u/O_2og

Made these guys. They are quadrupedal piscivores, ambush hunters. They stand in shallow water, waiting to grab anything that comes by with their dextrous forward appendages, then consuming it whole as their main food source, similar to wading birds. They have four eyes: two for frontal binocular vision for hunting and a second pair positioned more on the side of their head for 360-degree vision for spotting predators. Their hair grows from their back as protection and camouflage, and they have short tails. They have 2 sexes with minimal sexual dimorphism; they reproduce sexually and via egg laying and often build small artificial islands out of plant materials as nest structures. They would usually stick together in groups for protection and help each other out.

They evolved from pseudo-monkeys that faced their climbing habitat being receded by rising water, leading to their change in behavior to hunting aquatic life by standing in shallow water swamps via grabbing 'fish'. Over time, this would lead to longer legs and loss of hair on the lower body and shortening of their tail.

Then they figured out they could use their nest construction skills to build damns and fences to control water flow and 'fish' populations. Leading to the start of their technological development.

(Also looking for name suggestions.)

EX Homo-malevolus are extra-dimensional bipedal carnivorous humanoids, the result of a ‘force’ known as fate and evolution fighting at the wheel.

Kinda complicated to explain, but the basic concept is, fate ‘wants’ to create humans, and evolution ‘wants’ to create a species that works in the environment, so if these things align, boom, you get humans, but if they don’t align, things get messy, and you get stuff like EX Homo-malevolus, weird pseudo-humans.

Appearance

EX Homo-malevolus are bipedal humanoids. They possess an average height of 8ft with shorter, on average, females. Their skin is a very dark pigment, absorbing most visible light and being vulnerable to sunlight UV exposure. They possess no hair across their whole body. Their legs resemble those similar to an elephant’s to support their size while their upper half is comparably thin. Their hands and arms are elongated with their nails forming into durable claws. They prefer bipedal locomotion often having to slouch over in shorter buildings. Despite their size, they are rather quiet due to their cushioned foot pads. They have a recorded top speed of approximately 35 mph over short distances.

Their head is humanoid with their ears being shrunk and recessed near flat against their skull. Their nose resembles more of that of a chimpanzee. Their eyes are large and black with large dark red pupils, used for low-light vision with them appearing to glow in the dark due to their tapetum lucidum. They possess 32 teeth in a similar arrangement to other hominids. Their canines are larger, measuring approximately 2 inches, with their other teeth being more adapted to meat consumption.

Their traits make it probable that they originally existed in a dark low-light environment with otherwise similar Earth-like characteristics likely with another humanoid species(s) they would prey on.

Behavior

They are highly intelligent ambush predators. Their main prey of choice is humans, although this does not seem to be out of any specific nutritional need as they will consume other meat sources if needed. Rather, they seem to enjoy or take pleasure in the act, often setting elaborate traps and only attacking when the victim notices their presence. They hunt alone, only interacting with their same species for mating and are otherwise territorial towards their own. They typically like to inhabit large abandoned buildings to set up ambushes and avoid UV radiation.

Once they have chosen a building, they will often try numerous tactics to lure preferably alone humans in, consisting of but not limited to: displaying valuable goods such as medical supplies, mimicking human speech or cries for help, sometimes mimicking the sounds of wounded companion animals such as canines, primitive writing of human words or symbols, and in one documented case, firing the firearm of a deceased victim.

Once the victim has been lured into the building, the subject will attempt to stay out of sight and lure the victim deeper in. It will then often hide in the corner of rooms waiting for the victim to notice its presence. If it believes the victim has noticed it, it will then express excitement or joy, often ‘smiling’ or showing teeth, giving the victim time to appreciate their situation before quickly pouncing on the victim. It will then proceed in various kill methods, most commonly slashing with its claws or ripping out the throat with its mouth. Then proceed to devour the victim, often severing and storing limbs such as legs to be used as a prolonged food source. The subject will often remove harder clothing such as Kevlar but is seemingly fine with ingesting lighter materials whole. Some individuals will take trophies of their victims, often their skulls, bones, or pieces of clothing, and collect such items in a single room. It is unclear if this method of hunting served any evolutionary benefit in their original environment or is simply enjoyable for them. This behavior may be altered if the subject is particularly hungry or perceives the victim as a threat.

Generally, the older and more experienced the subject is, the better they become at this, with juveniles mimicking speech often using only a few repeating words sounding disjointed, varying in pitch and tone. While older individuals have been recorded to have prolonged simple conversations in a convincing human tone, recognizing and responding to common human words, and more advanced tool use, in some cases packing bleeding wounds such as bullet holes with cloth or other fabrics, although they seem to prefer not to utilize tools to directly attack unless necessity.

In captivity, they will alter their behavior into that of trying to convince humans to free them. This can manifest in mimicking human distress and sometimes animal distress such as whimpering noises. If freed, they will then attempt to kill the human.

Several attempts have been made at communication; one such was an attempt to teach one subject the English language in both written and spoken form. The subject would respond to questions in simplistic few-word sentences indicating needs such as food but mainly attempted to fool the researchers into letting it out or for them to come into its cage with it and didn’t respond to more complex questions. Although rather intelligent subjects do not indicate being true sophonts, merely advanced mimicry as a means of predation, instead being somewhere in between dolphin and human level intellect.

With interior spaceship combat, how does your world solve the issue of guns causing damage to the integrity of the ship?

12°34'34.26"N, 81°41'54.08"W. Wonder what happened here. Was it intentional?

13°01'49.24"N 83°22'50.54"W. Shipwrek? Old fort? been there since at least 2013

8°46'20.08"N 79°32'00.87"W. Been there since at least 2002. just a rock?

28013157.20 N 135053:30.16W

68°00'05.23"N 140°59'45.72"W

The result of a cult in the future based off US history with some Christian aspect mixed in. It’s the Confederates and Britain mushed together because someone thought the flags were similar, and they both fought the US in a vaguely similar time period.

Britan is a Devil like figure that in the mythology tricked thirteen divine states to betray the divine United States and join his side to attack the thirteen colonies of man. These rebel states, by the effort of the rest of the divine United States and the thirteen colonies of man, were defeated and rejoined into the union while Britan was defeated and skulked away.

The humanoid body plan is kinda the goat for being able to easily reach every part of itself. These guys aren’t so lucky.

They are amphibious (but better in water) omnivorous mammaloids that were essentially monkeys turning into whales but got confused somewhere in the middle and started thinking bout stuff. They are capable swimmers that often lived in shallow (alien) kelp forest due to their terrestrial origins needing to come up for oxygen. At this point they had lost much of their land mobility with their shorter limbs and elongated rear feet often leading them to drag their abdomen against the ground.

Clothing only really became popular amongst the ‘landlubbers’, those of the species who took an interest in terrestrial living. The landlubbers, mainly due to their invention of fire, would be the forerunners of their species achieving many Stone Age goals. While those who strived for a more traditional aquatic lifestyle lagged behind. This caused a large cultural split starting roughly in their early Neolithic era.

Also, any suggestions on what to name them would be nice. I suck at names.

(Helpful Illustration) One of the reasons humans’ ancestors became more ground-based and less tree-based was because of fewer trees. So what if this happened in reverse, where a primarily open-land-dwelling creature would have to adapt to a more densely forested environment? Of course, there are already big cats that live in dense forests and do it quite well, but they are mostly at the or near the top of their food chain. What if a smaller big cat, such as a cheetah, that would be outclassed by other big cats in a denser environment, would instead evolve to be much better climbers, elongating their toes to be better at grasping and their already long tails becoming more dextrous eventually ending up like pseudo-monkeys? Then if the trees where to get sparse again after a long time could they end up as pseudo-humans? I'm working on an alien species with this vague concept where they essentially become humanoids the long way round.