...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JustSnilloc‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JustSnilloc‭

Question biology fauna anatomy
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Q&A How could a mammal develop that has long legs but lives in a semi aquatic area?

This probably sounds fairly ridiculous- I know, but in short I've been developing a sort of future earth. It's not extraordinarily accurate, but I've been trying to at least keep the obvious in che...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by CAGIG‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by CAGIG‭

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Q&A Would it be possible to lasso an emu-like bird without harming it?

Think Moa, very big bird, kept as livestock in a western-ish world. Could they be safely lassoed? Their necks are quite long and, I imagine, delicate, at least when compared to cattle or horses. If...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Rebecca Hancock‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rebecca Hancock‭

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Q&A Are there any reasons why a dinosaurian creature wouldn't be able to have a thoracic hump?

I recently asked a question regarding whether or not a fictional theropod dinosaur-like creature I created could feasibly raise and lower its head which sported a number of large horns. I receive...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Joseph Rouleau‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Joseph Rouleau‭

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Q&A Mating ritual where female chases male?

Mating rituals are various behaviours, serving as a precursor to copulation in almost all animal species. In general these serve to aid the females of the species to pick out a mate. They can be in...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by AngelPray‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by AngelPray‭

Question sex fauna behaviour
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Q&A A Human Hunter with Sonic Powers?

As part of Fortnightly topic challenge #3: Creature Design I am looking for a realistic way to create a particularly nasty creature. What I would like: A creature that is capable of emitting a ...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by James‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by James‭

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Q&A Animals with natural biological harpoons, any particular edge which they would have over other predators?

So I was thinking of a land animal with a biological harpoon, I'm not 100% sure why it would evolve with it. Details of it would be: Quadrupedal Medium-sized (similar to a pony) and would hunt s...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Matthew Ng‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Matthew Ng‭

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Q&A Releasing a T-Rex into a modern ecosystem wouldn't be that bad, right?

T-Rex Forever LLC has a mating pair of Tyrannosaurus rex. They're a bit shady on how they got them, time travel, cloning...they won't say. Third-party biologists and paleontologists have examined...

9 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Green‭

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Q&A Reasons for my dark ages world to have no horses at all

I am writing a fiction set in the 'dark ages', a pre-industrial, pre-gunpowder world. On Earth that would be no later than 800 AD, but this doesn't have to match Earth. There is no magic, and I won...

23 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A Which astronomical or cosmological event would explain periodical low-grav-effect on earth-like planet?

Imagine an earth-like planet on which gravity is reduced by 20%-30% every 15 months. The low-grav-effect should start slowly, reaching its peak/bottom of round about 0.7 g after 6 weeks and should ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Aertemis‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aertemis‭

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Q&A What would the biosphere look like with a constant twilight/midnight sun?

In this fantasy world there is no day/night but a constant mild light. There are also no seasons and the mild light is akin to the light at dawn or dusk. The sun doesn't really exist. How would th...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Ryan P‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ryan P‭

Question biology fauna flora
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Q&A How quickly could animals evolve?

So, in the world I'm creating, humans have meddled with animals in order to create unicorns, dragons, jackalopes ect. However, some of these animals were more powerful and intelligent than intended...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Fia94‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Fia94‭

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