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Dragonthunders — Alternative Paths, The Invasion of the Flish
Published: 2020-02-10 01:48:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 21539; Favourites: 390; Downloads: 17
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A while ago I tried to start a sort of project based from different discussions on the SE forum, about what if during the devonian a group of fishes became flish-like and instead of tetrapods conquering the world crawling from the coast, these vertebrates do it through the air, calling it "the invasion of the flishes", I did some sketches and tried to work in the subsequent periods but poorly and since then I leave it like that, now I tried to work and settle more concretely the evolution of these, adding the details of how they developed flight and how this "flish" anatomy works, ending in this diagram, part of my uncoming series of multiversal travel.As a side note, I had thought about doing a "what if" doing a mix of Primeval and TFIW where the true Flishes are launch to the Devonian millions of years before the first tetrapod had evolved by a portal anomaly, but I threw it in favor on speculate on something more plausible.
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I've always wanted to see a descendant of Flish evolving into an amphibian and then into an amniote such as reptiles or synapsids.
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I hope to work on that eventually
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Water to Air to Land and then possibly back to Water even... awesome XD
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*Alternative world
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Thank you.
Nah, only for this particular project I will work with this one.
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Very interesting concept of a flish as a prehistoric animal instead of a future animal. ^_^
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And it will be with time
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Not the pterosaurs, not the birds, not the bats, but the fish
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The idea and the concept is intriguing and pretty cool. Yet, I think having yje creature be the same as TFIW is unnecessary. You could just make it a flying sarcopterygian instead of being the flish from that show, because it doesn't seem to bring any relevance in that regard. But anyways, pretty cool.
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Thank you.
I tried to make the reference for tribute more than anything else, flish is not something so common created or speculated, it is an iconic creature of spec evo and it did not seem appropriate to only create a fish capable of flying without giving hint of what it was based mainly
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I mean, I guess. Its not really an issue, just a nitpick of mine. Could have been a totally different thing, just for the sake of keeping it creative.
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I mean is going to be different, this is just the initial species of the PoD as this is an alt evo world where vertebrates are going to colonize the land by the skies so is going to have descendants of these flying animals, not like just having flishes on the devonian and thats it.
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Yeah. Indeed the concept looks cool. I actually think its totally feasible for a clade to start invading land after becoming aerial, before living its life on the water. Like, we have flying fish today. Wouldn't it be very benefitial for a flying fish to if, by chance, be able to breath and crawl back to the water if it falls on land?
But it begs the question. Why would fish ever need to fly so early in time, during the Devonian? There weren't really many prey in the air at the time. Gliding above the water would make sense, but full flight doesn't seem too likely at first glance (just another nitpick of mine).
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It would be variable depending of the species, some species of primitive flishes or even their young forms likely still have gills or gill based breathing so they would return to the water with ease.
About the question I have two response, one in univese and other that isn't:
1. is just a "what if" scenario, I want to work in something inovative without really thinking on the "why it happened" just doing how would life would be if that happened.
2. I think this i just result of a defense angaist predation and derived locomotion during that time, as I stated in the diagram of their evolution of flight, in this case flight is just the result of their method of escape as they just don't glide like a flying fish of our day.
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Interesting.
I wonder, if flying tetrapods evolved first then that means that most of parallel tetrapods will be areal as well.
So that could possibly lead to the Earth being inhabited with speculate dragon-like creatures (assuming that this "flish" doesn't become a dead end).
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It would be likely given the way most actual flying tetrapods developed with diversification on niches but not losing flight, even though I wouldnt doubt of some clades becoming flightless.
And more or less, likely those flying tetrapods wouldnt be limited to reptile like forms but to many many other forms.
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Very interesting.
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They certainly look more formidable than the canon flish do.
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