2011 Sagani Awards
By Hydro | January 19, 2012
Best Artist of 2011 – Rhodix
Best Writer of 2011 – Somarinoa
Best Wiki Helper of 2011 – Nergali
Best Microbe of 2011 – Screwcork Gildestia By Solpimr, RyanKoopa, Vivus and Nergali
Best Flora of 2011 – Mountain Pagoda Crystal By Vivus
Best Fauna of 2011 – Tamjack By jlind11
Best Landmark of 2011 – Visdrasil By Scifiguy
Most Improved Team Member of 2011 – Detoxicated
Best New Team Member of 2011 – Javen
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Sagan 4 Creature Feature #45 – Spirobast
By Hydro | January 19, 2012
By Rhodix
The spirobast split from its ancestor and spread to the plains. Like the luminuseven, it will swim toward the light source, remaining mostly in the water surface. It lost its flagella in exchange of a slim coiled shape surrounded by three rows of cilia, allowing it to form large groups of entangled spirobasts. Due to abundance of light in the equatorial region, this species can reproduce quickly, being also found in water puddles in the plains.
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Sagan 4 Creature Feature #44 – Beachburrow
By Hydro | December 13, 2011
By Elerd
The beachburrow split from its ancestor, the monofoot, and moved to Elerd Temperate Beach. From there it spread to Chum Tropical Beach. Its ancestor only ate fruits and leaves, so the beachburrow had to adapt to the leafless and non-fruit-bearing flora of the beaches.
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Sagan 4 Creature Feature #43 – Gnawbarrel
By Hydro | November 18, 2011
By Jlind11
The gnawbarrel replaced its ancestor in the Darwin Tropical Rainforest. It has changed its diet to quilbil bark; its coloration has changed to match this flora. Its other new adaptation is its teeth; while the four rear protruding teeth have shrunken, the frontal incisor has hardened and enlarged so it can gnaw off pieces of bark to eat. It also will sometimes eat the bark off the trunk of the rainforest trunkplage, thus expanding its range to Darwin Tropical Woodland. Other than this, it is the same as its ancestor.
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Creature Feature #42 – Ocabulabamn
By Hydro | October 9, 2011
By Rhodix
The ocabulabamn split from its ancestor and adapted to the environment found in the temperate beaches of East Barlowe. Its body is even more flat and the colors resemble the rusty red sand found around the beach. Having about half size of its ancestor, the ocabulabamn does a good disguise work, being easily confused as a small pebble in the sand.
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5th Anniversary
By Hydro | September 2, 2011
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the creation of Sagan 4. Many creative people have worked on this project over the last 5 years. We have had people come and go, just like the species of Sagan 4. Many thanks to everyone who has participated in the past and present. May Sagan 4 have many years to come. Happy Anniversary of Sagan 4!
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Creature Feature #41 – Swarmhunter
By Hydro | August 19, 2011
By Somarinoa
Swarmhunters split from the ventrappers in order to pursue their prey, whereas their ancestors were simply forced to feed on young vent darkswarmers that happened to swim by their tubes. They now feed mostly on rearing swarmers, moving along the sea floor for traces of their prey.
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Creature Feature #40 – Bellowmari
By Hydro | July 18, 2011
By Jlind11
The bellowmari evolved from the humari. It has expanded its diet to include many of the other flora of Jaydoh Savanna Island, because of this it has doubled in size. Since it isn’t in direct competition with its ancestor it has not replaced it. It has evolved a new way to deter predators. If it feels threatened it will inflated its vocal sac and bellows at the enemy. It couples this by changing the colors of the vocal sac to contrast the natural coloration of the landscape (usually greens, deep blues, oranges and reds) this usually frightens away any potential predators. When calm it will change the vocal sac color to match the surrounding flora, this helps camouflage it and makes it intimidation display all the more surprising. The patterns for each expression are different for each individual. Even if the attacker is unaffected by the sound or colors, they still have to get passed the bellowmari’s sharp beak. During mating season “donors” will lock tentacles and fight each other with their beaks, all the while bellowing and showing their different coloration displays; the fight lasts until one male gives up out of exhaustion from shouting or from wounds from the fight. “Carriers” will choose “donors” based on strength in combat, chromatic display, and decibel level of their bellows.
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Creature Feature #39 – Symbioship Diamiboard
By Hydro | June 16, 2011
By Hydromancerx
The symbioship diamiboard replaced its ancestor the chimney diamiboard and spread through out the seas of the globe. It has doubled in size and now creates a 20 meter long raft. It holds itself together using its red fungus-like roots. These roots hold together like vines. However they can break apart thus making 2 or more smaller rafts.
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Creature Feature #38 – Prikkum
By Hydro | May 15, 2011
By KingAcer
The prikkum have replaced their ancestors, and undergone some small and some major changes to adapt even better to its biome, the Flisch Taiga. One of the reasons to change was of course the disappearance of the fluffytree. They where no longer able to sleep in the safety of the high branches of the fluffytree, which meant they had to find another way of hiding during the day (they are still nocturnal). To hide themselves from the taigashroot, they dig a shallow hole in the ground which they cover with dead flora, under which they can sleep. This has a few advantages. First of all it will mask their smell so taigashroot will have a harder time finding them. Second, it will also attract scavengundi that will come to eat of the flora when it starts to rot, which makes it easier for the prikkum to find prey.
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