Timeline for Possibility of bipedal mostly-aquatic species?
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 21:27 | vote | accept | LOCHLAN | ||
| Aug 15, 2016 at 18:25 | history | edited | Erin Thursby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
separated the links. formatting was weird.
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 9:28 | comment | added | Charon | you could use liquid skeletons | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 7:29 | vote | accept | LOCHLAN | ||
| Aug 31, 2016 at 21:18 | |||||
| Aug 15, 2016 at 7:29 | comment | added | LOCHLAN | The links have been very helpful and I think I'm going to go with no legs and arms then! Thanks a bunch | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 4:10 | comment | added | Erin Thursby | I added some helpful links in my answer. With eight appendages, they can really do anything we can. their brains are actually wired to use them in concert, as you'll see from the link there. There's no need for hands, legs or bones. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 4:07 | history | edited | Erin Thursby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added links and a bit.
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 3:54 | comment | added | Erin Thursby | They are very, very adept at using tools and getting into practically anything. They are surprisingly flexible and have excellent control. If they had the motivation, they could construct a delicate instrument. They are amazing and have been known to use tools in the ocean. Simply put, they don't actually need thumbs. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | LOCHLAN | the problem is that the specific and delicate motor functions that we as humans have is lost between us and octopi. I'm hoping to create some sort of median between the two so that my aliens are capable of fine motor skills and yet also have the larger more fluid motion of them in the ocean. So we cut out them having legs maybe, what capability would a octopi have constructing a delicate instrument without the delicate motorskills of fingers and an opposable thumb? Otherwise I think you're very right. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 1:15 | history | answered | Erin Thursby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |