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For questions about living things. Does not exclude aliens, but additional information is usually necessary (consider using "xenobiology" instead).
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What would the real Miss Universe pageant be like?
I like trying to think outside the box when I see lists of answers that seem split between two aspects of the question, so here goes.
Some previous answers get hung up on beauty being primarily "ph …
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Evolution in dragons
Evolutionary pressure
Evolution is driven, primarily, by external pressures on the groups of organisms, regardless of their breeding rates or starting population numbers.
A large group, or a small …
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What would a Pegasus actually do with its legs while flying?
But, since other considerations could certainly affect how the animal might behave, the overall question isn't specifically aimed at any single particular aspect of either flight or biology. …
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Humans plus Hemocyanin
How would human appearance be different from what it is now if our circulatory system used Hemocyanin for oxygen transport instead of Hemoglobin?
Limitations, restrictions, additional details, etc. : …
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What tree type grows into the most dense forests?
"Tree" is (apparently) not a very well defined term as far as scientific classifications are concerned, so I'll put my own restrictions on it for this question:
Typical healthy adult specimens must …
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How tall can trees get if water transport limitations are bypassed?
The setting is Earth, millions of years in our future. In this setting a species of tree has made an evolutionary leap, allowing it to bypass the water transport constraints currently thought to be t …
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Anthropomorphic flying squirrel, gliding capability
Are there any known aspects of real-world biology that prohibit such a creature from existing? If so, what are they? …
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Post nuclear apocalypse fauna
The chicxulub asteroid impact caused climate change, and the climate change caused a mass extinction. But many land-based animal groups survived, crocodillians, lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs, salam …
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Giant bug noises
I understand, vaguely, how human voices vary with the overall size/shape of the individual(s vocal chords), and I can use that to make reasonable assumptions about what the voice of non-human fantasy …
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Can an organism have body structure materials that crumble upon being injured?
I'm only concerned with "if such a species came in to existence through any means at all, could individuals survive their own biology long enough to reproduce, given acceptable environmental conditions …
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How might kinetosynthesizing "plants" look?
add more after I read other's answers for inspiration, but here's what I have off the top of my head (Disclaimer that I have no scientific experience to back any of this on, beyond entry level college biology …
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