Questions tagged [creature-design]
For questions regarding the viability of a life-form design. These questions should focus on biologically plausible creatures.
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Would a species living underground be heavier for their height than humans?
A humanoid species lives underground in the earth's crust. They spend the majority of their childhood underground, then live above ground during adolescence and early adulthood before returning back ...
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Is it possible for a species to be completly non-sexually dimorphic? [duplicate]
In my fantasy setting, I have dragons (Because dragons are cool) and I thought that there would be some interesting storytelling potential if the dragons were completely non-sexually dimorphic (...
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What would happen if our blood was gold based? [duplicate]
This is my first time using this site so bear with me.
In my novel, you can tell a person is non-homo sapiens when their blood is based on gold. They do not consume oxygen, thus do not actively breath....
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How might digitigrade races in a predominantly plantigrade society cope with the problems that come with structures not being designed for them?
In my fantasy/sci-fi/speculative writings, I have several digitigrade beings. The Salamandrion (whom I've talked about before) are one of them, but the Argonite and Drachenheul races, displayed in ...
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How might a creature be so adapted to the temperature of its home planet that it can't survive on any other without protection?
I have a science fiction/fantasy/speculative story which has several sentient races (as well as humans). All of them appear human for the most part, but have some features of certain animals (tails, ...
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What would this animal's meat taste like?
The animal is a flightless fowl that weighs around 80kg. It is an omnivore, though about 3/4 of its diet is made up of fruit, tubers, and other plant matter, with the remaining quarter being vermin ...
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Effective Strategies for Ice Age Monster Hunters? [closed]
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My world is an earth-like planet called Torenthelm, where metals are much rarer than they are on our Earth. The planet's winters last around 300 of their days, so during the winter the ...
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Venom that ages survivors: Any suggestions?
I'm writing a story that features tons of mythical beasts, all of which are commonly called "demons" by the general public, even though the term "demon" is more analogous to how we ...
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How could tusked dragons eat?
The tusked dragon is a roughly reptilian/dinosaurian carnivore which possesses a large tusk-like horn on the nose which points directly forwards. They are bipeds like dinosaurs and have a flexible ...
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Is my fantasy creature realistic?
I am curious whether the behavior and attributes of this species are within the realm of possibility.
Light Seekers are nocturnal mammals characterized by furry jet-black bodies, along with glowing ...
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How much does the sound an organism produces scale with size?
Specifically, I'm referring to decibels here, sound energy produced, not frequency.
If a human were scaled up or down, how would the sound energy produced by their voice scale with their size? ...
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Hand structure of a 4D person?
Consider this a long overdue follow-up to Limb structure of a 4D creature.
The ancestors of our 4D people have limbs with a complex hip/shoulder which can rotate in any of six planes (XY, YZ, ZW, XZ, ...
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Establishing Chirality For a 4D Person?
The Ordians are 4-dimensional people with three legs and three arms spanning the sideways plane, with a vertical spine like ours holding their heads and shoulders above the ground and two eyes facing ...
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Does the science work for why my trolls explode? [closed]
When they need to regrow a limb or other body parts their metabolism ramps up and is supplemented by nano machines allowing for rapid regeneration and releasing a lot of waste heat in the process.
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Is this host and 'parasite' interaction feasible?
So I have an idea for this relationship between bloodsucking and flesheating creatures and a massive host. It should be noted that this will probably take place in my more alieny world, but basic ...
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