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Q&A What clothes would flying-people wear?

If there were people with wings, who didn't want to be naked all the time, what clothing could they wear, without it interfering with their flying? Note: I am assuming arm-wings, like birds, but y...

13 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Master Chef‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Master Chef‭

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Q&A Tusks of a Cyclops

It has been said that one of the inspirations of the Cyclops of Greek mythology was from a skull of a dwarf elephant. Being twice the size of a human, people interpreted the nasal cavity (for the t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by TGCF ‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by TGCF ‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct City-leveling monster

In many fantasy stories, dragons are portrayed as giantic monsters that can destroy cities, if not, then at least a castle. Now, we can theoretically create something flight-capable even with mass...

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

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Q&A How could a scientifically plausible Rust Monster quickly erode iron-based metal objects?

Rust Monsters are one the few original monsters in D&D that didn't fade into obscurity. Probably because of their ability to turn James' favourite metal items into dust. Rust monsters are ba...

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

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Q&A Could an electroreceptor organ work above water?

Could a species with an incredibly advanced electroreceptive organ (such as that of a shark) be able to use it above water? The gas-mix in which the sense works must be breathable to humans, and it...

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

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Dancing Brooms

Consider the following GIF: The brooms from this Fantasia scene are always busy. They dance around energetically in a military-like march, never stopping to rest. When their wizard overlord is o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by overlord - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by overlord - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Dragons have an armor that is similar to that of sungazer lizards. Why would the dragons have the spikes as well?

A Smaug giganteus. If you do as much as think about slaying it, I'll force feed you gasoline and shove a match down your throat. Sungazers are awesome. They're so awesome I decided to base some p...

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

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Q&A is it possible for biological creature to spew/breath explosion instead?

i want to make my dragon spew/breath explosion mix with the gizzard stone fragments/shrapnel rather than common fire breath like a flamethrower but more like a shotgun. so is there any explosion c...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Li Jun‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Li Jun‭

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Q&A Could this organism be viable?

I was wondering how the species described below could survive in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate zones and in mountains, forests, wetlands, deserts, open plains, rainforests and coastal a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by A Morningstar‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by A Morningstar‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Hippocampus

The Hippocampus is a mythological creature and has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish. Considerations Gills or lungs? Would this creatu...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by QuiquÈ…‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by QuiquÈ…‭

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Q&A Anatomically correct sharknado shark

Raining animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history. One hypothesis is tha...

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

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Q&A Humans with a scorpion-like tail?

I'm trying to create a new race of humanoids that are in appearance almost identical to humans with one exception: They have an extension of their spine protruding from their back, much like a tail...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Chooba‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chooba‭

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Q&A is it biologically possible for a creature that can be compatible to reproduce with any creature?

just as the title, my question is can it possible for a creature that can reproduce with any/all creature despite it was different species/family? (not the alien xenomorph or parasite one/way but r...

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

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Q&A Anatomically correct metalhead, part 2 - physiology

In the Land of Metal, there exists a tribe that has upheld the gospel of Manowar with such zeal that it modified their bodies. Metalheads descend from humans, and may look human at a glance. A mor...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Renan‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Renan‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Slimes

Slimes are a common monster we often see in games such as Minecraft, Terraria and Slime Rancher, but it is never explained how such an animal can exist. How could the body of such an animal even ex...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Could two separate creatures' health, or life, be dependent on each other?

This is a question for an alien species. Is there anyway to scientifically justify having two separate beings/creatures that depend on each other for life? In other words, two separate bodies tha...

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

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Q&A Giant bug noises

I understand, vaguely, how human voices vary with the overall size/shape of the individual(s vocal chords), and I can use that to make reasonable assumptions about what the voice of non-human fanta...

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

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Baku

In the mythological stories of the Baku, they eat the nightmares of those who call upon it, but if not satisfied they will eat the hopes and dreams of their summoners. Since the visual portion of ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by foul fowl‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by foul fowl‭

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Q&A Most effective shaped horn (horns)/ crest for a head butting human?

If a human /human shaped creature were to have a horn, horns or crest on their head, what shape, positioning and number of horns would be the best for the most damage? The human will be very muscu...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭

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Q&A Design for a long and short distance radio wave communicating lifeform

Having read previous questions on radio wave communication on biological creatures would it make sense for race of alien creatures to have developed dish like bone structures for radio wave communi...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭

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Q&A movement of space animals

Animals on planets are so 20th century - let's herd us some space animals! In this story I have the need to move a herd of pesky space animals. They like Suns for their juicy solar energy and hydr...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Nahshon paz‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nahshon paz‭

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Q&A If mammals with paws were to evolve to have human hands or fingers what would their paws/pads look like if they still retain it?

Inspired by One Piece by Eichiro Oda. from https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Nikyu_Nikyu_no_Mi Fiction has many examples of humanoid animals - things like lycans or werewolves, cat/dog/rabbit fo...

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

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Dreel

The Dreel are a parasitic alien hive-mind from The Return of Nathan Brazil, book four in the Well of Souls series by Jack Chalker. Specifically, they are described as viruses which induce intellig...

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

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Q&A How could a creature get off a planet without technology?

Imagine a spacefaring creature, one that colonises star systems, and then shoots some of its kind on to another system (the mechanism for doing this doesn't matter). The question is, how could thi...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Gryphon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A what liquid or substance for rainbow colours oil patterned alien skin?

I was thinking of an alien humanoid charcter for my super powered beings story that would be completely black and faceless with similarities to venom and its strings of symbiotic goo but this chara...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Aizen-sama‭

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Charybdis

Is there a realistic way that a Charybdis-like creature could evolve? Starting with roughly earth-like biology, what is the closest plausible creature to the mythical Charybdis that could exist? ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Gryphon‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Gryphon‭

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Q&A Cool way to see through fog and darkness

My planet is frequently set with thick fog. What is the best way to have its residents see accurately? One species called Hell Fires fall from the sky, landing on top of prey and killing it. How...

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

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Q&A In what sort of environment might a species with biological wheels evolve, and what would they look like?

So for a thought experiment I came up with the idea of a species that uses wheels for locomotion, sort of inspired by a species shown in His Dark Materials. Under what circumstances would such a sp...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Cloud Striker‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Cloud Striker‭

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Q&A Living without a heart

Rules: No magic Eat, drink, and breathe air (mammal/reptile(amphibian ok)) Intelligent life form (no jellyfish or single-celled organisms) No artificial hearts (unless really ingenious, no swappi...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by depperm‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by depperm‭

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Q&A Living buildings

I imagine a biological creature, let's call it 'Marco' for now. Marco can vomit living slimes that survive by attaching to the ground and by doing photosynthesis, at first soft can be shaped and...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ekaen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Ekaen‭

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Q&A Would humans outcompete sequential hermaphrodites?

I want to have a species based on humans, where everyone is born as female, but switches gender to male later in their life. Assuming that transformation takes 4 years (*) hermaphrodite is born as ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Yuvato‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Yuvato‭

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Q&A Bones for bigger creatures

Aye so, so I been thinking about the square cube law and such and I was wondering if say, for a humanoid or a human or some creature, to be larger than average but keep similar proportions to the o...

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

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Q&A Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals

The fixedness of body plans varies widely across different types of Earthling organisms. At one extreme, you have things like tardigrades, for which every individual of any given species has exactl...

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

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Q&A Anthropomorphic flying squirrel, gliding capability

(maybe this should be part of the "anatomically correct" series. If so, feel free to edit accordingly, as I don't know how to add it to that list) Could a roughly human sized, human weight, biped...

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

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Q&A How do semi-sapient yeti/ogres live in the wild?

Assume that a species of bigfoot-type animal/person exists. Most of this also applies to ogres or trolls, whatever big dumb giants your particular setting has. My world's specs: They range 7-10 f...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Maddock Emerson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Maddock Emerson‭

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Q&A What are the benefits and disadvantages if a creature has multiple tails, e.g., Kyuubi or Nekomata?

Since a lot of people are already asking about multiple-headed creatures, I wonder what about multiple tails? Such as kyuubi, nekomata, etc. (I know some have asked about these mythical creatures, ...

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

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Q&A What is the maximum equilibrium temperature that a mammal could evolve to tolerate?

Mammals live in some fairly extreme environments, but the most heat-tolerant ones all seem to cheat: e.g., they dig burrows to stay cool during the day and come out at night, avoiding the heat, or ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Logan R. Kearsley‭

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Q&A What organs or modifications would be needed for a life biological creature not to require sleep?

I mean literally not sleeping for the rest of their life, not like giraffes that only require short rests, or dolphins that can sleep with half of their brain at a time, or like otters and sharks t...

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

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Q&A Would it be possible for my fantasy creature to have black blood?

A friend of mine has a race of creatures in her headworld and has been wondering about a biological answer to justify the color of her race's blood even though magic is a bit sprinkled in there. ...

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

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Q&A Creatures that intentionally blow themselves up

How could a creature explode itself? Why would it? We see example ideas of these all the time (Scourges, creepers, etc.) but nobody ever said how or why a creature would intentionally explode. I...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Caleb Woodman‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Caleb Woodman‭

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Q&A What could make an insect race intelligent?

TL;DR: I want a society which behaves as a hive. Is it plausible and how to achieve this? The setup: Different planet in our universe. In other words: Normal, physical rules apply, there is no mag...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A How Would Weightless Creature Steer Itself In The Air? (Can It Sail?)

Gravity does exist in this world, and so does air and clouds. But this creature only has enough weight to stay in the air without falling or being lifted up. It's big like a whale and it does have ...

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

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Q&A Can a feathered wing be also compliant?

So, to quote pterosaur.net: Unlike the wings of birds, the wings of pterosaurs would have tended to change shape under aerodynamic load - something often referred to as 'passive cambering'....

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

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Q&A Bioluminescent microorganisms in everything

Is it possible for a bioluminescent organism to be so pervasive in an environment, that creatures who eat it (because it's in plants for example) also start to glow? It doesn't have to be a bright ...

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

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Q&A The right size for dragons

Note: size here denotes the physical dimension(s) taken up by the creature in a natural, idling posture One of the many fantasy tropes that make me want to Fahrenheit 451 contemporary fantasy lit...

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

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Q&A How would a quadruped walk with one limb longer than the rest?

I have a (digitigrade) quadrupedal alien creature with one of it's front limbs having a longer metatarsals, I'm trying to visualise how it would walk with this deformity for an animation. I'm havi...

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

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Rigorous Science Is there a reason that females passing on more than 1/2 of their genetics to the child would be unlikely to evolve?

On the earth today most animals use a two sex mating system where male and female provide the same amount of genetics to the resulting offspring, despite the fact that in many cases the female prov...

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

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Q&A What would a biological creature need in order to see into the future?

Inspired by the Paycheck and Minority Report movies. So far as I can tell, physical time travel is impossible for humans, and so I searched to see the future possible scientific or theoretical pos...

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

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Q&A What metals other than calcium can be used to create alien bones that won't also engender a human-toxic environment?

Edit: Okay, truth be known that this question was part of a set of 5 related questions that I was recommended to break up into individual posts (in their original form, the comments had no trouble ...

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

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Q&A Could a hexapodal bat actually fly?

Sequel to this question. Basically, I've been designing an intelligent avian race based on bats. After reading through some of the answers for the linked question, I've decided that these bats wil...

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