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For questions about the long-term change of a specific species, type of creature, or trait, usually through the process of natural selection and reproduction. Ideal questions focus on traits, not entire creatures. Consider also [creature-design].
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How plausible is a photosynthetic parasite that targets animal hosts?
I think evolution could handle this, given enough time and the right pressures. Here are the steps, in brief:
Start with an existing carnivorous plant like a butterwort or
bladderwort. …
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Could elves revolve their ears to listen to sounds?
If human and elvish evolution diverged at or near this point in the tree of life, it would be entirely plausible for the elf branch to retain this trait. …
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Evolutionary Advantage to Extreme Longevity
there was some event in the ancient elven past that made it part of their mores to not have as many children (for example, due to reduced resources to have to share with an increasing population), then evolution …
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How to justify digging claws and opposable thumbs in the same being
How would evolution handle this?
I can accept very broad explanations, I prefer to paint my world with a wide stroke, if not with a broom. …
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Could a world where two neigbouring countries, only one of which uses 'magic', exist?
Depending on where you want to go with this story, I would try a divine-intervention angle.
In a time long before anyone can remember, one people blessed by the Gods, another cursed. One ruled …
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Anatomically Correct Tomte
I think some appropriate mix of an existing small primate and the right accidents of evolution could easily have produced the creature we want at least in terms of size, intelligence, and personality. …
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Planet of the Aves: First Steps
The meteor missed. The end-cretaceous mass extinction event didn't happen. Velociraptors and their friends lived on. They continued to evolve, to be large, and to eat whatever they wanted.
We now …
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Planet of the Aves: Quadrabirds
Your quadrabirds don't have to loose flight to have a walking fore-limb. Another answer already mentions that some groups of pterosaurs folded their wings when on the ground and used them for walking …
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How would a human species evolved to survive high radiation take a new nuclear strike?
You've heard the expression whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger? Well, in some cases, what does kill a few of us, leaves the average of what's left of us stronger.
Consider a couple real-life …
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Civilized Dolphins and their Record Keeping
On the Life Ball of my fantasy stories, a particular species of delphinidae- I call them black dolphins- have evolved and advanced at least as much as humans and other intelligent races.
A prior quest …
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How might the pterosaurs survive an end-cretaceous-like event?
Cobaltduckworlda has had somewhat of a similar biological past as earth, but not exactly. As examples, sentience has happened multiple times, and not just in primate-like species. Beasts that didn't …
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Anatomically Correct Boar Troll
Where would this creature's evolution have split from the real world? What living species might it best resemble (i.e. ox, sheep, warthog, etc.) …
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The Galaxy has been colonised but why the big feet?
Schmell gets the snow. Man, does it get the snow. You think it snows where you live? You should see the snow in Schmell!
To walk around on all the deep, white, frozen precipitation, it helps to be …
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Anatomically Correct Harpy
Going from a strict carnivore to a more opportunistic feeding habit will take several generations, but it has happened in evolution before. …
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Caste in non-Eusocial animals
I think you may have been slightly mixing cause and effect.
In your example insects, every egg the queen lays has equal potential to become a worker, drone, or future queen. It all depends on how th …
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