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Evolving from >>93652672

This one has developed a larger head and more pointy bits

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>>6085624
No one knows where he came from. Everyone knows he's a fat faggot.

Darx is the only member of his species. He's carnivorous, capable of parthenogenesis, and extremely greedy.

>>6085917
Only one change at a time, please.

>>6085624
oh hey someone continued the evolution game i started after the 7 day autosage on /tg/ killed it
when i get on my pc i’ll post a screenshot of (You)s on my original post to prove my identity as the guy who started this and get internet clout on a slowboard

anyways i’d post a evolution if I had a good image editor on my phone

>>6086006
I'm actually op of the thread you hijacked, lol.

This board seems a bit slower than /tg/, I hope it doesn't turn out it's super popular during Australian lunch breaks.

>>6086011
that means we’re friends now

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>>6085624
Its been a good few months since the last evo game here

Anyway he gains the ability to raise himself up more allowing him to use the first four legs for things other than walking

We're all evolving the same single creature?>>6085956

>>6086368
All species should evolve from the first one (see the linked thread) or from one of its descendants, yes.

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>>6085678
They shed the extra weight from their rear end and develop a couple more spikes on their front feet.

>>6086006
not sure if tripfagging is necessary to prove who I am across devices or if post IDs are just based on IP but here we go
gonna post on my pc shortly

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>>6086551
they develop cool patterns on their skin to help them hide better
>>6086614
testing IDs

>>6086617
oh so as it turns out IDs are IP based
ok then

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>>6086006
>>6086614
uh shit lol i forgot to post proof that I was the guy who hijacked the thread and started the game
maybe i should organize my shit

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>>>/tg/93665360
>>/tg/93665360 (idk correct amount of arrows for cross-board quoting)
some eeleyes get longer

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>>6086617
Using their small size they've begun to populate crevices and caves, as a result their bodies have darkened in order to blend in better with low light environments.

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>>6086043
Hard calcified patches form along the species vulnerable back.

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>>6086653
The eye stalks of the eeleyes eventually become longer as well, they each act independently, and by bending and twisting their stalks they can easily see anything around, above, or below.

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>>>/tg/93651974
These mindless filter feeders quickly had no need for their eyes, in it's place is a large mouth that's always open. As the creature's body contracts and releases water is expelled from it's end, allowing it to perpetually scour the ocean for food.

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>>>/tg/93652672
Stabilizing extensions of the posterior--loosely-muscled, semi-rigid fatty lumps, really--provide a counterbalance which allows for faster turns, and serve as a sort of 'disposable' body part which can be sacrificed to a predator.

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>>6085678
It has grown several short horns made from the same material as its teeth on it's head

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>>>93657152
To help with the hunt they have grown dorsal fins which allows them to turn faster in the water

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>>6086993
Some of these creatures have adopted an ambush strategy, slowly skidding along the sandy ocean floor until something swim above them. As a result their body has darkened to blend in better.

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>>6086752
In order to evade predators even more, their eyes become larger and more focused, even allowing for a slight amount of nocturnal vision.

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>>6086838
The neck of the hornheads slowly elongate, thick muscles line it allowing it to be swung around with significant force. In combat the hornheads use their spiked head like a morning star.

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>>>/tg/93652845
To hide better in the sand these creatures develop four hard appendages on their underside, they use these to dig holes and trenches to hide in.

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>>6087647
They have external ears to better hear predators

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>>6086684
By smoothing out their backs they fit in even smaller crevices and caves

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>>6087796
Some evolve redundant, disposable 'earlets' at the tip of their rearmost organs, along with duplicate neural tissue. These muscles, half-brained, basal-eared rump-lumps can now alert the main body to danger, even when it is sleeping or otherwise occupied.

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>>6087649
This specialized means of long-reaching assault proves incredibly effective, leading to further exaggeration of the adaptations involved.

>>6089121
Is these get dropped off as an escape strategy, do they count as their own life form? That's cool.

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>>6089130
To prevent their necks being targeted they grow even more spikes

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>>6088554
In some environments the rockcrawlers can live their whole lives underground, eventually these specimens developed antennae to easily navigate their pitch black habitat.

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>>6089121
A random mutation caused one of these creatures to grow an eye on each of their rear appendages, this eye is connected to the same neural tissue as the ears above, as a result the 'brains' of these appendages have grown larger and denser. This mutation proves to be effective, and the gene is propogates rapidly.

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>>6091696
The spikeheads are very successful, over time the abundance of energy allows them to grow longer, thicker legs, which they use to cover ground quicker.

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>>6089121
Slashy arms for harvesting plants.

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>>6093281
Some spikes on the head develop into a grabby claw.

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>>6087750
Longer telescopic eyes for seeing better, allowing them to look around while buried under the sand.

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>>6086695
The calcified patches become segmented for more protection, while still maintaining mobility.

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>>6085624
Small skirting along on flaps smoothly living on what little there is in the Environment one of the simplest lifeforms thus perhaps most numerous in this world of a few lifeforms

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>>6085624
>smooth
>squishy
>moist
>unbothered
>low nutrients
floating freely sucking in liquid in there engorged digestive tube for the worlds first stomach expelling liquid at stimulation to increase survival chances dodging attacks if possible.
not worth alot as food due to the liquid content along with slight transparency not casting a to solid shadow

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>>6093621
Around them, never relax.

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>>6093648
with the bifucation comes more control in response to stimulus both in intake and outake often resulting in a sudden spin or backflip or combined for unpredictable motions raising survival odds from the initial attack of predators

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>>6085624
existing in this world as the only true Photo synthesizer this great pair of ball eyes

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>>6085624
photosynthesis means you have energy but you still need nutrients and materials for cells and mucus so its intestines and membranes work thats why it expands beyond the skin flesh

>the bacteria in the ocular fluid are photosynthetic now
yeah sure let's go with that

>captcha is "gay 2 jn"

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>>6093516
mobile spikes for grabbing are quite heavy slimming where they can and where not stumbling on internal secretions a bit lighter then water to balance it out.
they tend to snatch up the free floating fetus looking things in the water putting selective pressure on head/neck flexibility and movement

>>6093877
>Now it plays host to symbiotic bacteria living in all that extra, immune-suppressed ocular fluid. They supplement nutrients and vitamins in those cold deep waters, and the Oculus provides a stable environment for them to reproduce in.
from last thread i just dont trust stuff we have not evolved ourself opens the opportunity for flesh "plants" and mushroom like algea when a few cancer cells escape the body
>verification not required
no captcha

>>6093880
Fair enough. Reminds me of that time on Sagan 4 they realized nobody had actually evolved any trees to live in the forests so all the browsers were turned into grazers. Instead of...adding trees, I guess.

>>6093884
>Auto
that sounds hilarious also reminds me of the reason why hooves exist with the mixed ecosystem of grass and trees and how there have been "false" horses like how there are false crabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8n20hD5W0&t
i was never around for Sagan all i know it had a few crystals and mixed art mediums or well styles

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>>6093514
there is a rich harvest of eyeballs and floaty things to be had if you can grab them

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>>6093540
hard parts act as support of movement bracing the weight against the ground and standing up and nicely protects from attacks

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>>6093878
some gasnecks get an extra spike on their neck, and their rear feet get a claw each

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>>6093262
Their limbs become reduced to further aid in squirming around small spaces.

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>>6093828
The body shrinks and withers, now merely a sort of 'bulb' to store reproductive organs and materials for the photosynthetic eyes.

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>>6093621
Some grow still more simplistic, reducing unnecessary extremities and even internal organs until they become almost transparent.

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>>6093908
A membrane stretching between the limbs of this omnivorous opportunist allows it to better grapple, restrain, and consume moving targets.

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>>6093540
A larger tail to act as counterweight comes with the potential for better balance

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>>6093860
This guy has a branching anus like some sort of fucked up backwards star-nosed mole. The hemorrhoidal protuberances have a lot of blood vessels to more efficiently absorb nutrients from the water.

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>>6094015
They undergo decephalization (losing the head and brain and all sensory organs) and are basically now just floating stomaches. They are truly pathetic creatures, however they need very little food, and can reproduce quite rapidly

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>>6093828
The eye balls divide into 8 segments, in order to better trap light.

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>>6093878
More powerful muscles grant greater control.

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>>6093939
Armored limbs grant greater battle power.

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>>6094370
The first set of legs is repurposed to a fang like structure, much like the fangs of spiders. Also if anyone wants to evolve off this and clean up the fangs a bit go for it, Im no paint master

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>>6095026
Redid this with more a pincher style, whoever evolves off either of these first gets to pick which one is canon

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>>6094253
One group of blungs reevolves several root like limbs and adopts a sessile lifestyle

>>6095032
why not both? cousins

>>6095035
Cause I can only make one change per the rules but if people want to evolve off both go for it

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>>6094366
The segmentation continues until photosynthetic eye-organs group like grapes upon its stalk., each capped by a lens that specially focused and metabolizes light energy in its surrounding gelatinous material.

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>>6095037
These guys flatten out and begin floating along the surface to collect light. The flat body leaves less dangly bits for predators and keeping the two sets of 4 eyes allows them to roll over when one set begins to dry out in the sun

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>>6095037
The eyes become specialized, with two remaining round and being used primarily for sight while the other six flatten out, becoming useful both as "leaves" and as "fins".

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>>6095026
The second set of legs is also moved closer to the mouth. Now it has a jaw!

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>>6095201


Hind legs also become armored.

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>>6095057
Some streamline further, and develop they ability to inflate or deflate their eyeballs to help remain right-side up as they flip and turn to sun themselves.

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>>6095033
Their stalks strength and lengthen, while two of their tendrils become integrated into their digestive disposal and reproductive structures, sprouting out waste and genetic material.

>>6095316
it’s beautiful
also the last two blue spiky neck vaguely sauropod-looking guys evolved from the third most recent one in that evolutionary line rather than those two being sequential steps (you can tell by the latest one lacking features that its alleged predecessor had)

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>>6095255
increased armoring means less skin area used for respiration some countered by fragile flesh flaps behind the eyes

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>>6095197
>more connective muscle tissue to stabilize the specialized body parts and utility as both eyes and fins

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>>6093279
Some of these encephalized tails do not merely serve as sentries or as decoys, but actually fall off when developed to a certain degree, developing nubbin-limbs with which to crawl into tight spaces. There, they pupate into a living womb or egg or sorts, giving rise to fully-formed examples of the species. In this way they serve as a intercalary form, permitting the main body to cotnineu traveling about, foraging and gathering mass to produce more of these curious fruiting bodies.

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>>6093786
These especially acrobatic organisms begin to engage in elaborate daredevil behaviors around predators as a method of courtship, and develop increasing garish colours as a method of display: pink membranes, and technicolor organs to flash as a means of attracting attention.

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>>6093281
Subtle changes in posture and spike arrangement are coupled with noticeably more robust limbs in one spikehead lineage. It's not as large or powerful as gasnecked cousins, but its forelimbs can deliver an eviscerating upward kick, and its headbutt is still devastating, while its neck is a dangerous thing to attack with even armored jaws. Most importantly, though, it can now run away far more effectively than any other legged prey-item.

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>>6095469
Fixed and updated!

Are you planning any environmental epochs or extinction events?

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>>6094196
A tail fin allows for eel-like swimming.

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>>6095308
They develop pigments in their skin that lets them stay under the sun. They tend to develop a "preferred" side that they will keep towards the sun, only switching to cool off.

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>>6085624
These predators develop a more robust neck and advanced eyesight to aid them in their hunts.

>>6095533
Sometimes the cloning process goes awry, and this guy grows an entire other guy from his ass, sometimes even two. It's pretty inconvenient until they fall off, but the mutation often goes unexpressed, and for such a simple creature it's not TOO energy-intensive, so it persists latently.

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>>6095615
forgot image

>>6095616
oh no
now we have rat kings

>>6095561
the next dubs GET in the thread starts an extinction event; anything before that post will go extinct and species have to adapt to the changing conditions to survive before the next trips GET in the thread, or the first dubs GET after at least 15 species adapt to the changing conditions, at which point everything before the extinction event announcement goes extinct

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>>6095502
Mating preferences result in larger and more colorful crests

>>6095695
Also this thing is slowly turning into a nightmare. I like it a lot

>>6095695
Oh, and I imagine he can retract the crest into the armor but I didn't really know how to draw that with my paint skills.

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>>6095594
These guys begin to inhabit the tidal areas of beaches. The bottom set of eyes gradually atrophies away and the overheating/drying out problem is solved by being submerged for half the day by the tide. The connecting muscle for the vestigial bottom eyes transitions into grasping appendages for anchoring themselves to the ground so they don't get swept away by the tide change and they develop spiracles to better intake oxygen when out of water.
Sorry if that's too many changes at once but the water to land transition takes too much for it to be done one at time by multiple people and the land needs some kind plant analogue before the fishies can get up there.

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>>6093994
The limbs atrophy completely, this thing rejects society and returns to worm

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>>6095313
The sessile blungs begin to absorb calcium from the water and what they eat and form a shell to protect themselves form predators. To counteract the lack of area for nutrients to diffuse into they also develop large fan like appendages to act as a net to catch sea snow and small animal to munch on

>>6095689
before this happens I might as well test if dubs are enabled on /qst/ or if this board somehow has GETs disabled (would be odd if they were as this board doesn’t really have the kind of rabid low-functioning autism /v/ has)
>>6095822
>>6095833
>>6095844
>>6095855
>>6095866

>>6095936
ok good GETs are enabled here
this means I can tie sudden events to when in-thread GETs happen
i’d advise against mass rolling for GETs to manipulate this unless you make sure to contribute an evolution with each post so the janny (assuming singular since this is a slowboard) doesn’t send you on vacations

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>>6093279
The appendages develop into long whip-like antennae.

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>>6095601
This bug-eyed specimen may look goofy to a human, but as its tail elongates, spouting a secondary set of flukes to propel it faster and further towards the distant quarry its massive eyes behold, those unblinking eyes and elongated scything jaws become the face of maritime terror.

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>>6093525
With the doll-eyed hypercarnivores taking the to spot of the marine food chain, those organisms best able to spot them before they are spotted, and to hide themselves, have a selective advantage. These guys can retract their tentacle-like eyestalks into their striped, shaded bodies and lay flat and still until danger passes.

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>>6086742
A steady diet enables these filter feeders to prosper. Though most of this new species remain quite small, some can get quite large. Most importantly, they all get more hydrodynamic and simpler in structure, optimizing for a lifestyle of constant motion and consumption.

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>>6096346
more mouths=more filtering

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>>6096331
Bigger, thicker claws make it easier to dig but harder to swim.

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>>6096388
Dubs get. The extinction event begins, I guess...

>>6096388
checked
time for an extinction event

>>6096420
Due to the mass production of oxygen created by the eye plant thingies that have yet to get any kind of formal taxonomical names, there is now an increasing amount of oxygen in the atmosphere/oceans, meaning that creatures must adapt to the changing, oxygen-containing environment or go extinct.

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>>6096444
>>6096053
A dark-coloured variant of the whip-tailed bud-rat linage adapts by modifying one of its tails into an oxygen-processed pipette. It now breaths almost exclusively through this channel, which can also detect toxins and dangerous scents, such as those of predators. The other tail remains as a sentry-style sensory and processing organ focused on scent and hearing.

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>>6095695
>>6096444
These guys develop spiracles to intake oxygen, the crests stay because the females like them a lot so they remain as a signal of a fit mate. The increased oxygen allows them to begin to rapidly increase in size like the large arthropods in our own timeline. The armor keeps them from drying out on land and the increased oxygen means they don't suffocate on land so they transition to a terrestrial lifestyle, snacking on the eyeball plants. I would like to suggest the name Squilla Cristata for this guy which is latin for crested shrimp

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>>6096467
Same guy I just cleaned up the outline a bit

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>>6094252
The hemorrhoidal eye-bulbs which survive this apocalypse do so be developing a harder, thicker outer shell to endure a wider variety of conditions, including dry spells. Their protuberance becomes more akin to a stalk or trunk, with a pronounced pore for gas exchange and waste expulsion, while its blood vessels can now draw nutrients from wet soil.

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>>6095861
>>6096512
The shelled blungs deal with the excess oxygen by further encasing themselves, allowing them too cut off the supply oxygen when it becomes too much. They also begin using their feeder tentacles to wrap around the anus eyeballs to digest them slowly like coral do on earth at night. Which is really cool if you don't know about it but corals will actually fight with each other when the light and temperature is right.

>>6096444
checking my own trips

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>>6096388
Of course this little instigator has to survive the apocalypse she triggered. This species' descendants continue to tunnel through soil, chowing down on the 'root systems' of the stalked eye-bulbs and even the muscular 'foot' of the shelled blungs.

>>6096591
Oh shit, what do the trips mean? Instant extinction, no survivors? Or do we still get fifteen organisms?

>>6096633
we're at 5/15 minimum evolutions before the mass extinction to cull old species actually happens
so your double dubs haven't doomed most of the species created in the thread

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>>6086653
The eeleyes use the new oxygen to create inflatable detachable air sacs to hopefully trick predators away from them

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>>6095505
The front pair of eyes becomes inverted, now sitting inside their "arms" and acting as primitive lungs and/or pneumatic "bones". As a trade-off, their eyesight heavily degrades.

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>>6095594
The bottom eyes get twisted to the top so it can get more sunlight.

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>>6095860
Increasing levels of oxygen slowly forces the rockcrawlers to migrate to more hypoxic areas, the slower individuals eventually fall behind and succumb to toxicity. As a result these scaled worms become lengthier to slither faster. Without any adaption to process the high levels of oxygen, these creatures cannot venture out of the deep sea and underground homes.

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>>6096367
These creatures develop a network of veins connecting their mouths to a new organ, as well as their rear. Their mouths send excess oxygen into it's veins when expanding their bodies, this gas is stored in the organ, then when contracting this oxygen is forced back through the veins and out their jet cone. This adaption not only helps expel excess oxygen, but allows for more powerful bursts of movement.

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>>6094015
Due to a mistake in embryonic development two of these creatures have now been fused into one. One of the "brothers" is used as a lung while the other is used as a stomach.

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>>6095559
These spikeheads migrate to higher altitudes to escape the climate change. Over time the constant exposure favored the specimens that were more resistant to the gas, eventually even gaining energy from it. These new spikeheads have a distended belly to make space for a large rudimentary lung.

By my count we can save three more. Any takers?

>>6097507
im doing these guys rn >>6094019
i'd also like these guys >>6087564 to be saved so we have another sea predator, but i already evolved it
the gas necks >>6094367 also seem like a slam dunk

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>>6094019
Some of these small scavengers adopt a new strategy, they spend most of their time in or near tide pools, waiting for easy prey and sometimes diving underwater to find a meal. This constant exposure to water as well as oxygen favored mutations that could make use of this energy source on land as well as in the water. The skin of these creatures become porous, allowing for easy exchange of gasses on above and under water.

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>>6087564
The dark bodies of these ambush predators remain, but outside of their youngest and smallest life-stages, they hardly need it. Their cousins' death and the abundance of eeleyes provides them the opportunity to become an oceanic apex predator.

>>6097507
At least 3. As specified in >>6095689, the extinction actually happens with the first dubs GET after the threshold is reached.

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>>6087564
These guys go all in on the ambush strategy with a change of coloration and a slight body shape change

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>>6093609
Sometimes, simplicity wins. with the addition of a lateral line organ that can metabolize oxygen (and some similarly-functioning intake/outtake pores along that skirt, these basal little buddies continue to thrive in oceans, rivers, and lakes. They're otherwise utterly unchanged.

>>6098387
cute little guys

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>>6096326
The big eyed purple "sharks" develop gills to breathe the oxygen underwater.

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>>6094015
Instead of growing even more simple some use their transparent skin to aid in communication by developing three different colored organs that can light up to pass on messages, The downside is that this makes them more visible to predators

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>>6095540
>acrobatic
deliberate or a side effect of simple creature lifestyle put a extreme pressure towards really anything to survive there feeding openings and main method of evasion splitting further.
but all of this just the daily going on's the day to day, its not important whats important is the fact the extraneous frankly unnecessary pigmentation is actually great with reacting with oxygen instead of other tissues, acting as a barrier that needs constant replacement meaning it becomes a GREAT if not the perfect fitness marker for the current natural disaster along with there general state of health and diet.

>>6098454
Can we evolve a post-extinction evolution yet, or are we still evolving existing species from before the cataclysm only, until we get dubs/trips again?

>>6100254
The extinction event is pretty much just going to purge old species aster the next dubs post is obtained; pretty much everything evolved after the extinction event's start post will be unaffected.
Feel free to further evolve species that were evolved after the post-extinction event.

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also
1d6chan page when?

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>>6096512
Some of these hemorrhoid trunk things find that the various creatures lurking in the soil are much more nutritious than the soil itself. This subspecies has turned its trunk into a webbed shovel-like appendage, scooping up handfuls of dirt in order to find prey such as >>6096612 and >>6096903. Coincidentally, this perturbance of the soil makes it softer and more comfortable for their less predatory cousins, the >>6096512.
Their shell also becomes calcified, making them poor swimmers but harder to eat for >>6098467.

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>>6099115
They have started to travel in schools so that while the chance of a predator noticing them is higher the chance of it noticing any of them SPECIFICALLY is lower. Also, their bodies develop square backs so they fit together more compactly.

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>>6096738
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>>6097488
With the gasnecks extinct, the open niche is acquired by certain alpine spikeheads. Their guts grow more distended as their body-size increases, and their upright-held necks and heads become more and more elaborately defended.

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>>6096909
The bloated gasballs are supersized filter-feeders known for heir habit of bobbing about and expelling gametes an and offspring once each a year, in great collectively that resemble tryptophoboa-inducing collections of abandoned beachballs with groping feelers and puckering, chitinous orifices across their bodies. These orifices also collect the gametes of their fellows at such times... As well as consume some of their vast swathes of microscopic young in an early filtering process.

>>6101011
CHECKED
TREEBRO GET THE FUCK OVER HERE
also I think everything evolved after the start of the extinction event should be separated by a vertical line from the pre-extinction event species so we can use extinction events to separate eras of the game

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>>6101019

>>6101021
nice
so I guess the currently extant "clades" are, in clockwise order:
>simple blue things
>transparent things
>gasballs
>armored crested things
>water squirrels
>spikenecks/gasnecks
>purple evil things
>eeleyes
>eye plants

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>>6101021
Some interesting cladistics going into Era 2...

>six relatively basal/primitive lineages have survived, four descended from those who early one developed distinct organs, one exceptionally similar to the prime ancestor of all these organisms, and one quite distinct-looking and almost 'devolved' (to use an unscientific colloquialism) in its lack of distinct head, though with very novel and highly-derived feeding, propulsion, and reproduction

>eight separate lineages have emerged from the earliest legged ancestor, making that weird little guy the most successful single progenitor of Era 1; of these, two resemble rodents superficially, one resembles snakes or worms, three resemble fish (especially sharks), and one is a many-legged armored superpredator, and the majority are carnivores, creating the impression that these are the charismatic megafauna of the world

>arguably the most derived lineage are those five lines derived from the "eyeball fish", including three lineages of photosynthetic 'animals' with varying degrees of motility and sensory capabilities, and a sifter/scavengers which stirs and filters earth; their most derived cousins, still more closely related to these beings than any others, are essentially a crustacean-analogue and a flappy eel/slug, which blur the line between carnivore and herbivore by preying upon their own green-eyed kin

>>6101030
Great minds think alike, lol

>>6100034
fun fact this fella has 3 Eyespot or eye analogs connected to a primitive sensory system with the "eyes" being those 3 spots not really hidden by the transparent flesh with 2 of the being on different faces of the pump instead of the greenish 3 eyestalk looking things that are actually its mouths.making it a little internal tangle

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>>6101011
Polished up the art of this gal.

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>>6098387
Slightly more floppy and flappy actually barely noticeable until put in direct comparison.

mostly just smoother motions keeping it simple and firmly in its niche but taking advantage of oxygenation without changing too much

>>6101052
interesting, also checking those timestamp hexes

Since this thread is clearly successful, what should the 1d6chan wiki page for this game be called?
There's two obvious options:
>WTWEGB'10? Evolution Game (based on the OP post)
>Threadjacker Evolution Game (based on sup/tg/ tags)
Vote now; if there's a tie then I'm favoring Threadjacker Evolution Game because it's less of a mouthful than a 6+ letter acronym
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZB9NEVpgJ

>>6101073
Why dont we come up with diffrent name and pitch them in thread see what sci-fi or Latin stuff someone could toss up

>>6101206
I’ll consider this if enough different poster IDs agree upon a fancier name to call this but as a working title we can just use Threadjacker Evolution Game for now

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>>6101061
In sparsely predated waters the floppers have scarce need for their vestigial eyes, and so they become smaller over generations until they're gone. They use this extra energy to pursue flappier pursuits.

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>>6096523
Patches of sea floor where the 'sharks' regularly hunt become havens for the shelled blungs, as scraps of nutrition are steadily supplied to them. This species of blung develop stronger and longer 'arms' to scour the water and sand around them.

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>>6096523

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>>6099115
Their light producing organs grow denser, allowing for brighter colors to be produced. When predators are attacking them the organs flash white quickly, which causes disorientation and temporary blindness.

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>>6100809
The squareback jellies sometimes end up in massive 'super schools' that comprise of over a hundred individuals, some groups are so large that the jellies can live out their entire life cycle in the pack. Predators often rely on remembering the routes these creatures take, as they are an easy meal despite tasting pretty bad. Jellies that lived in these large packs ended up with soft tentacles that were useful for multiple purposes. Creatures deeper within the pack would use these appendages to push back against neighbors pushing into them too tight, this reduced the number of deaths from crushing. Another use came into play on the outer rim of the super schools where danger from predators was the highest, the 'arms' are used to wrap around and hold onto their neighbors, this helps prevent them from being separated from the pack even if they are bit.

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>>6101073
I'm fine with Threadjacker Evolution, desu.

>>6101334
>>6101336
Ironically, some of the most sedentary shelled blungs give rise to the most motile, as their strong arms are adapted into fins-like stuctures. They're not terribly graceful but it's enough to escape predators who try to prey them open, to to congregate where food and mating opportunities are better.

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>>6097512
The porous, amphibious 'water squirrels' were the major impetus for armoured and especially motile shelled blungs, using their more developed digits (especially a single long, curved, semi-flexible wrist-claw) to pry open and probe inside the carapaces of well-defended prey,

>>6101021
>>6101034
These are cool pictures by the way, and a very fun write up to read with my coffee.

1d6chan thread is up.
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Threadjacker_Evolution_Game

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>>6102129
fuck I meant article
Anyways, these crustacean thingies (>>6096612) get sharper claws to enhance their ability to pierce through some of the hardier prey species.

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>>6102139
The rugose apocalypse-instigator developed a ridges/spiked carapace to fend off >>6100668

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>>6100668
In an attempt to avoid their prey's spikes (>>6102844) some hemorrhoid trunk things replace their shovel-like appendage with a spiky protrusion of tier own to stab with from a distance, often working together with their shoveling family members and sharing the kill

born too early to explore the stars
born too late to explore the world
born just in time to witness the apocalypse crab-plant eye hyperwar

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>>6096512
Their roots become much longer, allowing them to draw more nutrients from the soil at the cost of making them truly immobile in their adult life stage. To compensate for this immobility, they have developed a "sperm cannon" that allows them to inseminate each other from a distance.

>>6103391
it took 4 weeks for the first obviously phallic creature to be made
that’s longer than I expected

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>>6101055
The lower set of head-spikes form a proboscis useful for sucking the eye-juice out of the green eyeball creatures such as >>6103391.
The lung increases in size and develops a dedicated breathing orifice (actually a malformed secondary anus). Having such a large organ between their legs inhibits their top speed, but their new favored prey is immobile, and they are still faster than the >>6096471, so the gain in endurance is well worth the loss in speed. They are still easily caught by the >>6098467 though.

>>6103401
desu it's earliest ancestor(>>6093860) was pretty dick-shaped too, >>6103391 just happens to be dick-shaped AND have an actual dick of its own

>>6103401
Nature is healing.

>>6103404
i'm vetoing this shit out of spite for that enormous dick-anus thing, especially with the fucking veins(?) on it
also because I think it's evolving too much at a time; evolutions should be way more gradual (the original thread's OP asked for it >>6085956)

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>>6096844
Some begin to accumulate a thicker, broader 'coat' of photosynthetic lenses across their posterior, serving to store nutrients and moisture so they can sun themselves on beaches and outcroppings.

>>6103606
I think those eyes are starting to look like leaves now

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>>6096921
Infection becomes an issue among this species, if one of the 'brothers' becomes ill it often spells the death of the other. Over time these creatures evovle new cells on their skin that produce an antibacterial slime coat, which helps prevent sickness as well as making them slippery for predators.

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>>6100034
Subtle discolorations over generations begin to favor brighter and more purple varieties of the gummies, as this appearance helps fool the primarily purple predators of the ocean, mostly at a distance.

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>>6101018
Gasballs that live their lives close to the ocean floor often consume more minerals than their higher floating siblings, over time this diet allows them to grow a flexible yet durable layer over their skin, which they use to deter creatures looking for an easy meal.

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>>6096467
>>6096471
The crested shrimp develop a more sophisticated mouth, their shelled mandible claws become longer and more dexterous, albeit less protected. They use these to reach farther into the water, and to secure their prey more efficiently.

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>>6101735
Water squirrels often find themselves in competition with the crested shrimp, however their small size and skittish scavenger mentality always meant avoiding a direct confrontation. In certain areas without many hunting grounds the pressure forced out docile water squirrels, and soon only the more aggressive ones remained. These fiesty water squirrels travelled in packs and would find tide pools with few crested shrimps and then work together to chase them out. For a long time these turf wars always ended with casualties on the water squirrel side, the survivors adapted with better defined musculature and feet well suited to quickly manuevering on rocks and sand. Packs of these creatures can now sometimes take down a crested shrimp, using their leg muscles to jump onto their armored backs and then stabbing them with their wrist-claws.

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>>6103565
Fine, I'll circumcise it back to its original size
This thing is >>6103404 but with only the proboscis, no dick-lung

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>>6103679
The mega-mucus brothers, like an earth hagfish, produce so much slime that they simply clog any predator's throat.

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>>6103687
A hooked tail allows the Gasball to anchor itself to a more sedentary Shelled Blung (>>6101334) or Green-Eye(>>6103391)

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>>6103685
With the Gummies' mating ritual being a dangerous dance around a predator, it is inevitable that a lot of Gummies would be swallowed, and that some of the swallowed would object to that sort of thing.
This Gummy has converted one of its mouths into a sucker, allowing it to lodge itself in a predator's throat, where it can then wait until the next time the predator opens its mouth so it can escape. It also sometimes eats the predator's food scraps with its other two mouths.

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>>6103712
A dedicated breathing orifice and gas-storage chamber do indeed develop, just... less suggestive to certain species of Terran extraterrestrials.

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>>6096451
These stealthy 'rats' are constantly weaving between predators, avoiding dangerous areas and migrating to safer feeding grounds. Without much in the way of offensive power, they sometimes have to go without eating for days or weeks before they find safe pastures. This subspecies formed large lumps on their back, which are filled with fat and water when they are healthy.

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>>6103685
explodes into many variants vastly different or quite extremely similar variants along the sea floor, as low nutrient simple lifeforms with a fast maturation rate alongside with the mutagenic effect of oxygen even with pigmentation encourages genetic instability only curtailed by predation.
>1
Slower moving variant often seen tumbling along the currents course correcting with jets of water or slowly skirting along the seafloor cycling water through its shared stomach, its odd appearance that informs it lifestyle is a continuation of the bifucation or more correctly polyfurcation or trifurcation, conjoining into a radial form
>2
Practically Sessile only moving under duress or from being ripped away by the currents. Spends all its time siphoning detritus out into its expanded digestive system wrapping around its "stomach" to gain as much out of what little can be found. Note its eye stalks on a constant swivel forming a near 360 field of view, when its forced to move it can contract its looping organs around its cavity deflating into a little tube, quite like its ancestors seemingly literally disappearing for many predators jetting away in a constant burst like a balloon
>3.
near identical to its ancestor except for its curled up back end and thicker organs, consumes much larger bits of food then all the other more then you would imagine would fit inside earning it the nickname "big chug" sometimes literally just swallowing sand or only surviving due having 2 extra mouths not clogged up after a illadviced meal
>4
discrete but much more noticeable when moving, a undulating active swimmer comparably to all its ancestors and relatives with hydrodynamic protrusions radially along its front.
>5
Skinny body Beady sensory organ-ed, cutting away all the unnecessary energy and developmental costs towards more advanced behavior crammed into small package that is able to cram inside of small crevices and holes in the environment away from predators and towards hard to reach food.
>6
bloated Speed freak moving forwards and front flipping violently and sometimes barrel rolling to be cool, doing what has worked so far since literally the second generation of its whole evolutionary line

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>>6103721
it just works! but with redundancy at the main cup makes a safer seal more possible, along with a repeat of the same earlier organ structure down the body for some course correction and moving along the surfaces such as along the inside of a predator
or just on a rock, while they can be used to ingest food they are less effective as it bypasses organ length.

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>>6103714
the Brothers share everything but all this excess lube makes it hard to move even if food gets stuck on the mucus surface, so they develop ridges to "scoop" forwards and nubs to steering controlling movement

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>>6103391
More sessile, sedentary members of this lineage grow bigger and taller, and also become more armored along their prolapsed 'stalk', forming a thick waxy cuticle that protects them down to the ground.

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>>6103712
There exists a niche for a mid-sized herbo-carnivore, not yet occupied by rat-squirrels or the larger cousins of these gracile 'eye-piercers'.

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>>6098363
These 'sandshark'-looking creatures develop broad, muscular heads and larger, stronger mouthparts to pop reinforced gasballs and to crack shelled blungs

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>>6098467
Good luck to hose acrobatic daredevil swimmers who try to anchor inside the mouth of this small, fast oxy-shark, whose visual acuity and speed allow it to pinpoint and strike even twirling, whirling prey, and whose specialized mouthparts are designed to keep those it captures from escaping its mouth un-impaled upon its spiny, backwards-facing 'teeth'.

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>>6102139
bigger claws for more scopping and growths upon the eye stalks to better protect the areas stuck under sand

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>>6101728
Team work makes the dream work, stronger "mouth" parts more motile limbs thriving on the growth of "plant" life

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>>6101055
The lung increases in size and develops a dedicated breathing orifice (actually a malformed secondary anus). Having such a large organ between their legs inhibits their top speed, but their new favored prey is immobile this gain of endurance makes hunting/grazing much more efficient over larger areas

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>>6100668
Uneven growth apparent crates these things called spikes can apparently kill or harm predators/herbivores acting as a deterant more so when suddenly twitching

>>6105645
QM already vetoed giving the local fauna giant veiny airsack dongs.

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>>6105221
The abominable Conk Snunker has discovered that its powerful suction is perfect for coaxing the seed and waste from >>6105307's cloacal opening, thus giving it a free (if utterly revolting) source of sustenance.

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>>6105648
It can now retract its tail and deflate its eyeballs to make itself less assailable for predators.

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>>6096839
Elegant, lightweight but fragile moved like a marionette but also endless energy in this Environment so long as there is a sun, muscles wearing out and needing to regenerate is a issue being the few times its not moving constantly.
evolution continues on the path already set more internal bladders and hydraulics playing in the light, body separated in segments

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>>6105712
It grows two more normal-shaped eyes for seeing things.

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>>6105703
may not be the most stylish of creatures but they exist peacefully even if confusingly what direction they are pointing in, inside of there environment consuming small particulates and equally as small creatures, cycling water through its digestive loops with some small valves, for propulsion the tail curling is slow swimming with preference to jet backwards/forewards with stomach vents or turning with its more traditional ancestral twin "mouths"

>>6101034
do you think the next event will be the great oxidation where all dissolved metals suddenly start rusting in the seas forming most of the ore deposits

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>>6101055
Due to overpopulation some of the spikeheads move past their alpine homes and seek out even colder environments, eventually settling in boreal forests and to a lesser extent taigas. To cope with the bitter temperature they sprout spiky semi-hard 'fur' on their backs.

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>>6104779
The useless nubs on their rears become useful tubes used for respiration, a series of fleshy flaps line the interior, these are used to block off the passage from unwanted substances.

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>>6105320
The motile growths on their flank are useful for counterbalancing themselves while running, which helps them reach new feeding grounds before anyone else. These restless 'tails' can also act to communicate rudimentary emotions to each other.

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>>6105645
These spikeheads are much more territorial of their feeding grounds, their slower movement means that it takes them much longer to relocate, and sometimes being driven out or turned away isn't an option. As a result they commonly fight their cousins and even members of their own species, this constant fighting exposes a weakness, their exposed lung. Eventually bony spikes sprout from their body and curve inwards to protect their stomach area.

>>6106001
dude I already said that I vetoed the dicklungs because they’re fucking retarded and also because they broke the “no over-evolving things in a single step” rule
come on be more original

>>6106057
Oh I figured it was fine since the post I replied to wasn't called out. Honestly though it's a lot less suggestive than the one you vetoed.

>>6106073
it’s still evolving from a species that was retconned out of existence

>>6106096
Wait but it evolved from >>6101055 which wasn't retconned. It's >>6103404 that was erased.

>>6106100
yeah as if the dick copypasted from the now ret-gone creature is doing that claim any favors
fuck it, new rule
no giving things huge dicks
or dick-anuses
or dick-lungs
or anything that belongs in /d/

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>>6101336
The Shelled Blung develops bristles on its arms to protect themselves against the Sans Sharks (>>6105329). When the Sand Shark approaches, the Blung will flail its arms wildly, and if they hit the shark the bristles will break off and stick themselves in the shark's skin.

>>6106143
That's just all sea cucumbers, sea anemone, salamanders, frogs, catfish,mosquito larva, along with several hundred aquatic species or more, several worms aquatic and terrestrial, turtles do it when hibernating and hunting in the case of snapping turtles and in high enough concentration so can also pigs, mice, rats and most mammals as a ancestral trait due to how intestines are structured.

Also to be fair it was less of a dick then what it was based on trying to sanitize it, more the rib Crest of a frog or bird with a opening where it ends to act as a breathing hole tried to sanitize it but still doing what would make it good at breathing but put on backwards due to the wonky body shape

>>6106276
I think there’s a meaningful difference between those species (which are like that because of millions of years of evolution) and what’s happening in this thread with someone clearly giving the spikenecks obviously phallic-appearing body parts
besides not all evolutionary changes have to be so suddenly visible from the outside
you don’t need to suddenly give a chreature a huge schlong just to indicate that it breathes better

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>>6106703
its a very visual medium so not alot to do that would make it unique i guess.

if i redraw it to stuck it right behind i would still need to curl it up like a lobsters tail so its not vulnerable.

expand it into like a spiders abdomen still dick ish.

if i put a dot on areas pointed towards the viewer on the body it still all looks like dicks just not veiny that would make it more obvious, when that would bring more blood contact with the environment to intake oxygen.

one hole instead of two bit unlike the avatar dire horses but the torso proportions are sort of backwards.

and on beaks i sort of just gloss over it not thinking about it and excuse it due to how rapidly RL birds beaks can mutate to adapt to food sources with darwins own examples with Finches, as its just basically a growing nail and a bone under it would be one of the easiest parts to adapt or randomly mutate.


eh i probably will figure out something already took a hour to look stuff up and i could not be half assed to rewrite what i already wrote now about 40 minutes ago

>>6106001
thought this one was really neat basically the ribcage but external in a creature that probably dont even have ribs internally

>>6106765
have you considered just using a mouth/nostrils to breathe instead of putting some breathing hole somewhere stupid

>>6106907
tbf, that sounds less fun to me, too.

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>>6097517
To compensate for their vestigial eyes they gain porous patches of skin along their fins, these are used for breathing as well as tasting. Along the insides of these holes are special cells capable of identifying small particals in the water.

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>>6105330
Some oxy-sharks inherit a spotted pattern from a more cooperative lineage. These spotted variants often form packs to take down large or dangerous prey.

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>>6105329
Thick folds of dermal layers form on the heads of this family of sand sharks, allowing it to endure the spiny thorns of the bristled blung.

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>>6107134
The uppermost fin begins to serve more of a sensory role, and the forefins are often swept over areas as they approach to identify carrion or hidden prey. Their head shrinks slightly as these appendages take on some of the role once taken by its brain.

>>6105760
Are we approaching our first pollinator relationship??

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>>6105329
Losing access to one of their main food sources (the bristled blungs) this subspecies is pressured to hunt outside the waters. They often wait under layers of sand in tidal zones, throwing themselves onto land once they detect prey near them. Over time exposure to the air forces them to grow strips of elastic skin on their sides, capable of sucking in water for breathing and even holding it inside to be used on land.

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>>6106155
That full fan reemerges in a strange case of back-evolving a similar trait through a different mechanism. The fin-like tendrils brachiate mid-way up the length to allow for more stinging, flailing, grasping fronds.

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>>6096903
Hunted becomes hunter as some snake-worms develop muscularized, keratinized tails to stab and scoop out the eyes of their spikiest predators. They then nestle down to lay eggs and brood in the exoskeleton, and their offspring consume the remaining flesh of their home's former occupant and, eventually, their parent. The adult never leaves the 'skeleton' after laying eggs.

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>>6105707
Given >>6107209, perhaps it's not surprising that the planet shortly thereafter sees its first (?) pair of eyelids.

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Good time for an update on the state of play?

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>>6105212
Two of the mouths become grabby and feathery to better sift through detritus. The third mouth remains the same and is mostly used for locomotion

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>>6105977
They grow even more fur to deal with the cold. These "neckbeards" also have a more saw-like jaw, which allows them to tear the bark off of trees and eat the wood inside

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>>6107216
The upper eyelid becomes calcified, allowing the eye to be fully protected when closed

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>>6107158
The upper fin elongates even further, becoming something almost akin to a lure. The tip of the feeler is less porous than the middle because prey keeps biting onto it and that's no fun.
They also develop a skin flap between their forelimbs that makes it less likely for prey to slip past their jaws.

you guys ARE aware that everything so far has been underwater
and that there aren't any trees or anything that can be considered plants besides the eye thingies
right?

>>6107640
they probably are not aware, but underwater mountains and "alps" could be fun, and we are finally getting more tree like atleast on the outside plant animal things

>>6107640
Nah we've had dudes walking and breathing on land for eons.

>>6107640
Several other entries had led me to believe land was being claimed, but perhaps those are simply then higher and sunnier patches of water. The distinction on an alien world of unknown gravity and atmospheric composition is purely academic.

>>6107769
The original posts involving legged creatures mentioned that they were just walking on the seafloor
>>6107774 is right

>>6107779
I'm confused.
>>6096467
>they transition to a terrestrial lifestyle
>>6097512
>on land as well as in the water
Also mentioned as amphibious in >>6101735
>>6097488
>lung
>migrate to higher altitudes
Not stated explicitly to be living on land, but having lungs implies it needs air wouldn't it?

>>6107818
I think OP is saying that while anons have written that in, he's soft-locking this era to amphibious or near-coastal lifestyles at most.

>>6107819
That makes more sense.

Are we also locked out of plants?

>>6107818
Lungs are just gills in a sack often gills inside of a swim bladder like some crabs have pockets of water they carry on the inside to act as a exchange surface with air to water to gill.
We do have atleast one plant/anomalous slightly species that is best adapted for the beaches if they are not rock or solid mountain with that eyeball flat leaf twisted worm.
>>6107829
Nah we are inventing plants from a universal ancestor I cheated a bit and said the animal is photosynthetic internally instead of algea perhaps its instead free roaming cells in the fluids and some in the walls

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>>6103606
by forming bumps or "ribs" of the tougher skin material makes moving along on its twisted body alot less painful and minimized water loss from the skin and the ability to not be swiped away by the waters immediately non-consentually

>>6107819
Technically nothing stops you from going to the surface but there's fuck all to eat up there

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>>6106155
This subspecies of shelled blung can use excess energy to grow smaller versions of itself on their bodies. These will eventually grow to overtake their 'parent' blung, but are a good deterrence for predators.

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>>6107167
The full-fanned blungs are successful at driving away predators, however this causes their vicinity to become prime land for lesser blungs to occupy, causing overcrowding. Growing thick roots and a taller stem, these shelled blungs tower over the others, allowing it to feed before the others while also offering a sort of protection to the blungs below it.

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>>6098387
2
>>6101310
1
similar but not the same.
1 a more advanced species with a power to flop and flapper through the water and over sediment
2
a more primitive species with such things as a "front" and disgusting primitive eyes but both guided towards a simpler superior mobile form

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>>6107321
The photosynthetic adaptation no longer serves much purpose, given their dredging feeding strategy and propensity to completely withdraw their photosynthetic organs, so many cease producing chlorophyll.

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>>6105201
The fat deposits follow a somewhat-parallel evolutionary process to the 'tails', which originated in the same way, and the development of intercalary forms in their extinct cousins like >>6095533. When the 'lump-rats' acquire enough material from foraging and maintain the nutrient levels of their humps long enough, they become womb-like chambers, eventually pierced by the fangs of their 'budding' offspring, who then continue to develop until they can open their eyes and forage for themselves. Only when they resemble miniature adults do they chew their way out, and the humps reseal.

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>>6105712
Some 'latticefish' devolve increasingly long, strong tails, which they use to anchor themselves to rocks or other organisms in shallow tidal zones, where they can really drink in that sunlight. Once comfy, they only uncoil their tails to fight off predators or to make migrations away from overcrowded areas or harsh climatic events.

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>>6103714
The mucus changes to become a foul tasting minor irritant to even further discourage predators

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>>6108738
It grows longer eyestalks to peek around corners

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>>6108895
The pseudo-fangs on its tails develop into venomous stingers, which they use to protect themselves from predators.

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>>6105639
they get a bit shorter to squeeze into more hiding spots

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>>6100958
Some eeleyes become specialists in attacking, consuming, and storing poisons, irritants, and other chemical agents from other organisms, such as fang-tailed lumprays (>>6109325) or purple mega-mucoids (>>6109172). They take on warning colorations to let various shark-alikes know they're not to be trifled with.

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>>6100958
Some non poisonous Eeleyes roughly copy the appearance of their family members to trick predators into thinking they are too dangerous to eat

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>>6109324
Short pseudotentacles help this creature move around solid surfaces quicker.