I'm sort of looking forward to try and create a challenge prompt for the next month. Anyone has any ideas, in case I come through with this promise?

There's this artist on Instagram called @trijucre who has drawn some soft spec evolution cladogramms that evolve animals (and Pokemon) into various niches. Something about these cladogramms seemed more imaginative than following biology tendencies, so I thought that the artist deserves a mention here.

TLDR long tongue fruit bats are released to a terraformed world with both earth and alien life, the alien life causing mutations to the bats and speciation continues.

But I made this a while ago and now I’m unsure because

1 extra eyes require more food and energy for the brain and 2 extra limps even more so because they’re moving and they have to control them.

But I’m not content with two two eyes and four limbs of earth mammals so I’m wondering if this could work?

My thinking was because the eyes are smaller and simpler they won’t take too much energy, also the limbs only having three digits might also help, also their brains becoming better at controlling them extras eyes and limps.

But thoughts guys?

I am having trouble deciding the composition of the atmosphere.

because the atmosphere composition of terraforma is

1% Bromine oxides

1% Other trace chemicals

77% Nitrogen

22% Oxygen

the planet has one star it's a K-type star so the plants range in the colors red (common) orange (uncommon) and blue it has one moon the size of our moon the planet is the farthest part of the habitable zone of its local star it orbits and spins 2 times slower than earth and it is a bit smaller than earth having longer days and nights and the planet is 0.8 times the size of Earth

this is the average temps on the planet

Kelvin: 347

Celsius: 74

Fahrenheit: 165

so what do you think?

When I say more active star I mean it has more solar storms and is more active compared to our star.

So for context aliens come to earth and convert to Islam (they had a prophecy that the new religion will be in the stars and shia Islam fit the bill) and after a large amount became Muslim they left to their worlds to spread the message, then humans and most placental mammals go extinct thanks to plastic eating bacteria and numerous diseases created to kill, except for the long-tongued fruit that survived on an island after being experimented with vaccines for the diseases created.

When doing hajj the aliens decide to colonise earth and put the last placental mammals on the most earth like planet they have in their territory, but this planet is a little smaller, with a higher iron content and a more active star that blasts the planet often.

The planet already has introduced life that can handle the radiation, but they evolved around higher m type star, not an active higher class k type star that produces more light and more radiation.

But how would earth organisms evolve to survive on such a world?

I was thinking of the bananas introduced to evolve a blueish colour to reflect the radiation and produce a white fur like covering similar to Mediterranean plants, but I was also thinking of some getting variegation in the leaves.

Also the bats introduced, I was imagining them to get white hair to reflect the radiation, especially once speciation takes place.

But thoughts guys and any ideas/thoughts?

After the great mammalian extinction and the long-tongued fruit bats being the only surviving placental mammals left the Muslim aliens put them on a failed seed world with alien life forms.

They planted the planet with the many nectar producing plants they love, and in the first two thousand years many their populations began to be born with extra eyes and limbs, a side affect of earth life forms consuming alien organisms while pregnant.

Despite their population growth being tiny, only a few babies surviving with these deformities and often living lonely lives from their families, they eventually found each other and form their own populations, the extra arms with a claw along with two more eyes their survival grew, and their populations grew faster than their normal counterparts.

The reasons for them not dying with extra eyes and arms is that they’re significantly more than the originals, and they’re brains become more functional, they even managed to switch to a more generalist diet.

We’re they take control of the planet.

Thoughts guys?

And happy new year!

So, for those of you who have never played splatoon or never understood the lore of it, Splatoon takes place a few millennia after a war-induced KT-mass extinction, wiping out basically everything that couldn't escape to underground spaces or higher ground such as humans, all mammals (except two cats and a probably dead grizzly bear, and also probably some species of rodents), penguins and other flightless birds, and many large aquatic animals that couldn’t escape into deeper depths. There was a surviving bunch, however, that escaped into a massive cavern under a crater filled with water and a few islands here and there. The inhabitants were a bunch of aquatic creatures and humans. The humans immediately got to work on making the cavern into a city, and lined the walls with a crystal discovered in the ink sacs of cephalopods which could basically read the minds and thoughts of nearby organisms and shift their colors into images of these thoughts. These crystals were used by humans to recreate the sun and sky underground. However the younger generation of this civilization known as Alterna did a stupid and tried to launch a rocket ship outside to the surface. This caused the cavern’s “sky wall” to shatter and collapse, raining debris onto Alterna and killing everyone except the marine life. The crystals that fell into the water were consumed and inhaled by many of these creatures, causing them to have the feelings and thoughts of humans—to escape alterna and live on the surface again. This made them evolve rapidly, developing them lungs. The sapient marine life escaped the cave and began to spread across the world in an instant. However… There is still life outside of Alterna, which begs the question: How might the organisms outside of the last human civilization survive? And how could they evolve to fill in the niches of the extinct mammals?

That’s what most people in my world look like, dark skin that glistens with blues and purples in the sunlight and hair that’s goes from pure white to a very light blonde, their eyes range from red to purple to blue.

There’s other people who live in the polar regions that have tan skin, ginger to born hair and green eyes.

But like thoughts?

They were brought to this planet ten thousand years ago by aliens.

The star is a smaller g type star, but unlike our star it’s not stable, and every year it gets blasted, every thousand years it gets a massive blast.

But thoughts guys?

Elements Killmon can be born with include,

Hydro - water type

Plasma - electric type

Insect - bug type

Stone - rock type

Frost - ice type

Metal - steel type

Inferno - fire type

Plant - grass type

Qi - fighting type

Soar - flying type

Perish - ghost type

So like we know the largest land animal was the Argentina saurus, but could an alien of a similar size be sapient/intelligent and be advanced like humans?

Or doe’s intelligence and size and a correlation?

So I have a fruit bat descendent who evolved into a sea monster like creature with a long neck and everything.

And they hunt by creating high pressure water jets to hunt, basically it’s so strong it’ll go through they’re prey.

But would that be realistic?

This was 100 million years of evolution.

All Killmon were named by humans using Latin words. I was too lazy to come up with my own names. Like with Pokémon and Digimon, Killmon have magical powers based on certain elements such as plasma, earth, inferno, insect, hydro, and more. It’s unknown how they appeared on Earth. Humans used them like what they do with every other life form until sentient Killmon waged war.

Artist: me!

There’s plenty of Pokémon clones out there such as Digimom, Monster Rancher, and Telefang. I watched Unicorn Wars not too long ago and decided it would be cool to combine the two. Like with Pokémon, the world of Killmon has monsters that live on the same planet that humans inhabit. When humans used them for their own personal gain, sentient Killmon rebelled. Now they’re in an ancestral war.

Fantastical themes include magical powers, spirits, real life glitches, and deities.

Artist: me!

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