I love how J. J. Aniorte isn't afraid to go beyond something that exists on Earth and actually explore unique and truly alien concepts that possibly has never been thought to be possible.
@@powerofanime1 It should be considered that there is a lot of speculative biology based on future or potential past Earth's too, which should logically stick to more Earth-like things
(real world) electric fish actually inspired the (artificial) voltaic cell in our society. the (real world) battery was partly an attempt to replicate that biological battery (i think in 'torpedo fish'?) (as well as the result of physics/chemistry unrelated to the fish thing) guess they would be able to do some things with electricity if they use proper insulation. strangely fire would be more advanced technology though, maybe they could stick crucibles on sticks/cables and lower them into (underwater) volcanoes to melt metals? the ancient romans used the torpedo fish as pain (arthritis?) relief, they'd put their feet in a bowl of water (with the fish in it) and get zapped. i think 'torpedo' comes from some word that means 'numbing' or something, related to the effects of that practice given that the nature of fire as a property of almost all objects to glow in some wavelength of light corresponding to temprature (in this case hot gas) has to do with fundamental laws of physics, it seems inevitable that fire/plasma would be theorised and then created even if fire wouldn't be encountered by non scientists of that world from chance alone. (henry cavendish made an artificial electric ray fish in 1775, to demonstrate that the fish used electricity to sting not as some thought some sort of venomous sting) (ok the fish thing wasn't the direct inspiration, but it played a role, which would've been bigger in a speculative under sea civilisation)
@@astrowyrm6871 Fire was big since it let us cook food, greatly increasing the nutrient intake of whatever we ate. See how chimps and other apes have those huge mouths and large guts? They need stronger jaws to chew tough, raw food and bigger guts to effectively digest. With fire, we can simply cook it and get the nutrients at a lower cost. This lets us divert energy from eating to brain power. Almost all the food you eat powers your brain. Hence, first big step towards developing higher brain function.
One theory I have heard for a possible underwater technological civ was based around something they called an uncup which was basically a cup they use to pull down air and then developed from there
Nah dude, he actually trascended and became a deity, then made an entire planet with concepts 99% of us havent even thought of, and then in his free time, showed us all the things he created in that planet with the pretense that "It's all speculative biology and totally not real, *wink* *wink* "
I save most of Curious Archives videos in a big playlist for all my Delta Green/Call of C'thullu/Lovecraftian/Eldritch stuff. Imagine playing a Sci-fi Tabletop RPG like Traveller and getting weird radio signals from this uninhabited ocean planet your passing by abd when you go down to check it out, it turns out the ocean is ruled by a supercolony of Sentient omnivorous coral and later figuring out the coral sent the signal as a lure.
@@Vague05 It takes a special kind of pathetic person to cry about someone saying something that's true and that would better someone. "Wahh how dare you point out my obvious flaws, how dare you tell me to stop being an inactive worm"
Ive had the same idea for a game concept. Though the aliens that communicate through radio are simply slaves to a different alien race, their origins are the first planet to be colonized by a viral alien race. Who were incredibly confused because they were unable to translate aliens who dont vocalize, and had no idea they were even intelligent.
Yeah ik how you feel. A lot of things in there like wheel-organisms and things with 2 viable front ends are things I've been thinking about a lot and haven't done because i was worried it'd be unreasonable but honestly I'm considering just doing them even if they seem wack and try to make them reasonable. A lot of things like this comes down to execution, it seems. Make your radio-communicators, be inspired and make some new stuff to be in the world, you can do it.
Given the supercontinent, very rare land organisms, and shallow seas full of true weirdos, this world feels like it’s set some time between the Cambrian and Silurian. On the one hand I would love to see this continue to evolve through time, but on the other I admire the restraint needed to keep life there! It’s such a cool time period and I feel like spec ev doesn’t explore it enough
Here one minute after it went live! You are one of the most underrated channels. I'm autistic and my one special interest encapsulates speculative biology/zoology/fauna, and plausible aliens (and constructed lanuage but there's already so many channels for that), and your content brings it all to me in a detailed but still easily digestible way with a soothing voice. What more could I ask for but keep making awesome content!
I'm autistic too, and I'm writing a speculative fiction series about aquatic aliens. In time, I hope to make my world as amazing as the one this channel talked about ^^ Currently, I know the most about the Aurish. They're amphibious, venomous, nap multiple times a day, and scare off predators with a giant deimatic display. They can extend fins on their back called shula to giant sizes, and the shula are patterned with eyes to give the appearance of many larger organisms. Also, they're sentient and quite cat like in some of their instincts and behaviour. (Hissing to show displeasure, purring when happy, and they really like head pats.)
When I started seeing the images, I thought "ugh, it's just being strange for the sake of being strange!" but by the end I was totally convinced that this could be a real alien ecology. This feels startlingly plausible if the idea is that this planet's Cambrian Explosion equivalent resulted in siphonophores becoming the dominant biological mode.
Usually you can tell when something is strange just for the heck of it because they usually just rip the body parts off other animals and put them on something they don't belong to. Projects where they think it through usually create entirely new body parts for their lifeforms, which just ends up making them seem strange as a result. So basically if you see a snake with buck teeth and squid tentacles it's probably just trying to be weird, but a snake with body parts you can't quite identify was probably made with real intent behind it.
This one is super interesting. When creature have arbitrary complexity I often think it’s silly but because the whole ecosystem functions the way it does, it makes sense. Thanks for another great video.
it almost makes me cry to see you share so much speculative biology with us lol. speculative evolution is one of my favorite things ever and before this channel I had difficulty finding projects to read/see
Again, CA you've introduced me to uet another amazing speculative art project that piques my creativity to no end! Great video man! And thank you for covering more and more of these spectacular ideas!
This is one of the most creative spec evo projects I’ve heard of I love how you introduce us to such different projects that are all creative in their own ways. The other that comes to mind is serina, and how unique its story of the evolution of sentience is.
I wonder what it would be like if some crossover-like event took place with all these speculative worlds. Perhaps aliens begin hand-picking very specific animals from all sorts of planets and canons, like the axe heads of Serina, the flyers from All Tomorrows, the arrow tonge from Expedition, the dipterognathe from Polinices, and many more, then bring them to a single planet with no animal life, all to fill ecological niches that have been left vacant by, maybe, some planet wide disease, and this introduction of various life forms was done as a last ditch effort to prevent total ecological collapse. I'd like to see what kind of evolution would take place in this type of world.
As we see on earth with convergent evolution, alien life that lives in water will likely develop a 'fish' shape, because that is the optimal shape to move through water, which would be the same environment regardless of which planet it's on.
I feel that convergence makes life even more incredible. No matter how many times life iterates through different niches, or how many alien worlds spawn completely novel creatures, their shapes alone will eventually correlate to each others role in their ecosystem. (Perhaps even more existentially, like the radio communicating aliens in their ocean, life in other worlds might arise to fill niches only humans have created, like technologies. Seeing aliens that have optimized what we would consider technology into streamlined organs, like a fish shaped router)
Hmm.... But there are a ton of non-fish shaped swimmers.... And I think gravity and whatever chemical elements in the environment would definitely affect shape and mode of motility....
@@italucenaz Firstly, you have to define "efficiency". All successful swimmers are efficient if they have managed to not go extinct. And primarily I wanted to address that the OP stated water would be the same environment regardless of the planet it's on, and that's very untrue. The kind of water, the chemical elements, gravitational strength of said planet, even temperature and external weather has a lot of influence... etc. etc. Just look at the vastly different "kinds" we have here on Earth. There are bodies in of water in which you will struggle to float, and there are bodies of water in which you will struggle to sink. There's just too many variables for a blanket statement like that to stand alone.
I find it kind of funny how whenever I see one of your videos come out I must stop what I'm doing and watch it through a few times then continue whatever I was doing before. Love the content!
12:17 Sea Belt puts a smile on my face. It reminds me of RNA. The drones being mRNA,the food particles being tRNA and the main sponge being rRNA (ribosome). Fascinating!
RNA is so fascinating, it can form structures that perform functions similar to proteins despite being nucleic acids rather than peptides, due to this nature and its ability to fold into an infinite variety of shapes much like proteins, RNA based life may have existed first leading to the creation of proteins and then the more information stable DNA. I love the sea belts as well and the way the drones can link up to other queens makes for a beautiful sight, i would love to see a blender animation one day as something to stare at for hours.
What a fascinating planet!! Amphinatans being able to swim side to side like a crab on land is such an inspired design!! Though overall the Sea Belt is my absolute favorite!!! I can imagine it in motion so well, what a charming creature! Thank you for showcasing them!
Wow, It had been a while since I was so awestruck by a project. THIS IS AMAZING. As a mathematician It intrigues me what kind of encriptions life might come up with. It would be fascinating to study
The radio communication alone would take decades to study properly, and even then it would be hard to truly understand. Even just how they produce and receive the signals alone would be a massive breakthrough, never mind how the information in encoded and decoded!
@@justadude5868 its interesting i think it would be akin to how we are trying to decode echolocation communication of animals like dolphins and whales. or how we are studying chemical communication between plants and bugs. i imagine if such life forms did exist it would provide alot of avenues of new biomimicry to be approached
Chain fish are my absolute favorites. Got to love the inclusion of RF frequencies as not only a method of communication, but straight up as a method of connection between the same creature.
I like to think chain fish have a huge problem with phishing attacks. As in, another chain fish deceptively sending the same radio waves and striaght up just stealing part of someone’s body
@@goodluckgorsky3413 Thats a very cool concept. A parasitic colonial creature. Its almost like a xenomorph in a sense, stealing other organs for its own use. There could also be chain fish who tricks a segment and takes its place. Then taking nutrients from the lead chain fish, sort of like a tapeworm in a sense. Except if the tapeworm ate your legs and replaced them. Or like that tongue eating isopod. An extreme version of this could be a very powerful RF engaging fish that would command fish into its mouth or weapons. Potentially feeding on airborne targets out of the water, who stand no chance of stopping a target they cant even see.
@@pauldeddens5349 The concept could be extrapolated to other forms of inter-organism relations as well. For instance, a species of chain fish that exchanges zooids as part of its mating. Or heck, one that just does it for all manner of social reasons. "Nice kidneys, bro. Wanna trade?"
I'm not sure the premise of chain fish holds up, to be honest. I mean, it's one thing to have a colonial organism where one of its members digests the food and then shares the nutrients with its physically-connected partners, but where's the practical benefit in having multiple *separated* bodies? Each section of a chain fish would need its own set of organs for respiration, digestion, excretion, circulation, internal regulation, and so forth; you can't eat or breathe or pee for your buddies if the only connection between you is a radio broadcast. So what does a chain fish gain from its lifestyle, that's worth the energetic expense of making multiple copies of vital organ systems for its components? If you have the energy and resources available to make a bunch of copies of yourself, why not use them to, y'know, *breed* instead? As in, make offspring? Like, the one thing Nature demands of any organism? Individuals operating in a coordinated or even colonial group can be workable, but having and needing a bunch of redundant body-copies doesn't seem like a viable adaptive strategy.
@@sharondornhoff7563 Why have digestive organs when a specific section digests food for you and gives energy directly to you? Its basically a complex organism that has convergently evolved into a colonial organism with RF frequencies to send nervous signals without the need of a physical connection. Why would every section need duplicate organs? The head segment needs air and blood circulation, theres no reason the excess segments couldnt simply use diffusion or simple pumps rather than lungs and hearts. And it improves movement and survivability MASSIVELY. Like how a lizard can drop its tail to avoid predation, this single animal can scatter, or lose a single segment to protect the whole. And because each segment is self sufficient to a degree, they can all work just as effectively with a missing segment, whereas an animal with a missing limb is not only less efficient at mobility, the dead weight hinders it further. And finally, the most important part of speculative evolution. Its fun and creativity over actual practicality. Why does a carnivorous giant suddenly decide bamboo should be its primary source of nutrition? Nature doesnt make sense, and nitpicking speculative evolution defeats the creative fun of speculatively engineering creatures to fit arbitrary niches we decide. Or thinking of how a fish organism could possibly use RF frequencies to communicate with itself and become highly adapted for that lifestyle.
I've wondered about the concept of radio being used for hive communication. I think it would be a very quick way for a species to gain sapience, given the vast advantage it gives to information processing.
@@terrorcop101 there's a short docu-series called alien worlds that also touches on the speculative biology of gas giants. I know it's on Netflix in America but you may be able to find it somewhere else too. Again called "alien worlds" was made in 2020 *edit* alien worlds does have a segment on that but that's actually not the documentary I was thinking of! The one I was thinking of is "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" with Neil deGrasse Tyson! This one is on national geographic, so disney+ hulu etc. I believe. specifically, ep. 6 'The Man of a Trillion Worlds' but I recommend watching the whole thing! (also edited some grammar and whatnot)
Would love to see a colony so successful it’s become the only giant colony of its species. It collects food; it deposits eggs; then it returns and adds it’s own offspring to itself. A complete cycle
reminds me of the super organism we have on earth which is just a large colony of honey mushrooms which propagate by spreading spores which in turn form what is essentially a "clone" but not really, but due to the similarities in genetics it is able to grow to incredible sizes by fusing these separate colonies into one. It would be interesting for alien scientists to do a long term study on some of these hive sponge colonies and see how a single colony changes over thousands of years, in behavior, genetics, and how it effects its environment.
I am really loving the speculative biology videos (Serina has been my favorite). thank you for making these incredible videos and bringing these projects to my attention!
I really enjoy the presentation of your videos! Your voice, script, and background music is perfect! I fell in love with your channel after watching (and re-watching) your Subnautica biology series. Can't wait for your next video!
The colonial organisms remind me of the mitochondrial symbiosis theory I've recently learned about. I don't know much about it and I'm still looking into it but so far it seems pretty cool.
this Chain Fish, it reminds me a lot of Pokémon Exeggcute (1st gen) and Falinks (8th gen). because they are divided but always remain together, like this "fish"
I love how every single creature is a colonial creature. It sounds crazy but the same way every land mammal on earth developed the same reproductive system why shouldn’t every single creature on this planet be of the same class? I love this concept
thats actually why it didnt work for me, i liked it but i expected them to be more alien and they werent described properly the drawings made them look weird
Some snakes and lizards give live birth, and some birds produce a special liquid we call a type of milk. Nature finds patterns, but there are a lot of crossovers!
I love these videos I always find myself watching them before bed given how relaxing they are and interesting the creativity behind each different episode is
A lot of people in the comments are justified in gushing how cool the idea of biological radio frequency communication is. But all I can think about is just how challenging that would make for humans to explore that planet. Because pretty much every single form of electronic communication that we have could be potentially extremely and catastrophically disruptive to local ecosystem every time we use it. It's possible to get around it, but we would have to get creative really quickly to minimize the damage.
Hey curious archive, I love your videos, but I wanted to know if you covered yet an speculative rogue planet biology. I think it would be cool to see an ecosistem si different to ours
Amazing video! I haven’t finished yet but I will say one error at 5:35 is that the hive sponge eating amphinatids actually feed on the drones of hive sponges and not the hive sponge itself.
It's a very beautiful speculative world, but really improbable. In a world with a supercontinent probably will face a mass extinction in the ocean, because the existence of the supercontinent will cause a shift of the temperature in the water and the water will became too hot or too cold to support life on the coast. On Earth, supercontinents were always cause of terrible mass extinction (for example, Pangea and Rodinia)
The mere fact a supercontinent exists does not preclude a planet from having diverse and life-filled oceans. Almost always the extinctions ‘caused’ by the supercontinents were always when they broke up or merely coincidental, and the lack of diversity in the oceans was because something blew up only a couple million years before. You can see this clear as day with the fact that paleozoic oceans, even with Pangea around, were no less diverse than modern ones, with reefs and hundreds of thousands of species overall.
As another point, a good bit of the ediacaran (aka the dawn of lots of life as we know it, though not exactly the period when modern templates of life were made) took place when there was a supercontinent, and while one could say it was coincidental to the fact that just a bit before the Earth was basically a snow/slushball and life was just kinda diversifying after being inhibited for so long, it’s still a good point I think.
@@Oofle_the_Worm The mere existence of a supercontinent would prevent life on the coasts as described in the video. The currents suitable for thermoregulating the water would be concentrated in the open ocean, while near the supercontinent the large mass of land would create sudden changes with high temperatures during the day and very low temperatures at night, which would affect life on the coasts. Multicellular organisms are very sensitive to changes in water temperature, since this decreases the oxygen available to them, which would cause a death along the coasts. On Earth, during the Paleozoic, organisms that had thrived were largely single-celled (such as stromatolites) or lived in the deep ocean, where conditions were more stable. I am not saying that life with a supercontinent is impossible, but it certainly cannot be the one described by the author, since he spoke of coasts full of sponges and corals, when instead they could only be populated by some colony of bacteria. Even if the worse parts of the mass extinction on Earth happened when the supercontinents split apart, they started far before. For example, the organisms in Permian period started to decline far before the supercontinent split, even if only with the Siberian eruption there was the true punnacle of the disaster. That's because when the continents united themselves in Pangea, the change of the climate causing extreme desertification and an increase of hot in the coasts, causing the die of multiple organisms
@@fabriziobiancucci7702 I don’t quite understand why it can’t be presumed life could adapt to the temperature fluxes, plenty of plants and animals in the desert are able to survive the rapid change in temperature between day and night, and while Oxygen may be an issue, you can literally look in a tidepool at any local beach and see organisms adapted to survive exactly that fluctuation and more. In the Paleozoic there are thousands of examples of multicellular organisms, including considerably large ones, and in the permian there are known reefs made of bryozoans and calcareous algaes, as well as sea sponges. Suffering oceans would likely not produce reefs that would have notable impacts on the fossil record, so how come even with this supercontinent around there were reefs with a variety of organisms? As said in www.livescience.com/43219-permian-period-climate-animals-plants.html “Fossils of the shallower coastal waters around the Pangaea continental shelf indicate that reefs were large and diverse ecosystems with numerous sponge and coral species.”. It is notable that desertification would not affect the coasts in a supercontinent setting and as far as we know they remained moist, would they become hotter? Perhaps, but not as suddenly as inland with water still around to maintain temperatures. It is notable that large bodies of water such as the ocean have insulative effects that can be noticed even on land, and I don’t think it’s particularly likely that its temperature would fluctuate as rapidly as you suggest it would given it’d take in heat during the day and release it at night, and once again even if it does refer back to the notes of organisms adapted to such fluctuations. The only hindrance to diversity that a supercontinent would create is that the ocean would lack most barriers present with multiple continents around, and thus most species would be homogenous within suitable habitats unless some other factor stopped them from getting everywhere they could thrive.
I know this video is over a year old, but I find it fascinating to see a form of life imagined without bilateral symmetry, without radial symmetry, and without non symmetry. When you showed the image of the sponge eaters, they have two bilateral “heads” that are structurally the same. The two “heads” have another line of symmetry akin to bilateral symmetry where the two bilateral “heads” mirror. This concept is so intriguing because they use one organ for propulsion, eating, I assume waste, and I assume near would be reproduction. I wonder, due to its symmetry, if it would have two means of procreation or if it would have one near the center of the two symmetry lines. The thing that is interesting is that this is an adaptation of radial symmetry using solely bilateral symmetry. Some organisms do have radial and bilateral, but not bilateral and bilateral. For my understanding, on Earth, our organisms found it not advantageous to have repetition of segments to that extent, however, repetition is very common. Such as centipedes and other segmented organisms. I’d say that is the closest to that form of symmetry because you could say within the segments, there are multiple lines of bilateral symmetry along one line of bilateral symmetry. However, to mirror and have a central zone where the cells develop without radial symmetry but still having symmetry is very interesting. Good job to the world builder, it’s rare to see such true alien concepts and falling into our biases of Earth life.
It would be cool if you made a documentary style video about the creatures of the Pikmin series (especially Pikmin 3). I always found these creatures interesting and I’m sure it would be for many.
Maybe the sponges could evolve to proces so much information from the drones that they became sapient (as a colective mind or as individuals), using theyre drones as eyes and hands to force the surrounding life forms into evolving in analogies of our own technology by artificial selection (basicly becoming a mix betwen all tomorrows acuatics and the tree like aliens from humanity lost). Sorry, english is not my first language.
Sapient sesile organisms have always been on my mind, I've always wondered how it could be done but right here in this particular speculative biology it may just be possible.
Sounds vaguely similar to the aliens from Fantastic planet. Where humans interact with giant bipedal creatures who seemingly dont eat or drink, because they get their energy from what appears to be astral projection. (Not very much a scientific story, but a very nice artsy story)
@@themushroominside6540 Sapience in immovable creatures is very fascinating. Especially if those conditions arise outside of atmospheres. What happens to a space-bound sponge-like creature who can think? If it has some form of limbs, or "wireless" communication methods between other parts of itself, it could over time potentially assemble itself a spaceship. It would make for a very fascinating creature.
The concept of biological radio emitters, resulting in naturally occurring networking and "data" encryption, plus single lifeforms that can split into several distinct selves connected by the aforementioned radio waves - is one of the raddest things I've stumbled upon in speculative biology :D
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I love how J. J. Aniorte isn't afraid to go beyond something that exists on Earth and actually explore unique and truly alien concepts that possibly has never been thought to be possible.
Huh? That's just good principles for speculative xenobiology. Of course it shouldn't be too close to earth-life.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Many speculative biologists don't actually go that far.
@@powerofanime1 yes they do
@@powerofanime1 It should be considered that there is a lot of speculative biology based on future or potential past Earth's too, which should logically stick to more Earth-like things
@@The_WhitePencil That is very true! The Future is Wild is a core memory for me.
It’s always stumped me how an underwater civilization would get very far without things like fire and electricity.
(real world) electric fish actually inspired the (artificial) voltaic cell in our society. the (real world) battery was partly an attempt to replicate that biological battery (i think in 'torpedo fish'?) (as well as the result of physics/chemistry unrelated to the fish thing) guess they would be able to do some things with electricity if they use proper insulation. strangely fire would be more advanced technology though, maybe they could stick crucibles on sticks/cables and lower them into (underwater) volcanoes to melt metals?
the ancient romans used the torpedo fish as pain (arthritis?) relief, they'd put their feet in a bowl of water (with the fish in it) and get zapped. i think 'torpedo' comes from some word that means 'numbing' or something, related to the effects of that practice
given that the nature of fire as a property of almost all objects to glow in some wavelength of light corresponding to temprature (in this case hot gas) has to do with fundamental laws of physics, it seems inevitable that fire/plasma would be theorised and then created even if fire wouldn't be encountered by non scientists of that world from chance alone.
(henry cavendish made an artificial electric ray fish in 1775, to demonstrate that the fish used electricity to sting not as some thought some sort of venomous sting) (ok the fish thing wasn't the direct inspiration, but it played a role, which would've been bigger in a speculative under sea civilisation)
would fire (or something like it) even be as necessary for progression underwater as it is in the surface?
@@astrowyrm6871 depends on when an acqautic species starts to colonize land or if it has some way to generate light and no need too cook food.
@@astrowyrm6871 Fire was big since it let us cook food, greatly increasing the nutrient intake of whatever we ate. See how chimps and other apes have those huge mouths and large guts? They need stronger jaws to chew tough, raw food and bigger guts to effectively digest. With fire, we can simply cook it and get the nutrients at a lower cost. This lets us divert energy from eating to brain power. Almost all the food you eat powers your brain. Hence, first big step towards developing higher brain function.
One theory I have heard for a possible underwater technological civ was based around something they called an uncup which was basically a cup they use to pull down air and then developed from there
I'm convinced J. J. Aniorte’s just went to another planet, and all of this is his real accounts. This stuff is WILD but so believable!
Nah dude, he actually trascended and became a deity, then made an entire planet with concepts 99% of us havent even thought of, and then in his free time, showed us all the things he created in that planet with the pretense that "It's all speculative biology and totally not real, *wink* *wink* "
Wow! Didn't know you'd be here. I'm a big fan of your work.
@@WAVE0025 don't worry dude it's just speculative biology not a planet I made *cough cough*
if polinices was a real planet, i'd visit it
Hmm, verified?
These "fish" look borderline eldritch... Good designs and good job to the artist :)
It’s almost like they’re A.I. generated, they look familiar at fist, but the more you look at them, the weirder they get.
Some real deep sea animals look eldritch
I save most of Curious Archives videos in a big playlist for all my Delta Green/Call of C'thullu/Lovecraftian/Eldritch stuff. Imagine playing a Sci-fi Tabletop RPG like Traveller and getting weird radio signals from this uninhabited ocean planet your passing by abd when you go down to check it out, it turns out the ocean is ruled by a supercolony of Sentient omnivorous coral and later figuring out the coral sent the signal as a lure.
@@andrewdiaz3529 that's pretty dope
I have long thought about a speculative organism that uses radio waves to communicate, I'm glad I've finally found a project that has a similar idea.
You should stop being inactive and actually do it then instead of vicariously living through other people's creations
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Christ mate, projecting much. Leave people alone and go about your life
@@Vague05 It takes a special kind of pathetic person to cry about someone saying something that's true and that would better someone.
"Wahh how dare you point out my obvious flaws, how dare you tell me to stop being an inactive worm"
Ive had the same idea for a game concept. Though the aliens that communicate through radio are simply slaves to a different alien race, their origins are the first planet to be colonized by a viral alien race. Who were incredibly confused because they were unable to translate aliens who dont vocalize, and had no idea they were even intelligent.
Yeah ik how you feel. A lot of things in there like wheel-organisms and things with 2 viable front ends are things I've been thinking about a lot and haven't done because i was worried it'd be unreasonable but honestly I'm considering just doing them even if they seem wack and try to make them reasonable. A lot of things like this comes down to execution, it seems.
Make your radio-communicators, be inspired and make some new stuff to be in the world, you can do it.
Underwater environments always freak me out but also always sound so cool to me. Great vid man
Same, I don't know why I'm scared to look at images of sea creatures without someone else watching with me or someone documenting it
I think the fear of sea creatures is a form of thalassophobia
I love how there’s a ‘world of birds’(Serina), a ‘world of amphibians’ (amphiterra), now a ‘world of fish’ (this).
What next? Earth: world of mammals?
@@Raptorozaur you mean those weird little rat things? I can't imagine they could differentiate much
@david Oman yea they are disgusting. Who the fuck would what to make a world after them?
World of ants
@@iamdigory and from who evolve whales, horses, monkeys, and other?
Aquatic beehives? Yes. Such a cool idea for convergent evolution.
Given the supercontinent, very rare land organisms, and shallow seas full of true weirdos, this world feels like it’s set some time between the Cambrian and Silurian. On the one hand I would love to see this continue to evolve through time, but on the other I admire the restraint needed to keep life there! It’s such a cool time period and I feel like spec ev doesn’t explore it enough
Here one minute after it went live! You are one of the most underrated channels. I'm autistic and my one special interest encapsulates speculative biology/zoology/fauna, and plausible aliens (and constructed lanuage but there's already so many channels for that), and your content brings it all to me in a detailed but still easily digestible way with a soothing voice. What more could I ask for but keep making awesome content!
Same!!!
Same too
You and I both! :D
My man
I'm autistic too, and I'm writing a speculative fiction series about aquatic aliens. In time, I hope to make my world as amazing as the one this channel talked about ^^
Currently, I know the most about the Aurish. They're amphibious, venomous, nap multiple times a day, and scare off predators with a giant deimatic display. They can extend fins on their back called shula to giant sizes, and the shula are patterned with eyes to give the appearance of many larger organisms. Also, they're sentient and quite cat like in some of their instincts and behaviour. (Hissing to show displeasure, purring when happy, and they really like head pats.)
When I started seeing the images, I thought "ugh, it's just being strange for the sake of being strange!" but by the end I was totally convinced that this could be a real alien ecology. This feels startlingly plausible if the idea is that this planet's Cambrian Explosion equivalent resulted in siphonophores becoming the dominant biological mode.
Usually you can tell when something is strange just for the heck of it because they usually just rip the body parts off other animals and put them on something they don't belong to. Projects where they think it through usually create entirely new body parts for their lifeforms, which just ends up making them seem strange as a result. So basically if you see a snake with buck teeth and squid tentacles it's probably just trying to be weird, but a snake with body parts you can't quite identify was probably made with real intent behind it.
This one is super interesting. When creature have arbitrary complexity I often think it’s silly but because the whole ecosystem functions the way it does, it makes sense. Thanks for another great video.
Bruh, *we* are arbitrary complexity
it almost makes me cry to see you share so much speculative biology with us lol. speculative evolution is one of my favorite things ever and before this channel I had difficulty finding projects to read/see
By far one of the most ‘alien’ environments you’ve showcased
I always forget how colorful the reef can be, and seeing an alien reef is really stunning.
Again, CA you've introduced me to uet another amazing speculative art project that piques my creativity to no end! Great video man! And thank you for covering more and more of these spectacular ideas!
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This is one of the most creative spec evo projects I’ve heard of
I love how you introduce us to such different projects that are all creative in their own ways. The other that comes to mind is serina, and how unique its story of the evolution of sentience is.
I wonder what it would be like if some crossover-like event took place with all these speculative worlds. Perhaps aliens begin hand-picking very specific animals from all sorts of planets and canons, like the axe heads of Serina, the flyers from All Tomorrows, the arrow tonge from Expedition, the dipterognathe from Polinices, and many more, then bring them to a single planet with no animal life, all to fill ecological niches that have been left vacant by, maybe, some planet wide disease, and this introduction of various life forms was done as a last ditch effort to prevent total ecological collapse. I'd like to see what kind of evolution would take place in this type of world.
Xen from half life kinda has a similar premise, tons of aliens all from different dimensions all bunched together in this melting pot of a dimension.
This is currently my favourite channel on youtube, just never disappoints.
Considering how recent this project is, I'm SO glad you're giving it a chance mate and some MUUUUUUUUCH needed exposure!
Very interesting, it's always fun to see underwater worlds since the ocean can be a very fascinating place. Great video, love the content!
As we see on earth with convergent evolution, alien life that lives in water will likely develop a 'fish' shape, because that is the optimal shape to move through water, which would be the same environment regardless of which planet it's on.
Exactly, even the most surreal organisms on the video are still optimized for swimming, walking or standing still
I feel that convergence makes life even more incredible. No matter how many times life iterates through different niches, or how many alien worlds spawn completely novel creatures, their shapes alone will eventually correlate to each others role in their ecosystem. (Perhaps even more existentially, like the radio communicating aliens in their ocean, life in other worlds might arise to fill niches only humans have created, like technologies. Seeing aliens that have optimized what we would consider technology into streamlined organs, like a fish shaped router)
Hmm.... But there are a ton of non-fish shaped swimmers.... And I think gravity and whatever chemical elements in the environment would definitely affect shape and mode of motility....
@@retard_activated which non fish-shapped swimmers are as efficient and versatile as fish-shapped ones?
@@italucenaz Firstly, you have to define "efficiency". All successful swimmers are efficient if they have managed to not go extinct.
And primarily I wanted to address that the OP stated water would be the same environment regardless of the planet it's on, and that's very untrue. The kind of water, the chemical elements, gravitational strength of said planet, even temperature and external weather has a lot of influence... etc. etc. Just look at the vastly different "kinds" we have here on Earth. There are bodies in of water in which you will struggle to float, and there are bodies of water in which you will struggle to sink. There's just too many variables for a blanket statement like that to stand alone.
I find it kind of funny how whenever I see one of your videos come out I must stop what I'm doing and watch it through a few times then continue whatever I was doing before. Love the content!
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Sea Belt puts a smile on my face. It reminds me of RNA. The drones being mRNA,the food particles being tRNA and the main sponge being rRNA (ribosome). Fascinating!
RNA is so fascinating, it can form structures that perform functions similar to proteins despite being nucleic acids rather than peptides, due to this nature and its ability to fold into an infinite variety of shapes much like proteins, RNA based life may have existed first leading to the creation of proteins and then the more information stable DNA.
I love the sea belts as well and the way the drones can link up to other queens makes for a beautiful sight, i would love to see a blender animation one day as something to stare at for hours.
What a fascinating planet!! Amphinatans being able to swim side to side like a crab on land is such an inspired design!! Though overall the Sea Belt is my absolute favorite!!! I can imagine it in motion so well, what a charming creature! Thank you for showcasing them!
Wow, It had been a while since I was so awestruck by a project. THIS IS AMAZING. As a mathematician It intrigues me what kind of encriptions life might come up with. It would be fascinating to study
The radio communication alone would take decades to study properly, and even then it would be hard to truly understand. Even just how they produce and receive the signals alone would be a massive breakthrough, never mind how the information in encoded and decoded!
@@justadude5868 its interesting i think it would be akin to how we are trying to decode echolocation communication of animals like dolphins and whales. or how we are studying chemical communication between plants and bugs.
i imagine if such life forms did exist it would provide alot of avenues of new biomimicry to be approached
Chain fish are my absolute favorites. Got to love the inclusion of RF frequencies as not only a method of communication, but straight up as a method of connection between the same creature.
I like to think chain fish have a huge problem with phishing attacks. As in, another chain fish deceptively sending the same radio waves and striaght up just stealing part of someone’s body
@@goodluckgorsky3413 Thats a very cool concept. A parasitic colonial creature. Its almost like a xenomorph in a sense, stealing other organs for its own use.
There could also be chain fish who tricks a segment and takes its place. Then taking nutrients from the lead chain fish, sort of like a tapeworm in a sense. Except if the tapeworm ate your legs and replaced them. Or like that tongue eating isopod.
An extreme version of this could be a very powerful RF engaging fish that would command fish into its mouth or weapons. Potentially feeding on airborne targets out of the water, who stand no chance of stopping a target they cant even see.
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The concept could be extrapolated to other forms of inter-organism relations as well. For instance, a species of chain fish that exchanges zooids as part of its mating. Or heck, one that just does it for all manner of social reasons. "Nice kidneys, bro. Wanna trade?"
I'm not sure the premise of chain fish holds up, to be honest. I mean, it's one thing to have a colonial organism where one of its members digests the food and then shares the nutrients with its physically-connected partners, but where's the practical benefit in having multiple *separated* bodies? Each section of a chain fish would need its own set of organs for respiration, digestion, excretion, circulation, internal regulation, and so forth; you can't eat or breathe or pee for your buddies if the only connection between you is a radio broadcast. So what does a chain fish gain from its lifestyle, that's worth the energetic expense of making multiple copies of vital organ systems for its components? If you have the energy and resources available to make a bunch of copies of yourself, why not use them to, y'know, *breed* instead? As in, make offspring? Like, the one thing Nature demands of any organism? Individuals operating in a coordinated or even colonial group can be workable, but having and needing a bunch of redundant body-copies doesn't seem like a viable adaptive strategy.
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Why have digestive organs when a specific section digests food for you and gives energy directly to you?
Its basically a complex organism that has convergently evolved into a colonial organism with RF frequencies to send nervous signals without the need of a physical connection.
Why would every section need duplicate organs? The head segment needs air and blood circulation, theres no reason the excess segments couldnt simply use diffusion or simple pumps rather than lungs and hearts.
And it improves movement and survivability MASSIVELY. Like how a lizard can drop its tail to avoid predation, this single animal can scatter, or lose a single segment to protect the whole. And because each segment is self sufficient to a degree, they can all work just as effectively with a missing segment, whereas an animal with a missing limb is not only less efficient at mobility, the dead weight hinders it further.
And finally, the most important part of speculative evolution. Its fun and creativity over actual practicality. Why does a carnivorous giant suddenly decide bamboo should be its primary source of nutrition? Nature doesnt make sense, and nitpicking speculative evolution defeats the creative fun of speculatively engineering creatures to fit arbitrary niches we decide. Or thinking of how a fish organism could possibly use RF frequencies to communicate with itself and become highly adapted for that lifestyle.
Hell yeah! This is hands down my favourite spec evo project
The upload schedule recently has been amazing, it's always great to see a new video from you. Don't work yourself too hard though!
I love that the puns. This time you said, “let’s dive in” and on the frog video you said, “let’s hop into it” or something similar.
I'm glad speculative zoology has gotten more popular. I wanna see animated, docu- series' on these concepts
Its crazy how unique this planet is. its truly amazing, I really want to explore the ocean of Polinices an see all the amazing creatures
I love how you keep the subtitles on. English is my second language and it really helps to understand your video.
I've wondered about the concept of radio being used for hive communication. I think it would be a very quick way for a species to gain sapience, given the vast advantage it gives to information processing.
Have you ever come across any speculative bios detailing life on a gas giant? If you have, could you please do a video on it?
He recently posted one that partly covers this topic: Life in the Cluster, I think it was called. Thanks for that.
@@terrorcop101 there's a short docu-series called alien worlds that also touches on the speculative biology of gas giants. I know it's on Netflix in America but you may be able to find it somewhere else too. Again called "alien worlds" was made in 2020
*edit* alien worlds does have a segment on that but that's actually not the documentary I was thinking of! The one I was thinking of is "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" with Neil deGrasse Tyson! This one is on national geographic, so disney+ hulu etc. I believe. specifically, ep. 6 'The Man of a Trillion Worlds' but I recommend watching the whole thing! (also edited some grammar and whatnot)
Would love to see a colony so successful it’s become the only giant colony of its species. It collects food; it deposits eggs; then it returns and adds it’s own offspring to itself. A complete cycle
reminds me of the super organism we have on earth which is just a large colony of honey mushrooms which propagate by spreading spores which in turn form what is essentially a "clone" but not really, but due to the similarities in genetics it is able to grow to incredible sizes by fusing these separate colonies into one.
It would be interesting for alien scientists to do a long term study on some of these hive sponge colonies and see how a single colony changes over thousands of years, in behavior, genetics, and how it effects its environment.
There's actually an earth cryptid called the black carpet that's basically that.
Who wouldn't want to explore a world as unique as this? Mind blown.
Great job man, love your content 👍
Appreciate it, thanks for watching!
Same
Please continue making these videos, your enthusiasm is incredible!
I am really loving the speculative biology videos (Serina has been my favorite). thank you for making these incredible videos and bringing these projects to my attention!
I really enjoy the presentation of your videos! Your voice, script, and background music is perfect! I fell in love with your channel after watching (and re-watching) your Subnautica biology series. Can't wait for your next video!
It's just I can't even explain the excitement when you release a video and the imaginative content you make its literally awesome
Just recently found this channel and I'm just binging all the speculative biology videos one by one. This is awesome!
Genuinely the best speculative fiction I've ever heard.
The colonial organisms remind me of the mitochondrial symbiosis theory I've recently learned about. I don't know much about it and I'm still looking into it but so far it seems pretty cool.
Your videos are so calming love the vids can't wait to watch another
honestly i wanna know how intelligent life analogous to our own would form underwater. it's definitely an interesting idea to explore :0
One of my favorite projects covered so far!
As a genetic biologist myself, the idea of a pseudo-rotationally symmetric animal is mind-blowingly creative
Its badass
This is probably the most creative one I've ever seen
This is the most unique biology I've seen in a wile.
Hell yeah, new Curious Archive video!
Good video, Love your content it captivates me more than any other content creator on this site!
I love how the creatures are clearly identifiable as living things analogous to those on Earth, but still very alien-looking.
I find great pleasure in watching your videos. Excellent work.
Thank you very much!
this Chain Fish, it reminds me a lot of Pokémon Exeggcute (1st gen) and Falinks (8th gen). because they are divided but always remain together, like this "fish"
Amazing video and such cool art!
I love how every single creature is a colonial creature. It sounds crazy but the same way every land mammal on earth developed the same reproductive system why shouldn’t every single creature on this planet be of the same class? I love this concept
thats actually why it didnt work for me, i liked it but i expected them to be more alien and they werent described properly the drawings made them look weird
The Platypus would like to know your location.
I just thought that colonial animals outcompeted or never had any pressure to individualize which is really intresting to think about what caused that
Some snakes and lizards give live birth, and some birds produce a special liquid we call a type of milk. Nature finds patterns, but there are a lot of crossovers!
I have thought about this so much and this is amazing
Another banger as usual, I love these speculative worlds.
At this moment - Polinices is truly my favorite world.
This is inspiring me. I am going to incorporate more speculative designs in my world. Very good video about a pretty good world
I love these videos I always find myself watching them before bed given how relaxing they are and interesting the creativity behind each different episode is
I saw this pop up in my recommended and immediately shouted "YES"
A lot of people in the comments are justified in gushing how cool the idea of biological radio frequency communication is. But all I can think about is just how challenging that would make for humans to explore that planet. Because pretty much every single form of electronic communication that we have could be potentially extremely and catastrophically disruptive to local ecosystem every time we use it.
It's possible to get around it, but we would have to get creative really quickly to minimize the damage.
Wow! Another lovely edition to the archive!
Such a bizarre planet with evolutionary splendours
I find many spec bio's very interesting, love your vids!
Wow this is awesome you could have an entire game based off of this unlike Subnautica but different
I love this channel SO much ❤
Hey curious archive, I love your videos, but I wanted to know if you covered yet an speculative rogue planet biology. I think it would be cool to see an ecosistem si different to ours
would love to see an aquarium with these little alien critters
I love this series so much
Amazing video! I haven’t finished yet but I will say one error at 5:35 is that the hive sponge eating amphinatids actually feed on the drones of hive sponges and not the hive sponge itself.
Yeees more content about projects I already know and can't get enough of
I love your content!
You should eventually cover the Rhinogrades!
and the author of this spec evo just followed me back on twitter, i see this as an absolute win.
I think we need a name for this subgenre of speculative zoology. Speculative adaptive radiation?
Great video as always.
I feel like you could do a really good Chills impression
this is very cool! i'd like to see Nijin-Konai covered on this channel, it's one of my favourite spec evo projects 👀
The most interesting episode yet
This is pretty cool ngl
This is good content,
Keep it up!
It's a very beautiful speculative world, but really improbable. In a world with a supercontinent probably will face a mass extinction in the ocean, because the existence of the supercontinent will cause a shift of the temperature in the water and the water will became too hot or too cold to support life on the coast. On Earth, supercontinents were always cause of terrible mass extinction (for example, Pangea and Rodinia)
The mere fact a supercontinent exists does not preclude a planet from having diverse and life-filled oceans. Almost always the extinctions ‘caused’ by the supercontinents were always when they broke up or merely coincidental, and the lack of diversity in the oceans was because something blew up only a couple million years before. You can see this clear as day with the fact that paleozoic oceans, even with Pangea around, were no less diverse than modern ones, with reefs and hundreds of thousands of species overall.
As another point, a good bit of the ediacaran (aka the dawn of lots of life as we know it, though not exactly the period when modern templates of life were made) took place when there was a supercontinent, and while one could say it was coincidental to the fact that just a bit before the Earth was basically a snow/slushball and life was just kinda diversifying after being inhibited for so long, it’s still a good point I think.
@@Oofle_the_Worm The mere existence of a supercontinent would prevent life on the coasts as described in the video. The currents suitable for thermoregulating the water would be concentrated in the open ocean, while near the supercontinent the large mass of land would create sudden changes with high temperatures during the day and very low temperatures at night, which would affect life on the coasts. Multicellular organisms are very sensitive to changes in water temperature, since this decreases the oxygen available to them, which would cause a death along the coasts. On Earth, during the Paleozoic, organisms that had thrived were largely single-celled (such as stromatolites) or lived in the deep ocean, where conditions were more stable. I am not saying that life with a supercontinent is impossible, but it certainly cannot be the one described by the author, since he spoke of coasts full of sponges and corals, when instead they could only be populated by some colony of bacteria. Even if the worse parts of the mass extinction on Earth happened when the supercontinents split apart, they started far before. For example, the organisms in Permian period started to decline far before the supercontinent split, even if only with the Siberian eruption there was the true punnacle of the disaster. That's because when the continents united themselves in Pangea, the change of the climate causing extreme desertification and an increase of hot in the coasts, causing the die of multiple organisms
@@fabriziobiancucci7702 I don’t quite understand why it can’t be presumed life could adapt to the temperature fluxes, plenty of plants and animals in the desert are able to survive the rapid change in temperature between day and night, and while Oxygen may be an issue, you can literally look in a tidepool at any local beach and see organisms adapted to survive exactly that fluctuation and more. In the Paleozoic there are thousands of examples of multicellular organisms, including considerably large ones, and in the permian there are known reefs made of bryozoans and calcareous algaes, as well as sea sponges. Suffering oceans would likely not produce reefs that would have notable impacts on the fossil record, so how come even with this supercontinent around there were reefs with a variety of organisms? As said in www.livescience.com/43219-permian-period-climate-animals-plants.html “Fossils of the shallower coastal waters around the Pangaea continental shelf indicate that reefs were large and diverse ecosystems with numerous sponge and coral species.”. It is notable that desertification would not affect the coasts in a supercontinent setting and as far as we know they remained moist, would they become hotter? Perhaps, but not as suddenly as inland with water still around to maintain temperatures. It is notable that large bodies of water such as the ocean have insulative effects that can be noticed even on land, and I don’t think it’s particularly likely that its temperature would fluctuate as rapidly as you suggest it would given it’d take in heat during the day and release it at night, and once again even if it does refer back to the notes of organisms adapted to such fluctuations. The only hindrance to diversity that a supercontinent would create is that the ocean would lack most barriers present with multiple continents around, and thus most species would be homogenous within suitable habitats unless some other factor stopped them from getting everywhere they could thrive.
Fascinating documentary
The inter-tidal hunter was my favorite. How awesomely terrifying!
YEEESSSS!!!!
AQUATIC ALIENS ARE MY FAVORITE
Will there be a part 2? Since this was the most interesting planet so far
I love the sea wheel. Gotta be my favorite creature in this project
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12:33 bro said fuck it and made a living tank track
This is so freaking cool!!
Quite an interesting world even for the naturally weird subject of speculative biology. Also, the plural of genus is genera.
I know this video is over a year old, but I find it fascinating to see a form of life imagined without bilateral symmetry, without radial symmetry, and without non symmetry. When you showed the image of the sponge eaters, they have two bilateral “heads” that are structurally the same. The two “heads” have another line of symmetry akin to bilateral symmetry where the two bilateral “heads” mirror. This concept is so intriguing because they use one organ for propulsion, eating, I assume waste, and I assume near would be reproduction. I wonder, due to its symmetry, if it would have two means of procreation or if it would have one near the center of the two symmetry lines. The thing that is interesting is that this is an adaptation of radial symmetry using solely bilateral symmetry. Some organisms do have radial and bilateral, but not bilateral and bilateral. For my understanding, on Earth, our organisms found it not advantageous to have repetition of segments to that extent, however, repetition is very common. Such as centipedes and other segmented organisms. I’d say that is the closest to that form of symmetry because you could say within the segments, there are multiple lines of bilateral symmetry along one line of bilateral symmetry. However, to mirror and have a central zone where the cells develop without radial symmetry but still having symmetry is very interesting. Good job to the world builder, it’s rare to see such true alien concepts and falling into our biases of Earth life.
hi curious archive great vid and keep up the good work
It would be cool if you made a documentary style video about the creatures of the Pikmin series (especially Pikmin 3). I always found these creatures interesting and I’m sure it would be for many.
I like seeing Intelligent life in these videos it makes it more interesting
Maybe the sponges could evolve to proces so much information from the drones that they became sapient (as a colective mind or as individuals), using theyre drones as eyes and hands to force the surrounding life forms into evolving in analogies of our own technology by artificial selection (basicly becoming a mix betwen all tomorrows acuatics and the tree like aliens from humanity lost).
Sorry, english is not my first language.
Sapient sesile organisms have always been on my mind, I've always wondered how it could be done but right here in this particular speculative biology it may just be possible.
Sounds vaguely similar to the aliens from Fantastic planet. Where humans interact with giant bipedal creatures who seemingly dont eat or drink, because they get their energy from what appears to be astral projection. (Not very much a scientific story, but a very nice artsy story)
@@themushroominside6540 Sapience in immovable creatures is very fascinating. Especially if those conditions arise outside of atmospheres. What happens to a space-bound sponge-like creature who can think? If it has some form of limbs, or "wireless" communication methods between other parts of itself, it could over time potentially assemble itself a spaceship. It would make for a very fascinating creature.
There’s an alien in “humanity lost” called the Gord with the exact same premise, and I absolutely love it.
The concept of biological radio emitters, resulting in naturally occurring networking and "data" encryption, plus single lifeforms that can split into several distinct selves connected by the aforementioned radio waves - is one of the raddest things I've stumbled upon in speculative biology :D
Your content are the best bro!!!!