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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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Likelihood of sentience

The first condition for sentience is a plentiful source of protein, meat protein is best but not strictly necessary as long as the source is easy to chew or mash between rocks and then eat. Brains re …
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Evolutionary Advantage to Short Humanoids

One way to achieve a small hominid race is to put them in a protein poor region. Native people in rain forests, the Kalahari Desert and much of South East Asia until recently, range from being shorte …
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Anatomically Correct Akaname

The akaname looks humanoid but is actually a type of frog. Evolving in swamps and bogs, this species would eat the scum, slime, and detritus, using their long sticky tongue to slurp it up from the w …
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How could a mammal develop that has long legs but lives in a semi aquatic area?

Moose are very long legged and while most of them don't spend long periods of time in swamps, some do. In Northern Canada most moose spend the majority of the summer and early fall in swamps, often up …
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Increasing the Rate of Multiple Births in Humanoids?

Fantasy goblins typically live in lands that have limited resources, typically swamps, or cold rocky deserts, where mortality rates from poisonous bugs, predators, accidents, etc are high. Being small …
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Living biological boats? (Jasconius)

That's where its food source is. Most algae is found near the surface of the ocean, so if this creature has a semi long neck, it can swim gently along moving its head back and forth, up and down taki …
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How would a species similar to the Rito from BOTW evolve?

Given enough time and some weird but not totally impossible evolution to make them have a humanoid body shape, you could get a creature resembling a Rito. …
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