Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for writers/artists using science, geography and culture to construct imaginary worlds and settings. It only takes a minute to sign up.

Sign up to join this community
Anybody can ask a question
Anybody can answer
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
Worldbuilding

Explore our questions

Ask Question
more tags
Active Hot Week Month
3 votes
2 answers
297 views

Animals with fur that fluoresces under UV, and a star with high UV levels--how dramatic is the affect, and how badly would it mess up camouflage?

The Square-Cube Law's user avatar
The Square-Cube Law
  • 134k
18 votes
8 answers
12k views

Anatomically Correct Pegasus

The Square-Cube Law's user avatar
The Square-Cube Law
  • 134k
2 votes
1 answer
215 views

Can 'prions' help me avoid a genetic engineering temporal paradox?

Monty Wild's user avatar
Monty Wild♦
  • 52.7k
1 vote
2 answers
114 views

What kind of physique would a Voswuinian Mastiff need to fight a Voswuinian Liguar in the way described?

JBH's user avatar
JBH
  • 115k
5 votes
5 answers
2k views

How big would a dog like the one described need to be to survive an attack by the big cat I’ve described?

Russell McMahon's user avatar
Russell McMahon
  • 1,313
9 votes
3 answers
2k views

Will my Hydra sink into the bog?

Shojo Dagger's user avatar
Shojo Dagger
  • 21
6 votes
1 answer
3k views

How do human girls who are sterilised at age 9 develop as they mature?

Monty Wild's user avatar
Monty Wild♦
  • 52.7k
0 votes
0 answers
65 views

Can there be habitable moons despite heavy changes in axial tilt of their mother body?

L.Dutch's user avatar
L.Dutch♦
  • 273k
0 votes
3 answers
124 views

How large of an initial population would it take for these new traits to average out into the standard population of the world?

Palarran's user avatar
Palarran
  • 7,422
4 votes
3 answers
199 views

How to have 'easy' sexual morphs in individuals with two identical sex chromosomes in species with XY or ZW sex determination?

Monty Wild's user avatar
Monty Wild♦
  • 52.7k
2 votes
6 answers
357 views

Human brain as fluidic computing tubes

Robert Rapplean's user avatar
Robert Rapplean
  • 13.9k
5 votes
3 answers
3k views

Could You Use Mitochondria to Power Your Cell Phone?

eigenvalue's user avatar
eigenvalue
  • 1,927
2 votes
1 answer
89 views

Optimal Organ Preservation in a Steampunk World?

KerrAvon2055's user avatar
KerrAvon2055
  • 25.3k
4 votes
2 answers
96 views

Adaptations for a planet with high atmospheric pressure, to avoid nitrogen narcosis?

Logan R. Kearsley's user avatar
Logan R. Kearsley
  • 41.4k
Browse more Questions

Your privacy

By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.