A WORLD OF WEASELS? - Project Mustelon Ep. 1 (Speculative Evolution Seed World)

My first KZbin video that isn't just a Procreate timelapse! Hello, everyone! My name is Ryan, and thank you so much for checking out my little passion project, Mustelon. I've always wanted to make my own speculative evolution project, and after seeing more and more of them pop up on KZbin, I figured I should claim this idea before someone else did! The audio needs some work (this is my first time using my fancy microphone), but that should improve as time goes on. I'm making a fair bit of this up as I go, so I'm open to feedback if you have any in terms of production quality, or even the science behind the animals.
I'm hoping for this to be a longform series, and eventually an art book/bestiary! If you'd like to support this project becoming a printed book, feel free to support me on Patreon:
patreon.com/artofryancox
And to see more of my art, check out my Instagram:
/ ryancoxwildlifeart

[@RandomShortGuy528]

Seed worlds are booming in popularity rn and I’m all for it

[@ryancoxart]

Here here! :)

[@neon-sphinxfoster5340]

I know right? This is the 7th one I've stumbled into over the last month! Not that I'm complaining bout it though XD

[@RandomShortGuy528]

@@neon-sphinxfoster5340 it’s so much that I’m even considering making one of my own 😭

[@neon-sphinxfoster5340]

@@RandomShortGuy528 You and me both.

[@ryancoxart]

@@RandomShortGuy528 Do it!!!

[@justaguyontheinternet3893]

Adding the green anole was probably a mistake, knowing how reptiles act when the niche of a top predator is empty… looking at you dinosaurs.

[@kennyholmes5196]

That's what the mammalians are for. Plus, anoles are mostly insectivorous, meaning that the anoles will end up being terrestrial secondary consumers for the most part in the near future, as far as I forsee.

[@gore_x_shagaru5963]

Not when there are mustelids present…

[@justaguyontheinternet3893]

@@kennyholmes5196 All of the species presented in the video can’t even survive in some ecosystems, they’re all mostly forest species. Anoles could definitely fill the niche of large predators if there’s a lack of predators in their ranges.

[@justaguyontheinternet3893]

@@gore_x_shagaru5963 The predators of green anoles aren’t even in this seed world, in a future video there’s no way the creator won’t at least consider the rapid expansion of these reptiles.

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@justaguyontheinternet3893 See, here's the thing... weasels, skunks, badgers, and even mice and squirrels are omnivorous, and some even share their home range with geckos and other reptilian creatures. With the anole population getting large, they would logically slide into the niche of preying on anoles due to the abundant food source. Just because it's not a natural predator of anoles doesn't mean that anoles won't become prey for them.

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

I have MORE inspo for my own spec evo project. yay!!!!!!!!!! (if you are wondering what is tabout its about well a seed world with arthropods and mainly arthropods.)

[@ryancoxart]

Sounds awesome! I can't wait to see it :)

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

@@ryancoxart tysm! for both complimenting my project and well. Fueling my fire of spec evo content XD

[@tyrannoraptor9957]

Green Anole huh, is this going to be a backwords dinosaur situation? They slink around in the showdows where mammels rule the roost and them big rock comes by? I love the art btw

[@dilophosaurusking7437]

There are so many of these now Keep it up

[@ryancoxart]

I know, right? I never knew I needed more seed worlds in my life til I started seeing more of them pop up on KZbin!

[@addisonmartin3200]

"...and the green anole, the only reptile on the entire planet!" We'll be watching your career with great interest.

[@ryancoxart]

I have big plans for them 👀

[@megandavis3372]

@@ryancoxartdinosaur ... grRr...

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

​@@megandavis3372 and maybe pterosaurs looking considering his response to my comment about flying anoles.

[@lordcrusheryt]

@@ryancoxartdragons when..?

[@BrownOwl2036]

Very glad to see more seed worlds! Using Mustelids is very unique and creative, can't wait to see how the world grows and evolves!

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you so much! :)

[@_Zomet_]

fun fact: skunks are actually part of the family mephitidae, although they are still relatives of mustelids as they are in their same superfamily (Musteloidea)

[@ryancoxart]

An oversight on my part 😅

[@oskaralley9309]

Here’s some fan lore: Skunks we’re stowaway species sneaking on to the ships that transported the animals there. They hid in small unable to reach areas of the ships and stayed until they reach to mustelon. And the reason they snuck on is because of food and mice. They will come out of their hiding places up once they reach to mustelon.

[@protocircuits]

Looking forward to it

[@ryancoxart]

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it! :)

[@MurisTheWorldofMice]

Awesome to see more spec evo content, currently working on my own seed world with mice, but I love ferrets and would love to see what happens in this project.

[@ryancoxart]

I can't wait to see your project too! :)

[@deadchannelagainaeeerrrrrr6047]

Mice are a pretty interesting choice honestly, note that mice managed to evolve into lions, elephants, whales, wolves etc pretty quick after the extinction lf the dinosaurs thanks to them reproducing bananas quick

[@aaronbeckett4062]

Looks promising! It’s good to meet you! Check out Keenan Taylor’s Talesnof Kaimere. I’ve been working on my book ALOT!!! Also have GIANT porcupines taking the place of giant ground sloths. BIG SPIKE SLOTH GO BRRRRR my Seed world is called “Priad”, but it is simply the setting of my series of novels. A very well built world and I hope to see more from you my friend!!! Also I love how there’s only ONE REPTILE!!!! I wanna see the RESURGENCE OF THE MOSASAURS!!!!!

[@texasyellow3563]

*hands over chef hat* Let’s see what you can cook

[@Chaos-Devil51]

Diesel weasel. Funny right when I was looking for more SeedWorld series to watch you start premiering

[@ryancoxart]

A pretty fortunate coincidence! XD

[@Veryspecialat]

Underrated artist alert

[@ryancoxart]

Aw, thank you 😊

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

I adore these projects - putting a numbet of other species alongside the main species as 'prey' species is not something I've seen done before - what a lovely speculative biology work you've made ♡

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you so much! :)

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

@@ryancoxart ^8^

[@toast_duck495]

So hyped for what is about to come

[@Zekeriyasenturk6513]

*Also a one episode of your seed world are focusing "İsolated Ecosystems" like İslands and Caves. This is İnteresting???? You are Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊*

[@ryancoxart]

Glad you're excited! I definitely want to make an episode about island species eventually! :)

[@ezrastardust3124]

This project is absolutely fabulous, I can’t wait to see how the rest of it develops! Also, on a somewhat unrelated note, I would love it if someone invented a mobile game in which you get to create your own seed world and basically monitor your own speculative evolution project, like I’d legit pay good money to play that It could have the simplicity of an idle game and all the creativity one could possibly imagine Anyways, aside from that tangent, this is splendid and I eagerly await the next instalment

[@ryancoxart]

There's already a game sort of like that, actually! It's called The Sapling, and it's actually available on Steam! The creator is still updating it and adding new features, and they even have a KZbin channel where you can see everything new they add :)

[@KappatheWorldofTurtles-tm6zb]

Cool stuff dude, good luck and can't wait to see what comes next!

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@messhia-i9v]

An idea that I think would work is an otter descendent that fills the niche of a bear. 1 otters are related to bears 2 because of the abundance of food and no other prey in the water they will over populate and have to start our competing each other or become purely land animals.

[@ryancoxart]

I like the idea of a bear-otter! I have big plans for them, and I may just have to take that into consideration 👀

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

Lion-like otters also? Thinking about a more terrestrial enhydriodon-looking otter.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Skunks would be a rival for the bear niche, I think. They're the only omnivores among the initial contenders, apart from mice.

[@timokarff6162]

@@That_OneRandomGuy Yep, that was Enhydriodon omoensis.

[@PhantasmASMR]

Incredibly excited to see your plans for the Lutrinae!

[@Andrewtr6]

All the seed world videos made me think of a joke seed world idea: A world populated by sentient cars, trains, planes, and other vehicles. I think it would be funny to treat them like living creatures that eat, reproduce, and evolve.

[@ryancoxart]

I'd watch that if you made it XD

[@BdogFinal14]

These single species evolutionary videos are getting repetitive. Try something else.

[@uwnops]

Kappa now dis come on

[@Zamtrios245]

"Prairie Hog" is such a good name. I had to rewind because of how much i was laughing. I hope you do otter-whales, that just makes sense to me

[@ryancoxart]

I'm glad you liked the prairie hog so much! And don't worry, I have *big* plans for the otters ;)

[@lorcanmcloughlin3686]

I think plants are also pretty important impact the evolution of animals pretty hard

[@ryancoxart]

Definitely! I'm gonna try to give some attention to them, but unfortunately they aren't really my area of expertise compared to animals

[@samuelruakere7728]

Good thing for you, You can use fossil Mustelids to see how you're first medium sized herbivores, omnivores and carnivores could look like so that's fun. Edit: I'm very interested in spec evo as well and believe a lot of body plans could evolve on this planet some I believe are more likely to evolve are ground sloth, Felid, Ursid, ungulate and primate body plans I believe the Ungulate body plan will be more likely to evolve as the Pig tailed Bandicoot (this animal is a Marsupial) and of course ungulates have evolved hooved feet there is a rodent that has nearly evolved hooves it is called the Agouti so I think ungulate like mammals and felid like mammals are more likely to evolve. Also I am now a new sub so hope that makes you happy like this video did for me.

[@wonderman7166]

This is nice 😍. I'm also starting my own Spec Evo about a world of *Lovebird Parrots* & *Christmas Island Crabs* 🦜🦀. I wanna see how evolution will affect these 2 organisms 😅

[@ryancoxart]

Cool! I can't wait to see it! :)

[@kennyholmes5196]

I feel like a sea otter equivalent will quickly end up re-emerging and both they and either trout-descended or salmon-descended fish will quickly become the dominant ocean lifeform, with yellow perch remaining mostly freshwater creatures. This is for the following reasons: 1.) Nature abhors a vacuum. If it finds a niche, it will fill said niche, sometimes even recursively creating new niches in the process. 2.) Sockeye Salmon are only freshwater fish during the beginning and end of their lives. For everything in between, they are saltwater fish. 3.) Brown Trout have managed to establish populations in saltwater bodies, and have been named "Sea Trout", "Bull Trout", "Peel"/"Peal", "Sewin", "Mort", "Finnock", "White Trout", "Dollaghan", or "Salmon Trout" when they do so, depending on where you are in the british isles, or if you're using them for culinary purposes in the case of that last one. Notably, they end up acting quite similar to Sockeye Salmon when this happens in terms of their lifestyle. 4.) Yellow Perch have not shown the same euryhalinity as the above two species, and as such, are limited solely to freshwater environments. 5.) With the euhaline tertiary consumer niche covered by points 2 and 3, there will logically be a coastal quaternary consumer niche open that, as semiaquatic creatures, otters and otter-descended creatures are predisposed to fill. 6.) As time passes, these partly-to-fully aquatic species will start ranging further and further out to sea in an evolutionary arms race of sorts. This will logically mean that there will end up being a fully-oceanic version of at least one of the fish and the otters, given enough time.

[@ryancoxart]

I really like these ideas! I'm actually in the process of designing a large predatory salmon species right now, but unfortunately I'm more of a mammal guy than a fish guy, so my expertise is a bit lacking in that department. But this early on in the project I'm very much open to ideas :)

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart I'm mostly a generalist when it comes to knowledge, myself. But yeah, otters are, in theory, going to become the apex predators of the coastlines and open oceans, based on what I've seen from the species you've introduced.

[@ryancoxart]

@@kennyholmes5196 Oh absolutely! I have big plans for my otters :)

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart Glad to hear that, and I look forwards to what you have planned. Otters are my favorite animal overall, with the Giant Otter _(Pteronura brasiliensis)_ being my absolute favorite.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Sounds promising! Just don't forget, some mollusks and crustaceans will want to get in on the competition too, and they'll have a head start for a few of the usual fish niches, being already marine-adapted. ;-)

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

I have a project called Vulpeinia with red fox my fav animal eversense i was a little kid and European Hare, water shrew and Leopard Gecko

[@ryancoxart]

Sounds cool! I can't wait to see it :)

[@SauerRonin]

Very interested to see how this turns out! I absolutely love Wolverines, so I'm curious as to what you have in store for them.

[@samanthabronder9861]

hey i heard that badgers are knwon to sybiotic have with coyotes with praarie dogs so mabye somehtign hapens with bagder and a fast long tailed wesel

[@Mix-xn9lc]

Dudes, there's going to be a collapse of the seeded worlds soon, because there are too many of them!

[@samanthabronder9861]

anotner man their poppping these seedwolrds are popoing out liek crazy first apollo a cow seedwolrd then a project athen a wolrd of horse then kappa a wolrd of snapign turltes and world of beaded dragons now this this is pourpler now im folwing this

[@elderyggdrasil9921]

Spec evo for the win, glad I found your channel

[@An_old_waffle]

I love seed worlds. Curious archive made a video about one and ever since I've been hooked

[@whiteglove_art]

Ayyy, welcome to the spec bio crew! Also, gotta say, love the name Ryan lol. Good choice 😂

[@amtrakman6133]

I love Mustelids

[@queent-g4b]

Finaly a mammal seed world and no one uses mammals

[@Iterator_NSH]

Well now, this one is certainly interesting. Can't wait to see what comes from it!

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Aren't skunks classified as their own family now? Which would technically make this a planet of musteloids, not mustelids.

[@ryancoxart]

Unfortunately, yeah, that was an oversight on my part. Although calling it the planet of the mustelids, musteloids, rodents, lizards, and fish is a bit of a mouthful, so I'll probably just call it the world of weasels for simplicity's sake XD I appreciate the feedback! :)

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart Don't need to say mustelids if you say musteloids. Mustelidae is part of Musteloidea.

[@cobroberg]

i love how detild you have gone with the descriptions its show your interest in animals.

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! My friends have pretty much known me as "the animal guy" for as long as I can remember XD

[@Ligerbee]

Epic, I will be waiting for the next episode.

[@kenworthunofficial1934]

i love the species you chose so much, reminds me of all the animals I'd see at my local parks growing up!

[@Kepora1]

*MUSTELIDS FUCK YEAH*

[@mr.x2567]

I wonder which of these mustelids will evolve to become sapient in a future episode?

[@ryancoxart]

Oh believe me I have plans for that... 👀

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart AFAICT, it'll probably be either descended from one that became arboreal or one descended from either the skunks or the otters. Reason being, the former requires higher intelligence to navigate the canopies and leap from tree to tree, while the latter two have demonstrated social and/or even prosocial behavior traits. But hey, that's just me speculating on where I think this'll go!

[@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo]

Author:"World of Weasels" Author also:"I want reptiles to outcompete the Mammals and even brought these "rats" to extinction, if the mammals extinction happened, I will replace it as world of Reptiles as replacement of the world of weasels."

[@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo]

The Author just make a bad bad mistake, I know the setting is about these rats, not some lizards, he better throw the asteroid to that planet to kill that lizards, or the lizards will evolve into dinosaurs.

[@cizak226]

I cant wait for more!!! :D

[@Zanuth-001]

Looking forward to the next one, and if we'll ever get a "Mustelileo" or "Mustelis Rex", so to speak! Great art, mate

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@leoparkhouse2643]

So happy that speculative evolution and seed worlds are becoming popular. I really want to start working on my own but keeping it within the realms of both uniqueness and mild evolutionary sense is proving difficult😂.

[@ryancoxart]

It can be difficult to get started, but as long as you remember to do your research and to have fun with it you should be fine XD

[@terodsiul]

Well damn, now I have to subscribe because this is very well made. I hope you're happy >:3

[@ryancoxart]

Yes, you've fallen right into my trap >:)

[@grzym7]

Great Video, I’m so glad Ive found another seed world project. Keep up the good work!

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@PhilosoShysGameChannel]

Awesome stuff! More please! XD

[@henrybacolor2782]

I feel like by introducing a variety of generalist mammals at the inception, you’ve set this world up to eventually end up looking like modern earth but without birds (mammals filling just about every niche with convergent evolution guiding them to familiar forms). Curious to see how you make it distinct

[@ryancoxart]

That was one of my biggest worries with this project. Falling into "Cenozoic Earth Syndrome". But I have a few ideas I want to try, and hopefully even if it doesn't end up being super distinct, it'll at least be interesting on its own.

[@videoarchive490]

It’s funny you should show the thumbnails to those specific videos. I just made a seeded world playlist including those very series and I am very excited to add you to the mix

[@ryancoxart]

I'm honored to be part of the mix! :)

[@simianbarcode3011]

Mustelids are definitely underrated. Thanks for sharing, and I look forward to the next!

[@GreyWatcher]

Great work on the whole, but it sounds like you are drumming with your fingers on the desk while recording. Whatever it is, see if you can get a cleaner recording on your microphone for the next part. I look forward to it, and will subscribe now.

[@ryancoxart]

I'm honestly not sure what that noise was, but next time I'm definitely gonna do what I can to make sure it's quieter

[@essembre]

oh hell yeah. i fucking LOVE spec evo seed worlds

[@ryancoxart]

You and me both! :)

[@KiraiKatsuji]

I really like the artwork the texture of the fur is really nice, as well as the choice of animals is certainly intresting i'm really curious where this will go, and for Mic Quality it isn't bad it just needs a bit more experience with it. Also why so many seed world are spawing this year, i'm not complaining but still.

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :) And yeah, I'm much more experienced with drawing than with audio recording. Hopefully the next video will be improved in that regard 😅

[@ultimate_animal_showdown]

Finally oh yes weasel world

[@bc4198]

"... Dinosaurs eat man, Otters inherit the earth..." Yeah, that checks out! 😝

[@ryancoxart]

We spent all this time asking ourselves if we could, we didn't think to stop and ask if we otter XD

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Multiple species! Les go

[@Bash40]

Can you make a new episode

[@ryancoxart]

I'm actually working on some of the new illustrations now! :)

[@Tallisar]

You do know that Dylan Bajda was the first one to do the "seed world" idea? Plus, where did you even get the inspo? Surely you didn't just copy?

[@Gator687]

I guess honey badgers were like f this. I'm not going.

[@ryancoxart]

They were a hard group to convince XD

[@samanthabronder9861]

hye qeatsen what is you favrite isnect species sice you liek wolerines i wonder if you have a insect you like

[@ryancoxart]

It's hard to pick just one, but I've always loved rhinoceros beetles! :)

[@sadrakeyhany7477]

Honesty, a seedworld video popped up in my feed a week ago and now I'm obsessed 😅

[@ryancoxart]

Right? I never would've guessed that so many people had an itch that seed worlds would manage to scratch so perfectly XD

[@Solar5500]

I noticed how big seed worlds have gotten and I love them, and I want to make some, but I have no idea where to start, how to do it, and how to not take it to an unrealistic place or lean off others too much. can you help at all?

[@ryancoxart]

I think I can help a bit. This is my first seed world, so I can only tell you what I've learned so far. To start with, make sure you do your research. Research climate, plate tectonics, biomes, and especially research the lifeforms that you'll be using. If you want to make it unique, it isn't too difficult. Some things I'd like to try in the future are make the planet itself different from how earth is, like maybe the soil has more copper than iron, or maybe the entire planet only has one climate, like an ice world. You could try using an animal that no one else is using, or a mix of animals. You could even ask what if a planet was populated with genetically engineered animals that don't exist in the real world, or what if you introduced earth animals to a planet that already has its own alien animals. The possibilities truly are endless. Don't forget to research common trends in evolution and how the environment affects the animals that live in it. You need to know the science, but don't forget the fiction part of "science fiction". Don't be afraid to get a little bizarre with it, and have fun! I hope that helps! I'd love to see whatever you come up with! :)

[@zacharystoddard6826]

Are these all north American species introduced?

[@ryancoxart]

Yep! All of them except brown trout, although they have been introduced to North America invasively

[@ajmontgomery335]

Omg yes more

[@cosmosyn2514]

after all these new seed worlds that are popping up get like 10 episodes each i wanna see a battle between all of their apex predators

[@ryancoxart]

Now that's something I'd like to see too XD

[@Dinoboy06888]

I love this

[@jacksonthehazard4761]

I love how the popularity of spec Evo and seed world's lately I want to do my own

[@ryancoxart]

Do it!! Everyone should make their own spec evo project :)

[@N1originalgazza]

Well done, good luck for your project!

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

Anoles will probably develop to become even more arborial to avoid predators. What if they start to evolve gliding-flaps to glide and then true powered flight later on? There's no large flying animals in this seed world (only insects) and those niches have to be filled.

[@ryancoxart]

Oh I have big plans for the anoles on that front ;)

[@sharondornhoff7563]

I doubt it'll take long for the weasels to follow them into the trees, considering pine martens and fishers do so well as arboreal hunters.

[@ryancoxart]

@@sharondornhoff7563 Just wait till episode two ;)

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

​@@ryancoxart ooh, alright, cool

[@topaz_anole]

wow i like it

[@thegreatgoldfilms6311]

*WEAS*

[@DragonsoftheCenozoic]

Loved this! Are these critters from 12 million years after the planet was seeded or is that just how long the period was in general? I'm asking, since bear sized predators like Ankalagon were already appearing by about 3 million years after the K-Pg.

[@ryancoxart]

Thanks! :) Personally I think these guys probably came about halfway through the Inceptocene, although honestly there's every chance that later down the line I may go back and tweak a few details to make more sense. But my thought process in this instance was that with lack of the competition they faced on Earth, these guys would probably fill quite a few niches fairly quickly

[@DragonsoftheCenozoic]

@@ryancoxart Oh I didn't mean to imply that it felt like animals of this size emerged too quickly. More the opposite. When you said 12 million in the video, I thought that the Stink Hound and the Prairi Hog were too small to be among the largest animals because by 10 Million years after the K-Pg extinction we were already seeing 2 ton giants herbivores like Uintatherium and bear sized carnivores, but knowing that they're earlier than that makes their size seem much more reasonable.

[@ack7]

Spec Evo continues to prosper... *and it is glorious*

[@ryancoxart]

Agreed! :)

[@Pangolin-6312]

Cool

[@fahdrightone7428]

"Another fine addition to my collection." - Me adding this to my group of seed worlds / spec evo series

[@ryancoxart]

It's an honor to be part of the line up! :)

[@jo-io]

i'm doing a speculative evolution project with a main species of mustelid!! they're called sivi and they're descended from some variation of pine marten/sable, they're sapient (not quite as smart as humans yet) and semi bipedal (referencing how my favorite animal (the stoat) stands up) it's more of a creative story project, but with my own takes on their evolution

[@ryancoxart]

Sounds awesome! I can't wait to see it! :)

[@jo-io]

@@ryancoxart i am working on a webcomic for it! it's currently called veolocy (named it when i was 10 and it stuck around) i have 8 different subspecies of the main species, as well as cultures and genetic maps, and i also have a magic system for one race based around the overarching premise (unstable universe with warped spacetime fabric) i cant wait to see yours too!! it'll be interesting to see the different ways mustelids can be taken!

[@OtterChild33]

I subbed do to this i love spec evos

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@jamesgalaxy8013]

I’m making a penguin seed world

[@ryancoxart]

Cool! I can't wait to see it! :)

[@mehemmedmemmedov4937]

Unique animal cant wait to see

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@akshaytiwari1480]

This is so cool, wanna see more

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@MrT_Rex]

And another one About the striped skunk, it's a Mephitidae and not a Mustelidea (but I don't blame)

[@ryancoxart]

Yeah, that was a bit of an oversight on my part. But I love skunks so I'll keep them on as an honorary mustelid XD

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart It's not all that big of an oversight; they're still part of the Musteloidea superfamily, alongside Racoons and Red Pandas!

[@ryancoxart]

@@kennyholmes5196 Very true! I'll definitely acknowledge it in a future video, although I think for now I'll keep the name "World of Weasels" for the sake of simplicity. I really appreciate all the feedback! It helps me out a lot :)

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@ryancoxart I mean, musteloidea is still known as the Weasel Superfamily, so the name doesn't need to be changed at all! Just a little nod to the fact that it's the superfamily rather than just the family.

[@Maxwellchaos7439]

I'm so glad to see color varients and exploration and depictions of the descendants' behaviors. thats the major thing that has bugged me with this new boom of spec evo, its more of just the speculatice linear progression but nature isn't just point A to point Z in a straight line. it branches and morphs and changes, there can be subspecies, multiple descendents, strange behavior adapted for certain situations, and more. I want to see more of that!! delve into each and every tint crevice of this world you're creating

[@PhantasmASMR]

Incredibly excited to see your plans for the Lutrinae!

[@coolandhip_7596]

This looks like the most wholistically aware seedworld ive seen in youtube. Concideration of climates, prepardness for immediately filling niches, not handwaving a bunch of important stuff to the senario (other than plants but honestly thats fair). Im excited to see what youre going to do with this world.

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you so much! It's a lot to keep track of, but luckily I have notes to reference. I hope I can make the world feel more real and alive throughout the course of this project! :)

[@Coelacanth_yes]

I'm sad that bro didn't list Anolis in the beginning although it was like the first lizard seed world to appear on KZbin atleast but then stupid orbis pogona came out like a week later

[@ryancoxart]

Embarrassingly enough, I hadn't been made aware of Anolis until after I had already finished making the video 😅

[@Coelacanth_yes]

@@ryancoxart it's also a bit different because it's a seed world but it's a collaborative project which also parias is one so ya

[@Kyoryu_Unshaken]

Mustelids are some of my favorite animals and this just fuels that love even more

[@Peter-zv8cy]

Keep it up. I am so excited to see that speculative evolution is growing on KZbin

[@ryancoxart]

Me too! So many people are making such interesting seed worlds! One of my hopes for this book in popularity is that more kids will become interested in evolution and nature science! :)

[@Peter-zv8cy]

@@ryancoxart I hope so too. It is a wildly fascinating and important topic, which I feel is not completely understood. Anyway, I can't wait to see how your series turns out. Hopefully there will be a book one day

[@MatthewAbbottHighskies]

this is awesome! I ll keep watching as more comes out :)

[@ryancoxart]

Glad you like it! I've already got the illustrations for episode two in the world :)

[@dudotolivier6363]

1) I must admit that for a Spec Evo Project which came around almost a decade ago, it have take time that others Seed Workd Spec Projects like Serina the World of Birds came out in a noticeable degree. Here, since around 1 year and an half, there have been a clear "boom" wave of Serina-like Seed Worlds which have pop up online (mostly on KZbin but also a little elsewhere). And you being just among these in this sort of ocean. To be fair, even if all these projects are basically "copy-paste" version of Serina but with the canaries replaced by another main veterbrate subject, I still find interesting all these differents takes on this subgenre of Spec Evo that Serina introduced and impose. I'm interested what will you do with this one with Mustelids and Mephitid :) 2) Just to ask, it will not be a problem and a limitation that all the main dominant subject species of Mustelids and Mephitid are mainly predatory carnivorous species ? Usually, the main focus seeded species is an animal very flexible, generalist and opportunistic regarding its diet, in order for it to radiate and be in most niches as possible to survived extinctions. Here, meat/fish composed the great majority or entire diet of all the Musteloid species you introduce. Meaning they will or would remain/restrict themselves to being predators, and like all predators, very succeptible and vulnerable to how the herbivores and preys species are doing. And predators are usually the very first animals to face repercussion of extinction events. Thankfully, small descendant of the seeded species still feeding on small typical ancestral rodent-like herbivores will survive, as mustelid such marten, ferret etc... can survived entirely only by eating mouses/rats, but in order for that so, would have to retain the ancestral bodyplan of their seeded ancestors. In fact, one probleme with Musteloid, is that their typical long, fin, slender, gracile, short face with strong bite and short legged body made them already ultra efficient and effective for almost any tasks, niches or situations. Otters have evolved from typical land ferret/like mustelids without undergoing notable anatomical changes. As an example. So, aside increasing or decreasing in size, all species of Mustelid would not technically give descendants that are significantly differents from their ancestors in appearance. Indeed, why changing its appearance if the latter can adapt already and is efficient to all situations ?

[@danielkorrmann5467]

I think your fish could need some pray fish that can make use of waterplants and algea

[@snsnwj-s5k]

I too enjoy mustelids, but zorillas are my favorite

[@Xob_Driesestig]

Looks good! Keep it up!

[@ryancoxart]

Thank you! :)

[@quempire2656]

not enough insectoid seed worlds ngl. Leaf cutter ants with fungus farming would be very interesting

[@samanthabronder9861]

mabye for future of mustlelon some skunks become more herbevres keping theire defense