/evol/ - Evolution Games

Oh man this is such a cool board, I've done this kind of stuff by myself since I was in middle school, evolution's so fun to think about.

The Dree develops a sharp hook on its beak that it uses to grasp and tear the membrane of Enti. Unable to escape with their bladder burst and unable to retaliate with their lack of sentience and defensive mechanisms, they make easy prey despite being much larger than the little Dree. They kill them when they land on their trees, not only protecting the branch and preserving their food source, but also gaining nutrition from the Enti's fleshy skin.

>>68

Due to this, Enti begin to develop a clear-like membrane so that they won't get spotted by their predators.

>>53

The Alo take to the trees to eat the best leaves near the top, and after many generations a tail sprouts. It helps immensely with climbing and maneuvering in the trees.

>>68

I know, I was actually looking for some kind of genetics game or something and missed the whole Nubs thread, but this is basically what I wanted.

>>68

Dree grew a longer neck to help eat berries off taller bushes

>>77

The Dree splits into the Dretta. Its neck lengthens and its colors sharpen to attract mates.

>>68

>Oh man this is such a cool board,

Thanks! Let's try to make something special happen here! We're almost up to 100 posts! Very exciting for me.

>>69

A new species branches off from the Enti, using a different tactic to evade predation. The Inti are tiny creatures that grasp the bark on the underside of branches and stay there for their whole lives. Its mouthpart is needlelike to pierce into the tree's vascular tissue, however they are too small to cause any notable damage, and the tree will only be affected if there are very many of them. Upon landing, they instinctively crawl to the underside of the branch and tuck themselves into furrows in the bark. Here they are hidden from the Dretta, who currently have no reason to peer under branches. They reproduce asexually by budding, and new Inti float off to seek different hosts.

Possible supplementary food source for the Alo who would notice them when climbing and pluck them out.

>>75

Alo splits into Valo. It develops a keen snout and fore claws. They have turned from foraging to hunting the small Enti.

Dretta's nasal cavity grows and its internal surface area increases to allow them to smell the gas put out by Enti when the wind blows right. There is now a large protrustion atop their beak that is filled with many olfactory receptors. The crest and head markings also expand due to sexual selection.

>>88

Valo's thick fur grows longer to reduce windchill up in the treetops. It now doesn't need as much food to maintain its body temperature. Its hind claws also get longer and more robust to aid in climbing.

With most competition going to the trees the Alo splits into the Aum. They grow large, adopt hooves, and grow shaggy hair on their backs.

>>69

The Enti sprout fins that can help them better control themselves while in the air.

>>68

Some Dree's wings become longer, allowing for faster and more precise flying. They also gain a coat of feathers during the winter to help them blend in with the snow. These new birds are Drell, and when they loose their winter feathers, it is difficult to tell them apart from normal Dree.

>>53

First mountain tree

>>103

Is this where you meant for the Aum to split off from?

>>105

The fins become longer and now act more like wings, allowing for longer flight time. Due to the added weight of the wings, the Enti's legs have become more compact.

>>115

The Enti evolves larger fins to help it move around more efficiently.

>>115

Enti branches off into Eilent. It remains afloat for long periods of time above the skyline. It drops down a very long tentacle that allows it to feed while hovering high. As it gorges it slowly drops.

>>103

The aumex, being grounded as they are, rely on other creatures to feed. Whatever falls to the forest floor, the aumex eat.

The aumex have a pair of large front teeth which allow them to cleave through sinews of dead animals and gnaw through dry bark from trees. This puts them at a slight advantage over their aum brethren.

>>80

Inti develop camouflage to better hide from predators. While carnivorous Dretta hardly notice them, Valo are often more observant.

The Dretta become more aggressive and start preying on the Aum and Aumex below. This had lead to an increase in size.

>>75

The Alo become more clever and nocturnal. They have taken to stealing food reserves from other animals instead of actively hunting for themselves.

Due to the threat of Dretta Aumex have developed larger and more sensitive ears, as well as more powerful legs.

>>182

The Aumex develop a tail for better balance while running away from predators.

Drell begin to develop a larger and more powerful beak to be able to crush the bones and eat other food left on the Aum and Aumex corpses by the Dretta.

>>159

Valo become suspicious of what appears to be little mosses growing in the bark, and begin seeking out green. The Inti becomes much darker to blend with the shadows where it feeds, and takes on a more grayish tone to better match the bark. They are now quite difficult to spot, and Valo must rely on the sweet scent of exposed sap to find their prey.

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The Aumex's fur darkens and lengthens to blend in with the leaf litter on the forest floor.

Some dretta, with their main food source on the ground, have adapted to a more grounded and predatory life style. These are the Dinetta.

Their wings have shortened and became closer to the front, and the almost nonexistent claws on the end have became large talons.

They walk around like a quadruped slowly until they come across prey- They then lift up their body and run with their small hind legs quickly, and tear into or fall onto their prey which they can then easily bite into as it kicks and squirms.

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The fore limbs of the aumex adapt to become more capable of manipulating the environment. Their new paws allow them to burrow holes thus allowing them to escape from dretta and dinetta underground, biding their time until it is safe to come out.

Some Alo have gained larger craniums, which inside is new thinking centers- Splitted roughly in half, two new lobes are for 1) Social thinking, an addition from the natural empathetic thinking they have remaining from their Alo ancestors. They now work out social groupings and rankings- providers, alphas, betas, competition, etc.

The other new center is for physical understanding and problem solving for their surrounding environment. They can use rocks to split open nuts or the simple fruits of the natives trees, or they can break off branches for making paths through the forest.

In addition, their fur has changed color slightly, and they have gained subtle but unique and distinctive markings to recognize other members of their species from afar.

>>78

The dretta adapt long, broad tipped tongues which allow them to easily drink the nectar on trees. They are not primarily nectavorious and must rely on a supplementary diet of enti in order to sustain themselves when flowers are not present.

The Dretta moves it's life and it's children underground where it regurgitates processed food to make themselves lighter and faster, and to feed their young and themselves in time of need.

Their back deflates during this, becoming wrinkly and flatter.

They now perform much better when searching for food around their burrows, and can evade the Dretta and other predators better.

Their young grows faster and safer.

>>207

Do we need to write stories for these?

>>68

Dinetta have found an ample food source. Giant ants.

They now have extended, pointy beaks and their claws are longer.

Some have been observed to stand motionless near anthills waiting until ants walk all over thier claws, then they lick them up. This conserves energy rather than digging.

>>231

As is true in ocean- there is always a bigger fish.

And the Dinetta, which was once the apex predator has a rival- The Dinetta Maximus.

It feeds almost exclusively on the huge populations of Dinetta which roam the ground.

It runs into and collides with a Dinetta using it's powerful legs, and pins down it's prey with it's enormous girth. It starts chomping on it's vital locations- mainly the neck, beak, and fore-wings to disable it quickly. It then eats lightly of the carcass, needing to conserve valuable time and energy. These carcasses are great food for other creatures.

When it comes to mating season the Dinetta Maximus disables it's competition with quick jabs to the chest and neck. The winner mates with many females, and their is usually 2 to 4 winners in a group of mating Dinetta Maximus.

It is one of the largest creatures on the planet, it's size just taller than the Ix or Ixirn, but at least three times smaller than the Iphirn.

It is fat, and largely bipedal. It has strong jaws and claws.

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Inti which fall to the ground become much more present as food becomes more abundant in the form of waste. Soil upturned by aumex and the holes which they store their food and feces in make great spots for inti to grow and thrive. While their young still float in the air, inti become primarily detrivorous decomposer which takes in nutrients from the soil. When the inti dies and it decomposes itself, it becomes fertilizer for growing trees. Because of aumex digging, decomposed inti soil can be found several layers deep in the ground.

>>224

Since many inti have fallen to the ground, and managed to live there, especially thriving in aumex's burrows, the aumex have developed a larger and more sensitive snout, able to sense the feint smell an inti makes while moving or eating, and they have developed a more complex eye able to see movement in their burrows or an inti shifting or on the surface. They can easily dig out the inti, eating them for their soft flesh.

They often do not, however decide to eat every single inti, and they have no preference over any single inti to the next as of yet.

>>235

Some of the dinetta in response to mounting evolutionary pressure become active hunters. As of yet they are not known to specialize in any one type of food however their lifstyle requires ample amounts of protein and energy so they tend towards carnivorous lifestyle.

The dinnsrar have ben observed to swarm the dinetta maximus and overwhelm it each using their specialized "hook" claws.

You can see them higher up on both hind legs and, strangely, only on the left front paw. The development of these claws actually begins only shortly before they become full adults. It is possible some hormonal changes spur this beneficial mutation to the final form.

The hook claw is nearly twice the length of the other claws and the behavior observed is that it is used to slice the prey repeatedly with rapid pulling motions of thte paws. The other claws do not participate in this action only being used to grip the prey if it is still resisting.

Once the prey begins slowing down the dinnsrar instinctively go for the neck, and abdominal areas to take out bites and chunks. This is a type of advanced social behavior because the ones biting the neck delay their intake of the precious nutrients from the intestines and organs. It is unknown if they take turns at this or if there is a hierarchy deciding this behavior.

Most of the time you can see the dinnsrar roaming at a trot rather than the maximum speeds it is capable of and snatching at insects of all sorts that come into its viccinity.

Some have been observed snatching at fish from river chokepoints but their size and speed gives them a better advantage hunting on land.

Peculiar markings have developed over its face and back. It is hypothesized that when viewed from the perspective of the prey during an imminent attack the lines make it appear as if it is moving away, an illusion.

Another strange development due to its evolution from the anteater dinetta which was becoming sloth like is that they only have 1 young at a time. The young come out rather large and can join a hunt within the hour they are born. Reproductive rates vary but gestation is an astounding 1 week!

This facet of the dinnsrar social order is that the pregnant mothers are only delayed from the hunt in the final day of gestation when they are too heavy to pounce properly. However the young assistance in catching prey rapidly make up for ny losses. Similarly no cannibalistic behavior has been observed in this species due to no intra litter competition.

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The Halo's pectoral muscles have over time became larger and stronger, as many tribes of Halo have learned and decided to squeeze their wares against or in their pecs. This behavior and the traits encouraged by it have swept the Halo populations relatively quickly as it allowed Halo to many more food stores to their own home. The Pecs are very much like their own appendages now.

Over time they have gotten more communicative as well, being able to pick up on signals they exhibit with their body language.

As traveling females of Halo search for dissimilar markings when looking for mates, it has been encouraged for the Halo to have stranger and stranger markings to convince others they are dissimilar.

New creature

The trees that have long protected the animals of these woods are now up for editing. They will evolve alongside the other creatures.

The Grishwood is a tall tree with curly branches. It sends up fronds that unravel slowly. Leaves only appear on parts that gather the most sunlight. Occasionally these trees intertwine with each other.

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The stems on the Grishwood tree that have had fruits on them have became larger and fewer, while keeping more fruits on the stems.

The stems grow upward from the branches of the tree with small holes all over, then in these small holes fruit that are light blue or red grow. The fruit catch the eye of other creatures, like Halo, Valo, and Drell who will

A) Eat them immediately and then travel away, letting the seeds travel through their system until about half fall to the ground ready to germinate

B) Take them with them, dropping them along the way

C) Take them with them and store them in a location where if they aren't eaten, germinate, or if eaten, have a 1/2 chance of hatching where it is dropped once it passes through.

This allows these Grishwood to spread faster and farther.

>>258

A variation of Grishwood grows much more rigid branches which extend outward. While it seems simple, this new design allows them to more easily evade falling inti and allow them more room for leaves to grow.

>>263

The Grishgrass, a smaller variation of the Grishwood grows under the Grishwood brush. The remain largely protected from most inti and their branches are still rigid enough that valo are still capable of hopping between them and grishwood.

>>278

Younger grishgrass stay at a smaller size, usually stopping where knee level would be for most aumex. They do not grow bark for a good year.

>>242

Hi! This seems like a fun little board so I want to participate.

The inti which fall into the ground start to specialize living in the ground. They start to develop grey, hard nail-like protrusions on their body to protect them from the aumex and to help them burrow in the ground.

Their gas bladders also begin to shrink , and they now only rarely float in the air, that is if they surface at all.

They now prefer to suck nutrients from the roots of trees instead.