Posts by shieldedtulip
What would cause the temporary migration of a carnivore/scavenger avian species, normally inhabiting a temperate to tropical region, to a much colder one. It's a seasonal migration, but also a r...
Could a continent roughly the size of Europe, Africa and North-America combined be formed almost entirely due to volcanic action? Something with a similar formation to this. From a chain of vol...
On my world a jellyfish type of animal exists, it's an aquatic animal of course and extremely dangerous as it consumes anything organic it touches. It's thin and wide, like a fleshy transparent bl...
How big could a moon be before its orbit became too unstable or tidally locked to a planet about 1.6 times larger than Earth. Planet BlinketyBlink is on a similar orbit (to that of earth's) aroun...
This is a sequel to my previous question How big could a moon be before its orbit became too unstable or tidally locked to its planet OK, let's imagine that the thing everyone thought was a moon w...
The moon seems gigantic and is extremely bright. The planet BlinketyBlink has a mass of 1.6 Earth masses and a single large moon which orbits it at about 240 000 miles/386 242 km. The moon Toten...
How intelligent would an animal(land bound animal) have to be to not fear fire? It's unable to make it or control it, but when a person is sitting by one, and while other animals act more traditio...
Picture a band of happy campers, literal campers, sitting around some fires. Suddenly they feel their inner-ear "filling up" and after mere instants the ears begin popping, as if they were inside ...
What could I "use" to cause a population wide long-term memory loss. So far all chemicals that I have read about cause future memory loss. That is to say, if you are exposed to it today, tomorrow ...
How powerful would a series of explosions have to be to significantly change a planet's axial tilt? In my universe they have highly energy efficient crystals, not only do they store energy but the...
I am trying to think of animals that would make the strongest enemy for humans if they were bred in a laboratory. My goal is to have an animal that begins by being used in a benign, controlled way...