Hi, join the speccer band!
I think you can.
For now I decided to just create page with "Project - Arteminsecta" in the name since the original Project - Mammalia is made in this manner. "Speculative Evolution Wiki: Arteminsecta" page can be deleted.
I was about to create a new main page, but instead of getting "Project: Arteminsecta" I ended up with "Speculative Evolution Wiki: Arteminsecta". I cannot change the name on my own and I'm not even sure if I can chance anything. When I try to create new page called "Project: Arteminsecta", it says that the page already exists.
Also "adding categories" seem to be disabled for the page.
What, for real? If so, thanks for telling in advance. I expect my project to just be vandalized, because I don't think it will make any sense to anyone who haven't spoken with me about it before.
Hi, I actually had a motivation spree some time ago, which made me sort of write script for this project which resembles the Mammalia one and also have a clade evolving into birds. One thing though - I ended up coming with alternate way to create big insects and ended up diverging them from the actual insects around Devonian period. After bunch of events described in project's history I got to aftermath of K-T extinction and what I got is about 6 different clades living alongside the actual insects. These clades through convergent evolution look like sized-up fusions of different insect clades. The name "Arteminsecta" is actually an amalgam from "air regulating insects" as I made up a handful of adaptations which sort of justify how they got so big - it is not a super scientific project.
Since I now have big almost-insects and a timespan of similar length to what mammals had in order to diversify. I decided to plan up what arteminsect might evolve into what bird, while also resembling some kind of normal insect. Here is what I came up with so far:
Albatrosses = sea skaters
Blackbirds = ants
Burrowing owls = mole crickets
Cardinals = ladybugs
Condors = carrion beetles
Cranes = crane flies
Cuckoos = cuckoo wasp
Ducks = diving beetles
Eagles = hornets
Falcons = ladybugs
Finches = fruit flies
Flamingos = brine flies
Galapagos cormorant = sea skaters
Geese = pygmy mole crickets
Guineafowl = ground beetles
Hawk = tarantula hawks (wasps)
Heron = water bugs
Hoatzins = grasshoppers
Hoopoes = bombardier beetle
Hummingbird = hummingbird hawk moth
Jacanas = pond skaters
Jays = blue shieldbugs
Junglefowl (chickens) = forest cockroaches
Kestrels = ladybugs
Kingfishers = damselflies
Kites = dragonflies
Kookaburras = earwigs
Larks = cicadas
Lyretails = mayflies
Mockingbirds = horse flies
Nightingales = crickets
Nightjars = moths
Ospreys = dragonflies
Oxpeckers = mosquitoes
Owls = fireflies
Parakeets = halictid bees
Parrots = halictid bee
Peacocks = stick insects
Pelicans = bulldog ants
Penguins = antarctic midges
Pigeons = lacewings
Pheasants = hissing cockroaches
Robins = assassin bugs
Quails = cave crickets
Quetzal = halictid bees
Ratites = grasshoppers
Roadrunners = tiger beetles
Sandpipers = antlions
Shrikes = praying mantises
Sparrows = grain weevils
Swallows = damselflies
Swans = backswimmers
Tinamous = aphids
Toucans = katydids
Weaver birds = termites
I will take about week or two or even three to work on the project itself so the modern species will not be created so soon. As such you are free to comment on whatever would make better sense to become what as well as suggest any bird and insect equivalent to join those above. To clarify, they will actually be just arteminsects evolving into certain insects and then their bird counterparts - which is why it isn't the actual Project:Insecta unfortunately. I am also still working on distinctions of what each post-Cretaceous arteminsecta clade will look like so that's why they aren't mentioned yet.
The hummingbird ones are actually the real hummingbird moths only they have a chance to diverse a bit more further in this project.
Just a heads up, in the timeline I'm cooking up the insects end up diverging right near Carboniferous, because they need to end up to adapt getting anatomy that easily supports bigger size over many species. Because of that these insects will be a sister clade to actual insects and will coexist will them similarly how normal sized insects coexist with fleas, midges and mites.
If that seem to be diverging from the usual layout of these particular projects, inform me in advance, so I could explicitly mark my project as my version, which would enable alternate Project: Insecta to be done.
Looking forward to us being able to launch Project: Birds Revamped Edition. Might need to ask permission to the original authors, but if we'll get the permission we can help building it back up.
I don't know if it will do any good to re-edit pages of the vandalized project, there's always the risk of them getting vandalized again and making new edition would be easier as then we could have originals of each page we make safely stored in our own devices.
I'm sort of into insects so I'll put this into my "possibly to-do" list. Actually looking forward to have an excuse to do more highly diverged species than the ones I usually do on this wiki.
There a lots of obscure rodents, but they aren't probably different enough to count. From distinct underutilized taxons there are primitive molluscs called chitons, animals with no real vertebral column called hagfish and the predatory tunicate called ghostfish.
Deep sea fish species in general are underutilized and people usually spec-evolve other species into them not the other way around. This is because no one has yet found a way how to find additional niches for these fishes to take on in the deep or readapt these specialized fishes back into non-pressurized environment.
Insects are underutilized for spec-evo projects. You can use the Animal Diversity site to find info for your base species,
To me it looks like a crossbreed between Super Meat Boy game title character, a Terraria monster and mammal analogues from the Nereus project.
Speaking of which I wish that my Amphitin Earth project would enable me to make up my own base species rather than having to browse through the web to find specific Late Devonian species.
I mean, I'm not sure if I can work it out, but its part of my to-do list.
I'm trying to work out a project that could be closest described as bearing some resemblence to the Amphiterra project since it almost exclusively focuses focuses on a certain species and the descendants that have resulted from the ancestor undergoing adaptive radiation. Even though the focus makes it so that mostly only the descendant species are featured, but there are other animals, plants and fungi too and the place takes on an alternate evolution path on Earth.
Seeing how there's not much posted recently I've decided to share a post featuring the link to the critter I made a month before.
https://spec-evo.fandom.com/wiki/Shrubclimber_wallarby_(Island_spec-evo_compilation)
I do have a project I'm making, but it takes a greater deal of preparation than what I imagined it being.
Screenshot of the overall map for the Salinorane which translates to "salty shores" in latin and "existence" in javanese, I guess. Map was originally generated by using "A Little World Generator" by sbug, hence why it shares a similar palette with the generator at the moment. Stuff like deeper ocean areas and names of at least one island are still in the process of being made.
Still don't have an idea what counts as an ocean or sea on an island/micro-continent planet. So far I divided the aquatic region into 5 subregions based on the climatic zones.
I'm actually genuinely concerned for this wiki, I don't want it to get deleted.
I know that some wouldn't believe me, but I've read somewhere that since 2018 inactive wikis may get subjected to deletion too.
This is where I started to work more wholeheartedly than before on becoming a spec-evo fiction writer. Despite people starting to do spec-evo more, there actually still aren't many distinct places on web to work on spec-evo projects with others.
Nice to have you back!
