cobaltduck‭

I request some help with the design of one particular denizen of my fantasy world, tentatively named Boar Troll. It needs to be an ungulate or closely related creature with emerging sentience, and...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by cobaltduck‭

As far as we are currently aware, the most intelligent things in the oceans are the cetaceans (dolphins and whales) and the pinnipeds (seals, walrus, sea lions). Further, it is more tempting to wa...

posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

On the Life Ball of my fantasy stories, a particular species of delphinidae- I call them black dolphins- have evolved and advanced at least as much as humans and other intelligent races. A prior q...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

Based on an answer of mine from a few months ago, I've been inspired to adapt the concept to my own Life Ball. Fair warning- this question and some of its links are not for the squeamish. May con...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

I think the result will be very similar to what happens here on this Earth during a solar eclipse. I like this quote from http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/what_you_see.htm: You'll get the shrin...

posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

This exists. In Botswana, the Okavango River branches out to create a wide, swampy area called, appropriately enough, the Okavango Delta. To quote the first line from the Wikipedia entry (emphasi...

posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

You've heard the expression whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger? Well, in some cases, what does kill a few of us, leaves the average of what's left of us stronger. Consider a couple real-l...

posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by cobaltduck‭

Your creature needs to accomplish two things: 1) escape velocity and 2) survive the harshness of space, all without the benefit of so much as a sharpened stick or flake of rock. This is going to b...

posted 8y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by cobaltduck‭

Welcome to the "Big Island" of Hawaii Using your own list: A Forest: the island is dominated by Tropical Rainforest A lake: Lake Waiau A snowy mountaintop: Mauna Kea A desert: Ka'u A bustling mo...

posted 7y ago by cobaltduck‭

Your own question, a prior answer, and a comment collective already give us several parameters: The human body must be able to produce the sound. The sound must not attract the notice of others. ...

posted 7y ago by cobaltduck‭

You need to make their anatomies, societies, means of communication, nature of technology, and other seemingly small details so radically different from each other, that even when they see each oth...

posted 7y ago by cobaltduck‭

Reptilian with multiple opposing digits? Sounds like chameleons: photo source Yes, our little Madagascan color-changing friends already have the arrangement you are looking for. Why? Because...

posted 7y ago by cobaltduck‭

Like the comments already state several times, your whole idea is a long-shot. But given that, perhaps your planet can have some set of conditions that provide the Mother of All El Niño - La Niña ...

posted 6y ago by cobaltduck‭

Schmell gets the snow. Man, does it get the snow. You think it snows where you live? You should see the snow in Schmell! To walk around on all the deep, white, frozen precipitation, it helps to...

posted 6y ago by cobaltduck‭

Real World (TM) sea turtles might not have teeth, but they do have esophageal papillae that are quite gruesome to look at, but help the turtle snare and consume jelly fish. These hard, spiky proj...

posted 6y ago by cobaltduck‭