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Adaptations for Anthropophagy [closed]
Let's say there are quadrupedal mammals close to around 100kg that have adapted to live in a typical medieval city and feed on predominantly human beings. The city and the animals therein have existed ...
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Would my giants still have a functioning appendix?
In my world, there is a species from the Homo genus named Homo gigas. They are commonly called giants.
They are as massive as polar bears, and they never stop growing like kangaroos.
They have seal-...
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How effective would this spider's technique be in getting it food/shelter(for its young)/transportation/protection?
So I have this idea for this unique species of jumping spider.
Basically it is around a foot long/medium sized hat size and has pretty big fangs for its size. It jumps on to people's heads and uses ...
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How could a ruminant become a carnivore?
I have a speculative evolution project regarding giraffes. For those unfamiliar, giraffes are ruminants and rumination is not viable for carnivory according to every site I have wandered upon in my ...
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How could these trolls survive on this diet?
I'm working with trolls who are beings made of stone. Troll species/races can range in size from small (3-4ft) to gigantic (hundreds of feet tall--big enough that they're no longer mobile and must be ...
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Could this nauplius eat?
The nauplius of my world is a large pleustonic bivalve. It is around 3ft long. It floats belly-up on the surface, with an oddly-shaped shell that exposes the front and middle part of its ventral face ...
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What would this giant naturally eat?
The giant is a large humanoid with some paradoxical-seeming traits
It is a mammal, roughly as heavy as a small elephant. Their mouth seems adapted for herbivory: Their lips are like that of a camel, ...
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How does the Carnifowl hunt?
The carnifowl is a bird of a unique shape
It is about 50cm long, with a wingspan of 110cm and legs only 5cm long. Its front half (chest, wings, beak) is like an eagle, though the head is feline and ...
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What adaptations would herbivores have if plants had soft cells without walls?
The plants are organisms with soft cells that don't have walls. Their flesh is soft, with a gelatinous-seeming texture (rather than the fibre-based texture common to vegetables and herbs). Most ...
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How could a werewolf cook their food?
Werewolves are predatory wolf-like humanoids. To be more specific, they have an upright, plantigrade frame like an ape, with a doggish snout and paw-like structures instead of hands. They have no ...
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Could a fungivore store fungus like a shrew or mole stores meat?
Could an animal extract fungi and store them alive, as shrews and moles do with their prey? Some problems could be that fungi have less energy than meat, and that they are easier to find due to being ...
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Are insectivores and carnivores viable to become sapient?
So, I had a species that primarily lives off meat and insects, but I came across numerous articles which seem to point out that sapience and civilization is near impossible without being omnivorous. ...
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Variations on the "Ginsu Shark" Theme--What Would They Eat?
From 108 to 73 million years ago, the shallow seas of North America, Europe and southwestern Asia were the haunt of four species of a genus of shark scientifically named Cretoxyrhina. The chosen ...
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Self cannibalism - Why no fat?
I'm creating a species of beings that are able to eat part of themselves when they are starving.
In a sense, Earth animals do this already by putting on fat. When there is a shortage of food, they can ...
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Could a Species Survive Getting Nutrition Only by Smelling Things?
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Astomi, also known as the Gangines, are an ancient legendary race of people who had no need to eat or drink anything at all. They survived by smelling apples and ...
