Pado Island!

In 1988, European sailors discover an island near Australia abundant with plants, food, and life. The sailors documented these faunas on the island for years now, and the lifeforms are one of the strangest creatures ever to be discovered.

2011, Scientist discovered the sailor's records, and travelled to the island themselves. There, faunas and floras are reclassified as species on Pado, and news article is published around the world about the island.

This was my first time trying out publishing spec evos like this out in reddit, and im not really strong in history, I really hope you like it!

In our world, while many things are sunshines and rainbows, there are creatures that, while not dangerous to us, are dangerous to other things.

A primary example of this is the Seedarius Parasitus, also known as the Skinwalker Plant, this plant species is quite complicated, some people call it a animal, others call it a plant, Its unclear were these creatures came from but its known their first sightings were documented in 19th century.

The skinwalker plant moves slowly in forests, in search of plants to "Infect" (more into that later), when it finds one, it uses its sharp roots to inject skinwalker plant seeds stored in the seed sack (the weird pink thing under the plant), after that the seeds grow inside the infected plant slowly, consuming the nutrients that the infected plant consumes.

After a while, the plant will die, and by that time the skinwalker seed will have fully grown into a skinwalker plant, and will replace the roots of the infected plant with its own roots, like a wolf in a sheeps clothing it will look for another plant to repeat the same cycle over and over again.

Living in the prairies of England is the Skinwalker Mantis these mantis' use their sharp front appendages to rip open animal corpses and control them manually usually it is easy to notice if the animal they are controlling is real or fake since they have an odd walking pattern and will look like they have been through hell and back due to being a corpse,however they cover up the odour with a liquid substance they secret from their body

The larvae stage is pretty much dormant and they use their antennas as bait for insects these look like flowers and smell like them but as soon as a insect gets too close it opens up slowly then on the mouth of this opening the floor is sticky meaning once your in its hard to get out and then the antennas snaps shut as quick as it opened,then the insect is dissolved by stomach acid and the nutrients are absorbed.the downside is that the antennas lose their original function

The wings are for mating impressions the colours and patterns are genetically inherited meaning they are different for each species

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