Posts by Canina
This question is a bit of an outgrowth of Can you simply scale up animals?, but it does approach it from a different angle. "All else equal" (which it of course never is, but we're good at pretend...
I'm going to talk about Earth below, but since you say "an Earth-like planet", consider that just an space-saving measure. Take an Earth-like planet, about the same size, composition and gravit...
In a story I am working on, I need a scene in which one of the main characters finds himself outside in precarious weather conditions, unable to see unaided much farther out than an armlength or so...
Venoms have evolved in certain classes of animals on Earth (notably snakes and frogs, but also fish and maybe elsewhere that I can't think of right now), sometimes for defense and sometimes (partic...
I'm going to take one of your examples here: the desert planet. Is that realistic and plausible? It turns out that it is realistic. Wikipedia describes a desert thusly: A desert is a barren area...
We are used to a world where humans are basically an apex predator; we don't really need to worry much about becoming some other animal's next meal. If that wasn't the case, and humans had to be w...
Actually, and as also pointed out, auroras are sometimes seen in temperate latitudes on Earth, so are not restricted to high latitudes only (although they tend to be more common there). Taking Wik...
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