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Q&A Feasibility of creatures with long forelimbs?

I'm working on a novel that takes place in a fictional universe which involves creatures with long forelimbs and short hind limbs. Some of these creatures includes amphibians , reptilians and mamma...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Pierre ‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Pierre ‭

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Q&A Could there be a being made of gas complex enough to be sentient?

Basically, could a gas stick together enough to be internally coherent, and act like animal cells? Or is there zero chance of that happening?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by simon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by simon‭

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Q&A Which developmental pathway makes more sense?

So, I thought I had the hunger related bioluminescence for my Keplerians figured out. That once the hunger hormone reaches a certain threshold, the hormone receptors on some cells of a bioluminesce...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Caters‭

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Q&A How to minimize the required energy for this level of monster activity?

Conventional monsters won't cut it. They whine and cry too much when fighting, they give up and go down too easily, mostly because of malnutrition since Jimmy, The Dark Lord, forgot he can't grow p...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Can reptiles evolve like primates?

I'm writing about a fictional world where reptiles evolved and became the dominant species on a planet. on this planet an extinction event never occurred and reptiles still remained the dominant sp...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Pierre ‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Pierre ‭

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Q&A Scientific explanation for summoned creatures

Throughout the ages, The Summoners were a prominent family of mages (but technology is magic here), who possess the ability to call forth creatures from cards. Of course they can only summon creatu...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A How would a creature like this work?

This lifeform is a carbon based humanoid that uses ammonia instead of water, breathes chlorine gas, and its body uses the mineral olivine to toughen its skin. Its blood is blue; apparently an ammon...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭

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Q&A Internal chemistry of a melon bomb

I am a giant, intelligent, fortress-like, plant-based organism, able to forge many structures, defenses and organisms from my flesh by altering my own DNA and rapidly growing new constructs wheneve...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Cobbington‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Cobbington‭

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Q&A Feasibility of a species based on Nyarlethotep (of HP Lovecraft lore)

Nyarlethotep (the crawling chaos, the evil with a thousand forms, the messenger of the outer gods) originates from the literature of HP Lovecraft and is by far one of the most evil, sadistic, and i...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A Genetic engineering for sea people (false merfolk)

What adaptations are needed for human-derived sea-dwellers? My people are not the classic half-fish, nor are they whale-tail-people - they wear ankle-length swimming skirts that bind their legs in...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by arp‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by arp‭

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Q&A Feasibility of a species based on Yog Sothoth (HP Lovecraft lore)

in the Cthulhu mythos, yog sothoth is depicted as a mass of splitting and fusing orbs, it is the past, present, and future and seemingly knows everything. but for the sake of trying to make it real...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A How would it be possible for a kaiju size carnivore dinosaur to survive with no eyes?

So I'm almost done with my draft of a story I'm writing. And I just got a random question popped into my head. Is it possible for Zues (the kaiju size dino) to survive? I already got a little bit o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by KittyPuppooski‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by KittyPuppooski‭

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Q&A Feasibility of flesh pillars

In the future, humanity has discovered countless worlds, some filled with life and others not. Likewise, they discover another world that is habitable, they study its various ecosystems, it's var...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A How would a monster decay without leaving as much as a trace?

This question is supposed to explain the phenomenon in fiction that I affectionately call the "clean death", where a dead monster disintegrates after being slain. Normally this would be explained b...

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

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Q&A Plausibility of a creature made of ice or other low melting point materials

When I was younger I came up with a creature that seemed to contradict itself. It was made of some frozen material, but it had a large back fin in order to get warmth from the sun. I'm revisiting t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭

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Q&A Feasibility of space faring centipedes

In the distant future, humanity has encountered, made peace and wars with countless advanced civilizations, but one civilization that still baffles them, is the race of intelligent centipedes. The...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A Xenomorph-like creature but with a Base instead of Acid as blood

I'm looking to build a horror type sci-fi game based on the Alien franchise. My question comes in trying to differentiate my alien from the Xenomorphs. I want hurting it with a melee weapon to be i...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Glenn Driver‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Glenn Driver‭

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Q&A Proofing dragons against their acidic breath weapon 1/2: Smart Neutralizing Agent

So, dragons here use aqua regia (an acid that dissolves even gold) as their breath weapon. This acid is made up of the dragon's stomach acid and some nitric acid, stored in a separate organ. On to...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Rigorous Science Would a large gliding predator be viable?

Most animals that glide are rather light and small. Flying squirrels, Colugos, and sugar gliders all weigh but a few ounces. The largest gliding predators are snakes of the Chrysopelea genus. Agai...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by NixonCranium‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by NixonCranium‭

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Q&A Is my fire resistant megafauna plausible?

For my project there is an environment with a very rapid fire regime due to the usual stuff like a dry seasonal climate and dragons. While most animals escape the flames by running, burrowing, or f...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by NixonCranium‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by NixonCranium‭

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Q&A Would a large and venomous mammalian predator be viable?

There are several mammals that are actually venomous. Several species of shrews, Solenodon and the Platypus are all venomous. While the platypus is the largest of these, it uses it in self defense...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by NixonCranium‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by NixonCranium‭

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Q&A Fictional Space Plague - Pandemic - Does this timeline make sense?

For a book that I'm working on I am plotting out various points in time to make sure my plot is following accordingly. I apologize in advance for the lengthy post. It is a fungus-like infection tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Nick Quillin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nick Quillin‭

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Q&A adaptations for land-based octopuses

This is a follow up question to: How realistic is the Swampus? What adaptations would current octopus have to evolve, to become land based, meaning that they spend at least 1/3 of their time on la...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Jonathan Böcker‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Jonathan Böcker‭

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Q&A How did the Booze-Rat evolve its defensive mechanism?

In a specialised organ, the Vesica Spirite, which in function and makeup resembles a cross between the Ventriculus and the Vesica Biliaris, the animal creates and stores potent spirits by the me...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by dot_Sp0T‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dot_Sp0T‭

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Q&A Defensive adaptations for lagomorphs

We all know how rabbits and hares escape ending up being a meal to a fox or a hawk, with long ears to hear danger coming, burrowing, long and powerful hind legs for speed and also living a social l...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A Science Fiction Fungal Disease - Spore Germination Through Coughing

So I'm working on this new novel with a fungal-like disease that is alien in nature and I have a question pertaining to spore germination. Some background - the disease is fungal-like, but not nec...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Nick Quillin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nick Quillin‭

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Q&A How realistic is the Swampus?

In the 2002 documentary the future is wild, numerous biologists and other scientists speculated about the future evolution of various species. In the '100 million years in the future' segment, the...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Jonathan Böcker‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Jonathan Böcker‭

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Q&A Biological Coolant System for Massive Organisms

The larger an animal, the harder it is to cool down. Ignoring the problem of bone/muscle strength vs size/weight and saying an animal could get to outlandish sizes, would a second cardiovascular sy...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Aezyc‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Aezyc‭

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Q&A Could you make Bat wings shaped like the different kinds of Bird wings?

I've been designing an an intelligent, bat-inspired avian race, and I've been struck with a question that I need answered. Now, I want to have these bats to fulfill different types of ecological n...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Lot-Of-Malarkey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lot-Of-Malarkey‭

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Q&A Dragon's Blood - If it was a realistic animal what would be the color of its blood?

It is typical of fantasy stories that there will be a dragon somewhere down the line. They are typically the strongest boss right before or after the main antagonist. Now the question is what colo...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by mico villena‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by mico villena‭

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Q&A How can a large creature be deceptively fast?

So as I was creating a variety of creatures I wondered if speed is exclusive to smaller creatures or if a large organism could move deceptively fast to take prey or predator by surprise. This is as...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can an amorphous creature change viscocity at will?

In my fantasy setting, slimes are a species of giant (about eight cubic feet), single-celled amoeba. They have the ability to freely change their state and viscocity, being able to "melt" into a sl...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Cobbington‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Cobbington‭

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Q&A Substance that changes quickly from liquid/gelatinous to solid?

Question: does a liquid or gelatinous substance exist that once outside a body could solidify and be hard enough to be used once as a tool? The setting is low fantasy without magic, yet with creat...

13 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TinyTinkerWorkshop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by TinyTinkerWorkshop‭

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Q&A Tree Shape on a Tidally Locked World

I'm designing a tidally locked world around a red dwarf star. The habitable ring is an Earth analogue. The atmosphere and gravity are similar to Earth's, and we're going to pretend the wind is negl...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 4: respiratory system

Previous parts here: Creating a scientificly semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton Creating a scientificly semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous system Creating a scientificly semi-valid ...

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

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Q&A Plausibility of hollow horns?

I am working on creating a species where they have hollow horns (the horns have evolved to the point of being mostly for display and minor neck protection so they do not have to be super sturdy) so...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Snifferdragon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Snifferdragon‭

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Q&A The human and horse parts' growth speed is different in centaurs. Why is that flaw still present?

So, centaurs are half-human, half-horse creatures that are usually portrayed in myth as wild, violent and animalistic. Now, I, Lucretius, found a good explanation why. The answer is in the growth ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Could a creature carry its own biome and be self-sustaining?

Could a creature carry its own ecosystem around with it? What traits would it need to make this viable? These self-sufficient creatures are native to planet which is for the most part frozen and ...

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

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Q&A Can a horse-sized flying creature grab and carry a human's weight while flying?

As you know, mythical animals like the gryphon, dragon, wyvern, roc, etc can carry things as they fly. For a big creature to fly, it either needs to massively increase the spread of their wings or...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Li Jun‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Li Jun‭

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Q&A How large can a flying insect get and still be able to walk upside down?

Given the perfect environment, denser atmosphere, oxygen rich, maybe lower gravity, how large can a flying insect get and still be able to walk upside down on a surface? This question starts to ta...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RandySavage‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RandySavage‭

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Q&A How would a tripedal animal walk?

Animals on Earth have 2 or 4 legs they use for walking. On another world, however, animals have 3. I want to know how these animals will walk. How will their legs be placed and how will they move t...

19 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mike Nichols‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mike Nichols‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Diggy Diggy Dwarfs

The song Diggy Diggy Hole makes some questionable assertions about dwarven anatomy. Specifically: Born underground Suckled from a teat of stone Raised in the dark The safety of o...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭

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Q&A Is it possible for a race of man-eating shape shifters to live in secret on earth unnoticed by humans?

This is for a story I'm working on. These creatures are what the Native American myth of the Wendigo originated from. Their origins are a mystery, but they need to feed on human flesh at least once...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Enesi Majebi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Enesi Majebi‭

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Q&A How would an animal make concussive sound waves from its mouth?

Think of a thunderdrum from the How To Train Your Dragon movies for its large mouth, but it has a wingless centaur shaped body. It has a large head that can open its mouth wide. How would it create...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭

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Q&A Perissodactylian Cetaceans

Perissodactyla is an order of mammals consisting currently of the seventeen species of horses, rhinoceroses and tapirs. Usually, any clade is connected by a coupling of genetics and physical morph...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A How to evolve sapient bats

On a planet the same as Earth, with no other sapient creatures, how could a Pteropus evolve sapience?

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Could a carbon based lifeform use the mineral olivine in its structure? Why would it?

Have a creature from a dream. It's a carbon based humanoid creature partly made of the mineral olivine. Could there be any reason it might contain this mineral? Perhaps a show of health - the more ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chickenpeep Chickenpeep‭

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Q&A Land running Octopoid anatomy

This question is based off videos of octopi running using their tentacles curled under and their body raised from the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qzi88k3aM I saw this question Anato...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RandySavage‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RandySavage‭

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Q&A How low can the density of a living creature be?

In the anime, called Attack on Titan, the primary antagonists are these huge, humanoid creatures, called titans. Titans have sizes between 15 and 4 meters. Larger titans aren't unknown, but they s...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Design Criteria for non humanoid aliens anatomy

I am trying to find out if I have thought of the correct anatomy requirements for designing non humanoid alien species. I am designing as many different biological species as I can with the aim of ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by RandySavage‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RandySavage‭