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Albeit resembling brachiopods a lot in external appearance and lifestyle, the multilingulates had a completely different past, since they evolved from entirely vagile animals. Their ancestors included large, pelagial filter-feeders and even some carnivorous species that evolved their back plates into jaws. The larval forms of the recent species are nectonic and resemble their ancestors. Multilingulates can be found worldwide and adapted to live on all kinds of surfaces and biomes; some species live exclusively on large marine animals like squid whales.Cannonball: a species with a round, robust shell and short tail which lives in tidal zones and other places with strong currents. Their tail suckers excrete acid to enforce the connection to the surface they are living on.
Mudtail: a suckerless multilingulate evolved for muddy environments. Albeit their tolerance for low oxygen levels, the adult stages are able to crawl over the ground if the oxygen level drops too low.
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What other members of the multilingulate family are there?
I'll bet the local people love to eat these creatures!
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In the current project that's the only sheet. Aside from the ones pictured, there are also a few tailless species that lie on soft ground and flat species that colonize animals or solid rock. The mentioned vagile forms are all extinct but it is very possible that neotenic species can develop.
Local people wouldn't be present, as the time the project is set in the planet doesn't have any sophonts. But there are a few durophagous creatures that would feed on them.
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so no sentient life yet... what time period would this planet be at if compared to earth? devonian? tertiary? neolithic? cretacious?
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Sapient life, no. It isn't really comparable due to different evolutionary rates and not correlating mass extinctions, but it would be about middle to late Mesozoic.
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hmm... interesting yeah you've a good point sapience might not evolve at the same era or time period on some far off world compared to earth but still you wonder what sentient life would look like right? its likely far more inhuman looking than we can possibly imagine...
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While there are no sophonts, there are at least some candidates for this, similar to Earth's crows or elephants. The ones already drawn are the centaurs ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Tβ¦Β and the longlipped yetipillar ramul.deviantart.com/art/REP-Tβ¦
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well at least they might be on the right track... thats encouraging
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Encouraging or terrifying, depending on perspective.
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you've a good point on that one too...
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You put alot of thought behind these creatures. It's an obvious fact you took biology as a subject, have you taken geology atall? (if so could you tell me a bit about it as a subject please? >_>
kinda reminds me of a Geoduck. The mudtail one sounds interesting
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Actually it's the other way around, I'm a geology student and want to go into palaeontology. My biological knowledge results from private interest and selective memory.
About the subject: Aside from identifying soils, rocks and minerals and having excursions we have to understand the different processes of geological structure genesis, plate tectonics, differentiation processes, etc. and sometimes calculations and correct use of charts. Solid knowledge of chemistry and some physics and math are required. I can't say that much since it's my third semester but from what I know we'll later use polarisation microscopy and other practical more practical oriented stuff.
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looks kinda like a barnacle.
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Because barnacles were the main source of inspiration for this design.
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interesting. any things else planned far down the pipeline?
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In which sense? If you mean other multilingulate relatives, there's nothing planned so far. As for Red Earth Project stuff in general, I have a list of bioluminescent species to go through.
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the red earth project mostly. any ideas on deep sea extremophiles planned for the project? the red project is subjective life living on a world with a red dwarf star for a sun. am i right?
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Right now no, but thanks for the idea, as I haven't done anything for deepsea extremophiles yet.
Actually, the star is a bit bigger than the sun, the name "Red Earth" is based on the colouration of its dominant photoautotrophs.
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plants with red chlorophyll. i've heard of that. plants today use green because its the best for using yellow sunlight. a red star or red dwarf would be like constant sunset.
who knows what strange shapes life takes in the vastness of space...
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Actually, Red Earth has a bigger sun with a shorter average wavelength which the plants utilize (red is reflected). There are also a number of algae and bacteria using different pigments, but it's assumed chlorophyll became dominant because it exploits the most efficient wavelengths of the available spectrum.
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Ah, thankyou. I had either artist for games or paleontologist as a carreer idea. It would interest me, paleontology, and for work experience this year, I'm hoping to work in the Natural History Muesum in London. I was hoping also to take Geology next year as an AS.
Unfortunatly I've decided to discard the idea of being a Paleontologist as I've only taken Biology for AS and will be for A2 (despite getting As for all the sciences in GCSE level), I don't think staying in different countries for long periods of time will be very suited for me and the consortium where I do my subjects isn't teaching geology. But I might look at the college to do geology, if they have it, because I'm interested in it.
I'm good at biology, but in comparason to you.. gees xD Well done!
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Amazing, we are more similar than I thought. I don't think palaeontology is all about digging out fossils, there are also specialists for certain groups of animals and plants who do the idendification, the fossil preparators and those concerned with the biomechanics. I can tell you more after getting some work experience at the local museum during spring holidays.
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Hahahah awesome! Aye, I wanted to specialise in vertebrate Paelontology. I know there's alot of paperwork as well... I laughed when seeing the recomendations and what is desired when going for the job; all the bullet points seemed reasonable, and then at the end it said "neat handwriting"
me: "Nooo!!!!!!". I don't think it's that messy to be honest, but when everyone's squinting and stopping every now and then to figure out what I wrote.. perhaps it is xD
Good luck with the museum work experience. What subject are you interested in looking at in Palaeontology?
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Don't know, I'll first see what they offer. I think I'm going to avoid vertebrates since everyone wants to do them, so maybe insects or arachnids, I'll see. Another option would be fossil preparation.
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You would probably be more wanted if you specialised in something else aye. Fossil preparation? What would that include?
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Removing the stone around the fossil and preserving it.
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