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>>1034440
Alright so posted in the OP Post is the playable organisms that you can use for evolutionary purposes in this thread. Got a nice little dossier of info for each of them. (Slight embellishments made to maintain a sense of realism)

Present Setting: We revisit Rienia at a time period similar to Janus' as it is entering the transitional period between the Ordiamentian and the new Sulioaic Era. This transition between the areas saw a gradual drop in surface temperatures on the surface, leading to the expansion of the Rienia's ice caps. Despite this volcanic activity is still frequent and will soon return global temperature to normal. Underwater, life can now stably live in the abyssal trenches of deep ocean, with the stabilization of the seafloor crust. Opportunities are abundant for life on Rienia in this new era.

--Organism Advancement--
> Plant Organisms may be as large as the size 8 increment as stated here
> Plant Organisms may now inhabit the deep sea, and the coastlines of Rienia.
> Animal Organisms may be as large as the size 7 increment as stated here
> Animal Organisms may now start evolving a respiratory system.
> Carbon-based nutrients/minerals, along with Silicates, Calcium, Iron, and Selenium are present in the environment and may be incorporated into an organisms diet/evolutions if desired.

--Planet Statistics--
Atmosphere: 77% Nitrogen, 10% Oxygen, 3% Sulfur Oxide, 4% Helium, 4% Carbon Dioxide, 2% Other Gases
Average Global Temperature: 71°F (22°C)
Tectonics: Present; Active, Earth-like
Volcanic Activity: Frequent
Weather Systems: Turbulent Storm Systems

--Organism Advancement--
> Organisms may be as large as the size 4 increment as state below.
> Organisms currently locked to the oceans of Reinia. No landlubbers
> Silicates, Calcium, Iron, and Selenium are present in the environment and may be incorporated into an organisms diet/evolutions if desired.

--Size Increments--
• Size 1: Sugar Ant (0.1 - 1 cm)
• Size 2: Bumblebee (1.01 - 2.5 cm)
• Size 3: Mosquitofish (2.5 - 5 cm)
• Size 4: Poison Dart Frog (5 - 10 cm)
• Size 5: Giant Water Bug (11 - 20 cm)
• Size 6: Birdwing Butterfly (21 - 35 cm)
• Size 7: Horseshoe Crab (35 - 70 cm)
• Size 8: Australian Trumpet Snail (71 - 100 cm)
• Size 9: Japanese Giant Salamander (100 - 150 cm)
• Size 10: Aldabra Giant Tortoise (150 - 200 cm)
• Size 11: Leatherback Sea Turtle (2.01 - 2.5 m)
• Size 12: Mekong Giant Catfish (2.5 - 3 m)
• Size 13: Giant Pacific Octopus (3 - 4 m)
• Size 14: Ocean Sunfish (4.1 - 4.6 m)
• Size 15: Tiger Shark (4.6 - 5.2 m)
• Size 16: White Sturgeon (5.2 - 5.8 m)
• Size 17: African Elephant (5.8 - 6.5 m)
• Size 18: Great White Shark (6.5 - 8 m)
• Size 19: Manta Ray (8.1 - 9 m)
• Size 20: Porites Coral Reef Colony (9 - 10.5 m)
• Size 21: Whale Shark (10.5 - 12 m)
• Size 22: Gigantosaurus (12 - 16 m)
• Size 23: Blue Whale (16.1 - 22 m)
• Size 24: Brachiosaurus (22.1 - 30 m)
• Size 25: Smaug, The Desolater (30m+)

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And here is the blank template.

I will be posting the full size images from the previous Phylogeny Chart with the identified organisms seen in Dossier a little later. For now I suggest using this link.

http: suptg thisisnotatrueending com/qstarchive/952839/

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I loved this when it was first made and it feels bad that people arent' all interested in this as they used to

Meels were the best

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>>1034440
The Floutum grow a small cluster of sugary pods near the entrance to their bag. when these are disturbed, they release a cloud of spores, coating whatever organism and spreading them much farther.

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>>1034440
The Eastern Halikot's protection expands to cover more of its body. This increases its mass and thus its effectiveness at ramming prey.

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>>1034440
Some Halikots come to thrive on the sea floor of the shallow waters. Here they serve the role of detrivores, having a mixed diet of dead plants and animals as well as occasional living bryum.

Due to living on the sea floor their skulls change, giving them a better view of what is happening above them.

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>>1034440
Adapting for even more speed, the Southern Halikot's body structure has changed, becoming more vertical and less broad horizontally. With this happening its rear side fins have merged with the dorsal fin into a single large dorsal-caudal fin.

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>>1035108
The Eastern Halikot develops even more reinforcement on the front of its head, the better to ram prey with.

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For easier editing, here are all the species except for the Troca.

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>>1035272
..and here are all the Troc

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the Alsa develops a wider mouth to allow it to have a much more powerful bite, give its mouth a twisted, almost sinister looking, albeit very smug grin, giving it the nickname "grinning alsa". its antennas also develop more, allowing it to much better detect .

"it smiles, because it knows exaclty what happens once it finds you...and trust me it will"

>>1035272
>>1035281

Thank you very much for making this.

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>>1034440
The Byrock Chimney crossbreed, losing their chemical specializations for the ability to survive equally well around any kind of vent. They also grow slightly larger, to absorb more nutrients.

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>>1035418
The Grinning Alsa becomes much darker, letting absorb more heat and detect prey more easily. It becomes nocturnal to capitalize on the color change, becoming almost invisible when compared to it's previous flamboyant color scheme.

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>>1034440
The Melscorp's new headgear makes seeing in front of it a bit of a pain, so they develop a new eye at the front of the body, though this one is far less sensitive than the eyes on the back.

Additionally their hind legs develop into something more closely resembling fins, with a thin membrane attached to a stronger (though smaller) central limb. this increases the force that the limb can apply whilst not compromising it's speed (that much)

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>>1034440
The Western Halikot spends more and more time among plants due to it's diet, and it changes coloration to match. It now acts more like an ambush predator, hiding and feeding among gardens of Byrock until a smaller herbivore comes near. They grow larger eyes to help spot and chase down potential prey amongst the dense foliage.

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>>1036186
The Melscorps frontal facing eye becomes dominant, letting it swim more confidently and spot food or danger more easily. Their brains develop to be more vision-based in order to coordinate the large amount of data they receive from all of their eyes.
It also remembers to use the high-res picture :P

>>1036039
if the alsa continue down this path gen 15 will be terryfying

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>>1036039
the alsa devlops primitive limbs on the sides of its body, allowing it to move and turn faster, making it the worst nightmare of anything small enough to fit in its mouth

>>1035480
hey op, when is the "no land lubbers rules" removed? when should we expect to start preparing for land based life?

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>>1034440
The Hawar develops even better color vision, letting it accurately detect mates from several dozen meters away even in the dark abyss. They can see over a much wider spectrum than pretty much anything else on Rienia, aside from the Nin-sneaka. They grow more vibrant coloration to assist in mating. Also, the digestive system is slightly modified to focus more on plants than other food sources, although they can still subsist on detritus if necessary. This makes them more efficient at processing nutrients, which helps to make up for the increased visibility.

>>1036584
Honestly, even if we could go up on land, I thing it would be jumping the gun a bit. If you consider how long it took earth life to even begin setting "foot" (heh) on land, we probably have a few extinction events to get through before we even start getting plants out of the water.

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>>1034440
The Southern Halikot grows a bony ridge with small slits that lead into it's mouth and are lined with taste buds. These simple nostrils give it a simple sense of smell which is fairly sensitive but not great at identifying direction. Still, it is extremely helpful in navigating and in detecting prey, and soon the Halikot becomes fairly reliant on it. As a result, it's eyes atrophy slightly, losing some color vision and overall becoming less sensitive. The markings around them expand and are used as a sexual display in both genders.

>>1036875
pic should say southern, derp

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>>1035150
This strain of Southern Halikot experiences further developments in its body shape, allowing for more speed and maneuverability.

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>>1035168
Sexual selection has resulted in Hammer Halikots with sharp differences in coloration. The older a Hammer Halikot gets the more colour its membrane/fin mane and markings takes on, serving as a signal to potential mates.

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>>1037053
>>1036875
Didn't realize that someone had already evolved this, wasn't supposed to be a new branch or anything. I tried to edit the two together, and I redid the stripes because they where bugging me. Not sure why I spent so long on that last part...

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>>1034440
The Melilo grow a set of very efficient gills, letting them absorb much more oxygen than before. This increases their metabolic efficiency, and lets them grow to a much larger size. This size increase has the added benefit of making them less appealing to most potential predators, although they now attract the attention of apex consumers such as Halikot.

can we please stop evolving halicots? there are other creatures on this planet! give the troca and meli some love!

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>>1034440
The Melsii in the Abyssal trenches find their shells changing colour to a dark purple, allowing them to better blend in down their in the dark. additionally their front and middle limbs develop small curved claws on their ends allowing this new variety of Melsii (known as the Abyssal Melsii) to more easily clamber through the rock faces of the trenches in search of food.

Speaking of food the Abyssal Melsii have become full time scavengers, eating whatever they can find/ fit in their mouths

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>>1034440
Those Melsii further out in the open ocean are presented with a poser. before their strong carapaces might have been enough to defend them, but now the world is filling up with predators strong enough to ignore that defence. so they have developed a new one. you see, the Melsii have been developing a more complicated method of digestion that gathers more nutrients from food, but of course there is still waste. so what do the Melsii do with that waste? launch it out at any predators dumb enough to attack them from behind, stunning their predator long enough to flee. They develop three nozzles at the back of the body suited for this purpose.


once they threw sand, now they throw shit.

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>>1037257

Melilo Slightly changes in length in order to swim more efficiently. Its gills also continue to change as well.

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>>1037186

Halikot slightly increases in size, due to the lack of recent predator activity.

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>>1036337

Melscorp Shell changes color, allowing it to blend into the sand easier and avoid detection from Halikots. Its tail, and appendages both lengthen, allowing it to dig easier.

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>>1038498

Melilo begin to congragate in the same feeding areas, and as a result, start swarming. If one Melilo is eaten, the rest scurry away.

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>>1034440
The Haaga's nose-ears are now positioned upwards, meaning that they are better at both hearing and smelling.

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>>1036637

Halwar start to mimicking Xpryum (as its one of the most widest spread plants) Several Halwar will hide near A xyprom colony, and then use their superior vision to scan for predators. When the coast is clear, they spread out to feed and mate.

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>>1038524

Melscorp begins to carry its young on its back. Its tail also lengthens and grows protrusions, as a means to ward of predators.

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>>1038573

Haaga develop additional legs, their new appendages matching their increased sensing.

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the sheltrock gets longer legs, allowing it to stride much more quickly over the seabed, and allowing it to jump further. its claws also develop long arms, give it much more articulatoin

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>>1034561
To claim Toptopca as blind isnt completely true, as several nerve system managed to find their way into the surface fo the stalk to create primitive lightspots, a drastic devolution from its dead eyes, but it was better. Generally, the animal shaped became better to suit itself in the surface.

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>>1034440
Better fins and antennae for the Melsea!

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>>1036534
the alsas limb develop further, allowing it to move much master, crawl through holes and even use the apendages as rudimentary hands

>>1040476
You can't actually tell from the picture, but these guys are constantly screaming.

>>1040544
the'yre called "the banshees of the ocean"

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>>1038757
The Hawar change in coloration to closely blend in with the Xpryum, splitting in to two color patterns (NOT by gender or anything, btw. Dimorphism is so overused IMO). They become more closely social, living in much larger colonies of related individuals and helping to groom and protect each other.

>>1040823
lol, i meant more as in "existential torture"

>>1040925
oh, no they aren't screaming inside, they're just disgusting sadists who enjoy the pain of others

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>>1034440
A cross-pollination between the Bryock and Bryum Collony has miraculously created a hybrid that is capable of reproduction. These have kept the only leaves on the top of the organism, a trait inherited from the Bryock. From the Bryock it has also inherited a powerful root-system. From the Bryum Colllony it has inherited the glowing pods.

The Bryum Byrocks can be found along the coasts of Rienia, their leaves floating on top of the surface aided by the water's tension. Since their stems/vines only can get a couple of meters long, they are only found in very shallow waters/ next to shorelines.

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>>1034440
A new branch of QT-Troca migrates further north, developing a coloration better suited for an icy environment and adapting to colder temperatures. They grow slightly larger eyes, and a rasping tongue to help suck up the insides of Meli that they hunt.

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>>1038874
Haaga grow serrated mandibles to help eat. Females also gain short, blunt spikes on their forelimbs that are used to dig small holes and lay eggs in them. Females start spending a few weeks after laying guarding their nest, greatly increasing the amount of offspring that will go on the reproduce. As a result of this lifestyle change, the Haaga's pigmentation splits by gender, with females becoming duller to blend in with the seafloor and males becoming slightly brighter to both warn predators and attract a mate.

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>>1034440
The Topca is unable to breath in the air, and has to return to the water periodically in order to breath. This makes them vulnerable to predators. The evolve a net of fine haris that uses surface tension to keep a bubble of water trapped around them, and occasionally refresh it by scooping up water in their jaws. They get oxygen by letting it diffuse through the droplet, so they rarely have to get "fresh" water.

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>>1038544
Melilo begin to carry large clusters of eggs on their backs until hatching. This lets their population increase, and they now graze is even larger "herds", which increases the protection they get from swarming behavior. They grow additional armor plates to help defend the eggs from small predators, although they are still too thin to deter larger threats.

>>1039186
the sheltrocks legs get even longer, making it even faster and even better at jumping! its claw arms are more articulated as well! allowing it to almost punch its prey. in its current state it is one of the fast creatures on reina thanks to its incredible legs

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>>1043639
fuck didn't post the frick frackin fila-doodle

>>1043641
Why would it ever need to be good at jumping? It can swim since it has a water "jet engine"

>>1043650
because it uses the water jets like a double-jump. it initially jumps really high then jets itself even further in a dingle blast

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>>1043641
since its longer claw is effective both in grabbing as well as in cracking, the smaller one loses some relevancy, and is repurposed as a sensor: small, touch-sensitive buds develop on a softened claw that loses most of its lower part. with it, they can feel out burried and camoflaged prey

>>1034440
When the Topca first reaches the surface of the ocean, a hole is torn in each, now hollow, eye due to the change in pressure, filling them with air and giving the creature excellent buoyancy, which is even further augmented by the new more efficient shape of it's eyes. The Topca can also absorb the oxygen inside it's eyes, although it does so very slowly and inneficiently. Still, when it really needs it it can stay non-submerged a few miliseconds longer than before.

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>>1043842
Forgot image.

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>>1037257
The Melilo's shell now covers it's whole torso, shielding it from predators. It is also retconned as having primitive gills and smaller size because evolving very efficient gills in one generation is unfeasible.

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>>1034440
The Frontal Melsii's shell becomes better at both helping it stand on sand and swim, although it's back legs got slightly less mobile due to the shell's shape.

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>>1043683
The Sheltroc differentiates it's claws even more. The smaller one grows hundreds of ampulla along it's buds, pores filled with conductive gel that allow it to passively sense bioelectric fields. This lets it easily detect buried or hidden organisms, such as the Melilo. The larger claw increases in strength slightly, and becomes serrated to help catch and hold struggling prey.

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>>1034440
Xpryums colony is commonly were bundles of moss like organism with multicolored amd multifunctional "leaves". What comes next, is the hardening of old "leaves" that becomes somewhat vine-like, giving it more support to prosper

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>>1034440
The Cruncher Ragalikot has already pretty much mastered the ability to kill stuff, now it just needs to find prey. They grow a patch of thin, wiry hairs along their chin; by generating a weak static charge in these, they react to bioelectric fields by slightly twitching when brought near. The Ragalikot uses this to hunt for hidden prey, in a similar manner to the Sheltroc. Since they now share more similar niches, the Sheltroc is driven further south, where it can prey on buried shellfish in peace.
The Ragalikot also mutates to have yet another set of eyes, which is less helpful than you would think given how many it already has but doesn't hurt.

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>Being a plant that relies on Photosynthesis, its only natural that most of Bryock spores would grew in the clearer water of the nearshore with better solar lightning.
>However, that place is almost devoid of shelters. Wave crashing into the area regularly break down whatever rock the shore has, breaking them down into sands after years and years of abrasion. Bryock plants had hard time grew in such open spaces, as it needed a hard, rocky surface to latch on, and not to mention, after the outburst of nutrients and other materials, they become quite a rough plant as well.
>So what happen next is then, these plants then grew above their dead, hardened, comrades instead. These rocklike objects are perfect for Bryock to grew upon, and they slowly pile up in the near shore. Maybe in the future they can grew big enough to became wave barriers like corals?

And they slowly did. Mass of dead Bryocks are further steeled by minerals absorbed by their living parts to became more shielding. Unlike rocks that erodes overtime, the plant are constantly growing and helps the shape to remain constant, if not growing. Eventually, the size of these colonies became bigger, and they are called Wallinocks for archival purposes. Wallinocks are probably a haven for smaller coastal organisms who are in need for a place to hide and lay their eggs in the otherwise baren parts of some shores

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>>1034955
>More Floutum joined together to help the organism became bigger and more complex than before. They share one big bag instead of many, and this bag had a hatch that the plant can periodically open to release excess gasses into the air, maintaining their buoyancy. When they mature, the plant release so much oxygen so that the plant deflate, and hatch now faces the water, that is when they release their spores straight into the water.

>The Floutum grow a small cluster of sugary pods near the entrance to their bag. when these are disturbed, they release a cloud of spores, coating whatever organism and spreading them much farther.

To prevent their sugary pods being disturbed by water or air when they are up above the water and unused, they grew several protective layers to keep the sugarpods from being destroyed prematurely. And when it was time to release the pores from inside the bubble, these layers are designed to help the hatch sink faster.

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>>1034440
>The abundance of nutrients and other stuff that was released by the world event trigger much development in chemosynthesis plant, not to mention, the Pararoc, which now grew more lushly in the back and the digestive tract of their symbiote, the Telili. With the water cooling down, most animals migrate to the shore, but most Pararoc and Telili are still found in open ocean and hydrothermal vents. Telili slowed down its metabolism and rarely moves, eating mainly the plant on its back, that had thrive and overgrown due to the water condition, finding a balance between the two.

- Telili
Telili overtime became bigger as their mutualistic relationship detox their self better. Giving it the ability to grow into old and even near immortal age, which due to its simple nature, makes its even bigger. Not to mention with the environtment becoming stable again, the Telili became more active and can be seen in groups, grooming and eating other member's overgrown Pararoc from being a hindrance to carry everywhere.

- Pararoc
Individual Pararoc became slightly bigger in the more suitable temperature of the sea.

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>>1044108
the sheltroc goes through several rapid changes. the first is its change in use of the vents on its back. once used to swim and boost it around, it now has very little use for them as now it can now move faster on its legs then it ever could swimming, causing its vents to develop chemical sensing organs that work as like a primitive nose.

its right claw gains a hook and a hardened plat of thick studded calcium, giving it a powerful punch. it can throw a carapaced knuckle strong enough to dislocate or even knock off the jaw of many halikot, such as the>>1038502 >>1037069 and on the rare instences when they do the meet, even the >>1044175
changing its diet to fit this skill it feeds almost entirely off halikot.

it legs become even longer, making it virtually un-riveled when it comes to speed

>>1044332
also it gets a little bigger due to its new, more nutritious diet

>>1044332
not really how it works

> Make *one* evolutionary change to that species

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>>1044353
oh...well shit. I'll register the extra generatoins then

>>1044332
Also, halikot are already pretty high-level consumers. the idea of something feeding almost exclusively off of apex predators is kind of ridiculous, especially when its already well-adapted to another niche. Maybe just say that it can defend itself better?

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>>1034440
>With the abundance of nutrients and other materials released by the vents, many Imposter Bryum found themselved grew lushly some distance from such phenomenons. However, most of them ends up partially destroyed due to the extreme temperature the vents ejected as they didnt had enough materials to shield themselves like what happens in >963421 and thus they are called the Singed Bryums instead. Their soft tissues are more edible to the herbivorous organism that lives near the vents tho.

Singed Bryums that lives neat the vents are constantly wiped out due to this extreme temperature, eventually grew more resistant to it, but not completely. What you see here, is that the Singed Bryums deliberately grew a specialized, temperature resistant parts that were grown more near to the source of extremities, which is also more absorbent to nutrients provided by the vents.

The rest of the plant are benefitted by this and was the softest, most edible plant near the vents!

>>1044368
well it's got the tools, the sensors and the size. Those predators don't seem all that apex.

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>>1035982
>...The most important changes being the fact that the chemosynthesizing "leaves" stopped growing on the outside of the plants, but rather inside them, as a tube covered in a silky membrane that absorbed the methane molecules that could be turned into energy or organic matter.
>The second change was the way "stems" of the Byrocks grew, they started as a thing tube, not unlike their ancestors, but as the plant grew thick "bark" layers that allowed it to resist the strong temperatures of the moon's crust. It's colour depends on the type of substrate available to the plant. The Byrock Chimneys produce H2O and CO2 in their gaseous forms, that are liberated into the sea, and flow as bubbles until they exit the sea and reach the air.

>The Byrock Chimney crossbreed, losing their chemical specializations for the ability to survive equally well around any kind of vent. They also grow slightly larger, to absorb more nutrients.

With their vertical vents becoming more apparent, Byrock Chimneys structure actually becomes more solid and more efficient, spewing bubbles almost nonstop

>>1044398
"apex predator" as in they eat, at the very least, things that eat other things that produce energy. That means they get around 1% of the energy that the plants produce. If the Sheltroc tried to survive on that, it would have to eat at least ONE HUNDRED times as much biomass just to get the same energy it would get eating first-level consumers such as Melilo. On top of that, it would have to catch and kill the Ragalikot; which, as secondary or tertiary consumers, are already thinly spread and rare; reliably and often enough to make up for the massive decrease in energy efficiency.
tl;dr no, they don't do that, sorry

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>>1041581
To keep themselves warm, the Snowca develop thick, semi inivisble walls in their body to keep the heat in and ridges in their fins to keep as much as movement as possible to keep the body temperature high

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>>1036337
other varieties of Melscorp develop their front appendages into primitive claws, both providing them with a way to hold objects (either for anchoring themselves to or so that they may eat it) and a rather basic method of defence (they can cut off parts of attacking creatures, if they don't have the space to use their heads effectively). Additionally their hind leg fins grow larger and more powerful

>>1044448
it could believable happen. there are examples more ridiculous in the real ie. the sperm whale (god bless whale anon)

>>1044448
boy, don't tell mongooses, or water birds, or any secondary predator. Besides, it is specifically mentioned that Ragalikot are a very rare dish for them

Tl;Dr: you've got paint on your right leg

>>1044534
>>1044513
and don't forget the sperm whale, take note that around 80% of its diet is made up of GIANT SQUIDS

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>>1037069
If they are going to try to get noticed by how they look, the Hammer Halikot new generation are those who had more noticeable manes, and also those who had better eyes to notice them

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>>1037069
some Hammer Halikot find that ramming into prey at high speed is pretty effective, but the chomping down to finish them off is a bit of a pain, also the prey is sometimes a little harder to stun and can escape or fight back. To counteract this some of them develop a large blade-like horn at the front of their heads, allowing them to kill their prey more easily with their charge. They are now name Axe-Headed Halikot in honour of this new change.

>>1044534
Listen I'm not saying it's technically impossible or anything. The post says "changing its diet to fit this skill it feeds almost entirely off halikot", so I assumed that they meant that it mainly ate them over other prey, not as a rare delicacy. I really don't want to be overly pedantic or whatever, but that's a pretty drastic change to happen in one generation.
>>1044565
What?

>>1044654
fair enough. halikot has been reduced to rare delicacy status, because admittedly it would take a lot of mind work to make it happen

also yes, sperm whales predominantly eat giant squid, look it up

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>>1044608
>>1044598
Eyes move forward to better see while moving at high speed. This puts them at risk of being injured by struggling prey, so the shape changes in to a squint. Also, most coloration is lost to stand out less; the mane falls out when not in mating season.

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>>1041389
The Byrum Byrock spores had a hard time spreading around in the open air, which was an excellent opportunity for it to develop its reproductive system. The outdated spore sacks that grew on top of its lily are replaced by an specialized organ that not only develops three different kind of gametes, each housing the genetic code of an unique segment of the plant (vine, root, lilly), but also joins them to create a bigger seed-like sack.

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>>1035111
The Sludge-Dwelling Halikot loses it's dorsal and posterior fins, as they are a hindrance while crawling through thick mud. Instead, they develop stubby spikes to help them claw through the muck. They also grow gills to breath while buried. They begin migrating up in to streams and rivers, avoiding the intense competition of the open seafloor.

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>>1044226
The protective layers around the Floutums sudar pods produce bright, eye-catching pigments. They also begin putting spores directly within these pods, covering them in hard seeds to protect them from the digestive systems of herbivores that eat them. Once they pass through, however, they are able to use the nutrients in the feces to get a major head start on growing.
Also I cannot fucking believe that someone beat me to growing flowers

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A Byrock variant emerges that specializes in rivers. They use the rocky dead bodies to block the flow of the river, letting it slowly filter through them and keeping most nutrients for themselves. This forms small ponds upstream.

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>>1036251
The Western Halikot continues to expand their eyes, and grow small nose slits as well. They become even closer pack hunters, combing through the new Wallinock colonies and Xyprums for prey, generally soft-bodied troco or hawa descendants that don't have shells to defend themselves with. The biggest exception is the Hawar, which is too well camouflaged even for them. Finally, they better adapt their brains to be visually-focused, and gain the ability to look through all eight eyes independently of one another. This means that a single Halikot is able to keep a large area under scrutiny at once, letting the pack spread out farther and cover more ground.

>>1044895
Are things able to live in Rienia's streams and rivers? Are there any streams/rivers on Rienia?

>>1045762
No reason a plant organism couldn't make the first pioneering step into freshwater. That's how life in and near freshwater bodies started in the late Denovian Era on Earth.

>>1045762
jeez, i hope so. I figured it would be an interesting way to add a new ecosystem for stuff to live in without having to go on land or anything, but I can get rid of this if its too early for that.

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A branch of bryum vine adapts to follow >>1044457 farther north. The seafloor is too dark underneath the ice to survive on photosynthesis, so they grow upside-down on thin sections icebergs and ice sheets, taking in the sunlight that filters through. They grow a larger root bundle to store nutrients, relying on chemosynthesis and saved energy during the months-long arctic "night". Finally, they grow hairlike roots to anchor themselves by growing in to pores and cracks in the ice. they get almost no nutrition from these roots, and must rely on nutrients in the water. Due to this, they grow and regenerate extremely slowly, and generally only survive thanks to lack of major competition and the Snowca getting rid of most herbivores in exchange for a warmish place to live.

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>>1037069
Yadda, yadda, different caudal fin allowing for more maneuverability.

>>1038524
Some Melscorp grow a wider 2nd shell.
They can swim and dig better. Also see better above them to the increased eye distance.

>>1044818
So what purpose does an aerial flower serve without aerial pollenators?

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>>1044511
Because of the stronger legs, the body increases and gets rounder.

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>>1046092
forgot picture

>>1046251
air or wind?

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>>1038544
Some evolve a tail to swim faster

>>1046279
>air or wind?
Exactly, I haven't seen anyone evolve air or wind elementals yet.
jk, I guess I was just fixated on the colorful petals aspect rather than the pollen, but that could be a side-effect due to mineral intake.

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>>1034440
As its prey and competition has grown larger and more well adapted so too has the apex predator, the Ragalikot. Quadrupling in size, the Ragalikot's structure has grown denser and more muscular, making it even more adept at with its jaw crushing almost any protection that exists on Rienia.

>>1044175
>>1046379
going to put these together brb

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>>1046480
boom

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>>1034440
Some Sheltroc have come to make the rivers and streams of Rienia their home. Here they have adapted to make even more use of their swimming abilities, developing flatter legs which aid in maneuvering as well as larger back fins. These Sheltroc have retained the way their ancestors swimmed, using their jets not for a single boost, but instead to shoot constantly like that of a water pump. Here they feed on Sludge-dwelling Halikots using the hunting method their ancestors used to catch burrowing melii, i.e. they shoot the water jet in front of themselves, removing the sludge and revealing the halikot.


>>1046480
You don't have to force all separate strains together, populations of a species diverging is completely natural and the source of new species evolving. (And also part of the fun)

>>1046251
Short Answer: 90% of plant life on Rienia right now is fairly similar to Gymnosperms in terms of how they reproduce. This evolutionary adaptation was adopted around the same time life began venturing on land in our own biological timeline

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>>1041950
The Topca inhabits a very specific ecological niche, searching for floating detritus to scavenge and grabbing anything small enough that comes near, and competition between three different subspecies means that already-scarce food is becoming increasingly rare. Taking advantage of Floutum seeds, this branch becomes fully omnivorous. They change coloring to better disguise themselves among clusters of Floutum. They still eat anything they can get their hands on, but the energy-rich pods are a good staple food and easily found.
Sometimes they also eat petals off of >>1044818, picking up pollen in the process (hint, hint).

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>>1046317
Right now, the Byriver colonies have no freshwater herbivores to worry about. This branch of Melilo takes advantage of this, and migrates upstream into the ponds created by Byriver dams. They lose their gills, as the shallow running water has much higher levels of oxygen than the seafloor, and turn a stony color to blend in with the rocks and boulders on the riverbed.
>>1046548
Man, I know, but we already have like three or four other variants of this exact same thing.

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A subspecies of Bryock emerges that also lives upside down on ice sheets; however, without the size of the Bryce Vine, they have more trouble adapting to this new lifestyle. They grow darker, more efficient leaves to catch almost all of the light that filters through the ice, letting them live underneath thicker ice sheets than their larger cousins. They also grow a small bulge to store nutrients, and extend their root network to help filter anything they can from the cold water. Again, they are slow-growing, but have little natural predators to worry about, so they make due.

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A set of Pararoc and Telili split into a new subspecies. The Pararoc becomes almost fully photosynthetic, taking a load of off it's host by reducing the need for it to keep the plant fed with rare nutrients. What little chemosynthesis it does perform is used t produce methane, which the Telili stores to make it's tissues poison to any would-be predators. To convey this change, this new branch uses bright contrasting colors to warn other organisms, and soon they know to stay away.

>>1047219
you know what? they also move in to the rivers, just for shits and giggles (and because they need more producers...)

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>>1034440
>This continues on, with the infected cells are pushed further, while the plant continues to grow upwards. The base of the plant became rather nasty and poisonous, but as long as the base werent consumed, the Lump Bryum can grew again eventually

>As different forests of algae appear across the seafloor, Farmer Meililis that dwell near nitrogen-fixing Byrum are at risk. This is due to the fact that they tend to absorb the nitrogen available in the water and transfer it to the soil rather by acumulating it in the base of their bodies. Farmer Meililis that didn't emigrate from N-Byrums forests had to take a more hands-on approach to their problem, they an extra pair of tendril-arms and strengthened their old ones. These new and improved limbs were used to attack the bases of the Byrum vines to get nitrogen, and then laying eggs inside them.

Bryum Vines were also found in some barren coastal areas, which eventually adapt a spiraling growth akin to Wallinocks, hardening their bases and were called Hardoryums

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>>1034440
>Flourishing Bryock
also thrives in the methane rich
environment. Unlike its cousin that
developed specialized pods, this plant
simply overextends the "leaves" ability to
regenerate, and periodically let them be
swept up by the current to be drifted
elsewhere. If the leaves are intact and
healthy enough, it can slowly grow into
another Flourishing Bryock

Some of these scattered leaves found their way into the river. The rich soil made from sediments in the rivers help the plant gather enough materials to keep growing

To keep things simple, they are now the Flourishi

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>>1034440
Finally, the Hawalk Pokie has come back, to the thread

>This variety of Hawalk- Pokie has taken to absorbing calcium in their diet to grow a stronger skeleton. With great calcium absorption comes the
development of hooks on their filament limbs. The Hawalk-Pokie use the little hooks on their feet to help with walking on the shallow shorelines more. It also develops a calcified tube that releases gametes in the their own pink eggsacs where Hawalk Pokies can keep their own eggs safe until they hatch

The eggsacs opening usually were located inside the Hawalkpokie singular opening, however, eventually, to support more eggs, the eggsac opening differentiate themselves and is now a separate hole. Their mouth also had the ability to open even wider since the separation and can grab more plant in a single glomp. Their overal body enlarges as well due to this development.

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>>1034440
>The jet pumps travel backwards near the anus, where it share some channels together, making the creature dump excess materials while moving, lessening the energy needed to contract muscles and what not. Their mouth also became more suited for the job, filtering size 1 plants, or other miniscule spores
>The Hawee develop sensitive antennae along their fins to compensate for the decreased effectiveness of their light spots. Additionally their jet pumps grow longer and develop a level of flexibility that allows them to be pointed in practically any direction and grasp things (allowing them to hold themselves still, or hide in plant life)

Hawee develop stronger muscles in their ends which can channels their movements and digestive system better.

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>>1045234
The Byrivers grow and dies in a shape that helps them further filter nutrients in the water

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>>1034440
>Some of these animals found themselves attracted to the greenery of the depths. They gradually develop harder skin against the elements, and better sensory organ at the base of their tail. The nature of this organ are revealed to be electrosensors like you'd find in most marine animals to differentiate the currents and the presence of nearby marine animals. They are helped by its eyes, which became bigger in the darker place, but also the beak to chew and cut harder plant matters.

>To reproduce, these animals still shot both their gametes into the water, but prefer to do it nearby the jutting rocks of the deeper oceans, as they are most likely to stick into that place.

Hatropoki became more elongated, help them hide between the crevices.

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>>1043844
The movement in the decaying eyes give it a jolt of energy now and then which help the eyes to stay active and able to sense better, giving them weak multifaceted eyes. New name are needed to help diffferentiate them from their similarly named but different cousins.

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>>1034440
>In order to lure different organisms into spreading its spore pods,the Bryum colonies start investing someof its excess energy into Bioluminescent pods.

>With the open ocean muddled, the bioluminescent pods shine brightly to be more noticeable for other animals to eat and spread its pods. The Bryum Colonies are far more successful in the shallow seas of Rieina.

Now witht the sea become more stable, the Bryum Collony can grow even bigger and greener than before! Even when they are big, they keep their pods small and carryable for animals, but it was more potent than before

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>>1047657
now that luminescence has been introduced to the Collonyum's pods, having them overshadowed by its greenery is unfavorable. Thus, some grow out long, soft 'branches' on which the pods grow, and that put them out into the sea undimmed by overbearing leaves.

The pods also increase in size slightly, but make up for it with a less dense makeup, which also lets them float in the current more freely.

>>1046354
But there are flowers in rl that use wind to polunate. So its possible that without any animal flowrs work.

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>>1048154
speaking of which...
>>1044818
Right now, the Floutca only really eat Petaroc petals because they are soft and easy to reach, not because they have much nutritional value. To take advantage of this behavior, the Petaroc grows spore pods on top of its flower, similar to the ones at its base. These are much larger, and actually contain very few seeds; they are more fruit-like than anything. Instead, the Petaroc begins producing powdery versions of the reproductive cells needed for all three of it's components; this powder sticks to Floutca and is spread between plants, ensuring diversity. They also produce a nice smell, to attract the mostly blind pollinators to their flowers.

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>>1044801
The Axe-Headed Halikot's mane dulls in colouration to make them harder to spot and becomes a permanent feature rather than a guest. Females now choose mates based on the length of their mane as opposed to how colourful it is.

additionally they have developed an additional pair of eyes to aid them in the seeing of things and evolved a set of curved spikes along their frontal flipper, so that if they miss with their axe heads they still have a chance of damaging their prey using the spikes.

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>>1047621
The tentacles grows longer and better at grabbing things, and they get a beak to help grab, kill, an chew food.

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>>1048240
Until now, the Topopeyes has been limited by the fact that it always casts a shadow over potential prey, making it trivial for anything with even basic eyespots to sense it coming. They evolve to be transparent, letting almost all light pass through and exposing a bunch of organs I spent too long drawing. Since they no longer have to stay small enough to avoid being seen, this lets them grow slightly larger.

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>>1034440
The limb attaching claw of the QT-Chanelico to its body undergoes a few changes. It grows stronger, developing an almost chitinous covering to protect the vital limb and separates into three segments: the segment attached to the body, the segment attached to the claw and the segment that connects the three of them together. this ball-like middle segment provides the limb a surprising amount of dexterity whilst not compromising its new integrity

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>>1038874
At this point in time, the rivers of Rienia are bursting with vegetation, but are inhabited by very few predators. Due to this, the Haaga that have ended up in the rivers were very sucessfull. However, while selenium was already so scarce that the Haaga could only concentrate it in their tails in places where they lived previously, in the rivers there is no selenium at all. Due to this the Haaga can no longer produce it's toxins and dulls in color. Thankfully, it no longer needs the toxins due to lack of it's natural predators.
They are now known as River Haaga.

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The QT-Skini was already rarer and less successful than the QT-Chanelico, but with >>1048333 they are even more outclassed. They move to the arctic and become omnivorous, using the toxins in the Bryce Vines and Arctic Bryock for protection. They change color to blend in better, becoming more pastel in pigmentation.

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>>1044895
With the sudden population explosion in Reinias rivers, he Sludge-Dwelling Halikot has a massive influx of decaying organic matter to feed on. It grows slightly larger and gets more efficient, if somewhat exposed, gills. It also changes color yet again to blend in with rotting plant matter.

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>>1047408
Like the Photoroc, the Flourishi is finding that it's previous chemosynthetic strategy no longer works in freshwater. However, it switches over to photosynthesis completely, losing it's poison defense in the process. It makes up for this by being able to grow incredibly fast, filling up most of the riverbed not occupied by Byriver. The Flourishi especially favor the ponds created by their dams, taking advantage of the slower water to get more nutrients.

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>>1048316
Topopeyes can now shoot blood out of their orifice as a last ditch defense against predators to cloud their senses, much like squid ink.

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>>1048228
Mane grows longer and is now semi-prehensile to make it "dance" and attract even more mates

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>>1038502
The Southern Halikot develops a snout, but instead of for smelling, its for seeing.

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>>1048060
The Wallonyum evolves from the Collonyum. A mutation in to pod-sacks fills them with an intense aphrodisiac instead, and in large quantities, creating huge (but easy to break) sacs of aphrodisiac.

The Wallonyum's aphrodisiac is still very weak (hence the need for the huge amounts to be effective), and it now feeds off other creatures that have died of exhaustion and have fallen to the ground for the roots to absorb. The Wallonyum achieves this because the aphrodisiac, in enough quantities, causes (male) creatures to ejaculate until they die of exhaustion or dehydration.

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>>1048615
Since the Southern Halikot relies less on sight, it can afford to put it's eyes at risk. The end of the "snout" splits into four articulated knobs for each eye, which the Halikot uses to search through cracks and crevasses in Byrock colonies. If these eyestalks are damaged, it has plenty to spare. They are also used as a form of mating display, given that more fit individuals will generally have all eight stalks intact.
>>1048632
??????

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>>1048709

The articulated eye knobs develop into "puppeteering" organs. These specialized 'arms' are very versatile and can be used to grab corpses and move them around to lure prey and once they're close enough, go and eat them.

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>>1044362
the Sheltrocs back fins develop to be larger and changing in shape. seeing a lack of use for them as swimming tools it devlops highly sensetive nerve endings in them. it devlops thick clumps of muscle near them, allowing it to vibrate them, giving it incredibly basic ecolocatoin. due to this it is now even more effective as a predator.

in a twist of events it begins struggle against the >>1048602 for dominance of the food chain. fights between these two predators are some of the bloodiest fueds found in all the oceans

>>1048632
aphrodisiacs are obviously a very inefficient and indirect way to kill stuff. The substance in the sacks gradually changes in to a weak poison that lingers in tissues and only becomes fatal in high enough concentrations. Organisms are willing to eat from these sacks because they generally aren't affected immediately, and with moderation will suffer no ill effects. if they eat too much, they die and end up fertilizing the wallonyum

>>1048632
this sounds like something striahgt out of a /d/ thread

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>>1046052
Becoming increasingly pushed out by competition from other predators such as the axeheaded halikot and the Ragalikot, the Hammer Halikot is now found in the larger rivers of Rienia. As the largest predator found in this biome it basically hunts anything that moves, including the smaller predator river sheltroc >>1046548 as well as sludge-dwelling halikot.

>>1048632
infact how do you even know if it'll work on every animal? the only animal we know for sure it'll work on is the hawalk family

>>1048908
It's almost as if he's taking the piss with these ones

>>1048585
>>1048615
>>1048632
>>1048771

I mean, all of them have bizarre adaptions that quite frankly ignores the niches the creatures had and the biology of them. Trunk eyes in a single generation on a creature that has a proper skeleton and has up until now evolved for speed? A plant that previously relied on other creatures for its reproduction now killing them by making them bust their nuts?
Not to be an asshole, but it's all retarded.

>>1048960
Yeah, I didn't want to say anything, but I think that the wallonyum and southern halikot are really really dumb. I tried to do something to save them, but I'd prefer just to retcon them away. the axe-headed halikot and topopeye seem fine tho

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>>1048895
To further adapt to their new enviroment, several changes occur, most of them fairly atavistic. First, rivers are too confined to properly build up ramming speed, and this requires too much energy. They return to their roots, using their speed and jaw strength to catch prey. Their fins follow after their tail and become more maneuverable, their eyes fuse and become bigger, and they shrink slightly.

>>1049027
oh right and a name change to differentiate them

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>>1048895
Adapting to this new environment the Hammer Halikot develops fins which allow it to better maneuver in these waters. It now relies on both its fins and its tail to chase down prey. These are found in the North East of the planet, while their close relatives can be found in the South.

>>1049027
I had already made one with similar changes, welp.

>>1049027
>>1049112
Your fins look way way better, do you want to just edit them on top of mine?

>>1049018
actually the the topopeye is likely based off the real life spiny devil lizard, that uses it highly sulpherous blood, that it cries out of its eyes disuade predators

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>>1048419
to better hide in the mud they devlope camoflaged scales on its back, resembling rotting leaves, making it incredibly hard to spot.

he also develops another claw to make its movement more efficient

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>>1049139
I also put in another generation to make room for all of the stuff I added in my post.

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>>1040476
the grinning alsa develops another pair of legs, allowing it to swim much faster.

>>1048632
looks bad todd.

after much consultatoin I Would like to ask for op to scratch >>1048632 from the records. its to dumb and nonensentical and also it sounds like anon flat out copied and pasted something of /d/

>>1049480
mmm, big fluid filled sacks of aphrodisiac that make you cum until you die? sign me the fuck up!
like what the hell todd

>>1049480
I'm gonna have to agree and axe this organism >>1048632 from existence after few hundred thousand years.

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>>1047539
A branch of Hawee realize that they already have great insulation and move into the arctic. Since they are filter feeders, they can stay farther away from the ice and so develop coloration to match the open ocean instead. They also grow a bit bigger for warmth and their eyespots change color to absorb the blue light that filters through the ice better.

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>>1049246
the sludge-dwelling halikot develops a longer slimmer body to allow it to much faster slither through the mud and sludge, and making it harder to be seen by >>1049217 due to its smaller profile. due to this its now called the sludge snaklikot

>>1048585
>>1048602
>>1048615
>>1048632
Are you that Grabraf wanker whose self-insert creature were kicked off 2 threads ago? Get yerself straight or just fuck off mate

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>>1048316
You know what happen to a creature in the equatorial areas, a semi-invisible creature with visible organ no less, that was exposed to the sun almost indefinitely? yes, skin cancer due to overexposure. Many of the Topopeyes became the victim in this, but many that lives in less hot areas mutates to protect themselves from it

What happens is that, these invisible pigment darkens, and the skin became thicker, all to strengthen the creature from the sun. To hunt, the creature then adapt their curl up behaviour to protect themselve from the sun, into a hunting behaviour, by mimicking the round shaped shade made by plants that lives in the surface.

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>>1038502
The previous sensory smell organ develop even firther, become more sensitive and spread wider into its head, which help the creature navigate itself as well with this acute smelling

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>>1048060
The stalk of the pods are now more easily to be ripped apart when matured. Not only that, but quasi-pods are also found by those stalks, easily replacing the taken away part to continue the spread of the plant

>>1048483
Flourishi planted itself in the soil better by developing a tube like leave that slowly dig itself into the soil, or even the cracks between rocks. The tube like leave are actually the transformed form of the original leaf that was startup of that particular plant specimen

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>>1046940
The bulge are now hidden beneat their leaves, whichnow grew into some kind of upside down umbrella like structure to gain more sunlight. Ice is also fucking cold and dry so their root became almost senseless harpoon like protrusion to anchor themselves in, nothing more.

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>>1052974
>>1048483
This is the image btw

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>>1042643
The shield became bigger, and when not used, can closed like a pouch to protect the eggs. They still travel in groups,and a part of their mouth elongate to becoem feelers to recognize others.

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>>1047377
>>1034440
>Farmer Melili dwell near nitrogen-fixing Byrum of the seafloor, absorbing the available nitrogen in the water and transferring it to the soil. This behavior eventually evolves into a symbiotic relationship between the Farmer Melili and the Bryum Vines of the Rienia.

>Some spores from the pods of chemosynthesis plants find their way into the nets of Farmer Meilili that they in turn feed on. Overtime this variety and overall increase in food to their diets helps improve their metabolisms, and in addition they evolve an olfactory organ to help detect these these pods. They also gain more ridges in their shell and a better photosensitive spots.

To keep up with the more convoluted Bryums that they make as their main habitat, the Farmer Melili gain more segmentation to give it more walking speed. Oh, and their senses of sight and smell became better as well

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>>1034440
>The Hawnogo develops jellyfish-like hunting tactics with their whiskers, causing them to massively elongate to serve as an electrical trap for any unsuspecting prey. While the shocks are fairly weak, it develops a tactic to deliver these stings continuously using a bigger electro-nerve organ when the prey has been trapped inside its whiskers’ range. The whiskers are positioned so that it forms a dome shape. Their prey mainly dies of exhaustion before shock, before two thicker whiskers move the food to the creature's mouth.

The mouth of Hawnogo became stronger, and their body became bigger so that they can store a bigger meal that was beign digested. After this, the Hawnogo abstain from eating for such a long time, until the food in their stomach are completely absorbed.

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>>1048333
With a new Bryum vines emerging, >>1047377
The QTChanelico that used to camoulage itself there were also found to be changing as well. Their arm became longer, and their body became more segmented, which giveit more mobility. Not to mention, to held itself inplace between the swirling waves, the creature also develop stronger hook, which had slowly lose its poison

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>>1034440
>The Scotra evolved from a strain of QT-Troca that learned to adapt in regions where food is scarce. The Scotra have learned to manage their energy better, and eventually losing their pincer and their eyes becoming large and sunken into its body.

What most important thing is that, despite its size, the Scotra had develop a type of jaw. This allow this animal to swim fast and then chomp a chunk of meat from a bigger animal that happen to wander nearby its teritorry. It doesnt have to kill its prey, it simply just chip away a part of them to eat. Not only their eyes, but they also develop better lateral lines to sense the current in the water. The green stripe is initially a harmless skin mutation due to its shallow seas habitat difference in nutrition, but due to their big eyes, it ends up being a mark for Scotra to recognize others

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>>1043887
Frontal Melsii dedicate its back leg and tail to be more mobility-minded, giving them more speed

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>>1040914
>>1040914
Since Hawaria is big about recognizing others, their senses became better, and almost no individual Hawaria had the same pattern as others,

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>>1038544
With some plants had made their way into the colder areas, some Melilo were also drifted away and ends up there. They became darker in coloration to better absorb heat. Oh and they develop better eyes and nose too

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>>1052961
The Power Collonyum evolves. The pods are now filled with steroidal chemicals, which while attached to the plant, massively increases its luminous power, and the steroidal effects are circumstantially useful to certain species. However these effect greatly hamper the plants own longevity.

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>>1048960
Not all creatures are graceful. We have dung beetles, blobfish and platypus. We have way too many creatures that look custom-made to be beautiful mary sues and not enough awkward ones.

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>>1046632
The Floutca evolves into the Baitca.

The Baitca can devolve their secondary claw into a particular mass of cancer, a teratoma, which it can use as bait. This bait's goal is to lure in the naive and vulnerable young of the Baitca's own predators to then attack and eat them. Like this, it can gain nourishment while at the same time, removing possible threats in advance.

>>1053292
look up what a live blobfish looks like, don't insult the cuteness that's a platypus and just fucking look at dung beetles and their shiny, symetrical armour, so beautiful that they became the symbol of the longest lived civilization on earth.

and then never talk to me or my evolution again.

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>>1053066
A variant branch of Hawnogo begins preying on arctic stuff. Since the Snowca mainly stay in Bryce vine root clusters, the rest of the underside of the ice shelf is fairly free of predation. The Hawsnowgo sticks close to the ice, using it's pale coloration and thin body to remain unseen. Since their eyes are pressed against the ice, they atrophy and disappear, although as passive hunters they had little use for them anyway.

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>>1049167
The Sludge-Dwelling Halikot's scales rise, allowing it to "grip" onto sludge. For the sake of defense and camouflage, they coat themselves in manure. This proves to be a powerful deterrent to predators, allowing them to grow larger.

They're now called the Manure-coated Halikot.

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>>1053292
>calling blobfish ungraceful
Like really? Obviously if you move something to an environment radically different than anything it would ever encounter normally it will look a little worse for the wear. Under pressure, blobfish are just as beautiful and well-adapted as anything else.

>>1053313
But if it's teratoma grows a secondary claw among the random bits it's composed of, can it grow a secondary teratoma from it?

>>1053404
Yeah, although unlikely. Its still a very primitive mechanic.

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>>1048602
With the added drag from it's longer mane, the already-heavy Halikot has trouble maintaining the high speed necessitated by it's current hunting strategy. They change their fin shape to provide more speed, as well as helping lift them upwards to free up their fins for forward movement.

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>>1053382
The gills expand to let them breath outside of their protective coat, which is now made of normal mud because obviously it is like what the actual fuck.

>>1053451
what did we do to deserve this

>>1053451
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k0SmqbBIpQ

>>1053292
>We have way too many creatures that look custom-made to be beautiful mary sues and not enough awkward ones
>create a sex maniac tree
>now create steroid giving tree
theres [awkward] and there just plain ol' [stupid]. Ok, the last one may have some potential, but if it was only a jumpstart for some stupid carnivorous tree that uses its pods to hunt creature in one way or another, Im going to cut you.

>>1053464
It's a dungbeetle x hammerhead shark(-thing). I don't see the problem.

>>1053474
Alright, reasonable. Deleted.

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>>1046510
The Power Halikot evolves from the Cruncher as it evolves to eat the Power Collonyum's (>>1053285) fruits.

While this halves the lifespan of the Halikot, they can overpower other predators (such as other Halikots) due to their massively developed musculature, and claim more prey for themselves.

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>>1049246
The Alsa evolves into the Power Alsa as it evolves to eat the Power Collonyum's (>>1053285 (You)) steroidal fruits.

This reduces its lifespan, but increases its predatory lethality and ability to acqure mate

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>>1053092
Further adapting to this new niche, They change their jaw to better allow them to carve out a chunk of flesh quickly and painlessly. They have more biting force, and their saliva takes mild anesthetic and astringent properties.

>>1053522
>>1053499
what vengeful god did we offend

>>1053522
Your kinks are:

>The consumption of life span in favour of conforming to your fetishes.
>X-expansion, muscles, tits, whathaveyou
>scat
>possibly gore
>cumplay
>shitting up evothreads

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>>1046005
There are simply no nutrition on ice, and it kills plants by forming more ice inside their cell walls.

However, since there is already a plant that lived there, and no creature should go extinct unless the Librarian says so, so Bryce Vines must have done something right. Its innate mechanism must have worked themselves in full capacity to prevent the plant from freezing themselves.

Maybe they extend the size of their cells and their inner liquid to be different from normal to prevent freezing? Maybe their outer walls are actually very busy with chemical activity that prevent ice from forming there? Who knows?

But what have we've seen is that the new generation of Bryce Vines became more comfortable with living on ice, by forming their mooring root with different material altogether that prevent the ice from climbing back to their active body, and lose many unfit characteristic to became more fitting with its new environtment

>>1053474
Dont go yet Librarian, looks like we may need to axe some more.. evolutionary deadends

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>>1039890
To get away from the sun that slowly kills them due to overxposure, the Toptopca develop harder, duller skin, and also it would periodically swim back to deeper elevation, using its flipper-like ex-eyes as a pedal, to give its body a chance to cool down.

Its light spot, had slowly became better again, and now were wrapped around the base of the stalk, moving while moving, and keep the animal up to date with its immediate surrounding

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>>1053499
>>1053522
I will have to heavily consider if I want to add these to the Phylogeny Chart.

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>>1039951
more segmentation for Melsea

>>1050264
>>1049167
woops, tagged the wrong boi

>>1053596
PLEASE as the creator of the modern asla please don't! the alsa is supposed to be this fast, nimble tricky little fucker who spends hours stalking a single organism then stricking it and killing it in one blow...also the mussles=bad

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>>1047460
With their reproductory problem solved, the Hawkie now are more competent at eating and moving, with the ocean becoming more stable and all. What happens here is that the edges of their mouth hardens to give it more ability to cut off plantation, and their backfins are becomign more common to be found again, usually were used for the animal to scutter away faster when pursuited, or more importantly, during their mating games

>>1053536
I have no idea. all I did was make the sheltroc a predatore of the halikot! why you do this!?

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>>1053566
...the bryce vines expand the size of their cells, and begin producing a natural "antifreeze" to keep them from freezing and bursting. They also begin doing larger amounts of exothermic reactions in the outer layers of their roots, to keep the ice from spreading.
Because these changes rewards low surface area and require more energy to maintain, they grow s large root ball to store heat and energy. To protect the roots from being eaten, they move them up into the ice. This has the side effect of removing the Snowca's main habitat, meaning that the plant now has little protection against herbivores.

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>>1053608
You're looking at it wrong my dude. Librarian are only going to take away the problematic ends of your creature. You should support Librarian decision to kill these bad buds off. I think the previous gens are save as long as it stays by the game rules.

>>1040476
another strain of the Alsa is the Shivering Alsa which came from an earlier Grinning Alsa ver.

Shivering Alsa name came from its behaviour to keep moving, even in stationary position, to keep online its heat seeking ability. Since the heat seeking ability is maintained by its own body heat, the Shivering Alsa needs to keep on moving.

Not only that, but its mouth also hardens, giving it a terrible looking cutting ends, similar to Dunkleosteus had. (there had been no mention of teeth, so what you see here isnt one)

>>1053596
how about the shit covered guys, the ones hunting with fatal ejaculation etc.?

>>1053638
I think he means "don't canonise it" as opposed to "don't get rid of it"

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>>1053459
this is not technically any evolutotoin so I'm not going to add a generatoin.

in an odd turn of events byrum start to grow on there back, attracting >>1053118 to live on top of them, furthering there disguise. what may come of this odd symbiotic relatoin ship is currently unknown

>>1053638
now has both teeth and really badly chapped lips, and also he's contantly shaking like a mad man...

I'm happy about this

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>>1053499
Over generations the Power Halikot evolves to process the steroids in fruit more efficiently, meaning that not only does it retain it's original lifespan while remaining really strong, it also stops looking like the wet dream of a furry faggot with a muscle fetish and becomes a realistically muscled animal.

>>1053660
you're still facilitating the short-lifespan-fetish by involving >>1053285 in non-that guy creations

>>1053313
Can I petition for this thing to not be retconned? I kinda like it in a "this is morbidly hilarious" way.

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>>1053631
While the world is getting colder, and ice is spreading, trying to dig your root way up the thin, sunlight-passing ice, are most likely going to broke the ice apart.

This is what happens with many big Bryce Vines. While their sappling years are spent in ice floats, when matured, they venture the cold water, fueled by pure, unfiltered sunlight and occasional nutrients, and antifreeze in their system. When they die, the dead trunk lose its ability to withstand cold, and ice start growing back again. When its outer layers had been eroded by the snow, but before the plant had been frozen completely, deep down, a seed full of promises and genetic material sprung, and grow into a sappling. The circle begins anew (?)

>>1053660
I agree with >>1053670 when enough red flags had been raised in a creature, best course is not trying to steer it back. Just leave it unevolved and dies when the time is due

>>1053670
Have you read what I wrote? I explicitly said that the Power Halikot now lives as long as the Jaw Ragalikot did before being touched by the greasy hand of that guy.

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>>1048406
The River Haaga's mandibles, while good for grinding plants, do no fare as well when it comes to actually putting the food into it's mouth. To combat this, they develop five small mini-mandibles around their mouth which work like a simple grabber. This lets the eat more efficiently.

>>1053681
I read what you wrote, you haven't read what I wrote. By eating the steroid-fruits, you facilitate the steroid-growing tree, which has a lower life span because the guy gets off to it. He made his short lived biotope interdependent.

>>1053680
Okay, no evolving that guy's creatures then. Except for the baitca maybe But does the non-fetishy Power Halikot remain or is it retconned?

>>1053709
Sorry, I didn't think of that when un-fetishizing the creature. Can we make it independent of the tree, then? Not because I like the creature, but because I spent an hour redrawing it and I don't want my time to be wasted on something that isn't even canon.

>>1053717
yeah, just replace steroid tree with greater quantities of testosterone in blood stream

>>1053717
totes

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>>1053660
The Power Halikot suddenly realizes it doesn't need the tree to become stronger, because all this time, it's strength was actually coming from itself, or more accurately from it's fucked up testosterone glands.

>>1053566
The thing is plants don't need dirt at all. The only reason plants grow on soil is because it is a) there and b) has nitrogen and magnesium, yet those two chemicals can be found on the air and water aswell.
The freezing part makes sense tho.

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>>1053313
I'm sorry.
The Baitca evolves into a new cancer-based form of existence, more depraved and corrupt than before. It's teratomas can now grow teratomas of their own from the many deformed pseudolimbs spreading from them. Those limbs not converted into perversions of nature and mistakes of god now serve to pass food unjustly murdered by dozens of misshapen beaks crying out in soundless agony to the mouth of the original creature, or to the mouths of the flesh balls, because such huge, monstrous protrusions often have their own digestive systems, needed for support of a segmented creature's biology.
It is now the Cancer Chain Topca.

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>>1044457
With it's ancestral habitat becoming less and less hospitable with new generations, the Snowca adapts it's claws to a new lifestyle. They follow sprouting >>1053673, using the smaller, serrated claw to carve out a small hole to live in and stay warm. The tongue extends and becomes more senitive and prehensile, used to sense and grab prey. The larger claw becomes stronger and more thickly armored/ It can crack open the shells of >>1053118 easily, and makes even shorter work of anything else.

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>>1053534
Their red coloration that we see is actuallly the latest development sign of Scotra's maturity, otherwise, the animal would have green mark when not sexually mature, or werent in heat. The red mark is also visible in their tail, and their sexual organ would protrude between their fins, signalling them that they are ready. This is all were captured by the creature's brand new, slightly more advanced eyes.

also, please use the latest image, man.

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>>1052961
However, most of the Collonyum didnt went aboard the retard train and develop only stronger light at their new twin upper pods. These upper pods function like an advertising sign, which shine more brightly and let animals far and wide to know about the location of the plant first.

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>>1053118
Mellow develop better backfins to swim. The animal flock constantly moves to avoid being frozen in place!

Why? because despite having darker coloration, they live in the cold areas, as darker color absorbs more heat! If you shave off the fur of the Polar Bear, you'll notice that its skin is very dark due to this.

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>>1048217
To keep the plant uphold while it was moved by polinators, weather, and any other factors, they slowly develop bigger roots, that had some holes in it to keep water still moving.

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>>1034440
Some Xpryums Collonies were stranded in parts that was deeper than before and now relies predominantly by their chemosynthesis, which is evidenced by the enlarged red leafs, the leaf that is most responsible for chemosysnthesis in that plant.

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>>1053614
Now, the predators mostly tries to attack Hawkie from the front, sometimes even stealing their eggs by biting through the eggsacs, leaving the injured Hawkie to be picked off again next time

Now, those who can guard their eggs became the next generation due to natural selection, and ends up with Hawkie that has thicker eggsacs, with muscles that enabled it to be shut off completely when not used. The tails also get longer to protect it at all cost

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>>1047557
Byrivers, in this new environtment,became more lively and thus it increased its leaves and living segment ratio to absorb more nutrients and the like, periodically shedding dead tumbling masses of its scaffolding into the streams

>>1056780
>If you shave off the fur of the Polar Bear, you'll notice that its skin is very dark due to this.

that's the case with all bears. It's not a result of the Polar Bear's habitat. Also, it's not nearly as black as you think.

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>>1047587
Hatropoki became more flexible to hide between the jutting environtment of the cracks in the bottom of the deep ocean. The backside of their body are full of nerves, which fueled its lateral lines and sensitive spots, but also give it refined touches at its side fins, which enabled it to move backward and downward very easily

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>Another variety of the Hawalk family, the Pokie-Vibrant also evolves to be asexual. This causes a more subtle change, making their coloration bright pink making it easy prey to would be predators. This is remedied by the Pokie-vibrant producing far more offspring then expected to mature, and also adopt a mostly herbivorous diet.

The reason why it was also managed to survive, as their pigmentation change mutation also actually changes their skin structure, which makes it very slippery to be grabbed.

As of for their asexuality, their gamete laying organ move downward and now it laid out already fertile eggs that would hatch later on. Its eggsac also changes shape, becoming something akin to a squirrel's mouth pouch.

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>The Chanelico evolves to become an ambush predator of sorts, developing a green-spot pattern and an immunity to the poisons produced by the Bryum plants they now use as hiding spots for their herbivorous prey. They also develop longer claws, which it helps when reaching and killing prey.

With some of the sea Bryum plants growing near and in the brackish water by the estuaries, the Chanelico had to adapt and grew intricate mechanism in and inside their mouth to stay alive. They also develop scutes to stay firm in the plant where they live on.

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>>1048826
Sometimes, a better foundation is all you need. The Sheltroc develop small, movable clippers at the end of their feets which are useful for gripping its ground after jumping from the sea bottom to the water above them. The feeler arm also became longer for more reach

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>>1053037
The shield that used to protect the eggs now had a latch that is only activable by the creature, as a measure against predators which may tries to forcefully opens it and eats the eggs inside. More segmentation in the creatue front main armor were also noted, probably to let it scan the area better without turnign its whole body

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>>1044379
Several Singed Bruyms even work together and share a common lifeline where they share the absorbed nutrients from the extreme temperatured areas.

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>>1044132
After a long time, slowly, but surely, it was time for the Xpryum Colony to update themselves. By accumulating nutrients and othe rmaterials, when matures, the colony usually had coated their leaves with shiny material that protect it from being nibbled by herbivore, The shiny stuff were awful tasting, but if you nibbled them enough, well, you get to the juicy, normal part.

The plant is still edible,just the shiny new look make it harder to do so

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>>1041722
Because the Haaga females now protect their eggs under sand rather than under their tails, their tail starts to atrophy.

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>>1053769
The chain of tumors eventually grow to exist separate from the main body, creating a new type of cancer-based plant-like lifeforms, called Ca-Vines.

These vines, through their cancerous growth, expand very quickly, but are clumsy and sometimes still-born. They can exist as floating 'nets' in the waters, using their balloon-like protrusions as floaters to remain adrift, or they can grab onto another creature or plant, and 'vine' around them. Regardless of what the chaotic mass manages to achieve, Ca-Vines are omnivorous like their ancestor, managing to eat any weakling or sufficiently edible vegetation which crosses their path.

Gen: 7
Size: 5 (per segment)

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>>1048240
Due to the many improvements made by it's descendants, the original Topopeyes is outcompeted in it's niche. To avoid extinction, it undergoes a radical change in behaviour: rather than eating things uderwater, it now feasts on other Topca descendants. To aid it in hunting, it's tail grows bigger and better at propelling itself.

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>>1057417
Some Ca-vines have adapted a more ordered lifestyle, with the roughly defined body plan of "mouth and claws go on the bottom, everything else goes wherever" This gives it a more defined and efficient hunting strategy, but restricts it to only growing in 2 dimensions on the surface of the water.

>>1057436
Depicted in the picture are only two segments, there is usually far more.

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>>1057436
>>1057417

The Ca-vines develop another kind of node, a propellant node. The Ca-vine mass develops any of the three nodes at random, however, due to the physical properties of each, it tends to spontaneously organizes into a blimp-like structure: Flotation nodes at the top, feeding nodes at the center, and propellant nodes all in one direction (because those who DONT randomly grow them in a useful direction simply continue to remain stranded and plant-like akin to their lesser Ca-vine brethren ).

These large structures formed by individual nodes of Ca-vines in a lucky configuration to turn them into mobile predators are called Ca-Blimps.

>>1057467
Gen 9, Size 5

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>>1057467
Always remember to add the name, generation and size of your species in the image, not in the text of your post. This makes Librarian's job of cataloguing everything way easier.

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>>1034440
Troco develop genders and a basic way to discern between these genders: the males are brighter in colouration and have a small bioluminescent bell at the end of their bodies, the glow of which they use to attract mate, meanwhile females are duller in colouration and develop a bulbous pouch at the end of their bodies that they lay their eggs in and use to protect said eggs until they hatch (where the young leave the mother via the closable holes at the top of the pouch)

the pairs the Troco hunt in are often their mating pairs and they stay in these pairs until the next mating season (by which point the young will be long gone) when they seek a new mate.

also their eyes get better to make the males display worth a damn and so they's can hunt better

Alright folks, so I can finish the phylogeny charts and get into the World Event/Extinction Event in reasonable time I'm gonna call it.

There is an official Moratorium on Organism creation.

I'll be having phylogeny charts for each family up within the next hours. After that will be the World Event that causes Rienia's first extinction event.

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Phylogeny Charts are finished!

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>>1060031 (Bryum)
Part 2 (Hawa) and a disclaimer as usual. If you don't see an organism on this list it means one of two things.

1. The organisms was too outlandish/silly/cancerous to be allowed continued existence the giggles it initially brought.

2. The organism evolved too fast or was too complex for the time period.

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>>1060035
Part 3 (Meli)

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>>1060044
Part 4 (Troc)

World Event/Extinction Event to be put in motion tomorrow morning.

The Moratorium on Organism creation is over, so get your last minute organisms in now before the Sulioaic Era ends.

>>1046510
The rise of the power ragalikot is actually immensely helpful to the main line, now the Lesser Ragalikot. Before, they where in close competition with the Sheltroc, but since the Power Sheltroc is able to CRUSH THEM LIKE TWIGS with it's HUEG MUSCLES, the SHeltroc are driven into the southern hemisphere. The Lesser Ragalikot diverges further from the Power, filling the niche the Sheltroc left behind. They become smaller and duller, and their jaw lengthen and thins to be used for sifting through sand for Meli descendants.