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Living on a large tropical island on Ionis III, the Handlebar Knucklewalker primarily feeds on fruit, with the occasional small critter supplementing its diet. This species displays one of the more striking examples of sexual dimorphism observed on the planet. Females stand about 5.5 feet (1.6 meters) at the shoulder and weigh an average of […]
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In forgotten ruins long abandoned by civilization, nature has begun to rewrite the rules. Amid crumbling concrete and rusting metal, one may find that life…always finds a way. Meet the garbage snail, a 12-centimeter-long gastropod that blurs the line between evolution and improvisation. Though it resembles a common snail, it is genetically closer to slugs. […]
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Although the sun-scorched Elgøaq does not betray its origins at a glance, the moon is a mass of the residual detritus and waste from the construction of Dzanach Vahl, World Mind of Strife. Red, ferric sand dunes sweep over the moon, obscuring its secrets, but if one digs deeper, more evidence of its origins may […]
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There are many worlds that probes have discovered rotating around neutron stars, of which few have been discovered to host life. Most often, these are very simple extremophilic or bacterial life. When BooHoo was discovered to harbor life through interceptions of bioproduced gases in the upper atmosphere, an expedition was immediately organized to discover the […]
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As the morning suns rise once more over the lakes; the messy form of the galaxy vanishing like a phantom. Something new raises its stalks. Slowly, a sizable amount of fluid gets pumped into tubes made of elastic nanite components. At their tips, are plates of monocrystalline silicon, glinting in the morning sun. One day… […]
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On a distant planet not too dissimilar to Earth, there thrived many different lineages of animals. One of these lineages was a group of herbivores that included creatures such as Longibrachius giganteus – more commonly known as the krolithon. This was a particularly large member with a lifestyle similar to that of a gorilla, using […]
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The Abinaman nretor is an evolutionary relic that roams the alien waters of Nibbio. Once thriving in vast shallow seas, this semi-aquatic species has adapted to the altered landscapes of its super-Earth home, where oceans have vastly receded, and the environment has shifted. As a “living fossil,” the Abinaman nretor offers a rare glimpse into […]
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When the sun dips below the horizon and the winds of Lal Hadaf grow still, the Ghost Orchid blooms. Its delicate pink petals, almost translucent in appearance, emit a cold, ethereal light. The flower’s glow is faint, like the dying embers of a long-forgotten flame, but at night, these fields of orchids cast a ghostly […]
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Monstrous flowers dot the surface of the Sargasso Sea. Held aloft by gas-filled floats and clinging to seaweed, ratimmanis ossinedia trawls the temperate waters of the future mid-Atlantic, feasting on the bounty of small fish and phytoplanktons which call the sargassum its home. Common Names Ratimmanis ossinedia comes from the Latin ratis (raft) immanis (monstrous) […]
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The Erimian thunder plant is a species of carnivorous plant native to the dry shrublands and waterways of its homeworld, Erimia. On average they are 5 meters tall and are composed of 4 main body sections: the root system, the bulb, the leaf, and finally the wire canopy. First is the root system. The root […]
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