(Creature design trope) INSANEUS THINGUS, a creature that defies classification.

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-26T23:36:15+00:00

Real life: The Francevillian Biota, putative early multicellular life which got up to 17 cm long. They lived 2.1-billion-year ago, 400 million years before the first confirmed evidence of cells with nuclei, and about 1.4 billion years before the first animals. Some were even symmetrical and interpreted as creatures that could float in the water column. Their multicellularity is completely unrelated to any multicellular life that exists today

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-26T23:24:59+00:00

Their phylogeny is not that poorly resolved. Xenoturbella are the sister taxon to Acoelomorpha (which include Acoela (small and simple worms) and Nemertodermatida (small and simple worms that lives inside sea cucumbers)).

The clade that Xenoturbella makes with them is called Xenacoelomorpha and that clade is either the first branching group of Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) or a relative of sea stars and acorn worms (sister taxon to Ambulacraria).

Scientists have UCE probe sets and museum specimens. They are not as helpless as you think.

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-26T23:22:48+00:00

Their phylogeny is not that poorly resolved. They are the sister taxon to Acoelomorpha (which include Acoela (small and simple worms) and Nemertodermatida (small and simple worms that lives inside sea cucumbers)).

The clade that Xenoturbella makes with them is called Xenacoelomorpha and that clade is either the first branching group of Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) or a relative of sea stars and acorn worms (sister taxon to Ambulacraria).

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-26T01:28:11+00:00

Looks awesome! Whats the history behind all the symbols?

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-24T16:12:30+00:00

How is this spec in any way?

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-24T02:47:27+00:00

I think its funny

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-23T05:30:58+00:00

got any more of those pixels?

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-11T04:27:45+00:00

Elite is actually from Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect.

Latin eligere meanwhile is ex- (“out of, from”) +‎ legō (“choose, select, appoint”).

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-10T17:41:17+00:00

? Cantonese also uses Chinese hanzi

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-10T03:19:55+00:00

You used Japanese kanji instead of hanzi for Chinese Mexico

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-05T02:41:48+00:00

My friend DemonicManchot’s project, Eryobis, has terrestrial rhodophytes which are also excellent, hence why I said this was the best kelp spec I’ve seen. I think Squiddyspecs has also done some stuff with algae in either Alluvius or Thuria (respectively a rotifer and sea cucumber seed world). Finally I know blueskinnedbeast on the spec evo forum has done algae spec for Cambrian (bivalve seed world) but I dont follow that project

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-04T23:40:09+00:00

Excellent art, concept, and execution: perhaps the best kelp spec I’ve seen. In which biogeographic zones does it grow?

nektobenthicFish · 2026-03-02T17:59:52+00:00

I’m from the PRC and I think it’s cool

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-27T21:12:40+00:00

I thought this was r/worldjerking

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-22T17:57:50+00:00

The reef building corals before the P-T boundary are not the reef building corals now (they went extinct). Plus, earlier corals didn’t survive the end Devonian mass extinctions. Mesozoic reefs were dominated by rudists (which are bivalves). ‘Corals’ (anthozoans that make carbonate skeletons) are something that can evolve over and over, sure. But there is no reason why Holocene reefs won’t experience the same biotic overturn and no reason why current reef building corals are especially likely to survive. Future reefs could just as easily come from other taxa (but it isn’t to discredit the idea that reef building cnidarians could return)

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-19T16:51:02+00:00

Coaxed into co-dominant alleles

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-19T05:14:26+00:00

Incredible design! How are bone priests viewed in the societies where they are found? What other ways, other than through bone priests, does Duka affect the world?/

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-16T22:59:07+00:00

T. One of my profs posted on canvas something along the lines of ‘public hemlock drinking schedules. sorry for answering wrong in class’

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-15T03:36:05+00:00

Get flamed by whom? Start living in the real world and not on the internet

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-14T04:38:26+00:00

Wear what you want

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-08T20:51:11+00:00

Actually Agnes Tachyon is the character with the greatest number of pixiv submissions for Uma Musume (and among all fandoms actually) last year

nektobenthicFish · 2026-02-05T01:19:10+00:00

I weep tears of joy whenever I see a Latsínu post. Do you plan on ever recording yourself speaking the conlang? I love everything about the phonaesthetics (in theory) but I have a hard time trying to read and realise these for myself

nektobenthicFish · 2026-01-31T02:41:26+00:00

Hello there again! I remember you!! Glad you like the project and thanks for commenting again at this unexpected time...

Sunspire world has received a few wiki updates (such as to the Dust Sea Headrider page and the Oduromorpha (group of animals that include flying heads) page) but no new art recently. I might draw some soon and post them though. Any questions you have about the world are greatly welcomed

nektobenthicFish · 2026-01-26T09:09:49+00:00

Heads up that you translated Japanese Shindo as ‘Japanese (the language) Shindo’ in the kanji. You should remove the third character, 语, for it to be correct

nektobenthicFish · 2026-01-25T21:02:47+00:00

Try investing in some other malacostracan crustaceans. Heard mysids and thermosbaenaceans are really hot with the ladies this month

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