Let’s Create a Community Speculative Evolution Project!
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For anyone who may not want to use Discord, we're using a Google Form to keep track of the entries, so as long as you fill in the information here you will have submitted your design: forms.gle/KpJgC8iwLH3Jz7ZAA
Thanks for adding this.
Designing my Alien was a lot of fun, but I have other Ideas I want to do. I understand your desire to have 1 entry per person, so maybe we could do this again in the future, giving everybody a chance to further flesh out this world? Or maybe we use designs from this season to imagine close relatives?
Yay we need more of these and who knows maybe someone will see their creations end up on the big screen.
So technically there are no herbivores
I edited this comment, because I actually have two questions now, first is just out of curiosity and second will have more of an effect on my submission. First, Is it okay to provide a design for a predator/parasite of your alien? Second, is it okay to mention and show the more private areas of your alien for speculative scientific reasons? Because for my creature I planned to have a brief illustration of them giving birth to a mucus sac that their babies would soon come out of, and I was also considering showing the slits that conceal their genitalia(though not the genitalia themselves). I just got Discord and it says I shouldn’t post anything inappropriate on your server. My creature is going to be a descendant of the Ambulospeculids that grew larger and moved the four hindmost limbs back to become chelicerae, and turned the left and right probosci into tentacles, and that farms mobile Polyspeculids for food, among other things.
"Here's me face"
Lol
May have been referencing a certain RUclipsr there...
@@BenGThomas love ozzy man reviews and you
Ben G Thomas if you don’t mind me saying, you’re cute
I was not expecting that 😂
When the nerd is handsome
I'm not straight but damn
Is it me or is he always blushing?
Fishycarrot hi fish!!!
@@bijtmntongaf I didn't know you watch ben g thomas :o
It happens.
> Gravity on Wallace II is higher than on Earth
> Higher Oxygen concentration in the air
Giant "monsters"? Giant "monsters".
Jokes aside, this seems like a very interesting project. I'm trying to get back into drawing, so maybe I'll come up with some interesting designs.
there's LESS gravity than earth though, but yes that will lead to bigger fauna
What a handsome devil.
Ah, walking plants. Speculative evolution can be super fun.
I like the ozzy reference at the start :)
- *have you submitted your alien for wallace?*
-- what?
- *Wuallace mutterphuka wallace 2, have you submited it yet?*
-- what'
- *say what again! i dare you! i double dare you mutterphuka!*
--actually im already submitting one..
If only I had my laptop fixed to make a graphic art, what a bummer
But I'll try to draw and join
I already started drawing (poorly) a parasite! Excited to send it to your Discord!
Okay but without a moon, how does the planet spin without a severe wobble? Are the satelites significant to have enough of a gravitational affect on the planet to keep its axial spin stable? If it is the second planet form the star, as well, is it within the habitable zone? Or is it too close, and would it make the planet unlivable?
There is life so it must be withing the habitable zone... ;)
This is so perfect! I'm organizing a project for my biology students. Id love to talk more directly if you have any materials in mind that could make this more concrete for 8th graders. I have some ideas, but would love to collaborate.
anyone here from the specevo jcink forums?
also POG
what if a creature of the amphibians skipped land eggs and carried it's eggs in some kind of pouch or internally and were fertilized internally
On my way..... >:D
I gotta say Wallace's world sounds a lot more catchy
Romulus Numa you really want to spend a lot of time at Wally World? 😂😂😂
(For those not in the know, at least in the Upper Midwest, USA, Wally World is a commonly used euphemism for Walmart. 😉😎
Sadly due to copyright laws we can't call it "Wally World" which comes from National Lampoon's Summer Vacation.
What if the system was Wallace A, then B, then C and so on.
So our world would be Wallace E. Wall-E in short.
Huh?
Back in high school our teacher’s final exam was to create a detailed evolutionary history of a modern animal’s speculative evolutionary path in the future. I chose the Asian Water Monitor and placed it in an environment where seals had died off in the coastal zones of Southeast Asia. Monitors took over the niche and I illustrated it too.
I would love to do a similar project again, and I believe others do too. This could be a great idea for the community!
Ooh.
Were there any references to mosasaurus?
Wow that sounds like such a fun project, wish I'd have got to do stuff like that at school!
@LaTenno I addressed some convergent adaptations to life in the ocean like nostril location and a rudder-like tail, but in this situation there was enough land for these monitors and too many sharks to commit to a fully aquatic lifestyle.
Their feet had slight webbing that helped them retain a more otter-like gait on land, and they would routinely bask on hotly contested rocks that males would fight over. They had to mate on land to avoid predators, but were almost completely dependent on fish stocks to survive due to a massive, climate-driven die off of their usual mammalian prey. That’s all I remember unfortunately, but I’ll try to find the project if I can.
@@seannotconnery8191 that's some impressive work you've done here.
I actually did a lecture on astrobiology for my science final during my junior year, using Wayne Barlowe’s work as a reference. I’ve been obsessed with speculative evolution every since, and as an art student I’m excited for the chance to put my skills (or lack thereof) to the test.
Can I redraw that map tho? I'm a cartography commission artist and... Yike, I could give that a serious glow up.
Yes i mean where did this Rover get it's water from?
Was it the rainforest?
oooh i hope he notices this
I'd love to take a crack at the map too. I'm not a professional but I've been doing fantasy /science fiction maps as a hobby for a while now and it would be fun.
Pretty sure any contribution will be highly apreciated
Please redraw it! The current one I consider to be a sketch. More rivers would be nice.
“Bone trees” imagine you land in your pod on this planet, and when you go to gather some kind of “wood” you find the things you chop into are both made of bone, and bleed. This is a truly horrify concept, especially if we ever expect human level intelligence to evolve.
Well, we already know trees are living organism, and some trees pour out sap when you cut through them, so i wouldn't think it would be that terrifying
@@lt241 it is not terrifying but horrifying; it's a concept that seems taken out of a body horror movie
A tree with a beating heart
People are chopping up bleeding, feeling animals for food every day...
@@valkeakirahvi no, we are chopping up uncaring corpses
It would be “ Vitacelesti “ in proper Latin form.
Damm, sounds even Cooler.
So, how can you tell what the proper way to name them is.
@@tylersaurusakro My Latin's very rusty but I believe it's proper to put the adjective (heavenly) after the noun (life) with only a couple of exceptions (of which this isn't one).
@@Robert399 thank you
So does what he wrote actually mean Lively Heaven?
I'm a 14 year old who wants to go study evolution, but this is the first time I've ever thought about speculative evolution, thank you for opening my eyes
How big are the " bone trees?" It's very important for my design
maybe you can find out in his work (desription)
your bone tree's could have evolved to whatever size they want
There is a line drawn next to the tree that shows hom much a metre is in comparasion with the tree.
The bone tree has a line for scale. It seems 6 meters tall.
You can imagine the bone trees to be part of a familly of species with some typically a few cm tall and other 150m tall if you want, with varied shape, thickness of trunc, etc.
Imagine alien life that don't have DNA and that they "evolve" on a completely separate development mechanism. that would be interesting to speculate on.
Agree
@@tooktookdamuffin I mean we have no reason to believe that DNA would just coincidently appear on other planet as it did here. you might find a similar idea, but nucleotides would most likely not be found in outer space.
Don't just stop at DNA, what if "life" on other planets isn't carbon-based but instead comprised of silicon or some other element?
@@Kunumbah1 They most likely aren't carbon based
Spinocroc123 Don’t say that they most likely aren’t. The only life we know of is carbon based. The only other possible alternative we know is silicon and even that we are unsure of as the bonds silicon makes are weaker and less stable. So most likely life will be carbon based as that is a more stable element for building complex molecules.
*cracks knuckles* Its 2am, time to make something
I just woke up its 23:36 now, same
This hits too close to home...
My brain also only works late at night.
Night owls unite.
lmao
Woah! This is an awesome idea! I’m defiantly going to try and make some speculative aliens for this amazing project!
Great idea, I wish I was more creative (maybe I will give it a try), but I'm really looking forward of the creation of others. Also it is nice that you pay homage to Wallace.
An a bit of constractive advise, you should give the continents names, so it would be easier to imagen the world and creat realistic evolutionary histories. Compeare the the contient on the south or the big on in the centere.
Already got an Idea.
Also, I feel like that’s the planet where an Elder Thing from the Cthulhu mythos would evolve, like, they are fairly similar besides the wings. I would imagine it evolved from one of the walking “plant” organisms
Dwarfism stans hearing the recent breakup of a landbridge be like: O.O
QUESTION: I do not have discord neither will I get it soon. May I just tag you on Instagram for my submission? Thanks.
It is free tho, and it can be opened in your browser. AFAIK you only need an emailadress to sign up
@@uniquepickles6804 you can slap yourself in the face for free too, no puter needed. doesn't mean you're gonna want to.
The top pinned comment has a google docs link for it.
@@NGCAnderopolis Thanks dude.
This is going to be fun :D
I'm looking forward to seeing what you create! :D
Nature's Compendium, we should make videos for our submissions!
Ben G Thomas what is the invite code
@@BenGThomas I'm thinking of creating a human like creatures who will make a social groups
@@BenGThomas I could not join the first time
Are you going to end the series allready?
"Wallace", hm? Reminds me of a certain mysterious scientist.
Jokes aside, this is definitely interesting. How far developed from the current creatures are submissions allowed to be?
300 million years is enough to do pretty much anything you like.
300million years of develoupment, so draw whatever you like, although i suspect features that evolutionarily reference the basle designs would be favourable. idk
Nice reference
Evening Gromit
Ben, despite my eagerness to participate in this project my computer has always had issues with Discord and I usually cannot connect. Are you sure you will only be accepting art that is submitted via the server? If you could tell me there's another way of sending you the art so that you'll see it, it would put my heart at ease. I'm still gonna make every effort to try &make sure I'm on the server though, thanks
Louis J maybe someone that has access to the server can proxy your submission?
Use your phone
This sounds like a fantastic idea, can’t wait to see the creativity people show.
This sounds great and id love to have ago, one thing to note though . I know u guys dont do face type videos firstly its great adds more personality to the video however with there being such a large chunk of text youve had to say and hats off to u for that but it has come off quite robotic, what might have been better is all three of you spreading it throughout as this would have made it feel a little more conversational. Like i said though i know u guys dont usually do this type of stuff its just something to note for if u do it in the future. Look forward to the end results
Ive been looking for something like this to work on. Thank you Ben G Thomas!
Sounds fun. And what a handsome face!
how do the terrestrial polyspectulata aquire minerials? i would like to develop the sun grazers
Ha! Was thinking the same thing, especially for the bone trees. Perhaps thr crust of the planet is richer in carbonate, as compared to earth silica rich crust?
You look a lot younger than you sound mate. Keep up the good work.
Face reveal at 0:00
You’re welcome
i56sa we have seen his face before on a Q&A
Why’d I have to see this after 2019 ended?
This sounds exciting! I’m definitely going to participate.
Damn, if only I have more free time. As a 3D artist and big biology fan, I'm planning to make speculative species for my own fantasy world. maybe in future I will be able to share some of them with your worlds.
Shapeless also you could improve the already existing designs, give them that profesional touch and your own designs when you have time
Dawg, you don’t even know, I was made for this my guy I got you my homosapien we gonna fill dis world with so much life, hydrothermal vent colony’s? Already labing it out. Shore line ambush predators? You already know. But these walking plants? Bruh you better call tier zoo cuz ima about to hit a wombo combo!
I'm an artist and love creating speculative species sign me up
I know my channel is just starting out but I would love to do a video peice for my submission!
I really need a new art project to get my mind off life and this sounds extremely fun so I might spend my holiday working on this 👀
Oh, I'm sorry that I will write that so late, but I just watch that video. And I think that is important, and I do not know but: Did anyone working on this, otherwise amazing, project noticed that Walace II could have big problems with supporting oxygen atmosphere? If it is so small and it has 3 smaller moons instead of one. Our 1 big moon is responsible not only for ocean tides but also for stabilizing the Earth's axis of rotation, and the existence of a geomagnetic field. And without geomagnetic field having an oxygen-rich atmosphere is quite unlikely. Especially for so small planet. A good example of that is Mars, when he lost his magnetic field he lost atmosphere and oceans as well (after some time).
I'm sorry but I have to point it out. Astrobiology, especially the role of the geomagnetic field in origins and evolution of life on earth is my thing.
Besides, I think your project is great and I can't wait for the results. For several years I have been trying to persuade my supervisor to lead something similar in class for younger students.
This is not a criticism, just an idea for if you ever do this again!
I see a lot of speculative evolution decide to go with a Pangea analogue... is anyone else more intrigued by the idea of what would happen if life was first coming onto land when there were 2 or 3 distinct continental masses, before coming together as a supercontinent later once life was more at the dinosaur phase. Imagine if life got to come on land and evolve there on two completely separate continents for 100 million years before they ever had contact with each other... they would almost be aliens as far as they would be concerned (especially if the continents they had evolved on were quite different, maybe one was quite tropical and hot and equatorial, where as the other was closer to a pole and more arid, and colder)
I'm just gonna take a moment to thank your parents and the rest of your ancestors, they did a good job on passing down their intelligence and attractive genes down to you. 😊
Do the moons cause some kind of tide?
Also, how salty is the seawater? Are there big rivers carrying a lot of sediments to the sea in this period of time?
Tge moons would definitavely cause tides, which would wary alot depending where in the orbits the moons are, but we do need an estimate one the size! Imagine huge 1000's of square miles of tidal flats.
Those look like minor satellites, so they might govern tidal action less than their sun’s pull. The fact that there are many of them would complicate a spring/neap tidal system, but that could be really interesting, too. Imagine the highest tides are always centered near mid-day and midnight, but they change in number, strength and timing depending on where the moons are in the sky!
I'm definitely going to participate in this! This is super cool.
@Dominic Tripp Year 8 Hello my child :)
Even just this guy's accent makes him sound smart.
Yeah, I’ll get back to you when I’m smarter. Love the concept though, sounds interesting and fun.
Our Evolution Sage be looking fine as hell
After watching this I am immediately subscribed and I'm working on this right now! I love fake ecosystems so much
Dang, I feel like I missed out on a fun project, Lol.
“How’s it going here’s me face!”
That is my favourite quote from you
There is one highly problematic, important aspect concerning the preferences, @Ben G Thomas :
Such a small rock planet would not show a so strong and so long lasting system of plate tectonics.... except if it had a similar collision history like the Earth Moon system, where the dense and (radio)active core of the colliding (proto)planet was added to the before too-small-for-long-lasting-plate-tectonics core of our Wallace II protoplanet.
This "enhanced" core as well provides the planet with the for life evolution at least fortunate if not 100% needed magnetic field, keeping away most cosmic radiation particles which else would damage protolife already so frequently, that higher life forms with DNA/RNA had no chance to survive.(And without that strong magnetic field there would be a higher risk that this planet would lose its atmosphere like Mars did).
Therefore the kind of moons must differ as well including at least one "too large" moon - which then as well can explain the (for at least terrestrial life important) already very long rotation period of 20h - slowed down from a shorter first period by that moon and further slowing down a bit during the time of this evolution scenery... maybe to 22h.
This also can influence other factors as this larger moon can be a time marker for life.
Which leads us to another important point: The angular of the rotation axis of the planet!
Is it 0° then there will be no seasons on this planet. Is it much more than on Earth, then seasons will be more extreme and even though the stabilizing effect of the now one large moon, highly eccentric rotation angles will be more unstable, which as well has bad influences for life.
And a rotation axis of 90° caused further extra problems.
So we assume that this planet has an rotation axis angular of maybe 27° with then a bit stronger differing seasons than on Earth with its 23,44°.
So far for needed comments concerning the planetary preferences to make this evolution scenery possible/working.
Now have fun!
Reminds me of "Serina: World of Birds" a website that contains speculative evolution of a world "Seedet" with cannaries, bambo, ants, fish, and a few other animals and plants . So far i haven't read anything like it (except the show "The future is wild")
I cant have an imgur or a discord (hell, this account is my biggest secret), so the best i can do is pin an image to a google doc and hope it works. Im super excited anyways!
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Love the ideas/ art so far, this reminds me a lot of the spec zoo project 'Serina'( think that's it) but this is epic. I love your channel, keep post cool content!
Is there a limit to the number of legs (since I know it’s rare for one “group” to change the amount of legs they have, Eg most animals on earth - excluding things like insects - have 4 limbs) or can we go crazy (relatively speaking)?
I think that to keep up those bony exterior armors a lot of the plantlike creatures would try consuming calcium from rocks in a way, this could possibly happen by (since I imagine there's a lot of water, there will be a lot of rain) clinging to cliff walls or other rocks in a sedentary life style, which would mean that would be a good oppertunity for the more mobile bilateral creatures to gain an exclusive food source, which would make it benefitial to be able to jump higher, which could(with a few pushes in the right direction) lead to flight, possibly
Edit:if someone likes the idea, copy it as your submission, since I don't quitte know how to submit it, (it would be nice if you mentioned that it was originally my idea)
Ahhh, I see my spec challenge lives on.
I clicked, I loved, I subbed, and I'm definitely participating :)
Coincidently I suggested the idea of creating a planet with my gf where we'd design the fauna on it, I'd handle the Oceanic life since it's what I like most and made a Deep sea planet that's in a Cambrian styled era and I personally like the Comet Goby which are a bioluminescent vertebrate resembling Haikouichthys and granted they look less alien and more like earth creatures but they're still equally neat nonetheless but I'll see what I can do for this
While we're still on the topic of speculative evolution, what is your opinion on wildlife found in the Subnautica video game?
A great video/project as always!
I have a question/idea for a future video:
Can you talk about abiogenesis, and in particular, why it seemingly only happened once?
Must all life be based on DNA and if not, what would the world be like, if we had two different "first ancestors" for life on earth?
Is it possible, that such life might arise/is as of yet undetected in extreme locations in the ocean, where "normal" life can not exist?
Thank you very much, I absoulutely love your channel!
Ben: (talks about super interesting project with lots of possibilities)
Everyone else: Oh wow, this guy's actually cute! :P
was that an ozzyman reference at the start?
also awesome, i look forward to seeing were this speculative evolution concept goes
That sounds really fun and interesting! I think I'll give it a try.
Would this mean...we have to make 2 mouth alien sea slugs with a sabre on its pelvic region.... looking at you Snaiad project.
Michael Portillo Not necessary, their is still 300 million years of evolution so their is still potential to change how said organisms eat.
Earth Future New animal 4 legs only
MEGASQIUD: Hold My Beer
The people who made the walking with series need to make one about speculative evolution it just needs to happen.
It seems to me that this branch of evolution is very similar to the branch of Biblaridion.
Your chanel is soooo good. So glad that I found you. This Project is just too good
Have there been any evolution AI simulations recently I remember seeing a documentary in the 90s that had a trees made out of muscle.
Back in the 90s? I really need to see this.
WOW I wish I found this channel back when this was being made
I'm gonna say it ...sentient trees
@Art Neihaus Why not?
When's the video thatll showcase the community art?
I love Spec Evo. I’ll definitely be joining the Discord
Cool, when is the next Walking with Dinosaurs video coming?
Why does speculative so often result in basically giant Arthropods?🙄
1. They’re cool
2. People think they’re cool
3. So they make it
This is so cool! I've been a fan of spec evo projects for a while. I'm so glad that more people out there have started to learn about them, a good portion of which were thanks to you no doubt!
after I finish exams this week I’ll start sketching I’m so excited! uwu
Oh my gosh, I'm already working on this, I'm so excited. This is such a cool idea!
I actually making a similar lower scale project, i already designed about 5 species taking into consideration convergent evolution, biological niches, etc.
I have 2 predators, and 3 “herbivores”.
Nice
This is gonna be awesome but there will have to be some communication in the community - for example, one person assumes that a species survives and is the food of their creation, and another says they've all mutated
Lol
Dang
So sad I missed this, I love speculative evolution
Help the discord group is under attack
You look like a balenciaga model, astounding
I worship Ben j Thomas
Can you do speculative zoology again
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DIS IS GONNA BE SOOOOOO FUN.
Don’t need to say anything, fam. I’m in
I wonder how progress on that video is going.
Been waiting to do something like this might do it, who knows.
Im not very good at drawing but very creative an with enourmous imagination . someone can help please?
I would but i cant draw either.
Just try it, it doesnt have to look good just understandable :)