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Feasibility of six inch space-faring aliens
I’ve recently been playing a alien game with various alien species. After playing for a bit, I wondered whether or not a 6-inch tall intelligent race could exist.
I can already see some major ...
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What will the abdominal muscles of non-primate humanoids look like?
After looking at concept art of various humanoid creatures portrayed in science fiction I noticed many artists tend to make the abdominal muscles of their creatures/aliens look similar to those ...
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Could triangular DNA exist?
This is sort of a follow up on my question Could a "multicellular" virus exist? in which part of the consensus was that viruses simply can't hold enough DNA. In theory, could DNA form in a ...
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is it possible for creature to have loose jaw like snake but also has enough bite strength to bit off big chunk like most predator or human do?
I want to create a glutton creature that can open its mouth wider than the prey item like snakes do, but also can bite through that big hard object and even chew it; this creature doesn't swallow prey ...
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Could my fungus exist naturally?
My fungus starts out as an extremely small spore, this small spore will bury and implant itself near the spinal cord and cerebellum, and will then secrete an enzyme that hijacks and later puts it in ...
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Is warm bloodedness necessity for flight? [duplicate]
In the story I'm writing, there is an island of mostly lizards (like the Australian dragon lizard) which have diversified into a variety of ecological niches, including flight acting as pseudo-wyverns ...
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What Prevents Gigantic Monotremes From Evolving?
Monotremes are the oddballs of the mammal family, the echidnas and especially the platypus are absolutely absurd creatures with their bizarre anatomical features and mishmash of reptilian and ...
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Growing organic tissue over a machine
In a short story I created, humanity encounters a sentient and consciousness messenger that is alien in nature and origin. Upon further examination, it turns out that there is organic tissue grown ...
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Could the Kelpie exist? [closed]
Residing in Scotland, the Kelpie is a creature of Celtic folklore being depicted as:
looking like a black horse
residing in lakes and pools
lure in humans which they then drown and likely eat (...
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How might a sea wyvern adapt its flame breath?
Sea Wyverns (name not final) nest on small, rocky islands scattered throughout the sea and primarily catch fish going somewhat below the water. Basically, wyverns ingest a piezoelectric crystal which ...
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Feasibility of a tree with a circulatory system
I recently look at a question on this site that questioned if a “world tree” is feasible, Would a 'World Tree' be feasible in real life?. If i remember correctly, it stated that one way to ...
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Anatomically Correct Cockatrice
In short summary
A cockatrice is is essentially a a two legged dragon that has the head and body of a rooster, it also has a serpentine like tail and either has feather like wings or webbed like ...
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Could Mothman exist? [closed]
Residing in west virginia, Mothman is depicted as:
Being 7 feet tall
Being nocturnal
Having red eyes (or at least appearing to)
Having wings
Being white in coloration
Having no obvious neck
Given ...
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Creating a realistic Sea Boar [duplicate]
In medieval art depicts a verity of odd animals one of which are these Sea Boars
now it's mostly likely that they were based off whale bones which were misconstrued as boars. but let say that they ...
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Whats the largest a kraken could get? [duplicate]
Krakens are commonly depicted as being large enough to bring down entire ships:
The largest animal ever, the blue whale can reach up to 33.8m (111ft) long but it seems that they've reached the limit ...
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