Xenobiology Thread

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How about a Speculative Biology/Evolution/Zoology thread?

>>2318278

Fuck yeah, jellyblimps.

Too bad that large aerial life forms can't exist on gas giants because the weather is always horrendously worse than on any rocky planet. Winds will tear any object in the atmosphere to shreds. Storm winds on Saturn have been measured at over 1000mph.

>>2318290
Sounds cool to me

>>2319749
Most people think that less turbulent places higher in the atmosphere could be a possible harbor for floaters.

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A majestic creature!

Sometimes I've got to wonder how far convergent evolution can go. Would an extraterrestrial in a similar environment look more like us than terrestrial deep-sea critters do?

>>2320263
>Would an extraterrestrial in a similar environment look more like us than terrestrial deep-sea critters do?
I would think so. No need to look like a flying jello mold if you live in a rainforest.

>>2320263
Under natural selection, evolution usually borns as the simplest thing possible and then gets more complex in different ways and takes different directions, mostly what survives is what is needed.
I think that if those aliens started off similar to us they would have the same characteristics but not necessarily look like us because the way they blend those characteristics would be different. Like a furry creature with bees' eyes, no anus, back legs/hands, etc. the mix would be different.

>>2320263
If there is a similar environment, there will likely be similar creatures.

>>2319749
The conditions for simple life could never be present. Simple life is the precursor to complex life - complex organisms couldn't exist on a gas giant.

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heres an alien i came up with, they're called piemen cause of how they look when they mate

>>2320263
This shit is always overdesigned. It's like wearing a fancy gown to an motocross race.
Look at nature, things are simple.
You can still make intriguing and alien forms without making them as nonsensical as the AT-AT from Star Wars.

>>2320263
Why did they go through the trouble of designing such a distinct creature but just copy and paste a generic tree in there?

>>2321053
They'd be more realistic and interesting if they were aquatic and basically functioned like armored sea anenomies that could form massive interconnected breeding colonies that would eventually become moving reefs.

>>2318278

I liked the fat Venus aliens better.

I didn't think anyone else had read this book
I always liked the fishimanders

Alright, which one of you animal lovers has the picture that shut down 4chan earlier today. Post it.

>>2318278
I had that book as a kid. I used to doodle jellyfloats all the time.

>>2323402
Same!

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With all the breakthrous in dna splicing im surprised testing to make new animals like chimeras is outlawed

>>2323429
Check out "Wayne Barlowe's Inferno".

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>only people who reverse image search will get the joke

Evolution doesn't real.

>>2323429
No. He doesn't think through how such things could possibly evolve.

>lol wat if liek a antelope had front legs stuk togethr
>only more alieny
>ya alieny with liek lumpy bits and stuf
>so kewl

Anyone have full scans of those xenobiology and "after humans" books by Wayne Barlowe?

>>2324500
nigga what

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>>2318278

> alien wildlife thread

> ctrl+f no Snaiad

'The fuck, /an/? Step up your game.

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>>2324690

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>>2324696

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>>2324699

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>>2324700

>>2324532
Heres expedition
https://www.scribd.com/doc/293094072/Wayne-Barlowe-Expedition-pdf

>>2324748

Please, can you re-upload it somewhere that doesn't require sign-up?

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>>2324500
The Darwinian IVs seem to have fused legs as they grow from "embryos", and in some of the species they either don't separate and don't hinder the animal, or they just fall off later on in the animal's life.
I like how most of the species of Darwin IV look like they came from sea life that was forced to adapt to live on a desert planet, and that some don't have well defined heads.

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>>2323415
>>2323940
>straight up magical fantasy creatures in a Spec Bio thread
>>2324522
Damnit Dixon, you took convergent evolution too seriously.
>>2324690
While I really enjoy Nemo's Snaiad, everything looks like it could be named Penisaurus.

>>2325197
>round feets

Would be really unbalanced

>>2325246
elephants tho

>>2325198
It's not Nemo without dongs everywhere.

>>2318290
>that top left image
no hold on
I recognize that
that's the predator from primeval or whatever it was called
you can't fool me

>>2325197

>that filename

>>2321053
>piemen
kek, piemel means penis in dutch

>>2324500
Agree with this man, all I see are existing animals turned "weird" with lotsa horns

What was the name of that one book about humans being evolved by force? There was like, some alien race that collected other races and mutated them into other forms for funsies and shit, and then they all die off and the human mutants have to live on
There were like, big blocks of flesh, and remenants of humanity that lived in big space stations that ended up evolving xbox hueg brains and shit
I really liked the art and the concepts, I wanna buy it and I can't for the life of me remember the name

>>2325415
All Tomorrows

>>2323415
Looks like my cat

>>2325198
>everything looks like it could be named Penisaurus

I thought that was, like, the base premise of his designs. it started kinda like satire to be bizarre and became serious as the theme grew

>>2325415
Man After Man?

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Don't mind me and my friend here, just being twice the height of the statue of liberty.

https://mega.nz/#!gM0XHDYJ!wFYZDPL3EUFRqEMr9wQqJk1HhnQv-JsO0rrM9bk7OP8

>>2325508
that's hte one
cheers!

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>>2324699
Okay this guy is literally a dick

>>2325372
Bugguy aka Plont aka chinkyboi pls go

>>2325757
no clue who ur talking about matey

>>2321053
spiky triangle benis

>>2325727
No u

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>>2325727
You'd be surprised

TIL the Snaiad aliens are more or less literately walking penises.

>This unconventional arrangement is a holdover from the distant ancestry of Snaiadi “vertebrates.” The earliest such forms were deep-sea burrowers that filtered seawater for nutrients. In order to avoid predators, they mated by extending long genital stalks out of their burrows. In time, these stalks acquired primitive sensual organs to better find their mates. Once the “vertebrate” ancestors started crawling out of their burrows, the sense organs were retained and the first head developed around the genitals.

https://canopy.uc.edu/bbcswebdav/users/gibsonic/Snaiad/sndanatomy.html

Walking penises evolved from bizarre alien glory holes. Makes sense I guess but would it even work as a solution to avoid predators? If a predator bites the genital stalk off the animal would have survived, sure, but it's lost the ability to reproduce and might as well have been eaten whole anyway unless the stalk regrows. Or is it just a case of the artist creating joke animals then going back to create an origin later?

>>2326732
Everything is literally just an evolved barnical.

>>2324762
You don't need to sign up though?
I don't have an account and i can read it just fine.

>>2324762

>>2325643

>>2324310
this is too realistic to be funny anon

>>2324522
Those front legs are FAR too scrawny for the amount of weight they must carry. Also, why would a quadrupedal mammal have a tail this large, despite not needing it for balance? Otherwise, neat concept.

>>2328013
>mammal

>>2328016
>aves

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>>2329266

>>2329266
>>2329300
No!! The meme is leaking!

>>2331271
what meme

>>2325291
Have 4 tho

>>2325372
hou je bek

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>>2318278
Fuck yeah I had that book! Everything else has been proven unlikely to exist but there's still a chance for Zistles.

>>2320076
Our gas giants are dark and violent where liquid water can exist. The calm cloud tops are made of frozen ammonia.
Such creatures are more likely on a warm Titan, some small moon in a habitable zone with a thick atmosphere protected by the magnetic field of its planet.

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>>2322784
>I wonder who could be behind this post?

>>2322784
>>2333960
fuck

do NOT look up "fat venus alien" on google images

>>2334203
Meh, I've seen worse

>>2325727
The guy likes making stuff sexual in a subversive way. Just look at the fuckers, the genus he calls fuckers.

>>2334203

explain pls