@tribbetherium What Dusk Mice Species Is That?

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Spec Evo Challenge: Aquatic April - Day 2 (Bug)

--The second entry for the Aquatic April challenge--

The Ever Youth Dragonfly Is unique among Its kind, when other Dragonfly species only spend their juvenile stage fully aquatic,

The Ever Youth Dragonfly never developes lungs and thus remains In water for Its entire life.

It posses sturdy hairs on Its legs making them work like flippers.

These hairs are also found on their back acting like a dorsal fin

and to top It of they posses an extention of their abdomen that works like a fluke.

--Source: Reddit--

Spec Evo Challenge: Aquatic April - Day 3 (Star)

I dont know much about sea stars and didn´t know what other animal I could make with the word star (and the timeframe)

The Barnacles Star (Balaenaasteroidea Caeruleuma) Is an parasetic starfish that will attach themselfs to whales or other large marine animals with their spiked legs and then proceed to peel of and eat their skin.

--Source: Reddit--

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Pop Goes The Measel - The Measels

10 Million years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]

The Tearlings and the Bepples were the first carnivores on Macroterra to emerge 9 million years ago.

But while Tearlings specialised In other Bilbies, the Bepples were insect eaters, untill some of their recent descendants, the Measels (Family: Mustelamacrotidae).

Measels are carnivores like their ancestors but have started to add other Bilbies into their insectivorous diet, some still eat mostly insects, but some have completly moved on to a diet consisting of small marsupials.

The Steak-Colored Measel (Pseudomustela Carnecolorate) Is one of the more basal species.

They are meso- ambush predators which eat both insects and small Bilbies.

The Steak-Colored Measel also shows an trait not often found In marsupials, parental care.

In most marsupials the mother wont interact much with their baby and will kick It out of the pouch once too heavy.

Most Measels will still carry around their joeys on their back after they have outgrown their pouch, showing them how to hunt and find insects, the mother will also protect the joeys from other meso-predators that might try to eat them.

The Steak-Colored Measel reproduces rather slow, once every few weeks they will mate and raise up to 2 joeys at a time.

The Shell-Fisher (Aquamacrotis Conchyliapiscatio) Is another rather odd marsupial, as their are semi-aquatic.

Semi-aquatic marsupials are difficult, as mothers would drown their joeys when diving Into water.

On earth we only ave one semi-aquatic marsupial the Yapok.

As a result the Shell-Fisher has heavily converged with the Yapok, evolving the same mechanism allowing them to seal their pouch watertight, they achieve this with an muscular mechanism that cinches the pouch closed.

With this mechanism the Shell-Fisher mother can dive Into rivers without drowning their joeys.

The Shell-Fishers themself will like the Steak-Colored Measel raise an max of 2 joeys, less joeys require less air, thus the mother can dive longer then if she would raise more.

They although dont interact much with their joeys after leaving the pouch, unlike many other Measels.

Underwater the Shell-Fishers will seek out hard shelled prey like mussels.

The Pale-Faced Tree Measel (Mustelaarboris Pallidafacies) Is an arboreal entry of the Measel family, they are one of the few Tree Measels that only feed on other Bilbies and dont show parental care.

They are excellent climbers and feed on other arboreal critters like Squruffies or Bilcoons.

"Thats Very Pansexual Of U" Is my own personalised brain rot sentence

Its the boi! thank u :D

Terrorpotta for @crowned-whoopsie and Yeun trying to Hungramps Wotchagot

1 Million Years P.E. [The Early Origocene]

*Speciation - New Species Of The Early Origocene*

The Poochy Seed eater (Griseusmacrotis Semenvorus), while fitting In the niche of an seed eater, they are more generalists feeding everything they can find, quite similar to their ancestor the Greater Bilby.

The Bepple (Saxulummacrotis Insectumvorus) Is an excellent insect catcher, ambushing them on the surface, but also digging for them underground. They themselfs also spend most of their time underground, hiding from larger carnivores.

... Larger carnivores like the Tearling (Carnismacrotis Carnivorus). Equipped with grappling claws and an dangerous dentation, Tearlings are formidable predators to the smaller Bilbies around.

The Shorts-Tail (Herbamacrotis Herbivorus) Is the exact opposite of the Tearling. Being an herbivore feeding on the abundant grasses of Macroterra. As they received too much competition from other seed eaters, they eventually have started just eating the plants themselves.

A Coin Has 2 Sides - The Shrovels

10 Million Years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]

The Measels are some of the top predators In this time, excellent meso predators and small game hunters, which Is kinda surprising considering they have evolved from the pretty cowardly Bepples.

Small insectivores which spend most of their time underground hiding from larger carnivores.

While the Measels have gotten quite a glowup, they are not the only descendant the Bepples produced.

Next to the Measels there also were the Shrovels (Family: Talpiamacrotidae).

These small critters are alot more like their ancestors, spending most of their lives underground feeding on burrowing insects.

They have heavily converged with earthern moles, possesing poor eyesight, large shoveling claws and an bald nose to push away dirt.

The Shrovels are an not very diverse group with only very few species, the most widespread one would be the Balding Shrovel (Talpiacopia Calvus).

They are an very basal species of the Shrovel fitting the description very well.

While there currently Isnt much to see with their kind, this could soon change.

Blubb Blubb - The Shrish

20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)

While Macroterra Is a planet of Bilbies, the invertabrates, which have been seeded to sustain the ecosystem, have changed over the years as well and the most succesfull and dominant ones would be the Shrish. Descendants of Planktonic Krill, they have come to dominate the oceanic ecosystem.

The Shrish started out as shrimp like swimmers that propelled themselfs through the water with feathery legs, Shrish like these still exist, the OJ Reefer (Pseudocaris Citrinasuccus) Is an good example. But some didnt bother to actively swim and become bottom feeders, like the Gravel Trilokrill (Trilobitacaris Fundusmaris).

Although some Shrish have optimized their swimming abilities,

some Shrish would eventually develop a shorter and more streamlined body, and give rise to active swimmers that propelled themselves with undulating waves of their abdomen and tail. Becoming a more efficient means of propulsion, these shrish would eventually modify their rearmost swimming legs along with their tail fan into a caudal fluke of sorts.

But these fluked Shrish didnt just stop there, as another adaption proved efficiency, pseudo-jaws.

These pseudo-jaws are formed from their elongated barbed rostrums and first front legs.

With these they can easily catch slippery prey an apply pressure to crack their hard shell.

two of these jawed Shrish are the Great White Shraw (Pisciscaris Magnusalbus) and the Cherry Shrimpede (Centipedecaris Cerasus).

Both are fearsome predators In their own right, the Shrimpedes are small slender Eel-like ambush predators, while the Great White Shraw are rather large at 1 meter In size they are true giants among the arthropods.

But not all of those jawed Shrish are predators, the Green Weedpicker (Herbariumcolligens Viridis) Is an rather peacefull grazer, using their jaws to pluck and crush tough algea, seaweed and corals.