I love how this actually depicts alien worlds as rich ecosystems rather than a planet with only one species that just builds spaceships -and speaks a single language-
If they were space faring they'd probably have a "unitary" language but yeah there would probably need to be biological diversity for them to be sapient in the first place anyway
What if an alien planet only ever evolved one language? I get that there must be biodiversity driving the evolution that eventually leads to a space-fairing civilization level of intelligence, but it's totally possible that the species may only ever need to evolve one language.
I'm really loving all of these speculative biology videos. I'd love to see you cover Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds. Its a great project detailing an experiment where humans put canaries, guppies, some bugs and plants onto a planet to see where they go from there
Low gravity and/or higher density atmosphere would make for a lot of floaty, flighty things... I mean, at some point the air works just like our water. Life in the water mite not be much different than on earth, when your body is completely supported by the water, how much you weigh doesn't really matter.
I was sitting at Bass Pro a week ago. (on some good meds) They have a HUGE fish tank, and it looked like to me the crabs and things on the bottom would look up at the fish going by and it would be like the fish were flying.
Idk, but I think it isn’t the same. Water exercise a specific pressure (which is bigger than the pressure made by the air) based on the gravity of a planet, in fact on earth water not at all support your body and water species adapted to higher pressure and so a “higher gravity”. In the case of air works equally, air (with its weight) drag you to the ground and don’t support your body. In conclusion water organisms live with more pressure and organisms which live on a planet with minor gravity are gonna be much different cause the difference between the gravity. As final assumption neither water or air support your weight and it is all decided by gravity...
Low gravity is counter productive to a higher density atmosphere, and atmospheric density is what is required for boyant forces and lift forces, so parodoxically you'd want higher gravity (-> higher pressures -> higher density) to have floatier flighty creatures Edit: Adendum, higher temperature could lessen the need for higher pressures
Actually, not much taller than they grow on earth. the limiting factor isn't weight, but water pressure. Trees have trouble pulling groundwater much higher than modern redwoods grow.
@@aidanmatthewgalea7761 I think p=FA is the wrong equation, but it does look like I was mistaken about the effect of gravity in this scenario. Trees in a lower gravity world might be able to pull water higher.
Holy shit. Just… oh my stars. First Alltomorrows, then the birrin, and now *my friend Sam’s Anu project?* I’ve been a part of the speculative biology community since I first joined the internet in 2014, and we’ve always been a really small and niche corner of the web. I never, EVER thought I would see the day when professional-grade RUclips video essays brought these projects created by passionate, dedicated people (that I KNOW!!) to a new audience of *thousands*. Your videos have quite literally brought about a renaissance of specbio as a genre and an art form. Thank you for this.
@@Cydoniaxx Well, it used to be massively prevalent on DeviantArt, but that community has sort of faded a bit over the years. Facebook was another major center of specbio activity, but I'm not aware of its current status since I eschewed FB long ago. Oddly enough, there's been a recent explosion of specbio on Instagram, of all places, and quite a few projects are cropping up here on RUclips!
When you account for the theory of the multi verse then it is guaranteed that there is a world in a universe where the butterfly effect has brought conditions to bring a world to be EXACTLY like this one.
@@komodo9452 we only know of the OBSERVABLE universe, so there’s literally so much more to something that’s so much already. I doubt that there isn’t already something exactly like this
I've seen the works of them before in DeviantArt but never have the time to fully explore it just like i did with Birrin, Snaiad, Biblaridion's Alien Planet or Illion (Which i highly recommend you should cover next, it's one of the more fully developed speculative alien project out there, complete with stories of manned exploration of the planet). Thank you for covering this project.
@@nakenmil Yup, and i like how the the author incorporate knowledge he receive during his college lectures to the project. IIRC the arrow creatures came to be when she learn about parasitism, especially parasitoid.
I absolutely love this idea, because we as humans are always reminded of how weak we are compared to many other animals. every time you take a hike in the mountains, you pray that a mountain lion or a bear wouldn't see you as an easy meal. So just imagine being able to absolutely body a animal three times the size of an elephant.
Humans are weird animals. We are weak, but we are also the strongest on Earth. We have the power to affect nature, but not to overcome it. Perhaps that's the point of evolution, to keep everything balanced.
@@sofistar-yt5dh honestly, insects pretty much have a sweet gig in nature. Think about it. They evolved before any vertebrates, survived their takeover, and even now they have a monopoly on the role of small, consuming creatures, who live and prey on the residue of larger species. Insects find success in areas that other animals shun, and they are more numerous and successful than the majority of other creatures. Even humans, the most successful vertebrates, are plagued with arthropods as other animals are, because their roles in nature are so special and immovable. Insects, in many ways, can be considered humanity's equals.
@tinobemellow Ants in particular act as a discomfortingly accurate representation of human history; armies fighting over little practical reason other than conquering new land (not to mention extreme xenophobia), taking advantage of every aspect of their environments and sometimes even enslaving other colonies.
Well, I think no planet could harbor conditions for such a beast to exist, but it may exist as an ocean dwelling apex predator. Maybe on a planet which has deep oceans stretching for miles on end, and lots of biomass in it. It would also need to be a low gravity planet, but such planet could not exist. If the planet has a small amount of gravity, then it cannot hold onto the oceans, and it would evaporate. So I think that a godzilla sized creature is sadly impossible
It depends on how realistic your setting is/how inventive you are. If you do not want to bend the rules, just stick it in the water/ocean or have it live on a low gravity planet. If you want Earth-like gravity but still want a giant capable of leaving water and realism, then have it have some kind of durable material, maybe one you created.
A huge planet for space low gravity doesn't have to be to low maybe 60-70% of earth the biggest thing imo is what %oxygen the world has back then when dinosaurs existed oxygen levels where alot higher now are oxygen level is 20% or something then some luck you wouldn't get godzila powers and would most likely sleep all day and only wake up to hunt too much energy to do anything else being that size and would go instinct extremely fast since an animal near the sane size with more energy and a bit more of a strat would dominate a big boy
Xenobiology, speculative evolution, whatever you wanna call it, is such a cool concept. Alien concepts especially. Snaiad, this, Birrin, all great examples of alien projects. I just love the subject so much, it's so cool
I feel like this concept really isn't explored enough in sci-fi settings, you'd think a planet with an entirely different set of rules would be a free real estate for somebody writing a story about aliens. A concept I always thought would be super interesting was a planet where the gravity is so low and the mountains are so high that some points reach out into the upper atmosphere, and creatures living on them evolved to jet out into space and become an entirely different form of life
I've always liked the idea of a binary planet system. When the two planets are at there closest point, the gravity becomes so low that some creatures can jump from planet to planet.
@@logicbuilder1204 Strangely enough I have a planet very similar to that. A species called Holovyrm that resemble winged salamanders. They live on a world with a moon so large and so close that at night the gravity on the planet is substantially lessened. The Holovyrm are nocturnal, and rest during the day, when their bodies are heavy, using the added pressure from the atmosphere to help them digest their food because it compresses their coarse stomachs more. Meanwhile, at night, the large objects they build their cities out of begin to float on the monumental high tides, and the Holovyrm themselves come out of their homes, now light enough to fly since their moon decreases their gravity. I'm not sure if that's what you entirely meant, but that's one of the closest worlds I've made to that concept.
@@reecetaylor2626 We see that the sky is the same shade of blue as Earth's, implying a nitrogen-based atmosphere with similar composition to our own, so I think it's more so just an oversight on the part of the worldbuilder. Still a fascinating concept, just not perfectly accurate.
It is so surreal to go straight from his DA page to check for updates to coming here. I hope a few of the 3D modelers I've seen make videos of species from All Tomorrow's see this.
This is one of my very favorite projects out there, very inspirational for me and my personal projects and so full of unique ideas. In short, i wasn't expecting this, am very pleasantly surprised and have been waiting for this at the same time
This was the second curious archive video I have ever watched. This reminds me of the days I would sit down on the couch and watch your speculative biology videos and impress my old siblings with the my own little drawings of life on my own planet. Good times👍😀
@@itsjustalf7747 if the problem where the presure then you can use a suit, but there is no suit that could keep blood flowing to your brain in a deeper gravity well Or whatever these creatures have for blood and brains
Loving these videos. I used to spend a lot of time going through various artists artwork on deviantart mostly. Your videos are much more engaging and entertaining with the full backstory and description, and a lot more engaging than just scrolling through. Keep them up!
Man i'm glad the algorithm reccomended your video about the Birrin to me, i have binged pretty much every single video of yours by now. And i absolutely adore these alien biology videos, i hope they keep coming in the future!
It would have been cool if you put in human silhouette size comparisons next to the art, especially with some of the bigger ones. I just feel like its the best way to give an understanding of size through a video, and it would have been nice to have that more tangible comparison.
it does work better tho, our world only has 4 legs bc of the "fish" that were first able to get to land. 4 part jaws tho i do see your point and i raise to yiu the true solution: 16 part jaws: filter feeder ancestors just ossify and sturden their filter arms to form jaws that shred like a blender
To be fair, it is super common but for good reason. A lot of things on earth have 6 legs, most species in fact, do. As for the reason we don't it's because our ancestors had 4 fins, but really 6 legs are more prefferable just like 4 legs is prefferable over 3 or 2
Never have I needed something so badly and not know it until now. As an aspiring science-fantasy writer, I am humbled by all of these fantastic displays of worldbuilding.
I simply adore how you're bringing more eyes to these relatively obscure speculative evolution projects that I've been gushing over for years lol. First the awesome world of the Birrin, then C.M. Kosemen's Dinosaroids, and now Anu? Keep up the great work, Curious Archive!
Although a lower gravity would make the atmosphere less dense, making it harder to fly. Or the atmosphere couldn't form at all since the gravity would be too weak to hold the atmosphere together.
Yeah I don't think the artist really understands the laws of physics or gravity for that matter. And even then, the creatures don't look like they could fly even if low gravity= easier flight. Which it of course does NOT
It's possible to have a low gravity planet with a thick atmospheric plus, I'm creating an Earth like moon with low gravity and a thick atmosphere but with xenon and a small amount of hydrogen mixed with radon gas in order for the moon to keep the atmosphere plus the moon has aerial creatures the size of whales and sharks and they have no problem flying in the low gravity environment
Beautiful. Having said that I feel like the options are a bit too limited. Like it depicts only a specific evolution branch, they all share strong similarities. I think there's space for more drastic differences between animals.
That's usually what differentiates real life from speculative worlds. Our real world has so many different kinds of animals. These projects often take one group of earth animals and make entire planets with them.
@@kroneexe not really alotof specevo things I saw document the plants and animals and usually have entire classes each with a few dozen like serina, snaiad etc etc
this reminds me of that speculative documentary I really enjoyed about alien life where these wasp-like hunters take down a flying whale-like species tearing into it and taking chunks back to their hive
What is interesting about a low gravity planet, is this: On our planet, all animals and fish have connective tissue, to keep our organs from getting twisted or out of position. As an example, the stomach in sheep can shift after giving birth. Because some of the connective tissue tears and is connected to the pelvis of sheep. A low grav planet would not require so much connective tissue to keep organs in place. I am immediately imagining more bloated, fluid-filled bodies. Perhaps more spongy tissue to "fill" the cavities.
However, on a smeller planet with lower gravity can also be lower atmospheric pressure, which would cancel this effect of ability of being able to glide throught the air efficiently. Like on mars, they had to increase greatly the rotors speed for the copter probe they send there just recently so that it would work in thin Martian atmosphere. How can we expect that planets which are diametrally smaller in size will also be capable of the same atmospheric pressure??
Here's the explanation by the author on the atmosphere. Anu is pretty far from its sun (about asteroid belt, since you mentioned); it is suppose to be a ball of snow; in the past, it was, but a massive impact launched the volcanic activity sky high (and miraculously put the planet with a almost perfect 90º in axial tilt); the planet got warm, life emerged; thick atmospheric layer of water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, etc. due to the extense volcanic activity; the atmospheric loss due to the low gravity is "almost" completely compensated, but it happens at a low rate; this super greenhouse effect that lasts almost 855 millions years, extended by the the equilibrium created by the life on the planet, is now fading quickly; in 40 million years or less, the planet is gonna become a snowball again. www.deviantart.com/sanrou/art/Anu-572810619?comment=1%3A572810619%3A4230999758
I like how endless your thoughts can become when thinking about fictional eco systems. Like you start with one creature that takes advantages of the planets features, but then you think about what it eats and have to come up with specific plants or prey creatures and when thinking about those, they also need to interact with other life forms and so on. You can't just think of a stand alone creature, they all interact with eath other forming a balanced eco system and that's only the status quo. Because then you also start thinking about what kind of creatures these evolved from, what enviromental changes they may have adapted to in the past and where they are evolving in the future. It's just endless thoughts and very creative, I love thinking about things like that.
But would't the low gravity also make the atmosphere thinner? So it would make it more difficult for flying creatures to fly, unless it's made up of heavy gasses
Not necesarilly. And if it has an Earth-like atmosphere it probably will be easier to fly due to the force pulling down being smaller. Also, heavy gasses are probably selected for in small atmospheres since lighter ones will go to space.
Imagine going there and immediately succumbing to the intense power trip knowing you can absolutely deck any creature that walks in your path with no consequence.
wouldn't a low gravity planet not have a very thick atmosphere? Making it rather difficult to fly? I suppose with the right balance anything is plausible. Either way love this! I wanna make my own.
@@ockertoustesizem1234 that's the point. A thick membrane like water allows you to move through it and support your weight. But a thin atmosphere means there's less membrane (gas) to move through. It would be harder to generate lift by flapping your wings because there's less air to push off of.
"These colorful noodles eat leaves and giant spores" got me good. :D And the idea of living tectonic plates is one of the coolest idea i've seen so far!
Shorter trees,denser atmosphere so that animals adapted for flight can stay in air gliding for longer and I doubt bipedalism would be selected for in animals on such a planet
The problem with the easier flying or floating, is a lower gravity planet would probably have a less dense atmosphere. A less dense atmosphere would require something floating to have even less density and for flying it would actually be harder to produce lift.
@@CuriousArchive Might want to wait until the project's finished. Since the curtain is closing on Serina and the project is near finished. Maybe you can cover Illion till then? It's my favorite spec project right now.
@@azrielmoha6877 Well, there is still a while. After all, the Middle Ultimocene hasn't ended yet and there is the full Late Ultimocene to cover (and I doubt the gravedigger and antlear story is over yet, or I wish so, to be honest).
Could you please bring a video about the alien planet series from Biblaridion? I think he and his work deserves much more attention. There are not many speculative biology projects that are this creative and detailed at once.
That’s more fiction than science, but yeah CM Koseman is a speculative biologist and his other works are way more scientific. This channel has covered all yesterdays by Koseman so, it’s probable.
Very neat concepts for an alien world. One series I'd like to see covered here would be Biblaridion's Alien Bioshere (his channel is here: ruclips.net/channel/UCMjTcpv56G_W0FRIdPHBn4A ), which documents the changes and evolution of an alien planet dominated by creatures that came from two, distinct body plans.
I love anu, but I think the air would be less dense on a low gravity world, so flight would favour huge wings that can be effected by more air and not the snakes with tiny wings we see
I love how this actually depicts alien worlds as rich ecosystems rather than a planet with only one species that just builds spaceships -and speaks a single language-
If they were space faring they'd probably have a "unitary" language but yeah there would probably need to be biological diversity for them to be sapient in the first place anyway
Well it is possible (but only with cannibalism and a _lot_ of conquering others)
@@sparecreeper1580 that would make then evolve into different niches in millions of years later. But yes
@@froglegstastebestsalted kinda like English. It’s the international language but others exist
What if an alien planet only ever evolved one language? I get that there must be biodiversity driving the evolution that eventually leads to a space-fairing civilization level of intelligence, but it's totally possible that the species may only ever need to evolve one language.
Alien creatures are always really interesting due to how endless the possibilities are.
I know
I agree, alien biology is one of my favorite topics for sure. Thanks for watching!
@@justacube8425 not for long!
_erases your memory_
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@@CuriousArchive woah, no too often one of your favourite you tubers responds to your comment, thanks!
A project that i would like to see here in the Channel is "Serina: a natural history of a world of birds"
I second that
Yes! I went back to re-read it like two weeks ago, and it seems like some of the articles have been deleted which is a shame.
@@asdfasdf-dd9lk Theres plenty of new additions though
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I would love that too
I'm really loving all of these speculative biology videos. I'd love to see you cover Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds. Its a great project detailing an experiment where humans put canaries, guppies, some bugs and plants onto a planet to see where they go from there
Actually, we don’t know if its humanity, or some alien race.
He fookin liked it, prepare yourselves bois
He did 3parts of it
this aged like fine wine, Serina got 4 fuckin' episodes, noice
@@pokemonfanmario7694 well were assuming since it is earth animals, specifically from our current timeline
Low gravity and/or higher density atmosphere would make for a lot of floaty, flighty things... I mean, at some point the air works just like our water. Life in the water mite not be much different than on earth, when your body is completely supported by the water, how much you weigh doesn't really matter.
I was sitting at Bass Pro a week ago. (on some good meds) They have a HUGE fish tank, and it looked like to me the crabs and things on the bottom would look up at the fish going by and it would be like the fish were flying.
For sure! Floaty, flighty things are a lot of what Sam Vilasboas imagines populates Anu
Idk, but I think it isn’t the same. Water exercise a specific pressure (which is bigger than the pressure made by the air) based on the gravity of a planet, in fact on earth water not at all support your body and water species adapted to higher pressure and so a “higher gravity”. In the case of air works equally, air (with its weight) drag you to the ground and don’t support your body. In conclusion water organisms live with more pressure and organisms which live on a planet with minor gravity are gonna be much different cause the difference between the gravity. As final assumption neither water or air support your weight and it is all decided by gravity...
Low gravity is counter productive to a higher density atmosphere, and atmospheric density is what is required for boyant forces and lift forces, so parodoxically you'd want higher gravity (-> higher pressures -> higher density) to have floatier flighty creatures
Edit: Adendum, higher temperature could lessen the need for higher pressures
@@pegasBaO23 Yes, this is another good point but I have no idea about it
I just cannot stop hearing "flamin' asses".
Same
i cant either and it doesnt help some of the creatures have some very "assblaster"/tremors facial structure. inspiration maybe lol
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@@TVforFish Yo I was just thinking that, the white fish at the beginning it's head looks just like a shriekers.
I came in the comments just to find this. Ty 🤣
Imagine how tall a tree on a low gravity planet could grow!
*cough* Koranos
according to koseman, as "tall as skyscrapers of the bygone era of man" when describing the precious longbois
Actually, not much taller than they grow on earth. the limiting factor isn't weight, but water pressure. Trees have trouble pulling groundwater much higher than modern redwoods grow.
@@globin3477 and what is the f in p=FA
@@aidanmatthewgalea7761 I think p=FA is the wrong equation, but it does look like I was mistaken about the effect of gravity in this scenario. Trees in a lower gravity world might be able to pull water higher.
Holy shit. Just… oh my stars. First Alltomorrows, then the birrin, and now *my friend Sam’s Anu project?* I’ve been a part of the speculative biology community since I first joined the internet in 2014, and we’ve always been a really small and niche corner of the web. I never, EVER thought I would see the day when professional-grade RUclips video essays brought these projects created by passionate, dedicated people (that I KNOW!!) to a new audience of *thousands*. Your videos have quite literally brought about a renaissance of specbio as a genre and an art form. Thank you for this.
Do you know where I may be able to join this community? Astrobiology is a massive niche of mine
@@Cydoniaxx Well, it used to be massively prevalent on DeviantArt, but that community has sort of faded a bit over the years. Facebook was another major center of specbio activity, but I'm not aware of its current status since I eschewed FB long ago. Oddly enough, there's been a recent explosion of specbio on Instagram, of all places, and quite a few projects are cropping up here on RUclips!
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@@Kent-t7hBoo hoo, gonna cry?
@@ASTRO_BLOX890 CRY ABOUT IT
When you think about how HUGE and vast the universe is, chances are a world like this actually exist out there.
When you account for the theory of the multi verse then it is guaranteed that there is a world in a universe where the butterfly effect has brought conditions to bring a world to be EXACTLY like this one.
@@komodo9452 we only know of the OBSERVABLE universe, so there’s literally so much more to something that’s so much already. I doubt that there isn’t already something exactly like this
@@thelordnaevis4946 the way I see it singular universes are finite but existence spreading across the multiverse is infinite.
I hope
Exist, yet to exist, and formerly existed. Possibilities are endless
Lopsider: life ain't so bad...we got pets, shelter, and in a few million years, we'll evolve.
Asymmetric people: Lol die
Damb........i felt that
Lol you really think we will last a million years? I think we won’t last 10k years
We’re just lopsiders doing what lopsiders do! We got one arm and three hands too!
But lopsiders have the opposite problem; their gravity is too strong, not too weak
I've seen the works of them before in DeviantArt but never have the time to fully explore it just like i did with Birrin, Snaiad, Biblaridion's Alien Planet or Illion (Which i highly recommend you should cover next, it's one of the more fully developed speculative alien project out there, complete with stories of manned exploration of the planet). Thank you for covering this project.
Illion is super cool, the focus on plant biology is very detailed there too.
@@nakenmil Yup, and i like how the the author incorporate knowledge he receive during his college lectures to the project. IIRC the arrow creatures came to be when she learn about parasitism, especially parasitoid.
I think i know why not on dv
Illion is found on which platform? Can't find it on youtube and a simple google search nets nothing
I have never heard of Illion, how can we find it?
I love this, speculative zoology is so intriguing!
It is called Speculative Biology/Evolution, not Speculative Zoology
I absolutely love this idea, because we as humans are always reminded of how weak we are compared to many other animals. every time you take a hike in the mountains, you pray that a mountain lion or a bear wouldn't see you as an easy meal. So just imagine being able to absolutely body a animal three times the size of an elephant.
👁🫦👁 yeees
Humans are weird animals. We are weak, but we are also the strongest on Earth. We have the power to affect nature, but not to overcome it. Perhaps that's the point of evolution, to keep everything balanced.
@@tinobemellow Even weirder, the animals with a favorable match up against humans are the even weaker bugs and small critters
@@sofistar-yt5dh honestly, insects pretty much have a sweet gig in nature.
Think about it. They evolved before any vertebrates, survived their takeover, and even now they have a monopoly on the role of small, consuming creatures, who live and prey on the residue of larger species. Insects find success in areas that other animals shun, and they are more numerous and successful than the majority of other creatures. Even humans, the most successful vertebrates, are plagued with arthropods as other animals are, because their roles in nature are so special and immovable. Insects, in many ways, can be considered humanity's equals.
@tinobemellow Ants in particular act as a discomfortingly accurate representation of human history; armies fighting over little practical reason other than conquering new land (not to mention extreme xenophobia), taking advantage of every aspect of their environments and sometimes even enslaving other colonies.
Random question, what would the conditions of a planet need to be for a creature as big as Godzilla to exist?
Well, I think no planet could harbor conditions for such a beast to exist, but it may exist as an ocean dwelling apex predator.
Maybe on a planet which has deep oceans stretching for miles on end, and lots of biomass in it. It would also need to be a low gravity planet, but such planet could not exist. If the planet has a small amount of gravity, then it cannot hold onto the oceans, and it would evaporate.
So I think that a godzilla sized creature is sadly impossible
@@BenjamintYT his size would not be possible correct., but dinosaurs were quite big.
It depends on how realistic your setting is/how inventive you are. If you do not want to bend the rules, just stick it in the water/ocean or have it live on a low gravity planet. If you want Earth-like gravity but still want a giant capable of leaving water and realism, then have it have some kind of durable material, maybe one you created.
@@BenjamintYT, why would it Need to be a low gravity Planet?
A huge planet for space low gravity doesn't have to be to low maybe 60-70% of earth the biggest thing imo is what %oxygen the world has back then when dinosaurs existed oxygen levels where alot higher now are oxygen level is 20% or something then some luck you wouldn't get godzila powers and would most likely sleep all day and only wake up to hunt too much energy to do anything else being that size and would go instinct extremely fast since an animal near the sane size with more energy and a bit more of a strat would dominate a big boy
Xenobiology, speculative evolution, whatever you wanna call it, is such a cool concept. Alien concepts especially. Snaiad, this, Birrin, all great examples of alien projects. I just love the subject so much, it's so cool
I feel like this concept really isn't explored enough in sci-fi settings, you'd think a planet with an entirely different set of rules would be a free real estate for somebody writing a story about aliens. A concept I always thought would be super interesting was a planet where the gravity is so low and the mountains are so high that some points reach out into the upper atmosphere, and creatures living on them evolved to jet out into space and become an entirely different form of life
I've always liked the idea of a binary planet system. When the two planets are at there closest point, the gravity becomes so low that some creatures can jump from planet to planet.
@@logicbuilder1204 y
@@logicbuilder1204 Strangely enough I have a planet very similar to that. A species called Holovyrm that resemble winged salamanders. They live on a world with a moon so large and so close that at night the gravity on the planet is substantially lessened. The Holovyrm are nocturnal, and rest during the day, when their bodies are heavy, using the added pressure from the atmosphere to help them digest their food because it compresses their coarse stomachs more. Meanwhile, at night, the large objects they build their cities out of begin to float on the monumental high tides, and the Holovyrm themselves come out of their homes, now light enough to fly since their moon decreases their gravity. I'm not sure if that's what you entirely meant, but that's one of the closest worlds I've made to that concept.
@@logicbuilder1204 thats not possible??? how
@@Mark-Wilson Can you give me more info than that?
So if Anu has a solar system, the name of this solar system is Anu's solar system?
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You only need Uranus in it and then its complete
We should probe deeper into this
Wouldn’t lower gravity also mean decreased sea level density and therefore a proportional increase in energy needed for flight?
The atmosphere on this planet is denser. Think like titan
Yep. Less weight, but also less lift. Flying wouldn't be inherently easier, just very different.
@@valblome4913 I was thinking this. You just need a denser fluid. If the atmosphere was made of some heavy gas this could be possible
@@joetwiddy2139 Lower gravity doesn't exactly allow for capture of more air molecules. If anything the atmosphere should be thinner.
@@reecetaylor2626 We see that the sky is the same shade of blue as Earth's, implying a nitrogen-based atmosphere with similar composition to our own, so I think it's more so just an oversight on the part of the worldbuilder. Still a fascinating concept, just not perfectly accurate.
It is so surreal to go straight from his DA page to check for updates to coming here. I hope a few of the 3D modelers I've seen make videos of species from All Tomorrow's see this.
This is what we like to call cool.
This is one of my very favorite projects out there, very inspirational for me and my personal projects and so full of unique ideas.
In short, i wasn't expecting this, am very pleasantly surprised and have been waiting for this at the same time
I love it how this channel is going over my favorite speculative evolution projects.
I always appreciate you guys putting subtitles in your videos, it helps non native speakers like me who loves watching videos at 1.75 speed
This was the second curious archive video I have ever watched. This reminds me of the days I would sit down on the couch and watch your speculative biology videos and impress my old siblings with the my own little drawings of life on my own planet. Good times👍😀
Underated, can't wait for an alien invasion.
These would never be able to invade earth without being crushed
@@cedricrobertson2893 true I see you point, but maybe they would wear suites to keep them safe?
..bruh....
@@itsjustalf7747 if the problem where the presure then you can use a suit, but there is no suit that could keep blood flowing to your brain in a deeper gravity well
Or whatever these creatures have for blood and brains
@@cedricrobertson2893 your right, so then if they were to invade a planet it would be with robots and not themselves wouldn’t it
Loving these videos. I used to spend a lot of time going through various artists artwork on deviantart mostly. Your videos are much more engaging and entertaining with the full backstory and description, and a lot more engaging than just scrolling through.
Keep them up!
Just wanted to say your work is top quality.
Thank you!
Man i'm glad the algorithm reccomended your video about the Birrin to me, i have binged pretty much every single video of yours by now. And i absolutely adore these alien biology videos, i hope they keep coming in the future!
Man I love this channel
Never stop being you
Your content is unique and entertaining and educational as well
thanks for covering amazing spec-evo projects which deserve attention!
Im really enjoying these types of videos. keep Up The Great Uploads!
I absolutely love your speculative alien biology videos
It would have been cool if you put in human silhouette size comparisons next to the art, especially with some of the bigger ones. I just feel like its the best way to give an understanding of size through a video, and it would have been nice to have that more tangible comparison.
The channel I always wished for 🥲 great content !
These types of videos are entertaining. Thank you for showing us another beautiful alien world!
Be sure to check out the original work!
@@azrielmoha6877 I sure did!
This kind of depth and creativity is unprecedented and I love it
This channel has produced more interesting content in the last two months than a millennium of Discovery Channel
This is absolutely brilliant. Really enjoyed this, keep up the incredible work!
My problem with speculative works is 9/10 times the artist always gives everything 4 part jaws, and 6 legs.
Because that's a basic way to make aliens look more alien.
but hexapedal tho-
it does work better tho, our world only has 4 legs bc of the "fish" that were first able to get to land. 4 part jaws tho i do see your point and i raise to yiu the true solution: 16 part jaws: filter feeder ancestors just ossify and sturden their filter arms to form jaws that shred like a blender
That is so true 🤣
To be fair, it is super common but for good reason. A lot of things on earth have 6 legs, most species in fact, do. As for the reason we don't it's because our ancestors had 4 fins, but really 6 legs are more prefferable just like 4 legs is prefferable over 3 or 2
Never have I needed something so badly and not know it until now. As an aspiring science-fantasy writer, I am humbled by all of these fantastic displays of worldbuilding.
I’m really glad the algorithm sent me this channel.
All praise the algorithm on this one
You need to do more of theses i love them
I simply adore how you're bringing more eyes to these relatively obscure speculative evolution projects that I've been gushing over for years lol. First the awesome world of the Birrin, then C.M. Kosemen's Dinosaroids, and now Anu? Keep up the great work, Curious Archive!
Humble brag detected.
@@wesleytrout4931 That's not humble bragging.
I always waiting this kind of video. The subtitle make it clear to me to know more about your video. Love it!
Alien animals truly have the most amazing biology! Honestly wish we could visit them someday.
The ones on our planet are pretty amazing too
Same haha
Fictional animals have the most amazing biology?
This has got to be one of the best speculative biology planets I have seen
Although a lower gravity would make the atmosphere less dense, making it harder to fly. Or the atmosphere couldn't form at all since the gravity would be too weak to hold the atmosphere together.
That's what I was thinking too, gravity seems pretty important for retaining gas molecules in atmosphere.
Yeah I don't think the artist really understands the laws of physics or gravity for that matter.
And even then, the creatures don't look like they could fly even if low gravity= easier flight.
Which it of course does NOT
It's possible to have a low gravity planet with a thick atmospheric plus, I'm creating an Earth like moon with low gravity and a thick atmosphere but with xenon and a small amount of hydrogen mixed with radon gas in order for the moon to keep the atmosphere plus the moon has aerial creatures the size of whales and sharks and they have no problem flying in the low gravity environment
I love these types of alien biology speculative videos!
Fascinating
@Alex videos about monsters from varous genres of movies.
This channel, and the videos you make, are genuinely amazing. I love them so much.
Beautiful. Having said that I feel like the options are a bit too limited. Like it depicts only a specific evolution branch, they all share strong similarities. I think there's space for more drastic differences between animals.
That's usually what differentiates real life from speculative worlds. Our real world has so many different kinds of animals.
These projects often take one group of earth animals and make entire planets with them.
I mean yeah. Look at our own planet. Most land , water, and sky creatures that are vertebrae share the same level of similarities.
@@kroneexe not really alotof specevo things I saw document the plants and animals and usually have entire classes each with a few dozen like serina, snaiad etc etc
Love this channel
Id also love to see a documentary with live type footage on speculative topics such as this
I love your speculative evolution video so much. They are SO interesting and enjoyable.
this needs to be a book. I want this on my shelf.
this reminds me of that speculative documentary I really enjoyed about alien life where these wasp-like hunters take down a flying whale-like species tearing into it and taking chunks back to their hive
Underrated channel, deserve more views!
It's one of the few channels ive seen that covers Xenobiology, deserves a massive amount of views. Really hoping they cover the Snaiad project soon.
keep on making these wonderful videos~
U ok?
okay how do you not have a million subscribers? You do such great content!
Curious archive, you are gonna reach 100k soon
Surprised it took this long
I love chilling in my bed and watching videos like this
What is interesting about a low gravity planet, is this:
On our planet, all animals and fish have connective tissue, to keep our organs from getting twisted or out of position.
As an example, the stomach in sheep can shift after giving birth. Because some of the connective tissue tears and is connected to the pelvis of sheep.
A low grav planet would not require so much connective tissue to keep organs in place. I am immediately imagining more bloated, fluid-filled bodies. Perhaps more spongy tissue to "fill" the cavities.
judging by how crazy life can be/look on earth, there is literally no telling! so fascinating!
Very interesting speculative evolution indeed!
This channel is really poppin off with these vids!!!
You guys are covering my favourite xenobiology artists! I've know Sam from my DeviantArt days for some years and he totally deserves this spotlight! 💪
Delightful!!!! The idea of air as rich as oceans really captivates me, really wonderful creatures!
i am glad to meet such a great brazillian artist who is well invested on sci fi!
I just had this vid in recommended, loved it. Subbing cuz this is brilliant stuff
However, on a smeller planet with lower gravity can also be lower atmospheric pressure, which would cancel this effect of ability of being able to glide throught the air efficiently. Like on mars, they had to increase greatly the rotors speed for the copter probe they send there just recently so that it would work in thin Martian atmosphere. How can we expect that planets which are diametrally smaller in size will also be capable of the same atmospheric pressure??
Here's the explanation by the author on the atmosphere.
Anu is pretty far from its sun (about asteroid belt, since you mentioned); it is suppose to be a ball of snow; in the past, it was, but a massive impact launched the volcanic activity sky high (and miraculously put the planet with a almost perfect 90º in axial tilt); the planet got warm, life emerged; thick atmospheric layer of water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, etc. due to the extense volcanic activity; the atmospheric loss due to the low gravity is "almost" completely compensated, but it happens at a low rate; this super greenhouse effect that lasts almost 855 millions years, extended by the the equilibrium created by the life on the planet, is now fading quickly; in 40 million years or less, the planet is gonna become a snowball again.
www.deviantart.com/sanrou/art/Anu-572810619?comment=1%3A572810619%3A4230999758
Titan.
@@minutemansam1214 Titan has a primarily methane atmosphere though.
@@stevemcgroob4446 how does that disprove his point
I like how endless your thoughts can become when thinking about fictional eco systems. Like you start with one creature that takes advantages of the planets features, but then you think about what it eats and have to come up with specific plants or prey creatures and when thinking about those, they also need to interact with other life forms and so on. You can't just think of a stand alone creature, they all interact with eath other forming a balanced eco system and that's only the status quo. Because then you also start thinking about what kind of creatures these evolved from, what enviromental changes they may have adapted to in the past and where they are evolving in the future. It's just endless thoughts and very creative, I love thinking about things like that.
But would't the low gravity also make the atmosphere thinner? So it would make it more difficult for flying creatures to fly, unless it's made up of heavy gasses
Not necesarilly. And if it has an Earth-like atmosphere it probably will be easier to fly due to the force pulling down being smaller.
Also, heavy gasses are probably selected for in small atmospheres since lighter ones will go to space.
yoooo somebody made a video about Anu!! awesome, I love that project
Imagine going there and immediately succumbing to the intense power trip knowing you can absolutely deck any creature that walks in your path with no consequence.
They're probably faster and can move more precisely there than us
You'd be able to jump pretty damn high
@oliver TG
*GUN*
This is truly such a creative well thought piece of art
Some insect like creatures with their flat eyes turned upward reminds me of some creature I saw on a weird sci-fi anime called gandahar...
Finally Some quality alien content, i love these unlike “UFO”
this is amazing,
Thank you for showing this!
wouldn't a low gravity planet not have a very thick atmosphere? Making it rather difficult to fly?
I suppose with the right balance anything is plausible. Either way love this! I wanna make my own.
the ocean is even thicker and fish dont have trouble swimming through it
@@ockertoustesizem1234 that's the point. A thick membrane like water allows you to move through it and support your weight.
But a thin atmosphere means there's less membrane (gas) to move through.
It would be harder to generate lift by flapping your wings because there's less air to push off of.
This is just plain interesting. Like I'm fascinated.
I love speculative Alien biology.
This is awesome!
Thanks for sharing
Omg I love Anu since years ago.💗💗😭
Same here! ✨✨
"These colorful noodles eat leaves and giant spores" got me good. :D
And the idea of living tectonic plates is one of the coolest idea i've seen so far!
Now we need concepts of creatures on a planet with highter gravity than Earth :O
They would probably be mashed down like carpets
Lopsider from all tomorrow: say no more
@@frosta1184 and like pancakes
Shorter trees,denser atmosphere so that animals adapted for flight can stay in air gliding for longer and I doubt bipedalism would be selected for in animals on such a planet
These are really amazing. I love your channel😻
This world is perfect for creating a game or a documentary...
The problem with the easier flying or floating, is a lower gravity planet would probably have a less dense atmosphere. A less dense atmosphere would require something floating to have even less density and for flying it would actually be harder to produce lift.
Could you perhaps cover Serina?
I've been thinking about it for sure, it's a really inventive speculative biology project
@@CuriousArchive Might want to wait until the project's finished. Since the curtain is closing on Serina and the project is near finished. Maybe you can cover Illion till then? It's my favorite spec project right now.
@@azrielmoha6877 Well, there is still a while. After all, the Middle Ultimocene hasn't ended yet and there is the full Late Ultimocene to cover (and I doubt the gravedigger and antlear story is over yet, or I wish so, to be honest).
@@azrielmoha6877 what's Illion?
I absolutely love your videos
nice
Could you please bring a video about the alien planet series from Biblaridion? I think he and his work deserves much more attention. There are not many speculative biology projects that are this creative and detailed at once.
Since were on the topic of Speculative Biology, can u do a vid on “All Tomorrows” by CM Koseman?
That’s more fiction than science, but yeah CM Koseman is a speculative biologist and his other works are way more scientific. This channel has covered all yesterdays by Koseman so, it’s probable.
I frickin love this channel.
Very neat concepts for an alien world.
One series I'd like to see covered here would be Biblaridion's Alien Bioshere (his channel is here: ruclips.net/channel/UCMjTcpv56G_W0FRIdPHBn4A ), which documents the changes and evolution of an alien planet dominated by creatures that came from two, distinct body plans.
Another great video!
Anu was the mesopotamian/middle eastern *sky* god...
Rather fitting name for this planet, don't you all think?
I love anu, but I think the air would be less dense on a low gravity world, so flight would favour huge wings that can be effected by more air and not the snakes with tiny wings we see
Noice I love alien biology
Please keep making these kind of videos