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The Collared Peccary is not the name of the greatest man stripper under the sun, but is a species of mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly refe …

Humans have been domesticating carnivores for over 10 000 years. And there are certainly carnivores big enough to ride. The former is the biggest feline ever to exist. They certainly can carry a human …

In this scenario, all the humans on earth have disappeared, except for Fred. Sure, Fred is sad that everyone that exists is dead but him, including his friends and family, but he doesn't let that get …

Let us suppose that instead of the 24 hour cycle we currently enjoy on Earth between day and night, we instead lived on a planet with a day/night cycle that lasted a full 9 years. The noon of the day …

Absolutely The digitigrade leg formation (with the foot acting a a third joint) was scientifically explained here, answers there may be useful to you, especially regarding balance. But you ask for ung …

Slimes are a common monster we often see in games such as Minecraft, Terraria and Slime Rancher, but it is never explained how such an animal can exist. How could the body of such an animal even exist …

Why would a creature that lives on the surface of a planet evolve limbs that can bend at many points (like a tentacle or elephant trunk) and still end in some sort of hand-like appendage?

There once existed a bird of massive size, aptly named the Elephant bird. Over the course of history humanity rode several kinds of animals to war: horses being by a wide margin the most common. Ho …

1. Anatomy If we try and think of slimes as animals in nature, they must be composed of cells, or at the very least one cell. In fact, slimes do show an uncanny similarity to single-celled organisms, …

Here on the stack exchange we talk about dragons... a lot. We have discussed all the factors that would allow dragons to exist and yet, there is a question we have not asked. What evolutionary pressur …

What makes an animal suitable for domestication? I know it has something to do with the danger to productivity ratio. But this is not helpful for fantasy animals in the worlds we build. What factors o …

Yes, but with a big ol' Asterisk Sperm whales hunt giant squid. How the whales manage to subdue such able prey has been a mystery. One hypothesis, proposed more than 20 years ago, speculated that the …

As other answers have pointed out, the cost and time spent designing and building armor as well as weapons for your gorilla army would cost more than they would benefit you. The only time that this wo …

Many arachnids spin webs, which relative to size are much, much stronger than steel. If such a creature became smart enough to build homes (which I'm assuming is because they're sapient), then perhaps …

Cockroach Farming is the future! They feed the roaches wheat shavings and vegetables for four months. Then they're boiled, dried and some are crushed to put into pill form, which is much easier to sto …