Limits of biological anthropomorphization
when does it stop, well not with inanimate objects, but with animals?
Science, biology
In the story's first few chapters, moon is regarded as being 11 years old, this is actually his biological age. chronologically, he is 5.5 years of age. likewise, jakra is identified as being 13 biologically, yet she is actually 6 years old.
Chimera, biology, explanation
In the Late Cretaceous a lineage of deltatheroidean metatherians developed specialised, tightly packed hairs with branching filaments, superficially similar to plumes. This permitted an unique development in vertebrate history: by extending these hairs...
Speculative biology, Speculative evolution
55 million years ago, Wyoming.
A small mammal scurries along the tree branches. It is dusk, and it has just left its shelter in the deeper canopy to forage for food. It is an omnivore: it can do a little bit of everything, which is likely how it...
Speculative Zoology, Speculative biology
While the first generation were bioprinted with titanium-reinforced bones, the complete lack of biological interaction exhibited by the metal made it impossible to code the trait into the genome.
Sci-Fi, Worldbuilding, biology
Candy Forests are an unique type of subtropical environment found over most of Mediterranean and Iberian Europe, Central and Western Australia, Western Madagascar and most of northern Mesoamerica, with "False Candy Forests" in South America, South...
Plants, Speculative, biology, evolution
#4 of werewolf guide
hey there, today is about the biology of werewolves. i am splitting this into two part because
1. i know little about biology and i wanted to make it believable.
2. i was procrastinating the entire month for whatever reason.
feel free
Clean, Werewolf, biology, world building
I was a biology teacher in a university. my students and my colleagues liked me, and i liked them in return. my real passion in life was my scorpions. they were like my children. all those little mouths to feed; when they were happy, i was happy.
Blood, Lab, Transformation, biology, scorpion
Non-placental mammals are faced with an unique predicament. Possessing epipubic bones, they cannot expand their torsos, and thus cannot give birth to complex, well developed young you take for granted. Marsupials eject joeys, monotremes eject eggs that...
Speculative, Zoology, biology, evolution, monotreme
Mammals
Tyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid.
Napioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid.
Napioa leonina A polar bear sized gobiconodontid.
Circavelocipterus major: A 2 meter wingspanned volaticothere.
...
Speculative, Speculative evolution, biology, evolution
In an alternate timeline two lineages of placoderms convergent with syngnathid fish evolved:
- Longmaiformes were a clade of arthrodires of uncertain affinities as they more or less appear in the mid-Devonian fossil reccord as they are, with...
Placoderm, Speculative biology, Speculative evolution, seahorse
Placodonts were some of the most resilient groups of Triassic marine reptiles, consistently surviving minor extinction events with minimal diversity loss until the mass extinction.
In one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity...
Placodont, Reptile, Speculative, Zoology, biology, evolution