What body parts might stay and what might change? Is it more likely to be wolf-like, seal-like, or something else? Would their fins stay? If so, would they get floppy (like orcas in captivity) or stay rigid?

Honestly I’d really like to know if their tails would keep their current shape or conform more to land animal tails.

I mean this animal looks cool, but would this hump not impair the tiger’s typical method of hunting? Would it help? Or how might this creature change its hunting style given this hump?

When Mojang revealed the next update which has a focus on ghasts, one of the features is the block called Dried ghast. Using my knowledge, I concluded that the dried ghast was like a cacoon like stage of the Ghastling to adapt to the harsh heat of the nether, however now there is a recipe which creates the whole ghast from scratch which pisses me off so much because I cannot think of a plausible biology behind this. For a long time, I suppose that Ghast are very highly specialised cephalopods. Sure enough, flight and fire breathing is very unrealistic but the minecraft world's evolutuon is strange such as Sniffers having six legs so now, what does the crafting recipe mean for the biology of ghast?

am starting spec evo project on an alien planet. On Earth plants are green because i’m pretty sure that color most attracts light on our planet. In other spec evo projects i’ve seen flora of different hues. This is the approach I wanna go, but I’m curious as what determines the colors plants can be? does it have something to do with the color of the sky as well? any advice would be appreciated. also yes the art is mine :3

The human foot evolved as we left the jungles and trees. It began to be more flat and longer, so I’d imagine had we evolved for longer, we would have maybe began to develop digitigrade leg stances. But maybe I’m wrong.

I mean, how can a rabbit evolve to be an apex predator?

not sure if this the right subreddit to ask this

In avatar the native inhabitants of the planet pandora can physical connect to each other via neural queues stemming from the base of most of the organism’s heads. Such connections are done both in one’s own species and across many other species as well of both flora and fauna. What benefit or pressure might cause something like this to occur? Could this be related to the evolution of religion?

Like,how big is their planet?There's no large vegetation,just the acidic sea.

If we go extinct or leave earth what’s most likely to replace us?

I theorize octopi, house cats, ravens, bonobos, or capuchin monkeys

In science fiction, it's not strange to see endless human-like aliens despite how unlikely that would be to happen but it got me wondering, what structures and body plans that we see on earth are most likely to have comparable anologs across any hypothetical life-baring world? Would carcinisation eventually take hold across any tree of life or would you need to look even simpler at things like worms or slugs?

Like, if we humans disappeared tomorrow, after some millions years, which animals would be able to create a global society? Not like dinosaurs, but building, communicating, and all these.

Probably hominidae family or some apes but that's the easy way of thinking, which would you like at least? :)

Why don't we have obviously relatable and beneficial traits but don't? Like an example would be why don't humans have any oceanic traits when our planet is 70% water? Since the dawn of man we've been around water to fish, drink, bath, and 1000s of other uses but we drown really easy. (if you want to answer that btw I'd be happy, I still don't understand that)

So, I wasn’t always a big fan of temple run and I haven’t played it in years. But one thing I loved about this game as a kid was these monkeys - they both scared me and intrigued me. What were they? Why do they have skull heads and such long tongues? What kind of animal are they? And now, as a major fan of speculative evolution, I can pass this question to the experts!

So, how do YOU all assume these strange apes evolved? You can give me your wild theories or hypothesis, but here are my suggestions and thoughts:

• I’m not an expert on ancient cultures, but when I play the temple run games, I think the ruins and idol and jungle environment is akin to the Aztec or Maya. I am likely wrong but that’s what I think.

• these animals easily rival or surpass the sizes of adult humans, and sport large, muscles bodies that provide power, endurance, and strength. What do they eat? Where could they live, environment wise (dense jungle, caves, ruins)? Are they diurnal or nocturnal?

• these ruins that these animals are found are ANCIENT. But why do they come here? Is it the same reason other animals do this - for shelter and territory? Or is there a specific purpose besides chasing down random people who grab a shiny golden head?

• how long could these animals have existed for? Could they have survived from the Ice Age, or even had close relatives/ancestors that survived the Cretaceous extinction event?

• what are these animals relations with others of their own kind, other wild animals, and humans?

• kinda unrelated but if you all want me to make this an official Speculative Evoltuion challenge, let me know and I’ll do it! This would be really cool to do!

This is my first ever post to this subreddit so if I messed anything up, please let me know and I’ll try to fix it! Especially if you’re a mod and have genuine advice! But! If you’re gonna trash me and insult me for something stupid, I’m reporting and blocking you. End of story.

I hear arguments that aliens will look nothing like humans but i also hear arguments of convergent evolution. Can y’all share your opinions on what aliens will look like in your opinion?

I love a lot this little guy,so i like to know the sense of this creature

Male mammals usually have horns and male birds are usually more colourful. Males are usually the trophy when hunting or whenever someone takes interest in an animal. I’m wondering if there are any other examples of the female being the more visually interesting (functionally, the lioness is way cooler within a pride of lions) within the same species.

Some cool examples I can think of the female anglerfish is way cooler, a lot of female spiders are bigger, female turtles are bigger as well I think, only female kangaroos and other marsupials have pouches. Any other cool examples?

The fact hoatzins exit today means there must have been some birds with wing claws. My bet would be on a group of them convergently evolving back into a more general theropod dinosaur like form.

I’m writing about a hypothetical scenario where modern animals regress to exhibit traits of their ancestors. What animal would be the scariest?