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Around the north pole of Louie-A, seasonal shifts are constant, and always changes drastically from a hellscape of a winter to a temporary warmth. Due to the planet's axial tilt being 45 degree, the winter season around the north pole involves the freezing of carbon dioxide and nitrogen into snow. When the warm season comes, the axial tilt would cause the region to recieve a temporary 24 hour daylight, subliming the snow back into gas, and causing a greenhouse acceleration, causing the snowy landscape to turn into flurries that can support fauna and flora, before slowly returning back to the hellishly cold climate once the 24 hour is near ending. In these hours, floras frantically reproduce, and faunas spring back up from their burrow.

For their part, the highly specialized Ornithosuids serves as a primary example of animals surviving around the north pole, with the Northern scupper living the closest to the zone. Characterized by their fur, these highly derived "osteoderms" are thinned out into keratinous fibers, which traps heat and keeps the animal warm, but involves migratory behaviors to fully develop these coats. When they're first born, unlike mammals, they do not develop their fur in the embryonic stage. Instead, keratinous scales spread across the composite calves' dermal sections in the juvenile stage, slowly thinning out over time as the calf grows, while the calf itself travel across swarms of their brethren and feed off of any vegetation around them not unlike locusts. Eventually reaching the surrounding north pole, the calves already fully matured, alongside their fully straightened keratin scales, forming their coat. Already, the other adult individuals of the swarm had distributed themselves across the area, living herbivorous solitary lives.

Found mostly around the edge of the northern surroundings, Staglions are large formidable predators, with the key feature of their Xiphobrachidae subfamily are their unique feline body plan, with highly flexible bodies and incredible agility, they can even be classified as feline analogue of Louie-A. Unlike other Psuedotherians, mammal analogues distributed across Louie-A, staglions doesn’t give birth to composite larvae, rather laying clutches of soft eggs with non-composite maggot-like cubs called monopairs, usually laid in freshly maimed preys and let the monopairs feed on the carcass. After a few days into feeding, it is then that the monopairs will chain together into composite juveniles and mature after 4 years, with the rest that didn’t find a couple in time dying later on. Primarily using their raptorial limb to hunt and dig burrows, the muscular feet pads are stretched out into serrated claws, a common trait found in all xiphobrachids.

In this picture, a traveling Northern scupper gets spotted by a Weasel staglion, and ends up getting chased for the first time in his life. Though the scupper wins and the staglion having to find another large prey next morning.

Mata, or better known as "Familiar world," is an alien planet full of life that at first, may seem extremely alike to our planet's fauna and flora. Yet while they're superficially similar on a surface level observation, Matan organisms are more than far apart from their earth lookalikes in niches and morphology, aside from some clades.

One of the menageries of organisms on the Familiar world are Placospondyls, terrestrial vertebrate analogues that are characterized by their broad, segmented spinal columns, and their arched pelvic bones derived from their spine segments. Moving up the spine, their skull covers most of the head, but has a lot of space for their protusible jaws. Paired limb-like bones connect to the lower mandible, and an internal bone starting from the tip of the skull loops back around to the upper mandible, giving placospondyls the ability to extend out the length of their jaw. Specializations like these are usually exhibited in predatory placospondyls, but are unseen in almost all herbivorous groups. Their limb bones are unique to tetrapods on earth, as what would be at first recognized as the "humerus" and "forearm," are actually arranged in a sort of zig-zag pattern, with the hindlimbs possessing the forelimb's bones in an opposite direction. The specimen in the picture here is an extinct stem-Ornithodracothere, a class of synapsids-like placospondyls with what would be considered the most generic placospondylan body plan, although the specimen presented here has it's third limb bone of its hindlimbs reduced for currently unknown purposes. External anatomy presents a vaguely mammalian body plan, but a different body plan to vertebrates on earth, most notably their "ears" which are actually rhinophores used for smelling and tasting. 4 Nostrils are set far apart, but usually located near or on their face, the first pair, the nostrils, placed on the face, and the second pair, dubbed the "pectonares," set far apart from the face on the neck, but are directly connected to the lungs, allowing efficient respiratory functions. Strange slits near their eyes are an indication of this group's evolutionary left over, as they are descended from groups with compound eyes, but later specialized these eyes into separate parts, the reason still being unclear. Their gonopods are a left over from their primitive ancestors, which are now organs used to couple with the mates' reproductive organs and reproduce. Tympanums derived from half of the rhinophore's sensory pores are sat behind their eyes, convergent to that of tetrapod tympanums. Despite the fact that placospondyls possess every features an earth tetrapod would have, such as an endoskeleton, an external soft tissue, and even hemoglobin blood, they come from an entirely different origin of cartilaginous invertebrates resembling insects of earth, with their calcium bones derived from internalized scale-like exoskeletons, and their extendable jaws derived from their mandibles fusing together into a lower jaw and upper jaw.

Placospondyls are divided into 4 classes, the first being the Euauritheres, a dominant class that fills in mammalian niches, aswell as resembling them, possessing rhinophore-derived ears aswell as fur and endothermy. The synapsid-like class as mentioned before, the Dracotheres, are characterized by their beak, and their mostly primitive morphology, though they possess a similar trait to euauritheres, that being endothermy. Aceratosaurs are a more reptillian class of placospondyls, with scales, teeth, and ectothermy similar to reptiles. An almost limbless class of placospondyls, the Saliankosaurs, possesses a pair of front limbs, the sensory improvement of their rhinophores, and a flexible trunk-like jaw lined with serrated "teeth," resembling a hybrid between gastropods and snakes with the addition of a pair of limbs.

Despite the main vertebrate equivalent on Louie-A pretty much resembling vehicles of earth, a second group of "vertebrates" hiding in the shadows have been here longer, and may actually fit in the vehicles category better than most vehicles on Louie-A will ever do.

Meet the Rotitherian, a sister group to Kritinophytes that became mobile animals. The strangest of all animals on this planet, rotitherians have forgo rooting themselves on a surface, and rather developed a unique way of locomotion. By growing thick, compact carbon branches and allow it to fuse into a wheel with paddles, they were able to move through water by rotating the rudders, which have been detached into separate structures. 2 pairs of fused algal branch anchors these wheels into a "hub" (or simply called anchor,) with vestigial reproductive appendages acting as muscles that rapidly contract to move these wheels. Accompanying the wheels are their stabilizer fins derived from a pair of reproductive appendages, with internalized muscles holding pollinating bristles for mating. To see the surroundings, rotitherians have developed compound eyes derived from their photosynthetic cells, which now fires neurons to their neural networks if they sensed light. These compound eyes usually sit on an antennae, or on the snout. A telson derived from an algal branch bears spiracles that passively respirates when flowing through the water, typically triangular and acts as a sort of dorsal fin. Their roots now sit at the front of their face just at the top of their eyes, and acts as a pair of filter feeder, but in some groups, these roots became tentacles lined with rows of teeth used for grinding food, effectively becoming 2 independent mouths with jaws.

In the case of Polidatotheres (terrestrial rotitherians,) the rudders lost their paddles and became full on wheels for moving on the ground, but with the help of their highly derived tetrapod-like cartilaginous limbs, they can move at high speeds just by running and release to increase the rotation speed, ceating a gyroscopic effect that lasts for a few seconds but reduces alot of effort in locomotion. To prevent their muscles from getting fined down to nothing, they developed keratin casings around the wheel's anchor points, making it very slick and smooth to slide off of, and applies nearly no friction to the animal's anchor. The pair of mouth sitting ontop of their head bears primitive hearing follicles derived from left over algal roots.

The specie in this picture, the Cockatiel biscant (Silvinfectum cockatiel,) is a specie of polidatothere that inhabits the southern rainforest, filling in niches not too dismilar to a deer. With bright coloration on their head, the males use these to attract the more dull colored females in the herd he grew up in.

As the sunsets, a lone Steeraptor returns back to her den. Accompanying her is her 4 weeks old pup, who stays in her external pouch inbetween the zooids reminiscent to a marsupial's.

Steeraptors are a clade of predatory microcars, belonging in the order "Mesothylafera," an order of cars that developed external wombs inbetween the zooids, providing protection and warmth to the larvae until it's grown enough to walk on its own. One of the key major difference microcars have is their middle zooid seemingly absent, which is extremely odd considering that it holds the main stomach. Until you look in it's physiology is when you realize; the middle zooid was internalized, likely to prevent it's vulnerable organ from getting targeted. Like almost all predatory vehicles, steeraptors' upper mandible is derived from their vestigial jaw that can open and snap shut like beartraps, allowing it to make precise snaps when hunting, incredibly similar to bobbit worms. Mesothylaferans belongs in the clade "Rhinousia," a superorder of ear-bearing cars. They belong in the broader class of Alepidosaura.

While other types of plants on Louie-A exists (in the shadows,) the main significant group of algae on the planet are Kritinophytes, AKA yellow plants or egg yolk algae. While chrysophytes on earth are incredibly similar to kritinophytes, they are both vastly different. For one, kritinophytes possess the ability to biomineralize carbonates into structural supports seen in terrestrial group, although aquatic kritinophytes are less likely to do that. Kritinophytes, unlike chrysophytes, possess a mating "penis" made up of cells that bound together into "muscle," which can stretch and reach out to reproduce via pollination in contact.

In this picture, the forest is made up of lithoplacodendron trees, which have grown massive and turned their mineral structure into a stony trunk, layered with another layer of an even more stronger plates that grows in distorted caustics-like pattern. On the ground, fluffy "grasses" grows and tangles each other into soft mats of cotton, a place for multiple organisms to live and hide in. These mats of cotton, referred to as woolers, is one of the clade in a general class of thin fur-like plants called trichograminea, a common type of ground plant seen all across Louie-A.

Bullytrains are a group of hadrosomes (Bus-like trains) that became large bovine grazers. Rather than moving in extremely long colonies, bullytrains reduce their zooids to only 3 individuals, mainly to process food faster and also avoid unexpected colony attacks. Bullytrains are distinct for their high snout derived from once a "funnel" that trains possess. Bullytrains belong in the class "Alepidosaura," a group of primitive vehicles that developed endothermy that partially claimed dominance on Louie-A. Hadrosomes possess fused vertebrae, which causes zooids of their body to become inflexible but favors large animal niches.

Skopostoma is a phylum of Aerotropican animals recognized by their 2 appendages, derived from filter feeding arms that is riddled with blood. All skopostomes possess blue blood, first emerging in the depths with low oxygen forcing them to develop hemocyanin. With this adaptation, they're pretty widespread across the ocean, as they can take alot of oxygens in environments low of that without struggle. Skopostomes are split into 3 subphylums.

Anisostomes are characterized by one of their filter feeding appendage turning into large muscular trunks, with the rest of their body dragging along. Their second filter feeding appendage internalizes into a digestive system. The mouth can extend out to show bristles that they still retained from their common ancestor. 2 pairs of respiratory holes derived from their internalized appendage can suck in water and expel out to propel themselves, and the pair at the back also serves as anuses.

Horizopods possess 4 appendages, one pair for swimming and the other for sensing the environment. Although they do not possess a mouth, they directly filter feed through pores between their exoskeleton. The antennae are actually a pair of filter feeding appendage ciliate that enlarged into antennae. Horizopods possess a single primitive eye that can only sense light.

All the rest of skopostomes are derived from early taxons of molluscoid filter feeders called Faboformes. The most basal skopostome yet, they possess a simple circulatory system that all connects to the filter feeding appendages, transporting nutrients and oxygen into their body to absorb it. After absorbing the sustenance they needed, they then expel the product out of pores at the side of their body.

Peepies, furbies and gryphons all belong in a class of vertebrate expressed through the only surviving placoderms on the planet, surpassing almost every extinction and barely surviving to holocene. The class gryphonitheria are characterized by their pair of barely moving plate-derived pseudolimbs and their true moving front limbs, alongside their follicle-derived ears used for sensing the environment rather than hearing. They possess fur reminiscent to mammals and a beak derived from their teeth, which is how they get the name "Griffins" or the "Birdmammals." Superorder Karidatheria, more commonly known as peepies, are a group of rodent-like gryphonitheres with peanut-shaped bodies, and a tail riddled with follicles used for detecting sound, although it is not the most efficient.

Poarets are predatory peepies native to america that feeds on small ground invertebrates such as athropods, gastropods and annelids. Their spindly jumping limbs allows them to hop at a great distance and pounce at their prey, locking them in place with their sharp beak. They are fast reproducers, yet have a short livespan, only living up to 2 to 4 months before reproducing and die. Strangely enough, they sometimes group together to take down a prey, which is odd for an animal that spends almost its entire life solitary, and also show signs of territorial behavior against other members, yet some records show that they team up with the same individuals they had beef with. Poarets mark their territory around trees and dig their personal burrow under it with their beak, but allows mates to come in to guard their offsprings.

btw i dont actually ship this i made it for fun

Ok now it might seem like this belongs in r/SpecEvoJerking , but i DO see potential in amongus spec evo and how they could fill in our ecosystem. I got inspired by tril0bite's amongid research, plus the fact that his twt account got banned. So, i made my own speculation of amongid echinoderms. Ok, bye!!

Subphylum Diplognatha is a group of highly derived echinoderms that evolved onto land, often called Headless-men. Closely related to crinoids, they have a body-plan that once looking at the lifecycle can understand and have a better idea of this strange group's evolutionary history. The larvae starts off as vaguely beetle-shaped decomposers, only reaching the size of 2 millimeters. Once they're near maturity, it's only then that the rudiment emerges out of their body in a sort of cocoon-esque way, which the rudiment stays partially radial but still bilateral, just much more cricket-like. Soon, they starts to stand up straight bipedally which all terrestrial diplognaths do, turning into an adult headless-men and develop calcite skeletons. In the rudiment stage, their mandibles act as a pair of limbs, and their eyes are more of a singular antennae, before enlarging the antennae into large, round compound eyes. Their eyes are reminiscent to a visor of an astronaut helmet, which comes from primitive patches of eyes that later became a singular compound eye. Diplognaths only have 2 legs and a pair of mandibles derived from all 4 of their arms, which have developed calcite bones very similar to tetrapod limb bones. Some part of their water vascular system turned into a respiratory system, half separate from the rest of their system, yet still transport oxygen throughout the body. The sieve plate became a sort of gigantic singular nasal cavity that sucks in water, either going into the hemal system or into the respiratory system. Aquatic diplognaths hops along the seafloor, usually referred to as "seacrickets" as shown in the 5th specimen. The 6th specimen shows a lobsterfish, free swimming seacrickets that became fish-like, yet is still isn't widespread enough to be a well-known type of animal.

the 1st to the 4th specimen all belongs to the terrestrial superclass of Calxirana, named for their jumping rudiments and the adult's lanky frog-like limbs with the addition of their calcite-rounded body.

1. The Fresno nightcrawlers are first thought to be an otherworldly cryptid, but after tracking down and constantly travel across biomes nights and days, the specie was finally identified as a type of nocturnal calxiranid. They pretty much fill in niches of deers, and has been competing with them for a while now. And it looks like the tetrapod side is winning here, as the fresno nightcrawler is now listed as endangered and should be left alone. Unlike deers, they're not skittish at all, let alone having a very slow reaction time, which is normal for a large 6 feet tall animal. They commonly browse on trees and bushes, and their coloration comes from their reflective hollow fur that traps heat and keeps the nightcrawler warm in the cold night, but largely is a handicap that makes them easier to spot by predators.
2. North american hidebehinds are, yet again, once thought to be a cryptid, now identified as a massive predatory calxiranid. Standing around 7 feet tall, they are one of the largest land predators you could ever encounter, let alone even surviving after an encounter. Their mandibles have elongated into pairs of arms used to kill and maim preys with spiny fingers that can inject paralyzing venom. They are known to stalk preys, and does what their name does, hide behind trees if the prey almost spotted them. Their coloration especially in a dark environment makes in harder for prey to spot. Once the hidebehind is close enough, it immediately goes for the neck or throat, closest to the brain stem. Once the venom is ensured, they start feeding until they're full enough to stop feeding for a while. Encountering a hidebehind is no fun, but a very simple solution is to duck or crouch. Hidebehinds mostly targest medium-sized to large animals, including deers, goats, and even humans. But due to the fact that they'll ignore small animals, you can just crouch down and run away and they will lose attention and look for another prey.
3. Common omnivorous generalists, Amonguses are found across North America and and East Asia, being a rare and strange sight for them in the past, but now usually seen as a fascinating animal. 玻璃鳥 (Boli niao,) or glass bird, is a common name chinese folks in the past use to call these echinoderms, mostly due to their eyes being very reflective like glass, and their beak plus their bipedal stance. Amonguses mostly feed on invertebrates, grass, fruits, and other types of vegetation. But if desperate enough, they can go for carrion too. They range about 3 to 5 feet in height, beng a small representative of the Calxirana lineage.
4. A group of calxiranid that reversed their role in ecosystems are the Marbleheads, or known as a broader class of Antisymmetochia. These strange invertebrates are actually neotenous calxiranid that decided to become neotenous and stay as their boneless rudiment, allowing them to fill in broader variety of invertebrate niches. Their compound eyes have grown in size, making their appearance similar to a flying saucer or a shiny marble, an iconic part of their appearance. The specimen on the picture here is a type of Saucerfly, specifically the Drinkingleaf family, which fills in niches of pollinators. Drinkingleaves cannot fly, and instead glide and find a flower to land on, so drinkingleaves are mostly found on tree tops, under patches of grass and flowers, and on the ground. Under their wing membranes are pads covered in setae that allows them to cling on surfaces greatly, and with the help of their back leg, they can leap off of trees and glide with their mandible wings.

On Dosorus Boribana, A major subphylum of partially neotenous tunicates called Karpoformes are a significant part of the planet, as it holds the main vertebrate equivalent on Dosorus Boribana. The class Lophopterygia, or the fruitfishes as a common name, are aquatic precursors to terrestrial vertebrate-like tunicates that dominates the land. Just like fishes on earth, fruitfishes are incredibly diverse, the ones on the screen being examples of the few in if not hundreds of thousands of species. But first, we need to understand karpoformes anatomy.

Karpoformes are partially neotenic tunicates, meaning they still retain features from when they're fully matured, yet still able to move around. Early karpoformes are simple tadpole-like planktons, but some tailless group diverged from them around 500 million years ago, and began developing mobile nubs of membranes that simply flapped up and down, which allows them to move for a degree. Later, they improved this structure even more after diverging into lophopterygians, developing internal fin rays that holds the structure together and muscles at the base of these rays. Their mandibles are derived from ciliates and the pharyngeal basket that extended out of their mouth as a whole, and developed membranes connected to the ciliates. Yet before that, early karpoformes only extended their ciliates out, not a part of their pharyngeal basket. Speaking of that, their main respiratory organ and their swim bladders are derived from the pharyngeal basket. Rather than breathing with their spiracles, in favor of losing the organs after only absorbing oxygen directly into their body, they possess "anapeognaths," stigmata-derived respiratory organs that pump air with their ciliate-derived muscles into their body, 4 of these in pairs directing as much oxygen as possible into the body. The other organ derived from the pharyngeal basket are the swim bladders, which divided and sort of "split" into 2 baskets, allowing food to get into the stomach instead of the swim bladders. The atrial siphon, which at this point has become a structure reminiscent to a cephalopod's siphon, acts as a jet propulsion organ that expels water that the fruitfish ingested, allowing them to move in a short burst to either escape predators, or ambush unknowing preys. Their simple eyes are similar in shape to an arthropods', resembling the ocelli of spiders and bees, but most species has eyes similar to an arachnids'. Their dorsal skeleton is derived from their notocord, which has ossified and extended out into structural support bones. Most of the other supports are a part of the tunic that ossified internally into bones. Like basal tunicates, they either reproduce sexually or asexually, either spawning like some fish species, or budding off a new individual internally and later expel them out as a new member.

In the pelagic zones of Dosorus Boribana, a predator awaits. These swift hunters, commonly referred to as tunacates, hunts in packs and targets small to medium-sized fishes by circling around the prey, trapping them in a circle where they can't leave without being ambushed, and immediately strike the prey once it's helpless enough to stay still. This specie's ring patterns and light spots on their backs attract large siphonophore-eating animals, and once they get close enough, the others waiting nearby will pinch and pierce the animal, and feast until they're full enough to stop eating for a while, either leaving the animal stripped of flesh, or just leave a carcass of an unfinished prey for scavenging organisms to feast upon. Tunacates swim in an undulatory fin motion similar to squids and rays, allowing exceptional stability and stealth when hunting.

Pterocaudata, or shrimpfishes, is an order of malco'eels that turned their fins into tail flukes, which allows them to flap it up and down similar to the way cetacean swim. Shrimpfishes have scissor-like mandibles used for cutting vegetation, or tear prey apart precisely. Riverine species like the Spicy papanadro, named by their appearance being similar to peppers on earth. Papanadros are common river herbivores, feeding on underwater vegetation and moss. They are quite skittish and highly alert, if sensing any change happening in the water, then they will immediately swim away from the source. Most malco'eels live in small or tight crevices like moray eels, even burrowing into the sediment and make it's own home. Unlike it's relative however, shrimpfishes is fully free-swimming and only enters crevices in an instance of mating, and let their larvae stay in a temporary home before moving out into the open waters.

Known for their round body shape and bright coloration, reef potatofishes, or known in a broader order of Patatichthyes as Chromadermichthyes, are common fruitfishes found across all reefs, being generalists that feeds primarily on algae and invertebrates. Some clades, like the genus corallivorax, feeds on different food sources such as the name suggested, corals. Unlike other fruitfishes, which by now has a lifecycle that is present almost every single general clades, potatofishes reproduce by spawning like usual, but when the larvae hatches, instead of turning into their adult form right away at their maturity, larval potatofishes travel in shoals and constantly bud itself over and over again, sometimes even crossing to other reefs and disperse there. With the help(?) of some filter feeders, they reduce the constantly growing fog of planktons, and eventually growing up to be adult potatofishes. This strategy is what makes them so widespread across multiple reefs.

Although lophopterygians are often a common example for aquatic karpoformes, one may look over another and more broader superclass of zooplanktons known as Kopilatipoda, or simply known as Seascissors. These arc-shaped neotenous zooplanktons aren't strong swimmers as suggested by their classification, and are typically swept away along the waves. But for deep sea dwelling kopilatipods, they can maneuver pretty greatly, but still jitters around as the primary way of locomotion. They possess a single pair of rays used for swimming, similar to daphnia.

The map of Dosorus Boribana in the Paraxenocene, AKA the modern era of Dosorus Boribana.

Seeded life on Dosorus Boribana include:

Sea plants such as: seaweeds (including kelp, sea lettuce, and sargassum,) seagrass, waterweed, coastal mangroves, phytoplanktons and various rhodophytes.

Molluscs, specifically Aculifera, excluding the conchiferans from the seeding.

Deuterostomes include Tunicata and Echinodermata, providing more information about the seeded tunicates will be that the only classes seeded here are Ascidiacea and Thaliacea.

Every single Cnidarians are present on Dosorus Boribana, including classes that are little-known like Staurozoa.

Alot of Bryozoans have been seeded here too.

Although most species die out due to the fact that they're missing some of the key parts in their diet, or simply unable to live on this planet. Alot of them were able to live and continue to thrive on this planet, eventually evolving into myriads of forms.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. these fucking things keep getting into my home, and i thought: hey! these looks like the humans! i can definitely go for some right now! and then they FUCKING LEAVE THROUGH A BIG DOOR. I kid you not how much these wall larpers enter my home just to starve me again, like motherfucker just share a piece of your limb or some. I know it's not a big of a deal because other humans can get in here and transition into food to my maw (...WEEKLY), but these thing, ESPECIALLY the ones with big ass black mouths and stupid big heads INFURIATE ME. Also, one time they installed fake 3-legged little versions of me to piss me off even more. THEYRE NOT EVEN GOOD RECREATIONS.

In conclusion, these clowns keep pissing me off by starving me, CONSTANTLY. You don't know the lifeform's hardwork just to capture ATLEAST a single meal for the week, and i had to express my hate again: I. FUCKING. HATE. THESE. PISSBAGS!!!

what the weather feels like after you receive the most devastating news of your entire life

Before we begin to even explain what these creatures are, I'd like to give a context of what this project is first.

Liminaligaia, or the liminal dimension, is a dimension outside of our reality, which somehow has collided with our reality, first around the cambrian and ordovician period, starting "the rift," an event acting as a gateway to one of the dimension's world. The occurrence started approximately 541 to 443 million years ago, which caused some primitive organisms to be transported there alongside algae and microscopic organisms. While most seeded animals don't survive in their wrong environments, a few groups somehow did and started to adapt and evolve there. Despite being completely foreign to our dimension, the entire dimension's worlds are incredibly similar to human-made infrastructure and earth environments, the main theory being that an interdimensional entity tried to recreate earth and even drop some animal onto their world. Strangely enough, the rift can also happen inside the dimension but more casually, with doors, holes, or a space that links to other worlds in Liminaligaia. Inbetween the modern and the cambrian to ordovician period, this occurrence didn't happen again for seemingly ever. But to the modern day, around the 1900's to 2000's or so, the rift happened again, and allows us to access and beginning to understand, unravel, and discover the dimension outside of our reality.

On the Pastel plains, one of Liminaligaia's worlds, lies a grassland with organisms that adopted colors mostly associated with pastel color palettes. The most striking and noticeable specimen here, the Baleen giraffes, feeds on aerial cnidarians that inhabits the clouds. Rather than straining the aerial planktons with their baleen "teeth," they use the structure to chew the tiny planktons by crushing them inbetween the hard filaments instead, and absorbing them into their baleen, which is actually a highly derived extension of their blood vessels that now works as a sort of mouth-stomach. And so they go, ambling along the comforting colors of the grassland.

Beneath the Baleen giraffes are a pack of Pastel corohues, weasel-like lanky predators analogous to wolves. They hunt in small packs, usually up to 9 individual max. In pursuit of their prey, corohues track down small herds of absolutely any small to medium sized animals that inhabit this grassland. Usually after a hunting session, they return to their burrow, which is where the larvae stays and feed on the parent's food.

Both of these creatures are highly derived stem-chordates, but reshaped by the anomalous properties of Liminaligaia's logic, and is almost unrecognizable from their ancestors.

In a midst of the corohues' pursuit, a Baker's tunifowl restlessly flees from the pack. Common throughout the dimension, these terrestrial urochordates feed primarily on vegetation and decomposing matter, having the role of cleaning up the ecosystem's junk. Tunifowls are a flightless group of Aeronauts, bird-like aerial urochordates that flies with their cartilaginous wing-fins. But for tunifowls, their wings have fused and turned into hopping limbs, reminiscent to those of rabbits and birds. Their mandibles, resembling a beak, is efficient for picking and plucking off scraps and rotten matter, or reach inside carcasses for nutritious bits of the animal.

by the way the lobe-finned fish's name is Natie