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Eyespots continue to confuse and scare therapods today.
Many moths and butterflies have eyespots to deter birds, and we even use eyespots on bird repellent devices.
The illustration comes from the book: After Man, an exploration of what humans may evolve into in the far, far future.
I think somebody at Something Awful turned it into a Christmas card.
edit: My bad. The book was Man After Man
You can also use Azgaar’s Fantasy-Map-Generator, I can’t speak too much for its accuracy but it’s better than nothing for sure. I certainly had no idea how to work a climate. But his app gave me something to work with
Here's the online version of the program so you could help out or try it out: https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/
And here's my world seed so you can mess around with it: 794161281
Good on you!
May I gently suggest you should next seek out the Snouters book?
Here is a handy link:
You can probably get this way lots cheaper from other sellers.
It's roughly the premise of Marc Boulay's "Demain, les Animaux du Futur", a French book published in 2015, except that there are no reptiles in it ; yet, it never having been translated in English, there are French Canadian and a Chinese editions ( https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Animals-Future-animaux-Chinese/dp/7115557772 ; https://www.archambault.ca/livres/demain-les-animaux-du-futur-/s%C3%A9bastien-steyer-marc-boulay/9782701158860/?id=1711113 ).
You better find another entitle as it appears to infringe. What did your lawyers say?
It's on Amazon.co.jp for around US$100, and it looks as if there are a couple of stores that will ship to the US. Probably going to be expensive to ship, though.
And...
If you get the correct kind of terrarium for your Puddy Buddy, you will have a Fart Puddy Buddy; like so:
https://www.amazon.com/Rhode-Island-Novelty-097138735041-Assortment/dp/B00407OAR8
Good for hours of juvenile fun!
This comment is offered with gentle humor.
Stars are black bodies (approximately) but I assume you didn't mean that. It would however be hard to use the long wavelength photons emitted by near ambient temperature black bodies as they don't contain enough energy to excite the chemical transition in photosynthesis. You'd therefore either need a long chain of very low energy reactions or you'd have to rely on multiple photons arriving at exactly the same time which is a low probability.
However, if you want a thermotroph that uses heat (not light) then you can investigate thermosynthesis which is the hypothetical process of using a thermal gradient to convert inorganic carbon into organic carbon. This has been proposed to have been present in the early evolution of life though I don't believe any evidence has been found for this yet. The concept has been explored in a few speculative science books, including Life in the Universe by Schulze-Makuch and Irwin.
Several thermotroph options have been proposed which can potentially capture thermal energy and use it to change the properties of a membrane in some way. This leads to a change in membrane potential that can drive the formation of ATP just like in photosynthesis.
An internal water vacuole is heated and the motile cell moves to colder water where the energy can be released.
A long sessile organism could span the thermal gradient and do the same by moving the vacuole internally.
A sessile filter feeder type organism could suck in cold water and expel hot water.
A sessile "hinged" organism could take advantage of the turbulent flow to move one end of the cell between hot and cold water.
Idk if you only sketch by hand & then scan, or what, but your phone might have a "create" > "collage" option in your gallery. Ah man... Sketching & collages 🤔 the Galaxy Note was totally designed for you. You should download Samsungs PenUp & see the crazy art ppl are sharing
i tend to disagree : this guy is really wrinkly and has the weirdest expression ever ,
it looks like it's about to do the nastiest stuff ever ...
it's how i imagine the harkonnen looking like ,
it looks like the unholy son of voldemort and gollum ,
it's the pale man from pan labirint trying to look like a human ...
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i don't like it
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4479393714/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_GJFK61JT8GV9XJNCHMTH In this book, the spinal column of a coelacanth-like fish is twisted 90 degrees from the middle, making the second dorsal fin and first gluteal fin like a third pair of legs.
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Mass = 5.972x10^24 x 0.025 = 1.493x10^23 kg
density = 3.3 g/cm^3 = 3.3x10^15 g/km^3
density = 3.3x10^15 g/km^3 = 3.3x10^12 kg/km^3
volume = mass / density = 1.493x10^23 kg / 3.3x10^12 kg/km^3 = 4.524x10^10 km^3
radius = 3 x volume / (4 x pi) = 2213.4 km (I had to find this using this website, couldn't get a sensible answer using the equation myself)
radius = 0.347 earth radii
surface gravity = 2.034 m/s^2 (I had to find this using this website, couldn't get a sensible answer using the equation myself)
surface gravity = 0.224 G (earth gravities)
And you could put one of these on the end of your penis and extrude all sorts of interesting shapes of poo!
The author is also present here on the subreddit as well.
Super Sculpey Sculpting Compound... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LH25A2I?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
I hope that link works! It is a little pricey but definitely worth it. Though I would recommend putting it in a plastic bag and some hot water from the faucet to soften it up cause when they say firm, they really mean "unable to knead it without warming it up".
DONT MICROWAVE IT IF YOU GET IT. You'll ruin the clay lol
In the case of the spine, thought about that a strange change can take away our hability throw objects, swim or flexibility.
And I found a list of some of this problemsa and possible fixes but not all convinces me
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-body
It's created with Ganbreeder, which "evolves" images as combinations of other images:
For a good explanation of how a GAN works:
These were created with Artbreeder:
Artbreeder can be utilized as an evolution simulator. You can start from any random genes and then evolve the image by choosing whichever offspring looks more interesting to you. Keep doing it for a while and you can evolve surprising creatures. The possibilities are almost limitless, and this tech will get better in the future when the neural network is trained more.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
I imagine that a rolling animal would be best suited to a desert, forest has too much in the way, mountains are difficult to go up after you go down, plains have too much traction with grasses and the ocean.
As for their biology, a living wheel would probably be radially symmetrical. I really like this mollusk like alien designed by Daniel Benson, he has it so that the entire body is a wheel with twin rows of tentacles along the edges to power the motion. The eyes are on the sides and the mouth (wherever it is) is also the anus like in some worms
Another possibility is a modified diplopod that is less rounded on one side of it's body and has an almost pseudo-ball and socket on it's head and butt. It could roll around when at high speeds but when it needs to, but could also walk.
Despite this, I find solely wheel based locomotion very unlikely even on alien worlds with much different environments to our own because if it's formally walking or swimming limbs were converted into a wheel format, then how could it hunt or bend to eat plants.
However there is one advantage that I could think of and that would be that they would be faster than almost any animal in existence right now. This might be a stretch but possibly a mollusk who's entire "rubber" of their "tire" is a radula that eventually curls inward to their mouth at one point that consumed small creatures the size of bugs or grass like plants is a possibility, but unlikely. It wouldn't be a sphere, tire or cylinder but more of a curled spiral with an outer layer on it's sides.
>The argument goes, that primates can never use a killing bite or crack bones with their teeth
What about Mandrills? Of course, they’re mostly herbivorous, but they have been known to kill duiker by biting their heads, with their teeth penetrating the duiker skull; that’s definitely an example of a primate using a killing bite and cracking bones with their teeth.
Their skull shape is also quite a bit different from Hominids, with the jaw projecting much more forward, so the stresses of biting wouldn’t be really comparable. It helps that they (well, males, at least) have extraordinarily long canine teeth, as well- they’re the closest thing to a “sabretooth” primate right now.
I strongly recommend you to read it. It contains most of the information you need to build a two-dimensional world.
The book Cosmic biology: How life could evolve on other worlds has 20 pages discussing the potential for life on Io. It's entitled "Fire and Ice" and considers life at the interface of hot and cold, so it's not quite the same as an entirely hot planet but it is worth a read.
no idea, but here's a book about what would happen if it started to rain candy one day and never stopped.
[warning: it is IMMENSELY disturbing.]
Yeah, that's what I did. At the time the exchange rate murdered me but I really wanted it.
There was a kindle version as I recall? It's only $9: https://www.amazon.com.au/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-ebook/dp/B00A2VS55O
For the first point, if the people are like humans their blood would clot during colder temperatures, and would just freeze to death. People could become more adapted to living in the cold by evolving blubber or even a coat of hair. On high humidity the people would have to deal with high temperatures where sweat would stick and won’t evaporate. But the thing is that I think you should study based on the cultures that are living already in the respective areas of your world, like the Inuit or African Hunter Gatherers, in a harsh environment, religion seems to be based on the more survival lessons to avoid wasting or doing any stupid things, for example you should eat and used all of the animal in Inuit folklore, but in a more normal environment, religion seems to based on giving purposes in life and fear of not doing that. Essentially I think you should focus on the people that lives in the area and the species adapted to there. Although in our world, environmental pressures mainly changes our culture, although with your setting it could be more about the anatomy adapting, so while the civilization may no longer need hands, it’s good to say that unless there’s an incentive to lose hands (like when a religion diverges from the main one), the hands instead would probably become useless since they don’t use it. So essentially think of how cultures evolved from the environment and use that based on your species anatomy. https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Familiar-Understanding-Climate-Cultures/dp/1581580223 I find that this is a good book and can explain it better than I could ever with my way of confusing essay.
Japanese manga artist Masato Hisa, in his book "びっくりモンスター大図鑑", had interpreted the Yeti as a bird because of its cold protection and its ability to cope with thin air.
The Japanese macaque, also known as the "snow monkey" lives in the subarctic zone, so it is not surprising that there are (non-human) primates that live in cold regions.
As a Japanese person, the Japanese macaque is as common to me as the skunk is to Americans. However, many Japanese people dislike Japanese macaque because they are vermin that take crops from fields.
Hi. I'm Japanese, so I felt I was the right person for this topic.
Most Japanese think of the Tsuchinoko as a snake, but the Japanese manga artist Hisa Masato, in his book "びっくりモンスター大図鑑", presented the interpretation that the tsuchinoko is a member of the Pangolin family.
I guessed it was a mammal because of the way it wriggled its body up and down instead of left and right, and the fact that it was thought to be a snake was simply because its limbs were hidden from view, but when I turned it over, I found that it did have limbs.
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