Sagan 4

Created by KingAcer

The gripper replaced it’s ancestor. The gripper has become more specialized in hunting nogger. It’s body became shorter and more slender, it’s legs also became shorter. This helps it chase noggers into their holes. It’s breathing tube became shorter too and it is able to close it so nothing falls in it when it scrapes against the walls.

It’s skin is camouflaged, which makes it harder to be seen by noggers. With it’s hooked front tooth, it is now able to easily kill a nogger and pull it out of it’s den. It still hunts alone and shares it’s kill with it’s family.

It’s mating behavior has not changed much either. The males still get pink shoulders during the breeding season. They still have tournaments every year to find the strongest male and they still use their front tooth in these fight, but because they have evolved hooks, they will get much small wounds. That’s why almost every gripper male has small scars on it’s skin. They rarely get seriously injured or die though.

Created by Maineiac

The pampobison has replaced it’s ancestor, the amplafeo in Yokto High Grassland and Yokto High Desert, but not in the North Tundra. This is because it has added plants to it’s diet, and, like it’s distant ancestor the pappopanton, has become the top omnivore in the Arctic Circle. it’s front legs have become bulkier and stronger than ever, and it’s tail has curved into a third leg with a thick flipper-foot. This stronger gait allows the pampobison to run and charge against predators, prey and enemy pampobison. Its blubber got much thicker than ever before, even more than the totoro, one of it’s bigger dishes (a.k.a. prey), and can even withstand it’s sharp claws. The only thing that can penetrate it’s skin is another pampobison’s two newly developed horns and/or gigantic mouth, (which looks like a hippopotamus’ mouth and has a jaw force of 400 psi.) It’s feet also look’s like a hippo’s and have spikes on it’s feet for a better hold on the ice while moving. It has also developed sexual dimorphism (a male has a taller sail tissue and a longer 2nd horn than a female’s.) because of it’s size, it requires to swallow stones to help digest food. At a staggering 4.4 meters in size, it can easily compete for food with other fauna.

It usually eats plants during the summer, and usually eats meat during the winter. The western subspecies of Glicker move to the Northern Tundra during the summer, and migrate back the Yokto Region during the winter. While the hardy eastern subspecies of Wright insulate during the winter. Both subspecies can interbreed with each over, however, as they share no physical differences from one another. They also still love to swim and wade in the water like their ancestors did. This comes in handy when forced to cross rivers during migration. They live just like their pappopanton ancestors some 25.5 million years before, with these exceptions: they now roam in herds up to 40. (one pair of the herd splits up to start a herd of their own when the herd exceeds 40 individuals) They form a defensive circle around their young,(like musk ox do) when threatened and when asleep (so infants rarely fall prey to predators at night) And that during the mating season, all adult males become very aggressive at each other, which lead to fights (at which both competitors charge at one another, clashing their horns and mauling each other) for the title for dominant male. These animals also weigh a ton and have an average lifespan of 35 years.

Created by Saganmainiac

The grouperbean split from its ancestor. It has taken up the niche of a small grouper. It has doubled its size, and has changed its color to blend in with the mud. Its eyes have gotten better so it can see through the mud. Its mouth has widened and has developed bristles on the sides of it to filter feed better. Its behavior is also different. It now gobbles up the eggs of other macroscopic creatures as well as snapping up river swarmers. It still filter feeds and photosynthesis though. When the mother lays its own eggs, it then gobbles them up, which then stick to its britsles. While the eggs are incubating, it shuts its mouth and doesn’t eat until the eggs hatch, keeping them warm and safe. While it waits for the eggs to hatch, it captures sunlight to keep it alive. When the eggs hatch, the young are kept inside the mouth, feeding on any microscopic organisms its mother filters in. After a week, the young can venture out of the mouth and feed within sight of the mother. When the mother senses danger, it gobbles its young back into its mouth, keeping them protected from predators, until the coast is clear. After two or three months, the young are old enough to leave the protection of its mother. It lives for five to ten years.

Created by Huckbuck
The boneslider replaced the boneripper. Due to competition for the food in the Bone swamp speed was favoured and that made the boneslider evolve a sligthly different way to move. Its hands now function as feet as well as hands and are used to shove the boneslider forward, while the other part of the body slither. This combined looks kind of weird, but it made the boneslider fast enough to be favored. To be able to slide easier on the rough ground its stomach secrete a slime-like substance. Since the hands/feet now are mostly used for moving the teeth and jaws of the boneslider have evolved to work as the creatures main weapon, together with the poisonous spike on the tail. The boneslider can still swim as good as its ancestor and uses snake like movements combined with swinging with its arms.

Happy October 1st and time flies when you’re playing Spore. Today’s feature is a by someone who has never been featured before. I’m going to try to show the work of some artists that haven’t been on the front page before. Please visit the main sites to see more.

Created by Saganmaineiac

The slithering centiworm split from it’s ancestor, the Rainforest Centiworm and has spread it’s range to the Nuke river. It hasn’t changed much, other than having it’s bristles have develop into teeth as well as having gone parasitic. To catch a host to feed blood from, it waits for any animal between 40 cm and 3 m long, (the bigger, the better) and attacks, sucking blood out of it’s host until it has had it’s fill. Afterwards it just slithers down to the ground. Smaller animals would be too small for a blood meal. It has developed 3 primitive eyes so it can detect prey.

Every year, slithering centiworms gather in mass by the side of Nuke river to breed. To mate, the 3 genders mount on each other, and expels it’s reproduction process. They still require 1 Sperm, 1 Egg, and 1 Hormone Cell. Instead of releasing spores into the soil, it lays thousands of soft eggs in the water. They each live about 15 years excepting predation.

Created by Rhodix
The yenaptaks split from their ancestors and are very similar to them. They are found growing near to water in Ittiz region and can be distinguished from them in the size. For being larger, their “wings” can fly to more distant places and eventually land over the water, where they evolved a new reproductive cycle.

After landing on the water’s surface, these structures take several days until they rehydrate and start to develop. In contact with water, the remaining part (a complete three-winged structure or a part of it) starts to grow buds from the pink stalk, forming fine sticks over- and underwater. From these, yellow cells, very similar to those forming the base, start to grow and acquire a curved shape. These cells work like a sail and propel the yenaptak’s wing over the ocean. Fully matured, they are detached and carried by wind, falling inland and originating a new plant. The most probable places for them fall are the nearest islands and the coast of Ittiz.

They keep producing these yellow cells for a long time and half of them never will meet the land. Inland, yenaptaks reproduce in the same way of vandriswoops and pallenidusts, detaching cells from the top stalks and regenerating a new plant in suitable soil.

Created by Ramul

River Glider

The river glider split from the vegehopper. They adapted better to land live; while their gills are still functioning, their lungs became more effective, making longer land stays possible. Another distinctive adaption are their lip teeth that work similar to a Earth’s mollusk’s radula, enabling the river glider to feed on harder tissue than its ancestor, like the mavrophytes’ main bodies and terrestrial plants near the river, hence they are no food concurrence for their ancestors. Their more terrestrial lifestyle led to fused hind tentacles with broad, foot-like tips for more powerful leaps; in combination with its enlarged leaf fins this creature is able to glide, an effective way to escape predators.

Created by Xenomoose:
The rust groveglobes has replaced its ancestor. They are now too heavy to float and live entirely on the ground. The rust groveglobes are still slightly hollow but, this is mainly to conserve weight. They now use Iron as a very important source of nutrients. Even though they take large amounts of iron in the ground, they don’t pose a threat to iron sources.

The rust groveglobes are able to produce some iron by photosynthesis. That means that when they die more iron is added than what was taken.

The rust groveglobes are actually a colony of organisms that function as a single being. They start out as a single bud that grows into a large globed structure. They extract nutrients using root-like wire like tendrils. Once it has grown enough, its branch-like structures on top produce clones of itself that take root around it. Once the clones have grown enough, they uses their root/tendrils to re-connect with the main organism. Over time, a single organism can have hundreds of thousands of buds and main bodies. Each bud is capable of photosynthesis so they can capture sunlight over a large area. The buds share nutrients obtained through photosynthesis and ground extraction to other parts of the colony. Each bud can mature into a main body, further producing clones. If all the buds reach full maturity, they can appear as a forest-like structure. However this rarely happens because the buds are a prime target to herbivores and “iron-eaters”

The rust groveglobes’ main bodies constantly produce spores. These reach the main bodies of other colonies, and the DNA is mixed to prevent genetic breakdown through constant clones.

Creepy and awesome at the same time. Created by our founder, Hydromancerx.

The parasite whorl split off from its ancestor the whorl needler. It has gotten smaller and feeds off the blood of centifins and seadragolden. It will pry apart the exoskeleton and pierce its flesh with its 4 arms. Then injects a numbing agent so the host will not feel it as it drink up its blue blood.

When swimming it uses its small, extremely sensitive membranes are attached to the arms for navigation. The needler can make a high pitched sound allowing the membranes to pick up vibrations in the water, allowing them to navigate via echolocation instead of swimming randomly around.

They breathe by taking in water in a hole in the front of the creature then is expelled via smaller pores neat the tail. The large flagellum-like take wiggles in a corkscrew movement which causes it to swim in an ever turning corkscrew motion. The body is protected by hard spines, which can sting when touched.

Is it a plant? No, it’s a worm! Meet the Bambelura created by Kingacer.

The bambelura has split from its ancestor, the stained bloomworm. The two big leaves have split into four to capture even more sunlight and its eyestalk has become longer so the bambelin can see them from an even longer distance.It has also learned a new trick: It is able to wave its eyestalk, wich seems to attract the bambelin so they can come and pollinate the bambelura. The young worms can now walk on four legs so they are faster and their eyestalk is upright so they can see everything better. It has spread to Nuke Rainforest.