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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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A descendant of the Bactrian camel, these large hardy herbivores can be seen wandering the harsh biomes of the Southern Wastes. As the temperatures started to decrease in the Ark as part of its cycles, this species evolved adaptions for this new environment. Some of these include shorter hair during warmer seasons while in winter […]
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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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You trek late at night through the forest with your friend. Suddenly there is a thunderous crack! He falls to the ground dead and you hear an orchestra of triumphant howls and laughter from every direction in the dark, even above you. More than half a million years ago, humans learned how to throw. This […]
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It seems that the monster under the bed or in the closet is not a fairy tale after all. “Vorsipellosus urbana” (Urban Hairy-shapeshifter) is known by many names: “Nightmare Catcher”, “The Bogeyman”, “Midnight Stalker”, or just “The monster under the bed”. It is a nocturnal creature that roams near the fringes of civilization. It is […]
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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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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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Rogue is the sixth planet in the Tweedum’s home system. It is a cold planet, with both the north and south covered in kilometer-thick icecaps extending to the subtropics. Beyond, however, life thrives in its diversity, even if the environment remains harsh and unforgiving. Characterized by its distinct biome comprised of vast fields of wormgrass, […]
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