Activity for ProjectApex
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What are the most likely effects of a human(oid) shape moving at Mach 50 to the surrounding environment? For the purposes of my story, seen here someone who went through a similar procedure involving parallel dimensions (see here), becomes nearly indestructible , invulnerable to damage related to excessive heat and fully capable of moving, reacting to stimuli and processing information at the speed of M... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: biologically or anatomically is there a problem with this type of double mouth or jaws? Not gonna lie here, that looks way more like an disadvantage than an advantage. The main problem here is that this seems like an unnecessary redundancy. Yes, morays have 2 sets of Jaws, but the secondary set is inside the mouth and helps pull prey inside. In this case, rather than help, the second j... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Can one (re)learn empathy if they have the necessary structures? In my world, I plan for an alien pathogen to cause drastic mutations in all lifeforms, reshaping animals and humans alike in a scenario of near inversion of positions, with animals achieving human-level brains and with many growing in size, while human minds degrade to something more primitive, not a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Rewiring the way one views his kind In my post apocalyptic world, a virus has spread, essentially changing the roles, with infected animals gaining sentience and intellect close to a human and humans degrading into a more animalistic, instinctive version (plus the violent physical changes cliché) . Patient zero, however, was an except... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Are flexible digits viable for both running and climbing? I'm basically designing a quadrupedal digitigrade alien, which has evolved from a predominantly arboreal animal into a predator with more cursorial adaptations, capable of running fast, but still being able to climb well. It's 4 limbs possess 2 opposable digits and 2 middle digits used both for runni... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Is knuckle walking possible in a cursorial animal? In an alien world, due to changes in the ecosystem animals that were once mostly arboreal started having to spend more time in open plains, adapting to fill a new niche of grasslands/bush eaters and predators. The predator in question evolved from a creature with long, four- fingered limbs, employin... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Using a melon organ on land. Plausible? In my story, set in an earth-like world, a marine species that had evolved a melon organ, much like that found in our dolphins, made its way back into the "land" (a large system of underground caves), re-evolving its limbs and making use of its echolocation to thrive, as the other predator species of... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Can an animal develop a facial disk through muscle and bone alone? In some birds especially owls, we can observe a structure called facial disk, which is mainly composed of feathers and helps to direct sound to their ears. While being more common in owls, adding up to their asymmetrical ears to result in great hearing capabilities, this trait is also observed in har... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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With dunkle-like Jaws, how long could the neck be? The Apex predator of the Sea of Grass biome from planet Andromeda is mostly bipedal, but capable of facultative quadrupedalism, it has long limbs, powerful claws on its hands and is roughly the size of an utahraptor, but with a neck that can be from twice to thrice as long. It is a pursuit predator, ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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What is the most effective location for spinnerets in a vertebrate? In the large pillar forests of planet x, a group of vertebrates, in order to hunt down the fast climbing creatures that inhabit their habitat, rather than developing speed as well, went on another evolutionary path than its fellow vertebrates: they became ambush predators, making use of 2 (or more) s... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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2 elbowed forelimbs: advantageous or detrimental? On plain Pilar forest biome of planet X, you have mostly 3 types of vertebrates: those who burrow under the ground those who run through the widely separated trees those who live above ground level, calling the colossal plants home and hardly coming down. In this scenario, one creature adapted t... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Humanoid Bioweapon: what can stay and what has to go? I'm working on a bioweapon created by an extraterrestrial agent. The being is 2.5 m tall, humanoid, digitigrade, intelligent and mostly predatory. However, it does not require water, food or oxygen to survive (let's say it is sustained by "bullshynthesis"), though it can do so to get raw materials it... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Is it possible to have a skeleton with selective hardness? There has been materials science research on materials that can harden and soften at need. In nature, we have the example of the sea cucumber, which can go from a squishy compressible state to a rigid state through special fibers in their skin. Knowing this, could a humanoid predatory organism wit... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Can a "boneless" flying creature exist? The creature was originally a human, altered by an external agent that basically remade its body (carbon based). The creature is roughly 2 meters and relatively light. It is humanoid and boneless, with muscles much like an octopus, having similar compressibility skills, but also has a series of inter... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |