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For questions about living things. Does not exclude aliens, but additional information is usually necessary (consider using "xenobiology" instead).

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Flipped over through fourth dimension. When do I start to notice biological problems?

Perhaps he will feel nothing different at all (And this is only theorizing, because we have never had such a real example to reference). Yes his entire body was "mirrored" through the 4th dimension …
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Secondarily Plantigrade Limbs

Yes. In the same way nature evolves some physical characteristic in an species, it can "involute" (retrieve the characteristic) and change to a previous state. For example, the blind fish that live i …
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10 votes

Given immortality can animals become intelligent?

Your intelligent geko needs to reproduce Intelligence is obtained in a species with mutations through evolution, not by making one single individual live longer (some turtles can live up to 200 yea …
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Is it feasible an organic laser (Superman´s heat vision)? [duplicate]

We are all familiar with Superman´s heat vision: an intense light beam (generally red) that can burn and melt most of the solids it crosses. My question is: ¿Is it possible for an organism (naturally …
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Is it possible for an organic species to generate a steady magnetic field?

There are some organisms that can generate electricity (eels, for example). And some others can detect magnetic fields and use it for navigation (birds, for example): https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/2 …
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Noah fails his mission - what would Earth look like today and in the far future?

Ok. So... based on "there was nothing in the ocean to cling onto", we will assume there were no coconuts or any other seed, debris, corpses or even ice floating. Just a big ocean covering earth. We …
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Made of Metal: effects on society?

How would this affect the society, the people's way of life? You say this transformation was due to "desperation". So I understand there was an urgent need of "stop being as weak as we used to". …
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How could an AI be in the real world organically and humanely (not in a robotic body)?

You need to master genetic engineering for that If you don´t want to use robotics and don´t want "stolen" bodies, then you only have one choice: Grown your own body 1) DESIGN You need to star …
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Hand mouths evolution

Try three animals instead of one There are many examples here on Earth where two (or more) animals live in a very close organic relationship (commensalism, parasitism, symbiosis, mutualism). Your "ent …
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How To Tell a Turtle Sans Shell

The turtles will evolve to fit all other niches And eventually, they will stop being turtles. I´m going to mention here the book "After Man, A Zoology of the future" (Dougal Dixon, 1981). Among al …
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Draconic Centaurs

You will need to start loooong time ago Any centaur-like living organism has six limbs. And humans have four. If you want to start from a common ancestor, you need to go back in time even before th …
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How get functional arthropod-like legs for carry great weights?

Actually... Chitin can do the trick. "Traditional" chitin (the chitin currently present in the spiders we are familiar with) may not be able to carry that weigth if you just scale up the animal (I won …
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